Our guest speaker this week was Tracy Poulin from the Edmonton Public Schools Foundation. (http://foundation.epsb.ca/)
The Foundation’s mission is to raise awareness and funds to level the playing field for children whe come to the classroom at a disadvantage. Its’ current priority is to enable full-day Kindergarten programs is schools where the need is the greatest.
Tracy is a retired teacher and principal with the Edmonton Public School System and the executive director with the EPSB foundation.
Tracy gave a very moving and impassioned presentation. She talked about the variety of students and challenges that teachers in some of our most disadvantaged areas face. She also talked about the significant challenges and disadvantages that many of their students have to deal with. Full time kindergarten is one way that we can help those kids face these challenges and get them ready for school.
Thank You to Tracy for bringing this very important issue to our attention.
