First Nation Student Success Program

From the Canadian Teachers' Federation

Open the attached the IMAGINEACTION Handout

We need your help!

On September 1, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation will launch a new initiative – Imagineaction – a student-driven social action program. Imagineaction will offer teachers subsidies to support student-driven social action projects; access to expertise to work with them on issues of community importance; professional development, including resources and other supporting tools to facilitate the critical thinking process within curriculum and the development and implementation of effective sustainable social action projects. Lastly, Imagineaction will feature projects on an electronic showcase designed to promote and to share the great work being done in schools across the country.

Imagineaction is a K – 12 teacher platform that offers opportunities for school-community social action projects tied to the Imagineaction themes. Imagineaction is designed to facilitate the teacher’s ability to connect with the necessary expertise to support school-community projects. As a representative of a community, regional, provincial or national organization concerned with, and involved in, community issues, you can offer your expertise in the form of resources, planning, and leadership to teachers and classrooms in your community or across the country.

Here’s how it will work:

• Experts from relevant community organizations will register on our Website at www.imagine-action.ca .
   
•  Once experts are approved, teachers will be able to contact them through the email you provide so they can request assistance with their projects.
   
•  It is up to the expert to determine the level of assistance that they are willing or able to provide. In most cases, it will be a matter of providing invaluable advice based on experience working in your respective field.
   
• Once the expert replies, we step out of the middle and the expert and the teacher work directly with each other. 

It’s that simple. Together, we can change the world one small project at a time.

If you and/or someone from your organization would like to register as an expert in support of this program and help strengthen school-community partnerships, click here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at info@imagine-action.ca .

Sincerely,

Bob McGahey
Acting Coordinator, Imagineaction

Click on the following link for an article about the ImagineAction initiative that can be found in the Reference Library Archives

http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/file.php/57/moddata/data/14/86/323/Imagineaction_article_Eng_final.pdf