The ministry has finally backed down and agreed to restore the curriculum funding. It has been a long and exhausting fight but seeing these changes secured proves that our professional integrity still holds weight. Stay vigilant because we have to ensure they actually follow through on these promises now.
September 12, 2018
Final supporters
The Pledge
We, the undersigned, are licensed Ontario teachers, and have as our primary professional duty the care and well-being of our students.
Our professional and ethical standards require us to apply current best practices in educational research to create safe and supportive learning communities.
They also require of us moral action and integrity in our professional practice.
We must, therefore, reject in every way possible any attempt - by any government - to harm our students.
Recent decisions to cut essential curriculum development on Reconciliation and American Sign Language (ASL), cut funding for crucial school repairs, and cut the updated health and physical education curriculum will hurt our students.
Because of this, we pledge to uphold our professional standards by:
- Teaching best practices in health and physical education;
- Living up to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;
- Demanding that all students have access to the best ASL curriculum possible;
- Ensuring that student learning about Reconciliation and healthy and safe sexual relationships will not be confined to one course or classroom;
- Applying the principles of equity and inclusion to uphold the human rights and dignity of all our students, and;
- Insisting that the buildings our students learn in be safe and healthy.
We will not be bullied by any governments’ attempts to roll back life-saving advances in curriculum or cutbacks to crucial education funding.
***
L'engagement
Nous, les soussigné.e.s, sommes des enseignant.e.s agréé.e.s de l’Ontario, et avons comme premier devoir professionnel le soin et le bien-être de nos étudiant.e.s.
Nos normes professionnelles et éthiques exigent que nous appliquions les meilleures pratiques actuelles de la recherche en éducation pour créer des communautés d'apprentissage sûres et solidaires.
Elles exigent également de nous une action morale et l'intégrité dans notre pratique professionnelle.
Nous devons donc rejeter par tous les moyens possibles toute tentative - par quelque gouvernement que ce soit - de nuire à nos étudiant.e.s.
Les récentes décisions de réduire l'élaboration des programmes d'études essentiels sur la réconciliation et le langage des signes américain (ASL), de réduire le financement des réparations cruciales des écoles et de réduire le programme d'études mis à jour en matière de santé physique et de santé nuira à nos élèves.
C'est pourquoi nous nous engageons à respecter nos normes professionnelles :
- Enseigner les meilleures pratiques en matière d'éducation physique et de santé ;
- Répondre aux appels à l'action de la Commission Vérité et réconciliation ;
- Exiger que tous les élèves aient accès au meilleur programme d'enseignement de l'ASL possible ;
- Veiller à ce que l'apprentissage de la réconciliation et des relations sexuelles saines et sûres ne soit pas confiné à un cours ou à une salle de classe ;
- Appliquer les principes d'équité et d'inclusion pour défendre les droits de la personne et la dignité de tous nos élèves, et
- Insister pour que les bâtiments dans lesquels nos élèves apprennent soient sûrs et sains.
Nous ne nous laisserons pas intimider par les tentatives des gouvernements de faire reculer les progrès qui sauvent des vies dans les programmes d'études ou de réduire le financement essentiel de l'éducation.
The first 100 teachers to sign this pledge are:
Alison Fisher
Amanda Bond, Special Education Specialist, Equity & Inclusion lead teacher
Ann Burke
Ariadny Fragos
Ben Gross
Ben Saifer
Beth Alexander, Curriculum Leader at The Linden School, Toronto, Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence 2017
Betty Lynn Orton
Brandon Stewart
Brooke Charlebois, Teacher, Peel District School Board, Past President Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators, Sessional Instructor, Brock University Faculty of Education
Bruce Lyne, English Specialist, Media Studies, Co-op, Computer Science, Reading
ACL Program Development and Implementation
Caitlin Hewitt-White
Carla Johnston, Assistant Curriculum Leader
Chantal Mancini, M.Ed
Chelsie Free, TVDSB Teacher, I/S Health Physical Education, Social Sciences & Family Studies
Chris Chandler
Chris Coculuzzi
Cynthia Grant, PhD Curriculum Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto/OISE
David Mandelzys
David Smith
Deidre Macpherson, Athletics Director and Senior Health and Physical Education Teacher
Derek Chica, Assistant Curriculum Leader Guidance, Special Education, Mathematics, and Science
Elizabeth Forbes
Elizabeth Lyons
Esther Uhm
Eunice O’Mahony
Gordon Nore, Teacher-Librarian Specialist, Computers in the Classroom Specialist
Hannah Glow
Hayssam Hulays
Heather Birrell
Heather Byrnes
Heather Leatham, Department Head of FSL and International Languages, YRDSB
j wallace skelton, M. Ed.
