Sask. teachers speak up about leading a classroom through a pandemic

For Grade 12 teacher Jason Stein, instructing during the COVID-19 pandemic is "like having the Sword of Damocles [impending doom or disaster] always over top of your head; you don't necessarily always consciously think about it all the time." 

"When I'm in school and teaching and interacting with students, it's not there. Then you see something and you're like, 'Oh yeah, what if?'" 

Something like a student missing from class: Are they sick? Did they expose the entire class?

Stein teaches a variety of subjects at Turtleford Community School, in the small community about 85 kilometres northwest of North Battleford, Sask.

Full CBC article here.

NWTA 2020 Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to Kahleigh Moore for being the first recipient of the North West Teachers Assocation Annual Scholarship. In the picture we have Kahleigh in the middle being presented the scholarship by her parents and NWTA members, Darcy and Russell Moore. Kahleigh is currently studying in the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, within the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. We wish you the best with your studies Kahleigh!

LINC Agreement Signed

On Wednesday, June 19, representatives of the North West Teachers' Association and the Board of Education of the Northwest School Division signed a local agreement that will be in effect from September 2019 to August 2022.

The new agreement can be viewed in it's entirety here.

Thanks to the LINC Team of Al Maier, Jeff Walso, Anita Hamm, Tana Deibert, Ed Edmonds and Alan Robins for their work in securing this agreement.