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!� By Dorothy Williams
• For many years, I have
heard about school trustees
attending conferences and I
often wondered what they
learned and if the conference
was of any value. Last week, I
finally found out what does
happen when I was asked to
accompany Marian Zinn to a
conference in Niagara Falls.
It was ` a conference on
community education. We
thought it would be beneficial -
to Huron County, since we are
presently involved with the
curriculum evaluation.
. We left snowy Huron
gek County at 9:30 Thursday
111111 morning and returned at 5:30
Saturday afternoon. We
arrived at Brock Sheraton
Hotel in plenty of time for the
opening session which was
scheduled for 2 p.m. Round
tables were set up and
everyone sat anywhere they
wished, which resulted in a
real mixture at every table.
At our table, we had two
volunteer parents frorn
Niagara, who taught English
to 'new' Canadians, two in-
structors from Hurpber
College, a mother from
Toronto, an elementary
principal from North York, a
grade six teacher .from Peel
and a vice principal from a
secondary school in North
York. Originally this young
man came from Trinidad and
he was one of three vice -
principals in his school.
Thursday evening, we were
guests at a wine and cheese
0 party in the Foxhead, where
we met a lady from Winnipeg
and Bruce Shaw, principal at
Seaforth Secondary , School.
We were entertained there by
a group called the
"Carousels" from St.
Catharines. They presented
two performances depicting
*early days, of Canadian
history. The first was a take-
off of a council meeting of the
4 1800's and the latter was a
harvest process showing
grain -cutting by cradle and-
sedondly, an early threshing
bee. -
Their research was ac-
curate, because .as surely as
the threshing machine would ..
arrive, it invariably broke
'down' at our place. This one
did too, and the men all
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your school trustee
trooped in for dinner two
hours early and the poor wife
was in a dilemma. Being a
true pioneer, she rustled up
some food in a hurry and soon
the men were back at work,
feeding in the sheaves,
building a straw mow and
carrying grain in a bushel
measure. Their third per-
formance was one, where
they involved the audience
and one thaa'they would use in
a classroom. It could be used
in any classroom from
Kindergarten to 13, depen-
ding on how long or short they
wanted to make their chants..
This group was working on a
LIP grant, and hope to tour
the Western Canada this
summer.
Friday was a full day with
seminars starting at 9 a.m.
and running until 4:30 p.m.
Marian and I tried to attend
different classes, so that we
could exchange notes and
information later. Late
Friday afternoon, I took
advantage of the bus trip to
the museum at Niagara -on -
the -Lake where we were
given an outline of its foun-
ding and continuing progress
and its contribution to the
early peninsula history. I
have an outline of tours of the
area and museum brochures
if anyone is interested in
them.
Friday evening was
reserved for the minister of
education who was late
arriving because his plane
was grounded in London by
fog and he had to drive by
car. The waiting period was
hastily filled in by their
contacting a • group of
Croation singers, who sang
and played some native songs
and some popular songs and
last and best, "This Land is
My Land".
Saturday" "rltorning, atter a
standup continental break-
fast, I attended a seminar
conducted by a director from
Napanee. He spent some time
descriving what he called a
parents' advisory committee
where parents got together
and discussed curriculum or
any topic they wished and
submitted their findings to
the board for their con-
sideration. Another principal
explained his method of
contacting parents by a
network of phone calls. He. ,
had two grade mothers whom.,,.
he could contact, who in turn
made three calls and these.Jn
turn made four calls and in
this way a message could be
sent throughout every
household in a matter • of
minutes. This man also had
volunteer mothers who would
host a coffee party. We would
give them a topic to discuss
and after .the party, the
mother would call in with the
feed -back that he requested.
The whole topic was com-
munity involvement.
Topics of seminars which I
attended were, The role of a
trustee, The role of a prin-
cipal, parental involvement
in educational decision
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making, the museum is a
community education
resource informed, critics
and good friends, and the
cane for active school com-
munity involverent. By
Saturday noon, we had
reached the saturation point,
so after lunch, we headed for
home. It took all that time to
realize what this new and
wonderful idea was all about.
For those of us, who at-
tended or taught in a rural
school, it wasn't new at all. I
well remember returning to
school after supper and en-
tering' a different world,
desks all along the wall,
boards all clean, floor all
oiled, and the only friendly
sign that hadn't changed was
the smell. We held concerts,
quiltings, card parties,
showers and the school was
the centre of our . rural
community. Now, they are
trying to make their large,
sprawling city schools into
community schools and they
are even trying out something
else that's new - a core
curriculum.
We tried to tell some of
those intellectual directors
and co-ordinators and
superintendents and planning
associates and chairmen and
researchers and consultants
who were as thick as flies,
that this was nothing new to
us. It was just the completion
of the cycle and we are right
back where we started 30
years ago.
What they are trying to do
is make use of classrooms,'
which will soon be closing,
due to a drop in the birthrate
nttri I1tili7e the schools more
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continued from page 9
University can be made more
effective in helping people
to enrich the quality of rural
life."
"To provide , expanded
opportunities for education in
the form of information,
training, action and support
in response to commonly felt
needs, interests and concern
in Huron County residents at
the general county level and
at the selected local 'com-
munity'level."
Huron County councillor-
voted to give the project their
support when they met for
their February meeting,
than eight or nine hours a
day. The cities are catching
up to the country and small
centre schools at last. Look at
our Clinton Public School. It
is in use almost every night as
are many other Huron County
schools. And this in my
opinion is what the con-
ference was all about. Was it
worthwhile? Yes, 1 would say
so, because now we know that
we already have, community.
schools - a brand new term.
The county planning board
is to act as the liaison agency
between the council and the
,University team. Annual
progress reports are to be
submitted to council and the
agreement approved at the
February meeting provides
that the County or the
University may withdraw
from the project if dif-
ferences are encountered
which cannot be resolved by
adjustment of dialogue.
Huron County was chosen
because it is in an area
i1'ready in contact with the
University of Guelph and one
which is advanced in its
planning process.
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