Jen Wilson
Jenny Lui Macedo
James Campbell
James Steele, President, Ontario Association of Teachers of German
Janet Csontos
Janice Patterson
Jason Kunin, ACL Languages, TDSB
Jennifer Fannin
Jessica Haber
Jessamyn Polson
Jessica Laforest
Jim Penner
Jocelyne Pasman, Reading Recovery Teacher, TDSB
Joel Brough
Joy Lachica
Julie Beattie, Seconded Course Instructor and Practicum Facilitator, Faculty of Education, York University/ TDSB
Julie Girard
Katherine Hamilton, ACL Global Studies
Kim Fry
Kris Ewing, Department Coordinator, Health and Physical Education, University of Toronto Schools
Kristen Morrison, MEd, Elementary Special Education, Developmental Education: Medically Fragile, WRDSB
Kristina Budny, Assistant Curriculum Leader, General Science/Physics/STEM
Lanna MacKay
Lara Paterson
Laura Cappadocia
Laura Groome, Program Leader of English Social Studies and Art, Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies, TDSB
Leah Mauer
Laura McCoy
Lauren Simmons
Leela Acharya, ACL Guidance, Student Achievement & Wellbeing
Leigh Thornton
Lily Pereira, ACL English, Literacy, Library
Lorna Lane
Luis Filipe, TDSB Digital Lead Mentor, ACL of Social Science at Bloor CI, President of the Toronto History, Humanities and Social Science Subject Council
Megan McNally, ACL of Health and Physical Education, Wellness, Student Leadership and Athletics
Melissa Caparelli, BA, MSc
Meredith Lordan, Ph.D.
Michael John Foulds, Social Studies and Humanities Head, 73rd President of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation
Michael Fraschetti MA, BEd, PhD Student in Policy Studies, Ryerson University
Michelle Walker
Míchílín Ní Threasaigh, Assistant Curriculum Leader: English/Literacy/LLC/Moderns
Mitch Chuvalo
Nadeen El-Kassem
Nancy Hipwell
Nicola Townend, Former President of the Canadian Association of Teachers of German, Past President of the Ontario Association of Teachers of German
Oriane de Fenoyl
Paul Bocking
Paul Newman
Peggy Bell
Pia Berger
Rachel Rosen
Rocio McNeely
Roxanne Chee
Roopa Cheema
Rownak Chowdhury, Assistant Curriculum Leader - Special Education/Student Success
Ryan McDonnell, York Region District School Board, Modern Learning Lead
Sarah Vance
Sayaka Yajima, MHSc
Seth Bernstein
Shannon Salisbury
Shay-Lea O'Brien
Sheila Dow
Steve Ross
Susan Kasurak
Teresa Rothwell
Tracy Coseni
Viki Kotarba
Updates
July 19, 2018
We hit 250 signatures today. It is exhausting to fight this battle but knowing I am not fighting it alone keeps me going.
Reached 250 supporters
July 16, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
July 16, 2018
60 Comments
Please respect our children and keep the old curriculum for health and Phys ed. I certainly won’t be teaching the 1998 version
Just because the Ford administration holds dear to beliefs that are passé does not entitle him to deprive Ontario’s students of an opportunity to have an honest and open conversation about sexuality with well qualified educators.
While I may currently be responsible for teaching kindergarten and the health and physical education gr1-8 curriculum changes will not necessarily affect my students (yet), I wholeheartedly agree that the content that has been removed is of critical importance for our children and society. It deserves to be included.
We must do right by our students, and the actions of the current provincial government put teachers at odds with our professional commitments. So we must reject the demands of the Ministry of Education.
We will continue to do our professional duty and instruct our students about their human rights, their safety, their freedoms, their bodies etc. It is a pedagogically unsound to ask us to do anything else.
We should beifting the disabled up not trying to eliminate them. We spouses should be able to keep all earnings with no clawback period.
please leave odsp the way it is it's hard to live as it is
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The ministry has finally backed down and agreed to restore the curriculum funding. It has been a long and exhausting fight but seeing these changes secured proves that our professional integrity still holds weight. Stay vigilant because we have to ensure they actually follow through on these promises now.
