by OSTA-AECO | Oct 10, 2020 | Blogs, Newsroom
On behalf of OSTA-AECO, the Co-Chairs of the Student Well-Being Working Group, Keith Baybayon and Isabel Unger would like to take a moment in acknowledging and celebrating World Mental Health Day. With the recent end of Mental Health Awareness Week, we wanted to touch...
by OSTA-AECO | Sep 30, 2020 | Blogs, Newsroom
Orange Shirt Day is a day where we as people take the time to honour and remember the traumatic experiences that had taken place within Residential Schools, where innocent children were taken away from their families and were physically, mentally and sexually abused....
by Cameron Prosic | May 22, 2020 | Blogs
This past fall, we started an official Instagram page, @ostaaeco, with the goal of engaging as many students province-wide as possible—after all, we are their official education stakeholder. This year, we’ve been committed to providing student-friendly updates...
by Stephanie Mazza | Jul 7, 2019 | Blogs
The Importance of Cultural Exposure in High School and How You Can Participate (For free!) No matter what a student’s career or future goals are, international learning and cultural immersion experiences are beneficial. In an increasingly globalized world, it is...
by Emma Schuster | Apr 12, 2019 | Student Equity
The Possibilities of Blended Learning The sheer number of courses available for Ontario high school students is amazing, but rural schools often struggle to offer the same wide variety of courses for their students. Whether it’s because of a lack of interest or...
by Sally Meseret | Feb 27, 2019 | Student Equity
Equitable Leadership in Education The leaders of our education system strive to cultivate excellence from the students they serve, but they are fundamentally not representative of them. For example, within Ontario, “26% of students are racialized, whereas only 13% of...
