National Day for Truth and Reconciliation September 30

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, honours Residential School Survivors, those who never returned home, and the families and communities that continue to be impacted by the Residential School system.

Wearing orange recognizes and affirms that #EveryChildMatters, while encouraging meaningful conversations, learning, and most importantly, action.

A collection of classroom resources is available through the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to support education, reflection, and action in schools and communities.

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Ici on parle français — PD grants for FSL educators

Strengthen your French language proficiency, explore new teaching approaches, and deepen your French as a Second Language (FSL) practice through an Ici on parle français professional learning grant. The program supports both individual educators and collaborative learning teams. 

For those working in a team, the maximum grant is $500 per team member (maximum $2,000 per team), and for those working individually, the maximum grant is $250.

Applications are now open. Application deadline: October 16, 2026.

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Teaching Together 2027

Interested in enhancing your global perspective? Open to exchanging professional knowledge with teachers overseas? Passionate about international co-operation and collaboration?

If you are a teacher and answered yes to these questions, you should apply to Teaching Together 2027.

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Assessment Resources

The Assessment for Learning series was created to support members in gathering evidence of student learning through conversation and observation. The series explores how to conduct assessment for learning during collaborative learning, conferences, explicit instruction, small group instruction, and multiple entries and exits.

Check out the Assessment for Learning series today! 

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Pedagogy & Professional Judgement Series

Classroom teachers have a professional responsibility to administer the first early reading screener between the start of the school year and mid-November to students in year two of Kindergarten and in grades 1 and 2.

Teacher professional judgement is essential to this process. To help you navigate the ongoing implementation of early reading screeners, ETFO developed the Pedagogy and Professional Judgement series of resources. This series includes guidance on administering the screeners with multilingual learners, students with special education needs, students in French immersion, as a Kindergarten team, and much more.

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Trivia Night

Friday, October 16
Grand Gardens Downtown, SSM
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Your local education unions have teamed up to present Trivia Night! Play for prizes and bragging rights. Grab your colleagues and form a team of 6-8, or register as a single player and we’ll place you on a team. Dinner and snacks provided!

Registration closes October 8.

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Rallies for Publicly Funded Education

SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, October 24 at 1 p.m.

For students, teachers and education workers, and for public education, we need to do everything we can to demand Ford’s government invest in schools! 

It’s time to make our voices heard at one of five rallies for publicly funded education. ETFO, AEFO, OECTA, OSBCU-CUPE, and OSSTF are jointly organizing rallies in: 

  • London
  • Ottawa
  • Sudbury
  • Thunder Bay
  • Toronto

Together, let’s take action to strengthen publicly funded education and ensure students have the resources and supports they need!

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A visit to Ben R. McMullin PS

Members of your union Executive visited Ben R. McMullin PS to bring Red For Ed treats on the province-wide Day of Action and a solidarity message.

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