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Keeping our Members Informed
Our members deserve to be kept up to date on decisions made by the HKVCA
Board of Directors (BOD). This page will feature items that are
considered to be of interest.
The BOD meets monthly online, following
this agenda:
-Approval of Minutes
-Financial Reports
-Membership Report
-Region Reports
-Web Report
-Education Report
-Transitory items such as conventions, memorial wall update, etc.
-New Business
-Points from the Regions
Some of you may have noticed that there are now links to Facebook and Twitter on on the footer of many of our pages . In addition to providing links to these social networks, we now have a presence on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003326388015&sk=wall. "Friend requests" from HKVCA members and other interested parties will be graciously accepted!
On Facebook I'm advertising to see if someone will donate programming skills and time in support of two initiatives I'm pursuing: online membership, and a database that will build on the work of Vince Lopata. Please spread the word within your regions as this would be a good opportunity for one or more of our younger members to help out.
Jim Trick
Web Admin
Education Update from the National Education Coordinator
On January 31st, Derrill Henderson will meet with New Brunswick’s
Minister of Education along with two other Ministers in an effort to
have this subject officially endorsed and incorporated into the high
school curriculum from next year. We have scheduled several meetings
to review the HKVCA website and range of content available for use
in schools to date, and evaluate which has been the most successful.
The presentation will be 30-45 minutes including Q&A. We have
scheduled meetings between now and then to review our approach and
determine what content would be best to present.
One of the requirements will be the translation of resources into
French, where not done already. We will also learn more of the key
requirements as set by the New Brunswick Board of Education which
will help us prioritize our translation efforts in the near term.
As Mike Babin has pointed out, one of our significant challenges
will be to not only have the materials endorsed for use in schools
but to actually get them used. Unless made mandatory, there is no
guarantee that teachers and education departments will cover this
topic, or give it the time and attention that it deserves. If
coverage of this topic cannot be made a mandatory segment of the
curriculum, what we must then do is find an approach that will not
have teachers balk at the idea of covering this part of our history
due to time limitations or other reasons.
Whatever content makes up that package will need to be translated in
the very near term, which raises the subject of funding requirements
- a topic for debate that will be raised shortly for discussion
leading up to the February BOD meeting.
In other news, work continues on the editing of the Teacher Zone in
preparation for translation work to begin. We are working towards a
target of having edits completed by end of February.
Dave Stewart
National Education Coordinator
The following motion was introduced and was carried.
That the Board of Directors re-emphasize the efforts of HKVCA directed toward education by carrying out the following actions:
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