BCTELA

Each April, the Canadian Bar Association holds events to celebrate Law Week. This year, the CBA events include an essay contest and a public speaking competition.

The CBA events celebrate the signing of the Canadian Chart of Rights and Freedoms. This year’s theme for Law Week is “The Law: Past, Present and Future.”

Letter: English Language Arts 8-12 IRP

Dear Ms. Hughes-Adams,

Conference Report

Thanks to all 384 paid registrants who attended this conference! We had a great mix of teachers from public and independent schools, representatives from the Ministry of Education, university faculty, and student teachers.

The Thursday evening event at the Holiday Inn was a blast. Around 90 teachers enjoyed appies and a beverage and took part in a “fireside chat” with renowned literacy expert Faye Brownlie. Faye offered a big-picture perspective of “What’s New, What’s Wonderful in the New IRP.”

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BCTELA heads into 2008 with a renewed energy and vigour. Our membership numbers are the highest they have been for many years, thanks to all of you who attended our fall conference “Writing Ourselves: Reading the World.”

Amber Huguet Flanagan taught in Maple Ridge for six years and has worked with student teachers at SFU for two years. She is the District Facilitator for Mentoring, Social responsibility, and elementary Initiatives in SD#42.

Dave Ellison teaches language arts and social studies at the South Surrey/White Rock Learning Centre. He is a past editor of Update and the current president of BCTELA.

It is a pleasure to write this article, first of all because I was invited to as a follow-up to my ‘Act the Story’ workshop at the 2007 BCTLA Conference held in Vancouver last October, and second, because participants were eager to have more questions answered than time allowed.