K to 12 Action Plan

The Retired Teachers Association of Manitoba (RTAM) and Minister Wayne Ewasko, would like your feedback to help shape the future of education in Manitoba.

It is with great pleasure that on behalf of RTAM I've been asked by the Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning to provide feedback on the province's K-12 Education Action Plan. Please find a link to the plan here: Manitoba's K to 12 Education Action Plan (gov.mb.ca).

La version Française est disponible ici: Plan d'action pour l’éducation de la maternelle à la 12e année au Manitoba | Éducation et Apprentissage de la petite enfance (gov.mb.ca)

We are asking for your feedback on the plan so we can best prepare a fulsome RTAM submission to the Minister. I was quite encouraged by my most recent conversation with the Minister as he viewed RTAM as a stakeholder in the plan and was actively looking for our input.

As we all know this can be a wide-ranging topic, I please ask that you first review the plan and align your comments within the 4 featured pillars:

High-Quality Learning: to improve learning and outcomes for students through responsive and relevant curriculum and learning experiences in safe and inclusive learning environments.
Student Engagement and Well-Being: to respond to diverse life experiences, engage students, promote well-being, support successful transitions and leverage inter-sectoral partnerships.
Excellence in Teaching and Leadership: to ensure teachers, school staff and leaders have the knowledge, skills and tools to support student achievement and well-being.
Responsive Systems: to ensure an equitable, aligned and effective public education system that focuses on engagement, inclusion and planning for provincial and local needs.

If you could please provide your comments by November 30, 2022 it would be greatly appreciated. We are planning to combine everyone's feedback and are then hoping to provide it to the minister and meet with him later this year.

Thank you in advance for volunteering your time and energy and I look forward to your feedback. It is encouraging to be seen as a stakeholder with the minister and I'm looking forward to continuing to engage with government on this and other topics.

Best wishes,

Linda Blair

RTAM President

RTAM MEMBER BENEFITS	STUDENT BENEFITS
1. The project will provide the means and incentive to increase communication between RTAM members and their family high school students they are sponsoring.	1 Portfolios encourage the collection of artifacts and evidence by the student to support their successful writing of award and scholarships applications.
2. Recognizing the importance of a post-secondary education, RTAM members can feel pride in the role they will play in supporting their family members to be awarded funding to help with the high costs of today’s world.	2 Portfolios help students focus on their knowledge, skills and attitudes to support their successful applications for bursaries and scholarship.
3. This project will provide RTAM members with an opportunity to experience renewed passion in their roles as teacher and mentor working with their family members.	3 Portfolios help students track their changes and growth in important leadership skills through their high school experience.
4. RTAM member involvement with their family members will promote positive mental health opportunities during a time when COVID has caused many to experience social and physical isolation.	4 Portfolios assist the student in becoming more aware of their own learning experiences and history.
5. RTAM member involvement will support a sense of purpose in their lives and offer them a sense of social value to society.	5 Portfolios provide a framework to encourage students’ self-assessment leading to a more accurate choice of how they want to spend their future, their career aspirations.
6. RTAM members will increase their opportunities to know and understand their youth family members’ challenges and issues while developing a relationship and creating a sense of trust.	6 Portfolios provide a framework with resources for building a resume and completing university/college entrance applications as well as job applications.
7. RTAM members can offer direct input into the writing of the applications to enhance the students’ chances of being successful.	7 Portfolios save the student the time and agony of trying to recall their experiences and gather all their information to complete applications in their graduating year.
	8 Portfolios provide students support to practice informed decision-making regarding their personal and professional opportunity selections.

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K to 12 Action Plan

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