Belinda Daniels is the only Canadian teacher up for the Global Teacher Prize worth $1 million A Saskatoon Cree teacher has been shortlisted for a global award worth $1 million. Belinda Daniels is the only Canadian teacher up for the Global Teacher Prize awarded by the Varkey Foundation. “I was pretty ecstatic, overwhelmed, and it was exciting,” Daniels said on CBC’s Saskatoon Morning. I wanted to share that feeling of connectedness with my students. – Belinda Daniels, teacher Daniels is from...
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Leach won Conn Smythe Trophy, scored 5-goal game during playoffs NHL legend Reggie Leach stood in front of a gymnasium full of Saskatoon teenagers, telling them his best days weren’t the ones he spent playing hockey. “I’m more proud of what I did after hockey than what I did during hockey,” said Leach, who won the Stanley Cup with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975. “Hockey to me was just a stepping stone.” “You have problems and you want to talk, give me...
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Download PDF [version française] Welcoming. Caring. Respectful. Professionals. These four special words launch the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation fall 2015 TV campaign, designed to invite the public to work with…
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Students at James L. Alexander School in Saskatoon are a living example of the sort of social justice teachers routinely strive to instil as part of the overall education process.…
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Award recognizes effort to bring history to life The Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching will be handed out today in Ottawa and among the six being honoured will be Regina’s Kim Sadowsky. Sadowsky teaches at Thom Collegiate. Sadowsky was recognized for her Native Studies class. In her program, students relive history through a series of activities by taking on the roles of the Indigenous peoples. “By re-enacting different roles and living through these experiences, students are able...
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The sign in front of the small, steep-roofed, original one-room school house tucked up against the edge of the forest reads, “Education did not ‘begin’ in 1890 in Cumberland House.…
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