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‘Inappropriate’ Facebook post gets B.C. teacher temporary suspension
A B.C. secondary school teacher has been suspended for two days without pay for posting…
B.C. teacher reprimanded for reaching into student’s tool belt
A Lower Mainland teacher has been suspended for a day after he "invaded" a student's…
B.C. teacher reprimanded for telling class to ‘shut up’
A Lower Mainland teacher on call has been reprimanded by the teachers' regulator for telling…
B.C. teacher suspended for ‘boundary issues’ with student
A B.C. teacher has agreed to have their licence suspended for 30 days after messaging…
B.C. teacher showed ‘age-inappropriate’ video to students, gets suspended
A Lower Mainland teacher who showed his Grade 6 students a video about the impact…
B.C. teacher who told anxious student to ‘put their sadness somewhere else’ suspended
A B.C. high school drama teacher was suspended for a total of eight days for…
Central Okanagan teacher who showed Grade 8 class John Oliver clip gets suspended
A Central Okanagan high school teacher has been disciplined in part for showing his Grade…
Why a South Okanagan education assistant who pushed 9-year-old girl with autism will keep her job
A South Okanagan education assistant fired for pushing a nine-year-old pupil with serious behavioural problems…
B.C. teacher disciplined for grabbing two Grade 7 students
A B.C. middle school teacher has been reprimanded for grabbing and pulling two Grade 7…
Vernon high school teacher suspended for sharing parts of ‘secure exams’ with students
A Vernon high school teacher who made copies of provincial exams to share with his…
B.C. teacher caught with weed, scales and cash in 2012 gets one-month suspension
A lower mainland high school teacher who was fired after police found 45 grams of…
Thompson Rivers University wants to meet future need for school teachers
KAMLOOPS – Thompson Rivers University is encouraging young people to get into teaching now as…
Students from TRU and Kamloops elementary schools collaborating on education app
KAMLOOPS – Some students in Kamloops are helping build an app that will help with…
Preschoolers tackle racial tensions using locally-designed dolls
ENDERBY - A troop of handmade, multicultural dolls called the Backpack Kids have been deployed to local childcare centres where they are bringing a message of diversity and acceptance to young children. The life-sized puppets, each representing a Canadian kid with a different cultural background, are part of a newly launched teaching curriculum designed to...