Education

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange provides an update on COVID-19 and back-to-school guidance in Edmonton on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Alberta has introduced legislation to make public the names and case details of teachers disciplined for unprofessional conduct or incompetence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Alberta proposes bill to overhaul, publicize teacher discipline and decisions

Bill would reorganize the disciplinary process and require ongoing criminal record checks

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange provides an update on COVID-19 and back-to-school guidance in Edmonton on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Alberta has introduced legislation to make public the names and case details of teachers disciplined for unprofessional conduct or incompetence. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Walnut Grove Secondary School Grade 12 student Jeewoo Chung has started a ‘Hack Club’ to teach coding to kids. He hosted week-long coding camp for students in grades 5 to 7 in James Kennedy Elementary. (Luke Vasi Media/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Langley student aims to teach kids computer coding skills

Grade 12 student Jeewoo Chung organized a week-long free coding camp at a local school

Walnut Grove Secondary School Grade 12 student Jeewoo Chung has started a ‘Hack Club’ to teach coding to kids. He hosted week-long coding camp for students in grades 5 to 7 in James Kennedy Elementary. (Luke Vasi Media/Special to Langley Advance Times)
Langley School District’s board office. (Langley Advance Times files)

Langley sees COVID exposures at 22 schools over two weeks

Several elementary schools had between four and 10 exposures

Langley School District’s board office. (Langley Advance Times files)
Langley School District’s board office. (Langley Advance Times files)

Trustees want more schools built as Langley enrolment rises by historic 917 students

It’s the biggest jump in student numbers in recent memory

Langley School District’s board office. (Langley Advance Times files)
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AT YOUR SERVICE: Skyrocketing enrolment prompts intensified lobby by trustees

Question-and-answer feature calls on those elected to office in Langley

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Students enjoy exploring the park during recess and lunch, including climbing trees and jumping in leaves at Ponder Park. (Langley School District/Special to Langley Advance Times)
Students enjoy exploring the park during recess and lunch, including climbing trees and jumping in leaves at Ponder Park. (Langley School District/Special to Langley Advance Times)
Surrey teacher Shannon Akester gets vaccinated for COVID-19 at the North Surrey clinic on Wednesday, March 24. (submitted photo: Fraser Health)

B.C.’s largest school district decides against mandating COVID-19 vaccines for staff

Board of education points to high vaccination rates in Surrey, White Rock

Surrey teacher Shannon Akester gets vaccinated for COVID-19 at the North Surrey clinic on Wednesday, March 24. (submitted photo: Fraser Health)
Kanata Soranaka used technology and innovation to continue to bring music to students despite the COVID-19 pandemic. She was an Education Hero last year. (Langley Advance Times files)

Tell us about your Langley education heroes?

We’re again looking for stories of people who have gone above and beyond for students

  • Oct 29, 2021
Kanata Soranaka used technology and innovation to continue to bring music to students despite the COVID-19 pandemic. She was an Education Hero last year. (Langley Advance Times files)
FILE – Children walk with their parents to Sherwood Park Elementary in North Vancouver for the first day back-to-school Thursday, September 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Teachers’ union calls for more speed, clarity on COVID-19 exposures

BCTF said teachers noticing ‘significant inconsistencies’ in how outbreaks, clusters, exposures are classified

FILE – Children walk with their parents to Sherwood Park Elementary in North Vancouver for the first day back-to-school Thursday, September 10, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
(Pixabay photo)

Winnipeg teacher placed on leave after racial slur used in classroom

Students allege the teacher used the slur multiple times

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Education minister Jennifer Whiteside read a story to a group of kindergarten kids at Langley’s Nicomekl Elementary school, with Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care (left), on Monday, Oct. 18, following a press conference to announce expansion of the Seamless pilot pre- and after-school child care program to Nicomekl and 20 other B.C. schools. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)

VIDEO: New kindergarten pilot child care program expanded to include Nicomekl Elementary in Langley

