Welcome to the 2011-12 school year to past and present members of SCCAO
This year SCCAO will continue to connect and support Science Leaders from all around Ontario. Please consider forwarding this message to others within your district or organization if they have responsibility for supporting Science instruction. If you have received this message and wish to have your name removed from this mail list then please contact Rick Pardo (r.pardo@tvdsb.on.ca) to have your email removed from our list.
We are looking forward to another great year working with many veteran members of SCCAO and welcoming new SCCAO members as well! Implementation of the science curriculum, Growing Success and lab safety initiatives continue to be at the forefront and we look forward to sharing some of the exciting things going on in Science classrooms around Ontario. As boards grapple with the Growing Success document, this year SCCAO will make implications for science assessment a focus and area of priority. In addition to assessment, we will continue to work together to support our work in the areas of Inquiry, Differentiated Instruction and Safety via electronic and face to face sessions.
We will be holding our fourth annual SCCAO Conference on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The day is included in the SCCAO membership fee and is scheduled one day before the annual STAO conference, and at the same location (DoubleTree by Hilton – Toronto Airport) . Please be sure to mark this date on your calendar. Joanie Causarano and Paul Walsh of the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch will be our guest speakers for the morning session. Her topic of ”Assessment and Evaluation in the Inquiry Process “ will provide each of us a great learning opportunity so that we can best support our own teachers and students.
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