Canada is part of the NASA-led Lunar Gateway program, and the Junior Astronauts campaign will allow Canadian youth to test their skills and knowledge, understand how they can play a role in this important endeavour and get excited about space and science. Activities that are designed for youth in grades MORE
First Call sent letters to federal party leaders this week to echo the Coalition for Healthy School Food’s calls for a universal, healthy school food program for Canada. The letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asks that the government include the development of a national school food program in the MORE
The regional reports from the McCreary Adolescent Health Survey 2018 are being released over time. They have already posted regional reports for Northeast, Kootenay Boundary, East Kootenay, and Richmond. We encourage you to keep checking the website for your region’s report. In the meantime, McCreary also released the Beyond a Dreamcatcher report, a youth-led MORE
Future Bright is a free Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver (EFry) program that helps you access up to $3,200 in free money for your child’s education. This money is free for you to claim for your child and you don’t have to contribute any money yourself. The two programs MORE
CBC’s special investigation into violence in schools began when journalists asked if a national database of student-on-student violence exists, and found the answer to be no. School boards across Canada collect information in vastly different ways, creating a messy and incomplete patchwork of facts and figures. That leaves governments in an unenviable MORE
Since September 4th 2018, BCEdAccess has been collecting parent-reported data on the exclusion of students with disabilities from schools in BC. As of June 2019, they had 492 reports with 3,610 instances where students were excluded from school. They recently launched the final data for the 2018-2019 school year. Of the respondents, 92.9% of the MORE
Early last week, Inclusion BC released a resource called All Means All: Back to School 2019. This resources covers four main themes: All students belong in the classroom All students learn differently All students create opportunities to learn All students have the right to a full day The resource outlines features MORE
This week, the BC Ministry of Education released facts to provide a snapshot of British Columbia’s education system. The numbers are sorted by four themes: enrolment and schools, achievement – six-year completion rate 2017-2018, investments in learning, and capital investments. One interesting statistic is that based on student head count in the MORE
Registered Dietitians from the Fraser Health Population & Public Health Nutrition program recently released a catalogue of nutrition resources for prenatal, infant, toddler, preschool and school-aged populations. You can also access searchable resources here.
Seth Wynes from UBC and coauthor Kimberly A. Nicholas used provincial curriculum to rate the provinces on a scale of zero to three in five different components of climate change education. The study saw that in several regards Canadian climate change education is not consistent with scientific understanding. British Columbia MORE
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a critical component to the healthy development of young children – impacting how we process emotions, achieve goals, maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions in our lives. The Vancouver Early Years Partnership developed the new SEL Matters website to offer early years providers and parents/caregivers MORE
The Human Early Learning Partnership released Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) data for 2017/18 and 2018/19 for 31 BC school districts. MDI data reports on grade 4 and 7 students’ responses to questions about their well-being (health, happiness/sadness, self-esteem, optimism) and their assets (connections to adults, friends, peers). The data MORE
A recent study by researchers at the University of British Columbia found that higher levels of music participation in students in grades 7-12 correlated with higher exam scores in all subjects. Highly engaged instrumental music students were, on average, academically over 1 year ahead of their peers. The findings suggest MORE
The Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia released a progress audit to look at changes government has made since their 2015 audit of the education of Aboriginal students in the B.C. public school system. The original 2015 audit found there were gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in MORE
BCEdAccess Society is hosting their 5th parent advocacy education conference, #AdvoCon2019, on October 18-19 2019 in Surrey, BC. The event will gather families and allies of students with disabilities and complex learners to continue our conversations, learn, and strengthen strategies and seek solutions to achieving equitable access to education in MORE