Provincial Seamless Day offers before- and after-school care for kindergarten kids

Education minister Jennifer Whiteside read a story to a group of kindergarten kids at Langley’s Nicomekl Elementary school, with Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care (left), on Monday, Oct. 18, following a press conference to announce expansion of the Seamless pilot pre- and after-school child care program to Nicomekl and 20 other B.C. schools. (Dan Ferguson/Langley Advance Times)
The Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta has ordered the Alberta Pipe Trade College to pay $35,000 to Branka Turnbull, shown in this undated handout image, after she was fired as an instructor of the technical college in Edmonton in 2013 because of a pregnancy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO

Alberta technical college ordered to pay former teacher who was fired for pregnancy

Branka Turnbull calls Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta decision vindication

The Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta has ordered the Alberta Pipe Trade College to pay $35,000 to Branka Turnbull, shown in this undated handout image, after she was fired as an instructor of the technical college in Edmonton in 2013 because of a pregnancy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
R.E. Mountain Secondary is one of the schools approaching capacity as hundreds of new students arrived in the district this year. (Langley School District)

Enrolment shoots up at Langley schools for 2021

About 900 more students are enrolled than last year

R.E. Mountain Secondary is one of the schools approaching capacity as hundreds of new students arrived in the district this year. (Langley School District)
Grade 6 students at Langley Christian had to go home until Oct. 10 because of a number of cases in the school. (Langley Advance Times files)

COVID cases shut down Grade 6 at Langley school

There were 14 cases in a brief span of time, most in one class

Grade 6 students at Langley Christian had to go home until Oct. 10 because of a number of cases in the school. (Langley Advance Times files)
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AT YOUR SERVICE: Trustees ponder what kids are missing out on during pandemic

Question-and-answer feature calls on those elected to office in Langley

  • Oct 3, 2021
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Teacher Joy Harrison instructs her second graders as California Gov. Gavin Newsom visits the classroom at Carl B. Munck Elementary School, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. Gov. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)

Masks now mandatory for all B.C. students

New rules require masks for Kindergarten to Grade 3, which were previously exempt from the mandate

Teacher Joy Harrison instructs her second graders as California Gov. Gavin Newsom visits the classroom at Carl B. Munck Elementary School, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. Gov. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Support Our Students Alberta has been tracking COVID-19 cases in schools since September. (File photo by BLACK PRESS)

Student advocacy group says 10 per cent of Alberta schools have COVID-19 outbreaks

Support Our Students Alberta has been tracking cases since September

Support Our Students Alberta has been tracking COVID-19 cases in schools since September. (File photo by BLACK PRESS)
The Learning Disability Society has just launched a new program for Greater Vancouver students to learn aboard a custom-designed electric bus. (LDS photo)

VIDEO: All aboard! B.C. society uses colourful bus to push through kids’ learning barriers

Vancouver-based Learning Disability Society launched the program in fall 2021

The Learning Disability Society has just launched a new program for Greater Vancouver students to learn aboard a custom-designed electric bus. (LDS photo)
The elementary campus of Abbotsford Christian School has moved to remote learning from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 due to some COVID-19 cases. (Google Street View)

Abbotsford school moves to temporary remote learning due to COVID-19 cases

Abbotsford Christian elementary reports ‘a number’ of cases and ‘close contacts’

The elementary campus of Abbotsford Christian School has moved to remote learning from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 due to some COVID-19 cases. (Google Street View)
Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix look on as Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry speaks about the COVID-19 vaccine card set to arrive in mid-September as they discuss details about the process during a press conference at provincial legislature in Victoria, B.C., on August 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Concerns prompt B.C. to return to notifying schools, parents about COVID exposures

Dr. Bonnie Henry says parents and teachers have let it be known they need to be informed

Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix look on as Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry speaks about the COVID-19 vaccine card set to arrive in mid-September as they discuss details about the process during a press conference at provincial legislature in Victoria, B.C., on August 23, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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