{"id":12404,"date":"2018-10-01T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2019-07-22T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:05:27","slug":"celebrating-our-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/celebrating-our-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our Teachers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To our Teachers on World Teachers&#8217; Day<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12406 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WTD2018_Twitter_640-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WTD2018_Twitter_640-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WTD2018_Twitter_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/WTD2018_Twitter_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">On behalf of the Board of Education and district staff, we would like to take the opportunity<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on this special day<\/span><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">to celebrate and thank you for your hard work as \u201cthe heartbeat of public education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"> The critical work you do on a daily basis, both inside and outside the classroom, to prepare children and youth for the future is deeply appreciated<\/span><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">and profoundly inspiring. Your unwavering commitment to create New Westminster Schools as a place where students love to learn is taking shape in so many ways across the district and truly transforming our educational landscape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Our recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/beyond-letter-grades-a-culture-shift-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Curriculum Implementation Day<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/coming-up-teachers-launch-conversation-for-national-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Engaging Indigenous Perspectives Edcamp<\/a><\/i><\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">,<\/span><\/i><i> <\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\">where your professionalism and commitment were evident,<\/span><span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">exemplified this transformation in action.<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">As we continue to embed the core competencies in learning across all curriculum areas, \u00a0we<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>are seeing and will continue to see\u00a0increased student engagement and achievement. And, as we take<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">R<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">econciliation to heart, we will continue to foster equitable and inclusive learning environments for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Your leadership and willingness to take risks in order to create something better is exciting. Our journey continues as we build for our future now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mark Gifford<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Chair, Board of Education<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Karim Hachlaf<br \/>\nSuperintendent<\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><i>News Release:<span class=\"x_apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctf-fce.ca\/en\/news\/Pages\/default.aspx?newsid=1983998948&amp;year=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teachers to be celebrated as the heartbeat of public education on\r\nWorld Teachers\u2019 Day.<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To our Teachers on World Teachers&#8217; Day On behalf of the Board of Education and district staff, we would like to take the opportunity\u00a0on this special day\u00a0to celebrate and thank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-news-bulletins","category-school-news","category-featured-events","category-events-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16429,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/16429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}