TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - The Ontario Teachers' Federation is proud to hold its book launch of the works of Ontario's students from Books of Life on Sunday September 23, 2012 at The Word on the Street Festival, Toronto at Queen's Park Circle.
Books of Life is an Aboriginal education awareness and literacy initiative of the Ontario Teachers' Federation (OTF), funded by the Government of Ontario. Supported by their teachers, students from diverse school populations created books about their lives. They exchanged their books with students in other schools, enhancing understanding of each other. Large schools were linked with small; rural with urban; northern with southern. Each class chose the theme and form of its Books of Life, which were exchanged with its matched school.
This Sunday, September 23, 2012, at The Word on the Street, students will read from their work at the Children's Reading Tent at 3:00 pm. The Books of Life project is a Literacy Partner of The Word on the Street, Toronto.
Teachers Tom Doherty of St. John's Catholic School in Red Lake and Vince Price of Monsignor Lee Catholic School in Orillia and their classes who were partnered in Books of Life will be at the Children's Reading Tent. Price, a teacher for more than 25 years has taught Grades 4 through 8. He uses drama techniques in his teaching practice, which has had a strong influence on his students' story writing techniques. Tom Doherty, a Native Language teacher, teaches students from Grades 1 to Grade 7. A graduate of Lakehead University, Tom has been a teacher for seven years and for the last four has been teaching Native Languages and the Arts. All of his students participated in Books of Life. Vince Price's Grade 5 class focused on its community in Orillia in its books.
The teachers will be joined by students, Zachary Villeneuve, Grace Mugford, James Tazzeo, Megan Muller and Kirsten Ford to highlight the books created by the two classes. We will also hear from the work of Landon Turtlle, Lexas McKay, Jorja Kelly, and Dakota Vandale.
Books from all participating classes will be on display at the Books of Life booth at K14/K15 in KidStreet section of The Word on the Street, Toronto. Teachers who were part of the project will be available to talk about their experiences.
Annually attracting more than 200,000 visit ors to its Queen's Park Circle location, The Word on the Street Toronto is the largest book and magazine festival in Canada.
The Ontario Teachers' Federation is the advocate for the teaching profession in Ontario and for its 160,000 teachers. OTF members are full-time, part-time and occasional teachers in all the publicly funded schools in the province—elementary, secondary, public, Catholic and francophone.
Other schools that participated in Books of Life:
| ELEMENTARY | ||
| Alexander Graham Bell PS | Ajax | Durham DSB |
| Romeo Dallaire PS | Ajax | Durham DSB |
| North Star Community | Atikokan | Rainy River DSB |
| Spring Valley PS | Brighton | Kawartha Pine-Ridge DSB |
| St. Andrew's Senior PS | Cambridge | Waterloo Region DSB |
| St. Mary School | Carleton Place | CDSB of Eastern Ontario |
| Athol-South Marysburgh | Cherry Valley | Hastings Prince Edward DSB |
| Deseronto PS | Deseronto | Hastings and Prince Edward DSB |
| Gordon A. Brown MS | East York | Toronto DSB |
| St. James Catholic School | Eganville | Renfrew County CDSB |
| Floradale PS | Elmira | Waterloo Region DSB |
| Sunnylea Junior School | Etobicoke | Toronto DSB |
| Roch Carrier Elementary School | Kanata | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| North Shore PS | Keene | Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB |
| Queen of Peace Catholic Elementary School | Leamington | Windsor Essex CDSB |
| St. James School | Lively | Sudbury CDSB |
| Ealing PS | London | Thames Valley DSB |
| Dolphin Senior School | Mississauga | Peel DSB |
| Forest Glen PS | New Hamburg | Waterloo Region DSB |
| St. Paul Elementary | Norwood | PVNCCDSB |
| Monsignor Lee Catholic School | Orillia | Simcoe Muskoka CDSB |
| Orchard Park Elementary School | Orillia | Simcoe County DSB |
| Village Union PS | Oshawa | Durham DSB |
