Toronto, ON - March 18th, The Sutton Place Hotel
Panel Members
Janet Ecker, President of the Toronto Financial Services Alliance, former Ontario Finance Minister
Edward M. Roberts, former Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
Robert Thibault, former Member of Parliament (Minister of State [Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency] and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans), Chief Administrative Officer, Richmond County, Nova Scotia
William B.P. Robson, President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute
Bruce Ferguson, Director of the Community Health Services Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children
Confirmed Presentations
Don Jamieson, Ph.D., Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network
Fataneh Farnia, Ph.D., Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, OISE/University of Toronto
T. Scott Murray, President, DataAngel Policy Research Incorporated
Society for Quality Education
Toronto Public Library
Canadian Associtation of Children’s Libraries
York Region District School Board and Peel District School Board
Canadian Education Association
Ontario Ministry of Education
Canadian Hearing Society
Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf
Eileen Antone, Ph.D., University of Toronto
Spider Jones, Journalist and Broadcaster
David Olson, Ph.D., OISE/University of Toronto
Lisa Archibald, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Heather Lotherington, Ph.D., York University
Nancy Kondrat, Early Literacy Consultant
Remediation Plus System
March 16th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Last September I trained 20 SK and Grade 1 teachers for the Labrador School Board - so they could begin to get a handle on their literacy problems. I have over 130 special education teachers trained at the District School Board in Niagara here in Ontario and many others - teachers are in need of learning how to teach reading - they don`t know how. Universities are telling them it happens like learning to speak - formidably wrong - a theory responsible for rampant illiteracy growth for over 35 years now. Teachers don`t know the difference between a vowel and a consonant - they need training. That is the great source of all our problems. Sad, sad, sad for the teachers and the students.