Have a Heart Day is coming up!

Celebrated annually on, or around, Valentine's Day, Have a Heart Day is a child and youth-led reconciliation campaign to help ensure First Nations children get the services they need to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and be proud of who they are.

For ways to celebrate, please visit First Nations Family Child & Family Caring Society:  https://fncaringsociety.com/have-a-heart

There is a BCTF booklet available to view or download:  https://bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Public/AboriginalEducation/Have_A_Heart_booklet.pdf

 

The BCTF website has a wealth of resources for teachers!  Check out www.bctf.ca

Social Justice Action Groups

The BCTF’s province-wide social justice network includes seven social justice action groups. Each action group is composed of four members from the provincial Committee for Action on Social Justice (CASJ), and they are all classroom teachers.

The purpose of the action groups is to provide information, lesson ideas, and professional support for classroom teachers. Each action group creates discrete web pages covering the areas for which they are responsible.

The action groups are listed below and include links to their web pages:

• Antiracism 
  
• Disability Justice
  
• Economic Justice
  
• Environmental Justice
  
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQ2S+) 
  
• Peace and Global Education
  The Global Classroom lesson plans, a joint BCTF and CIDA project, containing unit plans designed for teachers, by teachers, have been updated and reposted on TeachBC.