Your Member News
October 26, 2022
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Celebrate the last week of Women's History Month
October is Women’s History Month in Canada. This year’s ETFO poster focuses on our intergenerational connections with the message that our collective future needs to be rooted in imagination, accountability, collaboration, and action.
With these tools we are reminded that what we do today makes tomorrow better. Download the poster.
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Demanding an end to EQAO
It has been three years since the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) has released results for the Grade 3 and Grade 6 EQAO assessments. Although the results were a product of a tumultuous assessment process, it is the mounting research that requires us to demand an end to EQAO.
Read more in the article End EQAO from the fall 2022 issue of ETFO Voice.
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Project Overseas 2023
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE) has notified ETFO that Project Overseas will take place in July 2023.
ETFO members interested in applying to Project Overseas 2023 can access the application form, view updated FAQs, and obtain additional information on ETFO’s secure website under Grants and Funding Opportunities.
Please submit a completed application form, along with all supporting documents, in one email to pbhardwaj@etfo.org no later than November 18 at 5:00 p.m. EST.
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Visit the renewed ETFO assessment website
ETFO is thrilled to announce that etfoassessment.ca has added a new section: the assessment for learning feedback loop. Additionally, there are new ways to explore the incredible assessment tools that members love.
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Make sure you're registered at members.etfo.ca
Resources and information for ETFO members is now available at members.etfo.ca. If you have not yet registered at the site, please go to members.etfo.ca and click the red "Register Today" button. On the site you'll find classroom resources, updates, and professional learning opportunities.
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New podcast episode: How does ETFO select its bargaining goals?
Ahead of each round of bargaining, ETFO establishes a list of bargaining goals that set out what is needed in central and local collective agreements. In this episode of the ETFO podcast Elementary, learn more about how ETFO decides what its goals will be during bargaining.
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Workplace violence: where to turn for help
Education workers should be safe from workplace violence. But as student needs grow and supports are cut, violence in schools is on the increase, again.
Your worker representative for health and safety and your local ETFO office can help you understand your rights. You have the right to be safe at work.
Find resources, including information about your right to refuse unsafe work, here.
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Not just a drill – be prepared for prevention
Schools should have settled into routines this fall including traditional fire drills. School boards are required to return to pre-pandemic total evacuation fire drill procedures. All schools must also have at least two other lockdown drills per year. Find out more here.
And if you’re overdue for a drill, speak to your administrator or worker health and safety representative.
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Professional Learning Events
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Visions Program – For Women in their First Five Years
This exciting three-session program highlights union involvement and focuses on participants developing an anti-oppressive and feminist framework. Participants will build their knowledge of ETFO, the broader labour movement, and opportunities for leadership and activism.
- December 8 and 9, 2022
- January 16 and 17, 2022
- March 23 and 24, 2023
There is a $75 registration fee and registration closes on November 4. Learn More.
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Information Communication Technology Conference
Members interested in exploring innovative technologies to enhance student learning are invited to register for the upcoming Information Communication Technology Conference. This conference will be held in-person in Toronto. There will be a keynote speaker at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, December 2 and workshops will be held on Saturday, December 3, 2022.
Registration is now open and closes on November 2 at 9:00 a.m.
To view the conference information, download the flyer.
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Conscious Classrooms: Responding to Gender-Based Violence
ETFO has partnered with the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape and White Ribbon to develop Conscious Classrooms: Responding to Gender-Based Violence. The two-day regional conference is a women’s program which aims to enhance understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) within school communities and support students who have disclosed, while creating trauma-informed and gender-inclusive classrooms.
The workshop is open to members who self-identify as women. This is the first of three regional conferences and is open to the following locals: Durham, Peel, Toronto, and York Region. The registration deadline is October 26 at 5:00 p.m.
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Your insurance bill shouldn’t scare you this Halloween – lower your insurance cost
With Halloween just around the corner and the ‘spooky season’ in full swing, there are many frights to behold. But your insurance bill shouldn’t be one of them.
While you need enough coverage to ensure you, your loved ones and your belongings are protected, there are ways to lower your insurance cost without reducing your coverage. We’ve put together a list of savings and discount options you may be eligible for in order to save on your home and auto insurance.
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Fresh look.
Faster browsing.
Same great AQ courses!
ETFO AQ is excited to announce the launch of the refreshed website. Candidates are provided with a faster browsing experience and improved navigation, making registering for a quality ETFO AQ course even easier for all educators.
Visit etfo-aq.ca for information about our AQ courses, including Schedule C and D courses and registration dates.
If you have forgotten your username or password, please call
1-877-325-7778 for assistance.
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Starling Minds – Mental Health Resource
The Starling Mental Fitness Program is a support resource available to all ETFO members and their families through a partnership with Starling Minds and OTIP.
The program offers self-guided, unlimited, and personalized digital support and training to help you build the knowledge, tools and skills you need to better manage stress, anxiety, and burnout.
Along with the self-guided program, you can join live mental fitness training, conducted in weekly 30-minute drop-in sessions hosted by Dr. Andrew Miki, a renowned CBT psychologist, to help you prioritize your mental health.
Read this PDF about the resource and learn how to register.
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Starling Minds: Mental Fitness Challenge
Weekly on Tuesdays from October 18 – November 22
(7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
Starling Minds is hosting a six-week interactive Mental Fitness Challenge for Depression and Burnout to help members prevent and combat burnout. There is still time to join the last few sessions.
The six-week mental fitness challenge includes:
- guided support and training around Starling Mental Fitness program;
- a weekly live session with Dr. Andrew Miki that includes a Q & A period; and
- weekly homework exercises to put learning into action.
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Schooling is the same as learning, and learning seems to be something that only occurs in schools. Is schooling the same as learning, asks Iyanuoluwa Akinrinola in Schooling or Learning?
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"Growing in Ontario as a second generation Filipino largely involved learning someone else’s histories and stories – voyageurs, cowboys, settlers, fur traders, and a whole slew of white protagonists. I didn’t know that I was missing any perspectives," writes Coleen Elep in Why Representation Matters in Your Teaching Practice.
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The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
represents more than 83,000 teachers and education workers.
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