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The Langley Middle Childhood Matters Committee is offering a free workshop for parents.

The Langley Middle Childhood Matters Committee is a community planning table funded through the United Way. The main purpose of the committee is to focus attention on the needs of children aged 6-12 and to build community capacity to address those needs. Committee members include a wide variety of community o...rganizations and agencies serving children aged 6-12 and their families, including Langley school district. Rob Butler represents the school district.

We are offering a workshop "BEYOND DISCIPLINE: ENHANCING CHARACTER GROWTH IN YOUR CHILD," delivered by Bart Begalka of Trinity Western University. The workshop is free of charge to Langley parents, and we can accommodate up to 20 participants at each session. In order to encourage participation by families who, for one reason or another, don't usually attend these workshops, we include food and child minding. We will bring the food (usually pizza or Subway) and provide child minding. All we ask of the school is a space in which to deliver the workshop and a space to provide child minding.

If you have any questions or would like to book a workshop please email or call Hattie Hogeterp (Middle Childhood Matters Coordinator)
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Phone: Mondays: Office 604-857-4662. Tuesday - Friday: 604-856-5982.

Please pass this information to School PACs
Thank you for your time and attention.

A Description of the workshop below:

BEYOND DISCIPLINE: ENHANCING CHARACTER GROWTH IN YOUR CHILD

There are many workshops and books on child discipline which generally focus on dealing with unacceptable behaviors in children. They are remedies. This workshop is not about remedies, it’s about prevention – the preventing of behavior problems by focusing on building the character of the child.
Healthy psychological development in children makes it so they do not have the desire to “misbehave” and allows them to constructively deal with their mistakes. This workshop takes this huge body of research on psychological development and boils it down to a few easy to understand principles, along with practical ideas on how to support this psychological growth-this character-building-in the child.
Time of workshop: 2 ½ hours.
Presenter:
Bart Begalka, M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. (Cand.)
Registered Clinical Counsellor with 37 years experience working with children, 24 of which has been as a child therapist. Father of two grown children. He is the coordinator for clinical training in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at Trinity Western University.

 

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Sorry for the delay but I have now posted the response to our letter from George Abbott. See the Motions section of our site. 

 

Official statement from the Board regarding Cheryle Beaumont's departure is below:

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The Board of Education regrets to announce to the school community that the Superintendent of Schools, Ms. Cheryle Beaumont, is leaving the School District to pursue other ventures. Ms. Beaumont is an outstanding Superintendent who has provided strong leadership through difficult times and who has accomplished much during her tenure for the students of Langley. The Board wishes Ms. Beaumont every success in her future endeavours.

A. (Sandy) Wakeling, ABC
Communications Manager, Langley School District
Phone: 604-534-7891 / Fax: 604-533-1115
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Personalized Learning in BC - information provided and feedback opportunity

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Personalized Learning in the BC Education System

The Ministry of Education has released a new interactive discussion guide on personalized learning.

The guide is intended to provide information and give an overview of personalized learning and an opportunity to submit your feedback and questions to the Ministry of Education.

Follow the link to view the interactive guide: http://www.personalizedlearningbc.ca/#/1

A PDF version is also available (but will not allow for feedback) http://www.personalizedlearningbc.ca/book_image/PersonalizedLearningBC.pdf

Instructions for using the interactive guide:

Click the link to open the guide

Viewing and navigating the document

  • Use the navigation pane at the bottom of the page (grey bar)
  • “view full screen” command is on the right corner
    • Advance to next page is in the middle
    • and the zoom and home buttons are on the far left
    • you may also click and drag on the corners of the pages to turn them.

Feedback may be typed into the appropriate text boxes, click on the “submit” button for each completed response when done.

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A Vision for 21st Centruy Education

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From the Premier's Technology Council:

This special report highlights a vision of education in the 21st century. As a result of our research, we believe that our system must transform to properly serve the citizens of a knowledge-based society. The PTC fully understands that the current education system is both large and complex and that engineering the kind of transformation discussed will be a significant challenge. The PTC has not chosen, however, to discuss the specifics of implementation at this time. We have instead chosen to envsion what a new system might look like were we able to begin with a blank slate. As there are no implementation steps considered in this special report, it contains no recommendations.

 

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