COSC Meeting Report: Jan 20, 2022

Council of School Council Meetings January 20, 2022 The COSC meeting took place on January 20, 2022. There were over a hundred participants and all the Trustees were present as well.  A Copy of the presentation is here: https://www.cbe.ab.ca/get-involved/school-councils/Documents/20220120-COSC-Presentation.pdf A summary of the discussions is as follows: Board Advocacy: K-6 Draft Curriculum The Board provided

Agenda for Meeting Tues, Sept. 24 @10am

School Council at CBE Homeschooling has its first meeting on Tuesday, September 24, at 10am. Please consider attending. We will be electing our executive at this meeting, as well as discussing use of space in the school, staffing, the library, communication with parents, volunteering, and events for the year.  Sept 2019 Council Agenda

Minutes from November 2017 Council Meeting

The minutes from our November 2017 Council meeting are attached below. Our topics included: Yearbook SLAs Sr high open houses & support for grade 9s Student Leadership Jr high students on Council Parent-teacher interviews Learning commons/Library/MPR Upcoming events Coffee and Conversation The minutes can be accessed here:Minutes November 14 (1)

Agenda for November 14, 2017 Council Meeting

Please join us for our November Homeschool Council meeting to be held Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10 am. Our topics include the following: Yearbook SLAs Sr high open houses & support for grade 9s Student Leadership Jr high students on Council Parent-teacher interviews Learning commons/Library/MPR Upcoming events Coffee and Conversation The agenda can be

Minutes from October 2017 Council Meeting

The minutes from our October 2017 Council meeting are attached below. Our topics included: Roles of admin and staff Sr high open houses & support for grade 9s Friday activities Jr high students on Council Halloween party Communication strategy Pictures and yearbook Jr high leadership Library Lunch room supervision Coffee and Conversation The minutes can

Free Office 365 for CBE Students

Free Office 365 for CBE Students The suite includes Word, Excel, One Note and PowerPoint.   Information on how to access this is available here: http://cbe.ab.ca/news-centre/news-archive/Pages/free-access-to-microsoft-office-365-for-cbe-students.aspx   Advice: click the link in either “Download instructions for OSX” or “Download instructions for Windows” rather than clicking on “Visit this link to login to the Office portal”

Changes to Home Education Reimbursement

New regulations for Home Education Reimbursement came out from the Provincial Government in July. They can be accessed here:   https://education.alberta.ca/media/3615919/standards-for-home-ed-reimbursement_july11_2017.pdf   The CBE has made changes to its Reimbursement procedures based on these changes. The CBE Reimbursement Guide can be accessed here: http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/homeschooling/reimbursement.html   A summary of the changes for this year from last

Key Communicator Report on COSC (Council of School Councils) Sept 2017

Key Communicator Report September 15, 2017 Alicia DeBliek   COSC Meeting September 13 Attended by Andrea Hanslip & Alicia DeBliek   Topics for the meeting: Welcome and Introductions Brief introductions from: the Superintendents’ Team and the attending Board of Trustees members   Election protocols reminder – WRT where signage and campaigning is allowed positions will

Proud to Homeschool!

Last week we had an extraordinary experience, as a result of the visit with Judy Hehr, Trustee for the Region that Windsor Park resides within. Let us be clear, we could not have hoped to sway her from her passion for the traditional public school process, but that wasn’t our goal anyway. Our goals were to be heard, to be understood and

Homeschool WoW- Stats, a Voice, a Calling

There is a precise and powerful vision at work behind the scenes of our day-to-day as we dream, plan, educate and implement our highest values for our dearest creations, our children. I am thrilled to recognize that the world is waking up to the reality of the magnificence of it all, fellow leading-edge, alternative educators. For