| École élémentaire publique Francojeunesse | Ottawa | C.E.P.E.O |
| Glen Ogilvie | Ottawa | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| St. George School | Ottawa | Ottawa Catholic SB |
| Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School | Petawawa | Renfrew County CDSB |
| St. Anthony Daniel Catholic School | Pickering | Durham CDSB |
| Vaughan Willard PS | Pickering | Durham DSB |
| St. John's Separate School | Red Lake | Kenora Catholic DSB |
| Roseneath Centennial PS | Roseneath | Kawartha Pine-Ridge DSB |
| Wexford PS | Scarborough | Toronto DSB |
| Stirling Junior PS | Stirling | Hastings Prince Edward DSB |
| St. Gregory School | Tecumseh | Windsor Essex CDSB |
| Bishop EQ Jennings School | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay CDSB |
| C.D. Howe School | Thunder Bay | Lakehead DSB |
| Hyde Park School | Thunder Bay | Lakehead PSs |
| Ogden PS | Thunder Bay | Lakehead PSs |
| St. Bernard School | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay CDSB |
| St. Jude Elementary School | Thunder Bay | Thunder Bay CDSB |
| Vance Chapman PS | Thunder Bay | Lakehead PSs |
| Bowmore PS | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Duke of Connaught PS | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Glen Park PS | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Lambton Park Community School | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Wedgewood Jr PS | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Ste-Rita Elementary | Val-Rita | CSCDGR |
| Elizabeth Ziegler PS | Waterloo | Waterloo Region DSB |
| Holy Rosary School | Waterloo | Waterloo CDSB |
| Westvale Public Elementary | Waterloo | Waterloo Region DSB |
| SECONDARY | ||
| Bayside Secondary School | Belleville | Hastings and Prince Edward DSB |
| Brantford Collegiate Institute & Vocational School | Brantford | Grand Erie DSB |
| North Park Collegiate Vocational School | Brantford | Grand Erie DSB |
| Pauline Johnson Collegiate & Vocational School | Brantford | Grand Erie DSB |
| East Northumberland Secondary School | Brighton | Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Secondary School | Burlington | Halton CDSB |
| Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School | Cambridge | Waterloo CDSB |
| Rideau District High School | Elgin | Upper Canada DSB |
| Lester B Pearson High School | Gloucester | Ottawa Catholic CDSB |
| Hagersville Secondary School | Hagersville | Grand Erie DSB |
| SHAE/ Sir John A Macdonald Secondary School | Hamilton | Hamilton Wentworth DSB |
| École secondaire catholique régionale de Hawkesbury | Hawkesbury | CSDCEO |
| Earl of March Secondary School | Kanata | Ottawa-Carleton DSB |
| St. Thomas Aquinas High School | Kenora | Kenora CDSB |
| Resurrection Catholic Secondary School | Kitchener | Waterloo CDSB |
| St. Mary's High School | Kitchener | Waterloo CDSB |
| H.B. Beal Secondary School | London | Thames Valley DSB |
| Milliken Mills Secondary School | Markham | York Region DSB |
| Northern Lights Secondary School | Moosonee | James Bay Lowlands Secondary School Board |
| G.L.Roberts C.V.I. | Oshawa | Durham DSB |
| École secondaire Le Transit | Ottawa | CEPEO |
| Hillcrest High School | Ottawa | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| Lisgar Collegiate Institute | Ottawa | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| Nepean High School | Ottawa | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| Rideau High School | Ottawa | Ottawa Carleton DSB |
| Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate & Vocational School | Thunder Bay | Lakehead PSs |
| Storefront Lakehead Alternative Schools | Thunder Bay | Lakehead PSs |
| École secondaire catholique Thériault | Timmins | CSCDGR |
| Timmins High Aboriginal Alternative SS | Timmins | DSB of Ontario North East |
| Pope John Paul II CSS | Toronto | Toronto CDSB |
| Toronto District Secondary School | Toronto | Toronto DSB |
| Waterloo Collegiate Institute | Waterloo | Waterloo Region DSB |
| École secondaire catholique Jean-Vanier | Welland | CSDCCS |
SOURCE: Ontario Teachers' Federation
Lindy Amato
(416) 966-3424
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