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Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Welcome back everybody to another New Year. Hope everything has been going well in your respective schools. Hope you have noticed some updates to our menu bar

Here are some shortcut links to get around the site for January Events

Lunch and Learn with a Ministry Insider

Making Sense of the OS for Inspected Schools

Social Media in Education: Legal Implications

Knowledge is Power -School House Rock

Happy Holidays from PDS to you.

Please have a safe and Joyous Season!

Please Click on *NEWS FLASH* on your left side menu bar for more information on the immediate changes that have come with the Ministry changing the OSS to OS!

Also ensure you register for Jim Sebastian’s Webinar -

Making Sense of OS for Inspected Schools

***UPDATE*** For those of you who were trying to make payments by PayPal due to traffic the Shopping Cart Crashed.

The Issue has now been resolved and feel free to make payment with PayPal

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

The buzz about the Lunch and Learn has been very good as we continue see seats being filled very quickly. Make sure to register soon.

Upcoming Webinars

Beth Lisser – Assessing using Professional Judgement – Seats are limited register here

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Hello Folks, We have two very important webinars this week. First is tonight Webinar 11 – Helping Anxious Students in the Classroom (Internalizing Behaviour). Tonights webinar will be run by Carol Balint. Further to that, this Friday we will have John Rennie with “Webinar 14 -Success Criteria From the Students’ Viewpoint”

We also have some big news coming up soon, so keep your eyes out for it in future emails.

‘I think therefore I am’

Wrapped up Webinar 9 last night, for those of you who missed it please contact PDS to arrange a replay.

And do not forget to register for Webinar 10 and 11.

Please download your copy of the recent Memorandum below

Memo From the Ontario Ministry of Education

Webinar 9 by Carol Adler is this week and we have a few spots remaining. If interested REGISTER NOW.

Thanks to everyone who attended webinar 8 last night. And special thanks to Helen Rees who stepped in last minute to do an exceptional job for us. Repeat performance’s will be made available soon… for more information please email questions to pdsmedia@professionaldevelopmentseminars.ca

PDS is getting very busy lately. We have an exciting amount of events coming up

Differentiated Instruction Webinar 8-11

Seminar 26 – TBA

And don’t forget to contact PDS to set up your in school workshop for your next PD-DAY

Tonight Ms. Flanny Alamparambil will present

Webinar #7 – Implementing Growing Success in High School Mathematics Courses

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Jim Sebastian will be expanding on his points from Seminar 25 on Thursday Oct 6th at 7Pm To register click here

PDS is proud to announce a series of new webinars in the coming months.

Webinar #7 – Implementing Growing Success in High School Mathematics Courses

Webinars #8-11 - Differentiated Instruction: The Key to Meeting the Needs of All Your Students

Webinar #12 – Assessing Using Professional Judgment

Webinar #13 – Social Media in Education: Legal Implications

Click here for more information as well as dates and registration instructions or navigate to our Webinars page to see all of the webinars, both past and future, that PDS has to offer.

PDS has prepared PLAR Challenge material for the following courses:

Food & Nutrition   HFN2O
Introduction to Business   BBI2O
Career Studies   GLC2O
Civics   CHV2O

The material includes:

1. All the assessments for each of the units with reference to course expectations
2. The administrative forms related to the PLAR Challenge.

We are currently developing the material for additional PLAR Challenge courses, they will be available early next year.

The fee for each package is $475.00 + 13% HST

Contact us at info@professionaldevelopmentseminars.ca for more information and ordering details.

PDS is now selling software to produce official Ontario Student Transcripts at your school.  The software allows you to easily and seamlessly integrate your students’ academic information into the proper OST format and print it on official OST paper.

The cost of this software is $399 + 13% HST.  Contact us by phone or by email for ordering information.

Phone: (905) 333-5444
Email: info@professionaldevelopmentseminars.ca