Education

A brand new teacher’s resource based on the life of a residential school survivor was released this week, and the president of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS) said he believes the resource will be valuable because it will help students to better understand the true legacy of Canada’s residential schools. “The truth about residential schools must continue to be told, and Manitoba teachers will continue to tell it,” MTS President Nathan Martindale said while speaking at a media conference at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Monday.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ newest addition is dedicating his tenure to creating LGBTTQ+ lessons for classroom teachers across the country, especially those outside major cities, so queer and transgender youth do not live through the same isolation he felt as a student.

the economic benefits the aerospace industry provides to Manitoba are both direct, by having Manitobans employed at a company like Magellan, and indirect.

La Division scolaire franco-manitobaine is calling on students of all ages to leave their cellphones at home or turn them off during the day to minimize distractions and reduce students’ overall screen time.

Two separate rallies about the role of the Louis Riel School Division when it comes to teaching students about LGBTTQ+ identities unfolded only five kilometres away from each other, but attendees’ views were worlds apart. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, roughly 200 people – many of them wearing Pride flags and paraphernalia – chanted, “Hey! Ho! Transphobia has got to go!” outside LRSD headquarters at 900 St. Mary’s Rd.

In the Winnipeg School Division, Manitoba’s largest, five of 89 kindergarten educators (just under six per cent) are men.

Brandon School Division (BSD) trustees held their first board of trustees meeting for the 2023-24 school year on Monday evening, and once again the issue of monitoring and banning books was on the agenda.