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All Candidates Meeting 2011 results

Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:11

Tell us about yourself:

What qualifications, educational background, and/or experience do you have that has prepared you to take on the role of School Trustee?

Rod Ross (RR)	Kirsten Schaffer-Charlesworth (KSC)
Megan Dykeman (MD)	Cecelia Reekie (CR)
Candy Ashdown (CA)	Kari Medos (KM)
Stacey Cody (SC)	Brian Leonard (BL)
Alison McVeigh (AM)	Robert McFarlane (RM)
Douglas Smuland (DS)	Wendy Johnson (WJ)
Pamela-Rose Combs (PRC)	John McKendry (JM)

Parent Involvement

How will you ensure that parents are involved in the decisions the Board and District make?

SC	BL
AM	RM
CR	CA
KM

Student & Staff Related

Do you feel that all students, Gifted and Special Needs included, are receiving the education they need to ensure that they become well rounded, and contributing members of society?

MD	DS
WJ	PRC
JM	RR
KSC

District Issues

What is your opinion on the Decentralized Decision Making Model in the Langley School District? What are the greatest opportunities it offers and challenges it presents?

AM	RM
CR	CA
KM	SC
BL

Funding

What is your view of current education funding? What would you do as a trustee to ensure the highest quality of education for our children given the current funding available?

PRC	JM
RR	KSC
MD	DS
WJ

Accountability

What can be done to improve the working relationship between trustees, the district and the parents of Langley? How would you go about implementing this idea?

BL	AM
RM	DS
WJ	PRC
JM	RR
KSC	MD
CR	CA
KM	SC

Questions from the floor (answered by...)

1. AM & BL

2. CR & CA

3. KM & SC

4. JM & DS

5. KSC & MD

6. RM & PRC

7. WJ & RR

8. AM & CR

9. CA & BL

10. DS & KM

11. SC & JM

12. MD & PRC

13. RR & RM

14. WJ & KSC

15. CA & BL

Trustee Candidate DPAC Survey results.

Saturday, 05 November 2011 09:54

Here are the results of the questionnaire DPAC sent to the 14 School Trustee candidates for this coming November 19th election.

MS Excel format (easier to read electronically)
Adobe PDF format (formatted for printing sorted by question)

NOTE: Please consider the environment before printing this document.

Thank you to all the candidates for their informative responses.

Personalized Learning in BC - information provided and feedback opportunity

Monday, 27 June 2011 15:53

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.

BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils

NEW DPAC Public forum online.....

Thursday, 28 April 2011 11:36

We would like to introduce a new public online forum for anyone to use regarding Langley School District Issues.

We (the executive) may post information for the public to discuss.

This forum (see new link above) is open to ANYone with an interest in the Langley School District and Langley DPAC would like to open as many communication routes to our parents and partner groups as we can.

Enjoy.

Round Table process...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011 19:46

Presented by Bruce McCloy...

Click here for Round Table information

Please contact Bruce (see link) if any more information required.

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