Girls gone missing in Nigeria and Canada: Chilling theme runs through both cases
A little over a month ago, the media began to report the kidnapping during the night of more than 200 girls from their school in Nigeria, where they had gathered to write their year-end exams. The...
View ArticleETFO: A Union That Takes Action (From the General Secretary)
ETFO is a union that takes action even in the quietest of times. But these are not quiet times, and ETFO’s activism is at the heart of an organization that cares about the future of public education...
View ArticleBorn to Lead
ETFO’s more than 60,000 women members bring many important skills to leadership. Researchers have discovered that the connections in the typical female brain often run from side to side between the...
View ArticleYour Federation: Representative Council, May 13-14, 2015; The Pridehouse That...
Representative Council May 13-14, 2015 The May Representative Council meeting opened with President Sam Hammond thanking local leaders for their input and feedback on Phase 1 of the work-to-rule strike...
View ArticleETFO Leadership Programs for Women
Eighty-one per cent of ETFO’s members are women. As part of its ongoing commitment to equity, ETFO makes it a priority to encourage women’s leadership in the union. This commitment is reflected in an...
View ArticleWhat’s at Stake if the Harper Government Is Re-Elected? Have a Say in...
ETFO traditionally has focused its political activities at the provincial level; the provincial government has the most direct impact on education policies and our members’ working conditions....
View ArticleProject Overseas: Opportunities in Global Educational Leadership
Project Overseas. These words hung in the back of my mind for almost a decade. At the Thanksgiving table in 2007, I explained to my family how PO, as it is affectionately called, sends Canadian...
View ArticleWalking With Our Sisters: A Commemorative Art Installation Honouring Missing...
ETFO’s annual leadership conference for women, … and still we rise (ASWR), is known for providing inspiring ideas women educators can use to make a difference in their classrooms and communities....
View ArticleYour Federation
Representative Council More than 100 delegates and 35 union school representatives attended February’s Representative Council meeting. President Hammond spoke to the importance of ETFO’s participation...
View ArticleLooking Back: Women’s History in Ontario Teacher Federations
Excerpted by Mary Morison from “It’s Elementary: A Brief History of Public Elementary Teachers and Their Federations.” Barbara Richter, ETFO, 2008. Eighty-one percent of the members of the Elementary...
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