PRESIDENT'S JOURNAL

An Effective Practices Guideline for Terms and Conditions of Employment is released to Directors of Education

In the fall of 2008, the deputy minister announced the Ontario Leadership Strategy, a 3-year plan aimed at attracting the right people to leadership and helping principals and vice-principals become the best instructional leaders. More

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

School Administrator Positions

The Wellington CDSB invites applications for the positions of principal and vice-principal. Successful candidates will be placed in a pool for future appointments. Applications will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
Principal posting
Vice-principal posting

Director - After School Enrichment Program

We are a group of professionals/parents who are establishing an after hours school in midtown Toronto. The school will have 20 classrooms and will be designed to accommodate students in grades 1 to 12. The focus of the school will be academic enrichment coupled with leadership/mentoring programs. More

CPCO welcomes feedback and comments regarding this online newsletter. Please email Nelly Kelders at nkelders@cpco.on.ca.

MEMBER SERVICES

Executive Council Meetings

CPCO members are invited to review the minutes of the March 27-28, 2009 executive council meeting and the minutes of teleconferences held on April 8 and April 16, 2009. More

Networking for Solutions

Secondary principals and vice-principals are invited to join a teleconference on May 14, 2009 to dialogue and find solutions to issues in their schools. Find out what’s happening in other areas of the province. More

Education Law eBulletin

In this issue:
• Labour Notes: Court finds that arbitration may not be exclusive mechanism to resolve employment-related disputes
• Filling long-term occasional positions: does hiring new teachers discriminate against retired teachers? More

FAITH REFLECTION

There is a Season for Everything

A friend of mine likes to explain his religious background this way: "I have powerful conservative roots. I was raised in a very strong conservative, Roman Catholic, immigrant, German, farming family, with all the inhibitions, protectiveness, exclusivity, and reticence that this entailed. More

2009 AGM

2009-2010 Executive Council

At the 2009 Annual General Meeting of CPCO, the executive council for 2009-10 was elected. More

Conference/AGM Evaluation Survey

Participants at the 2009 CPCO conference and AGM are reminded to complete the evaluation survey sent to them in e-mail on May 3, 2009. Your feedback will assist us in planning the 2010 conference in Windsor, April 22-24.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Principal’s Qualification Program
Deadline Approaching

Registration for the spring/summer session of PQP closes on May 8, 2009. Encourage teacher leaders in your school to consider a vocation in school administration. More

KEEPING YOU INFORMED

Canadian Council on Learning

Homework effective when properly assigned: research shows.
Ottawa, May 4, 2009 - A study released today by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) confirms that homework is linked to higher student achievement - but only if it is judiciously assigned and engaging to the student… More