TELL US YOUR STORY

1st PRIZE $175...2nd PRIZE $125...3rd PRIZE $75 - prize goes to your school
DEADLINE Feb 28
We are looking for a short (90 secs) story that relates how your students take God's love to your community. How are they impacting your area? How are they reaching out and meeting the needs of your town? What impact is outreach having on the students and teachers?

The winning stories will be used to promote education in the churches of BC and encourage church attenders to give to the education offering.

You are free to choose the style of presentation e.g. written, film, PowerPoint, etc. Remember the thrust is to promote education and will be used prior to an education offering being taken up. Your presentation needs to be short, attention grabbing and inspiring.

Maximum length of presentation to be 90 secs. All stories entered will be the property of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (British Columbia Conference). Send your stories to the OE no later than February 28, 2007.

HEAD LICE IN SCHOOLS?

Altana Pharma Inc is introducing an insecticide-free product for the treatment of head lice. this product, Resultz, has recently been approved by health Canada and will be available this month, September 2006. For more information go to their web site www.altanapharma.ca.

DL SCHOOL

NEW SCHOOL OPENS in British Columbia

The newest school in BC for the school year 2006/07 will be the Distributed Learning School.

What is a Distributed Learning School? The DL School is a K-8 school without walls. It brings Adventist education to a community even where there is no established church or church school; offers an Adventist education supervised by a qualified teacher, and combines approved curriculum from the North American Division and BC Ministry of Education.

For more information contact the principal, Janet Hall - 604 556 2550 or dlschool@bcadventist.ca

Encourage parents to enroll their child NOW!

RESOURCE LIBRARY

NEW BOOKS available from our Resource Library
Totally Positive Teaching by Joseph Ciaccio - A Five-Stage Approach to Energizing Students and Teachers
Connecting with Students by Allen N Mendler
The Key Elements of Classroom Management by Joyce McLeo, Jan Fisher, Ginny Hoover - Managing Time and Space, Student Behavior, and Instructional Strategies

VIRTUES PROJECT

The Vision of The Virtues Project is to serve humanity by supporting the moral and spiritual development of people of all cultures, by helping them to remember who they really are and to live by their highest values.

The Mission of The Virtues Project is to provide empowering strategies that inspire the practice of virtues in everyday life through programs of excellence and simplicity which support people of all ages to cultivate their virtues - the gifts of character.

Web site - virtuesproject.com

FRIENDS FOR LIFE

The World's Leading School-based Anxiety Prevention Program

FRIENDS FOR LIFE helps children and teenagers cope with feelings of fear, worry, and depression by building resilience and self-esteem and teaching cognitive, behavioural, and emotional skills in a simple, well-structured format.

Developed in Australia and used in schools throughout the world, FRIENDS is the only such program acknowledged by the World Health Organization.

In 2004, the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development committed to a province-wide implementation of the FRIENDS program. Delivered in cooperation with the MOE, this initiative enables school professionals to deliver FRIENDS as a classroom-based universal prevention program or as an early intervention to children who may be at higher risk for anxiety disorders.

For more information visit www.friendsinfo.net

NEW SDA READING SERIES COMING

On October 3-5, Shirley Johnston (OKAA), Tammy Larsen (FVAA), Elaine Cassarro (AAJA) and Lloyd Robinson (OE) attended a workshop in Chicago to receive lead information on the new reading series. These teachers will be developing and implementing the new curriculum in their classrooms on a limited basis this year and then taking the lead in training other elementary teachers in our conference.

Scheduled release dates are: grades 1/2 - 06-07; grades 3/4 - 07-08; grades 5/6 - 08-09.

Introductory and intensive training sessions are also being scheduled for the NAD Convention in Nashville.