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Board Inaugural Set
for Monday
Monday's Inaugural
Meeting will be a first for the London District Catholic
School Board. Trustee Loren Demelo was acclaimed Chair
of the Board for the 2009 school year at this past
Monday's organizational meeting. She is the first woman to
hold the post since the Board was formed through amalgamation
in 1998.
This will be her first term as Chair
after eight years on the Board. The new Chair represents the
central and south London wards of 11, 12 and 13.
Trustee Demelo will
outline her vision for the upcoming year during the
Inaugural Board meeting on Monday at the
Catholic Education Centre. The evening will begin with a
mass, with Fr. Jim Mockler, Board Chaplain, the celebrant.
Elgin Trustee Bill Hall, a former
Chair, was acclaimed as Vice-Chair.
Outgoing Chair John Ferris thanked
his fellow Trustees for their support and cooperation.
"As a Board we are recognized as a model that works
collectively," he said. "That recognition has
been well-earned." Mr Ferris also thanked the
Director, Senior Administration, staff and teachers for
their commitment to Catholic education.
Contract agreements have been ratified with
all LDCSB employee groups within the November 30th framework.
London District OECTA (Ontario English
Catholic Teachers Association) voted last night in favour of a new
agreement for regular contract teachers from Junior Kindergarten to
Grade 12 and Continuing Education. The
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4186 membership also
ratified the revised collective agreement in voting last night.
Their agreement covers support staff.
Province-wide, every one of Ontario's
publicly funded Catholic school boards has agreed to new four-year
collective agreements covering all elementary and secondary teachers
in the province's publicly funded Catholic schools.
Decking the Halls!
Staff unpacked lights,
trees, bows and wreaths this week, to
decorate the Catholic Education Centre in its Christmas
finery.
(Right)
The Christmas decorations
include thousands of lights and hundreds
of ornaments. A nearly life-sized Nativity scene is on display
in the Boardroom.
The Program Department and Special
Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) behind the first electronic
issue of the Parent Connection. This newsletter is devoted to
distributing news, views and ideas to families of students with
special needs and educators in our school board. It will be
published 4 times per year by the LDCSB Program Department –
Special Education and Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC).
The goal of the newsletter is to enhance
communication, information and engagement opportunities with parents
regarding our programs and services as well as recent initiatives
and upcoming events hosted by the Program Department, Ministry of
Education and local community associations represented by SEAC.
We encourage all parents of students with
special needs, staff members and community associations to join our
mailing list and receive upcoming electronic copies of Parent
Connection. We will continue to expand the communication
opportunities for our parents and educators and look forward to your
suggestions and feedback. To subscribe to future editions of Parent
Connection, please email s.aarssen@office.ldcsb.on.ca.
Our
Mission
To serve the Catholic
student in a community that nurtures a living faith and provides a
quality Catholic education that enables the individual to become a
contributing member of the Church and Society.
or contact:
John Boles, Manager of Communications, 519-663-2088, ext
40015
Spotlight
is produced weekly by
the Communications Department of the
LDCSB.
Spotlight is a BRAVO Award
winner for demonstrated excellence, recognized by the Canadian
Association of Communicators in Education and a winner of the
Glorya Nanne Award from the Ontario Association of Parents
in Catholic Education for making a substantial contribution to
fostering better understanding of Catholic Education.
