The agenda for the May 7 meeting of the Parent Involvement Committee is now available. The meeting is at 4:30 p.m. in the Inglewood Room of the HJA Brown Education Centre, 5650 Hurontario St. in Mississauga. This is the final meeting for the 2011-12 school year.
You'll find information about the committee in the 'Parents Boost Learning' section of peelschools.org: http://www.peelschools.org/parents/involved/parent.htm
April 13, 2012
More than just an email
The Peel board provides a generic email account for each school council. This generic email account ensures each council’s email address remains the same, even though council membership changes from year to year. Did you know it also gives you access to your very own personal site within the secure Peel board’s intranet?
After logging in at http://www.peelschools.org/, you land on your school council's private My Site. This is where you can access email and optionally create your very own My Workspace. This year Applewood School council undertook an initiative creating a workspace to:
1) serve as a main document repository
2) house our list of regular and potential guest speakers
Our school council generally hosts four to six parent speaker nights every year, a welcome back BBQ and nine business meetings. Our document repository is the one single place that holds the agendas, meeting minutes, parent surveys, financial statements, newsletter articles etc. from 2008 to the present. The purpose of this workspace is to make us more effective and efficient as a council so we in turn can engage and develop well informed parents to help our students succeed.
The Peel board has actually won a technology innovation international award for its work developing these school based intranets. While there definitely is some initial setup effort required to build and populate the workspace, the online help as well as the personal support I received from Rachel Marshall in the Learning Technology Support Services department was outstanding. Her passion for the technology and patience (I swear I don’t know how I deleted that entire webpage) was much appreciated.
And now that we have this workspace, current and, maybe more importantly, future school councils will have all this information at their fingertips.
This post was submitted by Rita Kerkmann, chair of the school council at Applewood School. You can contact her at: applewoodps.council@peelsb.com
After logging in at http://www.peelschools.org/, you land on your school council's private My Site. This is where you can access email and optionally create your very own My Workspace. This year Applewood School council undertook an initiative creating a workspace to:
1) serve as a main document repository
2) house our list of regular and potential guest speakers
Our school council generally hosts four to six parent speaker nights every year, a welcome back BBQ and nine business meetings. Our document repository is the one single place that holds the agendas, meeting minutes, parent surveys, financial statements, newsletter articles etc. from 2008 to the present. The purpose of this workspace is to make us more effective and efficient as a council so we in turn can engage and develop well informed parents to help our students succeed.
The Peel board has actually won a technology innovation international award for its work developing these school based intranets. While there definitely is some initial setup effort required to build and populate the workspace, the online help as well as the personal support I received from Rachel Marshall in the Learning Technology Support Services department was outstanding. Her passion for the technology and patience (I swear I don’t know how I deleted that entire webpage) was much appreciated.
And now that we have this workspace, current and, maybe more importantly, future school councils will have all this information at their fingertips.
This post was submitted by Rita Kerkmann, chair of the school council at Applewood School. You can contact her at: applewoodps.council@peelsb.com
April 12, 2012
Parents Reaching Out (PRO) Grant tips
The Ministry of Education has provided a PowerPoint presentation with comprehensive information on how to apply for a PRO grant. The presentation includes a slide on ineligible expenses.
Questions about PRO grants should be directed to Glenn Court (Lead Policy/Program Co-ordinator) at (416) 325-7802 glenn.court@ontario.ca or Brian Desrosiers-Tam, Senior Policy Advisor at (416) 325-6549 brian.desrosiers-tam@ontario.ca.
Please share :)
Questions about PRO grants should be directed to Glenn Court (Lead Policy/Program Co-ordinator) at (416) 325-7802 glenn.court@ontario.ca or Brian Desrosiers-Tam, Senior Policy Advisor at (416) 325-6549 brian.desrosiers-tam@ontario.ca.
Please share :)
April 11, 2012
PRO Grant applications now being accepted - apply by June 8
School Councils can apply for a Parents Reaching Out Grant and receive up to $1000 for their project, or team up with other schools and receive up to $1000 each for a larger project. The information is posted here: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/parents/reaching.html
I will post some tips and best practices this week to help you with your applications.
Please share this news!
I will post some tips and best practices this week to help you with your applications.
Please share this news!
April 03, 2012
Highlights from the April 2 Parent Involvement Committee meeting now posted and PRO grants
The highlights from last night's PIC meeting have been posted: http://www.peelschools.org/parents/involved/parent.htm
Also, I heard from the Ministry today that an announcement about this year's PRO Grant timelines should be coming VERY soon. I'll share as soon as I hear.
Also, I heard from the Ministry today that an announcement about this year's PRO Grant timelines should be coming VERY soon. I'll share as soon as I hear.
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