Listen Up! – The Additional Support Needs Blog
This week has been Anti-Bullying Week 2022, so it seems appropriate to take a quick look at a recent decision of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO). On the one hand, it is a complaint about a complaint about a complaint – and those that can end up being very focused on the procedural side of things. On the other hand, it does raise some issues which I do hear a lot from parents who are involved with schools when their child is being bullied.
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Child A was being bullied at school. The parents in question…
Ontario’s rushed education overhauls: concerns raised among educators – Op-Ed
Ontario elementary educators were informed via a newsletter distributed on Wednesday, June 20, of a new language curriculum to be implemented in the 2023-24 school year beginning this September.
The minister of education announced plans to overhaul the language curriculum in Ontario, on the heels of the Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report, and is introducing a literacy screening tool for educators to use with learners starting in grade 2.
The announced curriculum changes put an emphasis on graphemes, morphemes, and other phonic tools. The goal is for a move towards evidence-based literacy strategies.
While the educators are…
University marking boycott will affect students’ mental health | Higher education
While university staff have every right to take part in industrial action and fight for better pay and conditions, the current marking Boycott affecting 145 universities seems a step too far in terms of its negative impact on the students involved and their mental health (The pandemic ruined my A-levels – now the marking boycott casts a shadow over my degree, 12 June).
It seems particularly cruel as not all students are involved, as only UCU union members are taking part. My daughter has just finished her degree and has been informed that one of her modules will not be…
No Outsiders’ Andrew Moffat talks relationships and sex education
Andrew Moffat of No Outsiders pictured at a school. (Supplied)
No Outsiders creator Andrew Moffat hopes the government will “listen to teachers” in its review of relationships and sex education.
In March, the education secretary and women and equalities minister announced a review into how relationships, sex and health education is being taught in schools “in response to disturbing reports that inappropriate material is being taught”.
The government announced that an independent panel will examine what materials are currently being used in classrooms in relationships and sex education. The panel will then advise what “safeguards” should be put in place…
Serbia’s education minister resigned in the wake of deadly mass shootings, including at primary school
Serbia’s education minister submitted his resignation Sunday following two mass shootings, one of them at a primary school, that left 17 people dead, while the European country’s government urged citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence.
Education Minister Branko Ruzic is the first Serbian official to resign over the shootings despite widespread calls for more senior officials to step down in the wake of the back-to-back bloodshed. Ruzic cited the “catastrophic tragedy that has engulfed our country” in explaining his decision.
Soon after the attack at the school in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital,…
Province announces 2,000 student spaces at new charter school hub
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Alberta Education has unveiled its new charter school hub near the University of Calgary, investing up to $118 million to purchase and renovate office spaces expected to house up to 2,000 students in the next few years.
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An integral component of Budget 2023’s commitment to what the province has called choice in education, the long-awaited charter hub model will ultimately combine several different charter schools inside the multi-storey SMART Technologies building on Research Road, just west of the University of Calgary campus.
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Alberta Education has confirmed a $76-million investment to purchase the building, and…
The English school district accepts the findings in the deaf education discrimination case
Carter Churchill’s family won a human rights case against the Newfoundland and Labrador English School District in March. (Submitted by Kimberly Churchill )
The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District says it accepts the findings of a human rights tribunal report that it ordered to provide Carter Churchill — a profoundly deaf child from Portugal Cove-St. Phillip’s — with education and evaluation in American Sign Language and pay his family nearly $150,000 for discrimination.
Carter’s parents, Todd and Kimberly Churchill, won the human rights case against the district in early March after a year-long fight to get their son the…
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission highlights discrimination in medical education
A report created by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission was brought forward on Thursday and delved into concerns of racism and discrimination at the College of Medicine after outcry back in 2020.
A group of physicians came forward highlighting concerns about racism and inequity in the medical profession, as well as the Saskatchewan medical education system.
Specific recommendations were made through a document created by the physicians called “9 Calls to Action” to address structural racism and create a more equitable learning environment.
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Shaping Saskatchewan: Black in Saskatchewan
A letter was then published on Aug. 5, 2020 by…