• parent education
• advocacy
• student health
• student achievement
• student safety
• public education
• COVID19

• DPAC
• parent education
• pac

Our DPAC Summit is an opportunity for DPAC leaders from across the province to gather, connect, discuss and network. Thanks to all who attended for making our 2019 event another resounding success! We appreciate you taking time away from your family to join us. We strongly encourage you to share the information you learned at the Summit and these presentations with your PACs and parents.

Personal Education Number (PEN) - Ministry of Ed

Funding Model Review and Inclusive Education - Ministry of Ed

The Partnership Model: Before/After School Care

Framework for Enhanced Student Learning - Ministry of Ed

Getting Parent Input - Immunization and Your Family - Ministry of Health

Membership is So Valuable it Won't Fit in your Hand - BCCPAC

DPAC PAC Issues with Solutions & Resolutions - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - BCCPAC

PAC & DPAC Issues and Solutions Table Work - BCCPAC

 

 

 

 

• parent education
• advocacy
• funding
• funding model

​Recommendations from the Ministry of Education's funding model review Working Groups were released in October 2019.
Read the reports:

Financial Management
Adult and Continuing Education
Inclusive Education
Online Learning

• parent education
• advocacy
• funding
• funding model

• DPAC
• parent education
• pac
• curriculum
• graduation
• assessment

Learn all you need to know about the revised curriculum K-12 including: core competencies, provincial assessments, graduation program, parent's guide and more. Since November 2019, Gr 10 students are required to complete the new Gr 10 Graduation Literacy Assessment and Numeracy Assessments and the Gr 12 Literacy Assessments as requirements for graduation.

Graduation Information on Ministry website 

Graduation Program Policy Guide

Graduation Program Implementation Guide

Gr 11-12 Curriculum Changes

 

 

• DPAC
• parent education
• advocacy
• pac
• conference
• agm
• spring conference
• conference presentations

Gaming Grants has developed a new 2019 presentation for PACs and DPACs. The presentation covers all of the basics, a few complex questions, and features an expanded list of eligible/ineligible disbursements (with better examples).

The presentation is 25 slides and should take 30 minutes to deliver. PACs and DPACs are reminded to apply online for Gaming Grants between April 1 - June 30, 2019 to receive funds in Fall 2019.

 

 

 

• parent education
• parent engagement
• student safety
• parent information
• radon

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that comes from the breakdown of uranium in the ground. You can’t see it or smell it. When radon gas seeps inside an enclosed space, such as a home or workplace, it can build up to high levels and become a health risk. Long term exposure to high radon levels is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers, and the second leading cause after smoking overall. All homes and buildings have some level of radon. Radon levels tend to be the highest in enclosed spaces and lower floors of a building since they are closest to the ground source. Since any building can have high radon levels, it’s important that all buildings get tested.

Learn more about Radon

Public schools in the North Shore/Coast Garibaldi regions of Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) (North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Sea-to-Sky, Sunshine Coast, Powell River and Central Coast) were screened for radon during the 2017/2018 school year. VCH conducted a radon school testing project in 2017/18 where they tested over 90 schools. Read their Final Report.

Recognizing that awareness related to radon has increased significantly over the last five years, Health Canada has contracted Scout Environmental to help identify potential new opportunities to educate Canadians into action. Health Canada has funded several campaigns related to radon and while these campaigns have made significant strides, there continues to be a disconnect between education and action.

Scout Environmental (Scout) and BCCPAC have partnered to increase awareness on radon and the importance of testing through several engagement channels. Scout’s Program Ambassadors will be in attendance at our annual Parent Education Conference in May 2020 to engage parents on the topic of radon and offer an exclusive discount on Health Canada approved long-term radon test kits.

We have written a letter of support for the program as we know this is important to members. We will work with Scout Environmental to help educate parents and school boards. We will share more information with parents as we progress.

• parent education
• parent engagement
• student safety
• parent information

 In cooperation with Safer Schools Together, the Ministry of Education has created/updated "Raising Digitally Responsible Youth" parent guide. 

 There is more information at Safer Schools Together,  ERASE site, Common Sense Media and many others.

 

• SOGI
• parent education
• inclusive
• Gender Identity
• FAQ
• sexual orientation and gender identity

Sex' and 'gender' are often used interchangeably, despite having different meanings.
Gender: socially-constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men and gender diverse people.
Sex: biological attributes of humans and animals, including physical features, chromosomes, gene expression, hormones and anatomy

This simple infographic from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research helps to explain the difference.

• SOGI
• parent education
• student health
• student safety
• inclusive
• Gender Identity
• FAQ
• sexual orientation and gender identity

 

The Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Center at the University of BC is a research team which looks at health inequities and strengths among stigmatized groups of youth, as well as the programs and policies that support them. They have compiled a short fact-sheet based on a decade of research with LGBTQ that can teach us about student well-being and how we can make schools more welcoming places to improve student health.