CPAC Committee


COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION AWARD

To recognize significant contributions to secondary education in Lambton Kent by someone who is not currently a member of OSSTF. The names of nominees can come from members through their Branch President, from Executive and from CPAC. Each submission should detail the nominee’s contribution and should not exceed 500 words. DEADLINE: March 31, 2010.

2010 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
(In Honour of Marion Drysdale)

The 2010 Student Achievement Awards invites students to enter prose/poetry, graphic/video/audio, or visual art categories that best explore the theme Suppress Excess: Living Within Our means.

REGIONAL WINNERS

Congratulations to Brennan Williams (SCITS), Sylvia Pinsonneault (JMSS) and Alice Li (NCIVS) for winning at the Regional Level.

DISTRICT WINNERS

Prose or Poetry Category A-2: Intermediate, 9 - 10 Applied/Essential

Student

Teacher

School

Title

Brennan Williams

Stephen Lynch

SCITS

Less Greed More Need

 

Prose or Poetry Category A-3: Senior, 11 - 12 University

Student

Teacher

School

Title

Jennifer Robbins

Pamela Seaton McLean

NCIVS

Possession Obsession

 

Creative Category B-1: Intermediate Visual Art

Student

Teacher

School

Title

Nicholas Hyatt

LJ Ireland

SCSS

Rainy Days

 

Creative Category B-2: Senior Visual Art

Student

Teacher

School

Title

Sylvia Pinsonneault

Lisa Snyder

JMSS

House of Cards

 

Creative Category B-3: French or English Video/Audio/Animation

Student

Teacher

School

Title

Alice Li

Roman Petruniak

NCIVS

Make a Change

 


The Students First Plan - Ontario's schools must be focused on giving students the academic, life and social skills that enable them to become confident individuals with a wide range of opportunities.  Students who are fully engaged in this manner, stay in school and succeed in school.  Ontario's public secondary school teachers and educational workers have a plan that will put the needs of students first and make this happen.

More details on the OSSTF's students first plan.

Funding Formula - In 2003, in his wide-ranging report, Commissioner Rozanski found that the Progressive Conservatives had short-changed Ontario's public education system by more than $2 billion.  He made a total of 33 recommendations which can be viewed on the internet at: www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/reports/task02/complete.pdf.

OSSTF is still waiting for the implementation of the following Rozanski recommendations:

  1. The immediate restoration of $511 million into the funding formula, primarily in the local priorities and learning opportunities grant areas to allow current issues to be addressed; the ongoing adjustment of benchmarks to reflect true costs;
  2. A full review of the funding formula;
  3. A rebuilding of the formula based on the review.