September 12, 2018
Final supporters
The Pledge
We, the undersigned, are licensed Ontario teachers, and have as our primary professional duty the care and well-being of our students.
Our professional and ethical standards require us to apply current best practices in educational research to create safe and supportive learning communities.
They also require of us moral action and integrity in our professional practice.
We must, therefore, reject in every way possible any attempt - by any government - to harm our students.
Recent decisions to cut essential curriculum development on Reconciliation and American Sign Language (ASL), cut funding for crucial school repairs, and cut the updated health and physical education curriculum will hurt our students.
Because of this, we pledge to uphold our professional standards by:
- Teaching best practices in health and physical education;
- Living up to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;
- Demanding that all students have access to the best ASL curriculum possible;
- Ensuring that student learning about Reconciliation and healthy and safe sexual relationships will not be confined to one course or classroom;
- Applying the principles of equity and inclusion to uphold the human rights and dignity of all our students, and;
- Insisting that the buildings our students learn in be safe and healthy.
We will not be bullied by any governments’ attempts to roll back life-saving advances in curriculum or cutbacks to crucial education funding.
***
L'engagement
Nous, les soussigné.e.s, sommes des enseignant.e.s agréé.e.s de l’Ontario, et avons comme premier devoir professionnel le soin et le bien-être de nos étudiant.e.s.
Nos normes professionnelles et éthiques exigent que nous appliquions les meilleures pratiques actuelles de la recherche en éducation pour créer des communautés d'apprentissage sûres et solidaires.
Elles exigent également de nous une action morale et l'intégrité dans notre pratique professionnelle.
Nous devons donc rejeter par tous les moyens possibles toute tentative - par quelque gouvernement que ce soit - de nuire à nos étudiant.e.s.
Les récentes décisions de réduire l'élaboration des programmes d'études essentiels sur la réconciliation et le langage des signes américain (ASL), de réduire le financement des réparations cruciales des écoles et de réduire le programme d'études mis à jour en matière de santé physique et de santé nuira à nos élèves.
C'est pourquoi nous nous engageons à respecter nos normes professionnelles :
- Enseigner les meilleures pratiques en matière d'éducation physique et de santé ;
- Répondre aux appels à l'action de la Commission Vérité et réconciliation ;
- Exiger que tous les élèves aient accès au meilleur programme d'enseignement de l'ASL possible ;
- Veiller à ce que l'apprentissage de la réconciliation et des relations sexuelles saines et sûres ne soit pas confiné à un cours ou à une salle de classe ;
- Appliquer les principes d'équité et d'inclusion pour défendre les droits de la personne et la dignité de tous nos élèves, et
- Insister pour que les bâtiments dans lesquels nos élèves apprennent soient sûrs et sains.
Nous ne nous laisserons pas intimider par les tentatives des gouvernements de faire reculer les progrès qui sauvent des vies dans les programmes d'études ou de réduire le financement essentiel de l'éducation.
The first 100 teachers to sign this pledge are:
Alison Fisher
Amanda Bond, Special Education Specialist, Equity & Inclusion lead teacher
Ann Burke
Ariadny Fragos
Ben Gross
Ben Saifer
Beth Alexander, Curriculum Leader at The Linden School, Toronto, Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence 2017
Betty Lynn Orton
Brandon Stewart
Brooke Charlebois, Teacher, Peel District School Board, Past President Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators, Sessional Instructor, Brock University Faculty of Education
Bruce Lyne, English Specialist, Media Studies, Co-op, Computer Science, Reading
ACL Program Development and Implementation
Caitlin Hewitt-White
Carla Johnston, Assistant Curriculum Leader
Chantal Mancini, M.Ed
Chelsie Free, TVDSB Teacher, I/S Health Physical Education, Social Sciences & Family Studies
Chris Chandler
Chris Coculuzzi
Cynthia Grant, PhD Curriculum Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto/OISE
David Mandelzys
David Smith
Deidre Macpherson, Athletics Director and Senior Health and Physical Education Teacher
Derek Chica, Assistant Curriculum Leader Guidance, Special Education, Mathematics, and Science
Elizabeth Forbes
Elizabeth Lyons
Esther Uhm
Eunice O’Mahony
Gordon Nore, Teacher-Librarian Specialist, Computers in the Classroom Specialist
Hannah Glow
Hayssam Hulays
Heather Birrell
Heather Byrnes
Heather Leatham, Department Head of FSL and International Languages, YRDSB
j wallace skelton, M. Ed.
