Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:25 PM
Subject: major announcement
Today the Ontario government, as one of their green announcements this week, has released the Report of the Working Group on Environmental Education that was chaired by Roberta Bondar and included as one of the members of the Working Group OSEE now-past president Allan Foster.
The announcement can be seen at http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2007/06/22/c8204.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html.
The Report Shaping Our Schools, Shaping Our Future can be seen at http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/curriculumcouncil/shapingSchools.pdf.
In their announcement Minister Wynne said the government will adopt and implement all 32 recommendations, the Report would not spend any time sitting on the shelf, and action would begin immediately.
The 32 recommendations are far-reaching, will finally create policy, and will affect curriculum, teacher preparation and professional development, both pre-service and in-service, resources, outdoor education, and a new grade 11 course focussed on environmental education.
I believe any of us invested in seeing these changes who reads the Report and its 32 recommendations will be very impressed.
Kudos to all who participated in providing input submissions to the Working Group.
Dave Arthur
