The Changing Results for Young Children Provincial Network Session will take place on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT (via Zoom). Please join us for an engaging session focused on celebrating the project involvement of 49 school districts. Learn from national and international experts about how focusing on social-emotional well-being …
Canadian Mental Health Week from May 5-11, 2025, offers a powerful opportunity to spark change. Living with mental health challenges often forces people to hide behind a “mask” to protect themselves from judgment and discrimination – this year’s theme is “Unmasking Mental Health”, encouraging people across Canada to look beyond the surface and see the …
A reminder that next Monday, May 5, 2025, is Red Dress Day, an annual event formed by the REDress Project (#REDress) in memory of the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (#MMIWG) across Canada. The hashtag #SayTheirName brings awareness to remembering the names of those who have been murdered or are still missing. Please visit Amnesty International …
The 2026/27 Capital Plan Instructions to inform upcoming capital project submissions are posted at Capital Planning web page. Please contact Michael.Nyikes@gov.bc.ca if you have any questions.
This is a reminder about recently announced updates to learning standards in the Social Studies 10 and Physical and Health Education 10 curricula that will take effect at the start of the new school year on July 1, 2025. The updates to Social Studies 10 include specifically requiring learning about: In addition, there will be …
Emergency Preparedness Week is May 4-10, 2025. To support emergency preparedness and planning across the education and child care sectors, the Ministry of Education and Child Care is sharing updated emergency management resources for the 2025 year. These resources support mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery planning. Districts are encouraged to review and share this information …
After a review of the enrolment totals from the February 2025 data collection, the ministry has confirmed there were data discrepancies affecting some districts’ operating grants for inclusive education enrolment growth and newcomer refugee enrolment. The operating grant tables have now been updated with the corrected enrolment and are available here Interim Operating Grants web …
The 2024/25 Student Learning Survey deadline has been extended to May 9, 2025. To help monitor survey participation, districts can view their SLS participation rates (updated weekly) through the SLS Participation Dashboard within the BC K-12 Education Data Portal. If your school would like to request assistance in determining who hasn’t completed the survey yet, as well …
Signed BCTEA 2025/26 Joint Transportation Plans and signed 2024/25 Revenue and Spending Reports are due to bctea@gov.bc.ca by May 16. Joint Committee approvals are dependent on timely submission of Joint Plans. Information is available in this backgrounder to support the Joint Plan submission process, reporting requirements and to learn about the new extracurricular allocation process.
A reminder that the Framework in Action session, Framework for Enhancing Student Learning 101 – Unpacking Your Questions, is on May 7, 2025, at 1:00-2:30 pm PDT. This session will provide an overview of the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning and include time to answer your questions. To join this session, register to receive the …
