Chinook's Edge School Division has created a new committee for teachers that will be focused on making division classrooms the highest quality around.The new committee, officially known as Teachers Matter, will feature about 30 teachers or ìopinion leadersî from across the division who will act as liaisons between the committee and their schools.Three day-long meetings have been set, with the first one scheduled for last Friday.Superintendent Kurt Sacher said the new committee will allow for open communication between teachers, CESD staff and the education board while also providing an avenue to test-drive new ideas and initiatives that align with CESD's new mission statement and vision.ìWhen we work together to determine what makes a quality learning environment we need to listen carefully to our teachers,î Sacher said in a release. ìThroughout Chinook's Edge we are focused on helping our teachers to be the best they can possibly be. To do this effectively we need to stay in touch with the challenges today's teachers face implementing new ideas into their classrooms.îCommunity learning programming to be expanded beyond Olds CollegeOlds College has agreed to hire an education consultant to examine the expansion of programming at the Community Learning Campus (CLC) through its partnership with Chinook's Edge School Division, board members heard Sept. 28.Former director Dot Negropontes has been hired by the college to conduct a thorough review of the project to ensure the goals of both Olds College and CESD continue to be met.Superintendent Kurt Sacher said one of CESD's key goals of the partnership was to ensure the expansion of the program's successes beyond the Olds area in order to impact a wider array of CESD students.ìTo do that they (Olds College) have supported hiring a consultant who is going to look at how that relationship is working inside the CLC and how the programming structures are meeting the needs of students,î Sacher said.ìWe've stepped up our attention and our time involvement relative to the CLC.îAd-hoc committee created to examine trustee code of conductChinook's Edge School Division board members agreed last week to set up an ad-hoc committee to review and create a trustee code of conduct.Trustees voted unanimously on Sept. 28 to set up the committee, already in place in a number of other school divisions.The committee features trustees Connie Huelsman, Joe-Anne Knispel-Matejka and Bill MacFarquhar.
