In honour of Lottie

Hello Lotties! And welcome to those who are in search of a "Lottie" to mentor and support your own multigrade, rural teaching. This is a good place to begin, by posting questions and sharing ideas. Lottie Bowron's story is historical, local, and very inspiring. I am wondering if we can create a link to Lottie's biography from this blog.

Ways and means of PRO - D

We are professionals. We deserve to decide what our professional development should be. Recently in my district, I heard of an official who demanded that a teacher attend a specific workshop as he/she needed to "work on" that area. What gives them the right to demand these things?

Multigrade LO

The district had no email over the weekend so today was a catch up day .... so lo and behold I received 4 seperate emails about multigrade curriculum! One from the Ministry (a fellow that I had worked with previously), and 3 from various Principals about the district. I think that Heather's curriculum is starting to make numerous waves!

In honor of Lottie

I believe that we honor Lottie and her efforts every time that we help a fellow teacher in need. Even a group that is small, such as ours, has the ability to be powerful and do a world of good just as Lottie did. What do you think?

Lottie speaks

Hello All,
Thanks so much to Willow for setting up this blog!
Thanks also to Steve for an informative and inspirational talk.

Wendy

AGM

We want to write about Steve Mulligan's presentation today. We have learned about a range of resources that we can use to be more inclusive in how we teach. Steve is the anti-homophobia consultant for the Vancouver School Board. He will let us know when he has a link that we could add to this blog, but in the meantime, you can contact him at pride@vsb.bc.ca

Welcome to Prince George for our 2007 Conference!

Hello, Everyone. After all of the conference calls, it has been wonderful to meet you in person here at UNBC in Prince George. I was touched yesterday by Wendy's interview with "Lottie". What an inspiration for us, and wouldn't she be pleased to know that after all these years, her story inspires us. When I looked for her picture, I found that she had a seven month old brother who is buried in the Barkerville cemetery, and her mother, who died at 45, is also buried there. Interesting that "Lottie" spoke of teachers as young women away from their mothers!