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October 2019
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Exploring the Core Competencies

With help from teachers, B.C.'s Core Competencies have been revised and finalized. Check out this four-part video series to see what's new and what remains the same and to explore the new features on the curriculum website.  

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Honouring BC's Top Educators 

The second annual Premier's Awards for Excellence in Education were awarded earlier this month at Government House in Victoria. The 30 finalists for these prestigious awards prove what an incredible and lasting impact B.C.'s education professionals have on students' lives.

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Promoting Social and Emotional Well-Being in Young Children

The Changing Results for Young Children program brings StrongStart facilitators, Early Childhood Educators and primary teachers together to support the social and emotional well-being of young children. And it's making a huge difference.

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Cannabis Legalization and Impacts for B.C. K-12 Education

On October 17, 2019, legal non-medical cannabis was expanded to include the purchase, possession and use of edible, extract, and topical products by those over the age of 19 in B.C. Find out what this means for our K-12 system.

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School Leaders Video Series

To help celebrate National Principals' Month, a new video series on school leadership has just been released. These videos feature four of BC's most influential leaders: Brad Baker (Indigenous Education), Shelley Moore (Diversity), Faye Brownlie (Literacy) and Linda Kaser (Spirals of Inquiry).

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Keeping B.C. at the Forefront of Teacher Education

A new teacher education program approval and review framework has been developed that will ensure B.C.'s teacher candidates continue to meet the high standards B.C. for which B.C. is known.

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Science World Pro-D

Science World‘s professional development workshops embrace an approach to teaching and learning that reflects the B.C. curriculum‘s focus on place-based, inquiry learning.  

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Stories of the Second World War to Engage Your Class

This November, engage your students with powerful, first-hand accounts of the Second World War from Canadian veterans. Just in time for Veterans’ Week (Nov. 5-11), you can now tap into a collection of free teaching tools and videos called The Legacy Series

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Inspiring Kids to Read

How do you get younger students excited about reading? For Kamloops librarian Meg Ross the answer is their own public library card. Over the past two years, local Grade 3 students have used their new cards to check out over 8,000 items.

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