The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (CANADA) School Based Program

Teachers, here is an opportunity to get your students involved in a social action project that changes the way that children are treated.

The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (CANADA) School Based Program, offers:
• Presentations through their Speaker’s Bureau which provides valuable insight into the life of Nelson Mandela, the history of apartheid and the global impact of lives affected by systemic injustices.
• Professional development for teachers demonstrating how to integrate an inclusive curriculum.
• Hands-on workshops

The School-Based Program works in collaboration with schools to teach students about Nelson Mandela and his struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. Through the Speaker’s Bureau, students learn about the challenges facing orphans, vulnerable children and youth in South Africa and the impact of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals) on our global communities.

Students in Canada are given the opportunity to respond to what they have learned by taking action through fundraising and making a difference in the lives of their peers in South Africa. 
NMCF (CANADA) ensures that all funds donated are used to empower children and youth in South Africa and improve their quality of life.  The money raised in partnership with schools supports five programs in South Africa:
• Skills development - strengthens the family’s potential to provide the social and educational needs of young children; equips youth from poverty backgrounds with market-orientated skills;
• Well-being of the child - rehabilitates the lives of children living on the street by providing alternative models of care, such as healthy family and community environments. It also helps to build safe communities to prevent child abuse, and provides support for children in distress through court support and neighborhood victim support;
• Disability program- integrates and empowers disabled children by improving interaction between mainstream classrooms and those who are differently abled through unified activities in sports, arts, and cultural initiatives;
• Leadership and excellence - equips youth with life skills and entrepreneurial skills, to enable them to participate in the economy;
• Goelama (Sotho word that means to nurture and care for the vulnerable) improves the lives of children affected by HIV/AIDS through education, and mobilizing communities to take responsibility for orphans and households headed by children.

For more information visit our web site at www.mandela-children.ca or contact: Ka’ren Feder, Program Outreach and Development Officer 
Tel: 416-496-8403 ext. 235 or 1-866-763-1453

NMCF_CANADA_SBP_blurb.doc

2010 Off-Site Safety Management Course

Canadian International Expeditions presents the 2010 OSSM Course.

Dates:

Saturday, March 27 – Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27 – Sunday, November 28, 2010

Timing:

Saturday 8.00 am – 5.30 pm
Sunday 9.00 am – 4.00 pm

Venue:

St Clement’s School, 21 St Clement’s Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4R 1G8

Event Cost:

$400.00 (incl. tax) per person for two days.
The price includes course notes, lunch and refreshments, but not accommodation.

Maximum number of participants is 16.
In the event that the course has to be cancelled, all monies will be returned and an alternative date offered.

For more details please see the attachments below.

Booking_form.pdf

The Sterling Institute

The Sterling Institute is a centre of expertise in boys' education. Its goal is to share research and resources from around the globe that encourage excellence in the teaching of boys. It was founded by The Sterling Hall School in 2007.

In its pursuit of excellence in education, The Sterling Hall School has produced much of its own curriculum, tailored to the way boys learn best. This material is based on the best practices and studies of other educators and researchers, as well as the faculty's combined experience. It has proven to be effective in the SHS classrooms and at other schools. The curriculum is continually developed and refined, according to the response of the boys and the high academic demands of the school.

As interest in the work at The Sterling Hall School has spread, faculty have been invited to present at conferences across Canada, the U.S., and abroad. Through The Sterling Institute, we are now pleased to be able to share with a wider audience our proprietary, leading-edge curriculum and the extensive resource base we have cultivated in the area of boys' education. The Sterling Institute has also gathered an impressive selection of other related resources from around the world and links to these materials can be found on this site.

Much of the information including reports, publications, workshops, and selected presentations, is available to view online free of charge. Members of The Sterling Institute also have access to our proprietary curriculum and additional presentations that are not available to the general public. These resources may be downloaded and printed. Alternatively, customizable versions may be purchased for an additional fee.

For more information, please visit The Sterling Institute website at www.sterlinghall.com/institute, or contact Erica Sprules, Co-ordinator and Editor of the Institute at esprules@sterlinghall.com or by phone at (416) 785-3410.

Cancer Connections Photography Show

St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School (SMLS), in partnership with Photosensitive, invites students of CAIS and CIS affiliated schools to join in a national Cancer Connections photography exhibition.  

The Cancer Connections exhibition features photographs that will help to raise awareness and foster sensitivity to those effected by cancer and the people close to them. The photographs document the effects of cancer on the lives of people across Canada. The display is currently touring the country and appears in the online gallery at www.photosensitive.com/cc.

Since 1990, PhotoSensitive, a not for profit organization of photographers, has been harnessing the power of black and white photography to raise public consciousness of critical issues around the globe. Cancer Connections  provides the opportunity to take photographs of a wide range of subjects: people who have survived cancer, those who have lost friends or family to the disease or people involved in the fight against it. The group welcomes student submissions to the exhibition.

Students are asked to be creative in the portrayal of their subject. Visit the website to get ideas and view the over 400 photographs currently online. Submissions will be accepted in September 2009, with photos posted onto the web gallery over the fall and winter. All student photographs will appear in the Cancer Connections web gallery. A select number of submissions will appear in a physical traveling exhibition as it goes to Vancouver, Calgary and the Grand Finale show in Ottawa in 2010. Mini exhibitions organized by individual schools or groups of schools (perhaps in conjunction with local cancer societies) are also possible.

Submission is straightforward and details appear online. Ideally, black and white photos should be submitted electronically at 20” x 16”, 300 dpi, though PhotoSensitive will work with hard copies and/or convert colour images to black and white. A 50-word caption and completed subject release form must accompany the photo submission. 

To find out more about PhotoSensitive and Cancer Connections visit www.photosensitive.com/cc; browse photos, read stories and watch the launch videos from the first three exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal and Charlottetown.

St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School is excited to be launching the Cancer Connections photography project within the CIS and CAIS community. This project combines many aspects of curriculum, while reaching out to the broader community both locally and nationally. A kit for teachers and students will be available in August/September, through St. Mildred’s, to assist with the introduction of the project in your school.

We encourage you and your students to participate in this educational and inspirational opportunity to be part of PhotoSensitive’s unique exhibition. 

For further information please contact:

Jackie Osmond Patrick, PhotoSensitive at (905) 282-9074, jackie@photosensitive.com

or

Karen Dyne
Director of Arts, St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School
Tel: (905) 845-2386 ext. 756
e-mail: kdyne@smls.on.ca

CancerConnectionsLetter.pdf

International Home Exchange Club

International Home Exchange Club - A great opportunity!

• Club Members exchange homes with fellow Members around the world and save money on holidays
• Exclusively for those with current or past connections with Independent Schools worldwide:

-Fee-Payers
-Alumni
-Teachers
-Staff
-Governors

To learn more, please see the flyer below

Homes-Club_Brochure.pdf

Live Out Loud Adventures International Trip Leader Training, October 22/23, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

We are writing to inform you of a training Live Out Loud Adventures, www.liveoutloudadventures.com, is running this fall at The York School for staff/faculty leaders of off-site excursions and international trips. Sarah Wiley and I will guide trip leaders step by step through a process that will allow schools to run trips safely and effectively.

Our curriculum will closely follow the off-site excursion standards currently being developed by SEAL.

Please see the flyer below and distribute it on to any staff for whom the training might be relevant.

Thank you,

Angus Murray and Sarah Wiley

A_International_Trip_Leader_training_October_2010_May_20111.pdf