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Only at BCSTA: reach voters directly by posting your candidate profile!
Your students have the chance to vote, too
Pressing the delete button on cyber-bullying
BC teacher-librarians want to book trustee support
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Only at BCSTA: reach voters directly by posting your candidate profile!
 In a first-ever public service feature, BCSTA has created a Candidate Profile section on its website. There you can post not only a biography, but your positions on the issues, as well as a link to your website or blog. The Candidate Profiles give voters the opportunity to get to know their local candidates – and make better-informed decisions on election day, November 15. Let the voters know what you would bring to the role of school trustee! Don’t miss out – upload your candidate profile now.
Also in BCSTA’s comprehensive elections resources: Guide to 2008 Board of Education Elections, the Stand Up for Public Education brochure,
and Frequently Asked Questions.
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Your students have the chance to vote, too
 Students in your elementary and secondary schools may be underage – but they can still cast a vote. In an initiative organized by the student-run Student Vote, students across Canada can hold their own voting day during the week before Canada’s October 14 federal election. “Student Vote is an award-winning, parallel election program where students experience democracy, rather than just study about it,” explains Taylor Gun, Student Vote’s Chief Election Officer.
The program, supported by Elections Canada, CBC News and such education partners as the Ontario Public School Boards Association, now has 2,100 schools registered to participate nationwide. CBC and prominent daily newspapers will release the Student Vote results after the close of official polls on October 14. Let your schools know, so they can register!.
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Pressing the delete button on cyber-bullying
 Two experts on preventing cyber-bullying offer an intriguing alternative: cyber-kindness. On the October 14, at the University of British Columbia’s Phi Delta Kappa presentation “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but how can pixels hurt me?,” Wanda Cassidy and Karen Brown assess the extent and impact of cyber-bullying in schools and offer counter-measures.
Wanda, a professor and Director of the Centre for Education, Law and Society at Simon Fraser University, conducts research to assess the extent and impact of cyber-bullying in BC schools. Her colleague Karen, a PhD candidate in the School of Criminology at SFU and also the Coordinator for the Centre for Education, Law and Society, has investigated cyber-bullying and relational aggression in schools. for more information, or to register for the event, held at Vancouver’s Arbutus Club, contact Celina Mau.
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BC teacher-librarians want to book trustee support
 On Monday, October 27, the BC Teacher Librarians’ Association urges British Columbia to Drop Everything And Read! But BCTLA needs YOUR help to spread the word. In a letter to BCSTA President Connie Denesiuk, BCTLA asks boards of education to support the DEAR initiative, in which participants will take a 15-minute silent reading break at 1 pm.
Pointing out that the plan costs nothing, BCTLA President Karen Lindsay says, “Imagine the outward silence and the magic in the minds! … Can you see how this could grow and raise the profile of the importance of reading? I have this vision of every man, woman and child in BC quietly reading together by Provincial School Library Day 2010.” Karen welcomes you to contact her with your queries.
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