Jen Wilson
Jenny Lui Macedo
James Campbell
James Steele, President, Ontario Association of Teachers of German
Janet Csontos
Janice Patterson
Jason Kunin, ACL Languages, TDSB
Jennifer Fannin
Jessica Haber
Jessamyn Polson
Jessica Laforest
Jim Penner
Jocelyne Pasman, Reading Recovery Teacher, TDSB
Joel Brough
Joy Lachica
Julie Beattie, Seconded Course Instructor and Practicum Facilitator, Faculty of Education, York University/ TDSB
Julie Girard
Katherine Hamilton, ACL Global Studies
Kim Fry
Kris Ewing, Department Coordinator, Health and Physical Education, University of Toronto Schools
Kristen Morrison, MEd, Elementary Special Education, Developmental Education: Medically Fragile, WRDSB
Kristina Budny, Assistant Curriculum Leader, General Science/Physics/STEM
Lanna MacKay
Lara Paterson
Laura Cappadocia
Laura Groome, Program Leader of English Social Studies and Art, Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies, TDSB
Leah Mauer
Laura McCoy
Lauren Simmons
Leela Acharya, ACL Guidance, Student Achievement & Wellbeing
Leigh Thornton
Lily Pereira, ACL English, Literacy, Library
Lorna Lane
Luis Filipe, TDSB Digital Lead Mentor, ACL of Social Science at Bloor CI, President of the Toronto History, Humanities and Social Science Subject Council
Megan McNally, ACL of Health and Physical Education, Wellness, Student Leadership and Athletics
Melissa Caparelli, BA, MSc
Meredith Lordan, Ph.D.
Michael John Foulds, Social Studies and Humanities Head, 73rd President of the Ontario Teachers’ Federation
Michael Fraschetti MA, BEd, PhD Student in Policy Studies, Ryerson University
Michelle Walker
Míchílín Ní Threasaigh, Assistant Curriculum Leader: English/Literacy/LLC/Moderns
Mitch Chuvalo
Nadeen El-Kassem
Nancy Hipwell
Nicola Townend, Former President of the Canadian Association of Teachers of German, Past President of the Ontario Association of Teachers of German
Oriane de Fenoyl
Paul Bocking
Paul Newman
Peggy Bell
Pia Berger
Rachel Rosen
Rocio McNeely
Roxanne Chee
Roopa Cheema
Rownak Chowdhury, Assistant Curriculum Leader - Special Education/Student Success
Ryan McDonnell, York Region District School Board, Modern Learning Lead
Sarah Vance
Sayaka Yajima, MHSc
Seth Bernstein
Shannon Salisbury
Shay-Lea O'Brien
Sheila Dow
Steve Ross
Susan Kasurak
Teresa Rothwell
Tracy Coseni
Viki Kotarba
Updates
July 19, 2018
We hit 250 signatures today. It is exhausting to fight this battle but knowing I am not fighting it alone keeps me going.
Reached 250 supporters
July 16, 2018
Reached 100 supporters
July 16, 2018
60 Comments
These recent changes were much overdue and very relevant in my classroom this year. The old curriculum does not reflect the realities of the students in the class, the current human rights, or the challenges of living in the digital age. I can’t imagine going backwards.
Please respect our children and keep the old curriculum for health and Phys ed. I certainly won’t be teaching the 1998 version
Just because the Ford administration holds dear to beliefs that are passé does not entitle him to deprive Ontario’s students of an opportunity to have an honest and open conversation about sexuality with well qualified educators.
While I may currently be responsible for teaching kindergarten and the health and physical education gr1-8 curriculum changes will not necessarily affect my students (yet), I wholeheartedly agree that the content that has been removed is of critical importance for our children and society. It deserves to be included.
We must do right by our students, and the actions of the current provincial government put teachers at odds with our professional commitments. So we must reject the demands of the Ministry of Education.
We will continue to do our professional duty and instruct our students about their human rights, their safety, their freedoms, their bodies etc. It is a pedagogically unsound to ask us to do anything else.
We should beifting the disabled up not trying to eliminate them. We spouses should be able to keep all earnings with no clawback period.
please leave odsp the way it is it's hard to live as it is
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These recent changes were much overdue and very relevant in my classroom this year. The old curriculum does not reflect the realities of the students in the class, the current human rights, or the challenges of living in the digital age. I can’t imagine going backwards.