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Call for Election Nominations!
Elections for next years President and Executive Committee members are currently being accepted and voting will be occuring at the Annual General Meeting on Monday, May 13th. For more information on nominating or voting please view the following memo: NOSTA Read More …
General Meeting and New Teacher Induction
Hope to see everyone tomorrow at the General Meeting at 4:15 with the New Teachers induction to immediately follow. This event will be taking place at the Art Gallery, 70 Hudson Ave. NE.
Why Finland’s public schools are so succesful
CBC did a great article and podcast on the public school system in Finland. A written recap as well as the entire podcast can be found here.
February is all about Bargaining Rights
IN 1987, teachers across BC voted to unionize and locals gained full rights to bargain on behalf of teachers at the local level. The scope of bargaining included salary and benefits as well as the working and learning conditions in Read More …
NOSTA Social – February 8th
NOSTA TTOC SOCIAL @ the Brew Pub
There is a TTOC social happening at the Brew Pub on Thursday, December 6th from 4:15 to 6:00 PM. Appies are being supplied by NOSTA. If you would like to participate please contact Julie at the NOSTA Office, 250-832-1933. Hope Read More …
BCSSA Presentation
There are some great presentations available here from the recent School Superintendents Fall Leadership conference. Some very good ideas were presented in terms of technology in the classroom and where to go with technology use and teacher autonomy.
New Extended Benefits Provider has been chosen.
Pacific Blue Cross has been chosen as the standardized health plan provider. In the next few weeks we will be receiving information about the new plans and how it will be rolled out. We do know that dual-coverage (i.e. Nosta-Nosta Read More …
High school teachers prep-time survey
Please take 5 minutes to complete this survey! http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/nosta/sd83-bargainning-survey/