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GAW Follow-up: Get Your BIG READ Bookmarks Now! - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
I hope that you’ve had a great Global Action Week and that you
celebrated with a BIG READ event in support of the Education for All
campaign.
I have 4 quick, follow-up requests:
1) GET BIG READ CERTIFICATES & BOOKMARKS FOR YOUR PARTICIPANTS:
Upon receipt of your Validation Form (see 2) below), we will send you:
a) A Colour BIG READ Certificate to thank you for your participation
in the event.
b) Colour bookmarks for all of your confirmed BIG READ participants
(produced in cooperation with the Canadian Teachers' Federation).
2) SEND US YOUR BIG READ VALIDATION & PETITION FORMS:
We are interested to hear about what you did for the BIG READ.
Please send us your
a) VALIDATION FORMS to share what you did for Global Action Week.
b) PETITIONS so we can share these with the Minister for International
Cooperation.
Both forms were included in the BIG READ School Pack, but you can also
find it @
http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/gawfiles/BRValidationFormPetition.doc (English) / http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/gawfiles/GL-FormulairedevalidationP%E9tition.doc
(French)
You can send them either by
+ email to info@cgce.ca ,
+ fax to +1 613 232 7435, or
+ mail: CGCE, 321 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7Z2. by May 11.
3) SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION:
It is not too late to sign our Make Poverty History petition asking
your Member of Parliament to support Education for All. You can find
it at
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/en/g8/education-for-all/takeaction
(English) / http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/fr/g8/education/agissez
(French).
4) CELEBRATE YOUR INVOLVEMENT IN A WORLDWIDE EVENT!
You have been part of a truly amazing, worldwide event. Over 10
million students, teachers and activists and many celebrities have
taken part in Global Action Week 2009. Here are a few links that you
can share with your students:
a) The Global Campaign for Education also has an online petition. You
can add your name to the millions who have signed on to the BIG READ @
http://action.campaignforeducation.org/o/11001/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1 (English) / http://action.campaignforeducation.org/o/11001/t/32/l/fre/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1
(French).
b) For a list of BIG READ Highlights from other countries, please see:
http://www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread/en/countries.php
c) For a selection of the worldwide media coverage, please see:
http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&ned=ca&hl=en&q="Global+Action+Week"
We’ll be posting a report on the worldwide Global Action Week
activities in a few weeks, so stay tuned.
Global Action Week -- Canadian Update - April 21, 2009 - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
• The registration total for GAW currently sits at 526 teachers and activists who have expressed their interest in holding a BIG READ activity in Canada.
• MP Mike Savage (Cole Harbour – Dartmouth) made a statement in the House of Commons yesterday re: EFA. You can now find it in the Hansard @ http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=3810635#Int-2700422 (English) and http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=2&DocId=3810635&Language=F#Int-2700422 (French).
• The Canadian Teachers’ Federation held a marvellous Parliamentary Breakfast this morning in the House of Commons Restaurant. Amidst the marbled columns and domed ceilings, we watched a multi-media presentation of Frank Edwards’ BIG READ story, Deleted, in French, English, Cree and Inuktitut, met the author himself, and heard CIDA basically echo all of our policy asks in a statement. There were more than 40 MPs and Senators in attendance, (including a few like Justin Trudeau who came without having RSVP’ed). Thanks to Barbara McDonald Moore and all of her CTF colleagues who put together a fabulous program that obviously is gaining traction.
• The Make Poverty History online action is still active. I am awaiting current stats for how many people have signed on, but you can still add your name to it by visiting http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/en/email/archive/039education-most-powerful-weapon-change-world039 (English) & http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/fr/email/archive/quotl%E2%80%99%C3%A9ducation-est-l%E2%80%99outil-le-plus-puissant-qui-puisse-%C3%AAtre-utilis%C3%A9-pour-changer-le-m (French). I’m pleased that we’re getting the word about GAW, EFA and CGCE out to a whole new audience, and that their responses are going directly into the inboxes of MPs and the Minister. Please continue to circulate this amongst your networks. This is a really easy action for people to do.
For updates on the global campaign, visit http://twitter.com/globaleducation
Online Action for Global Action Week: Send your MP a note to support Education for All! - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Our colleagues at Make Poverty History have set up a new Online Action where you can send a note to your Member of Parliament asking her/him to speak up for Education for All!
Global Action Week: Update for April 13 - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Hi everyone. I hope that you had a great Easter weekend. A few updates for you:
+ Here is some initial media coverage of GAW in the Mississauga News: http://www.mississauganews.com/article/26034 Hopefully there will be more to come as we send out a national press release this week (Stay tuned).
+ We have a new Canadian BIG READ story by Mary Swan, author of The Boys in the Trees. It is available at www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/en/curriculum/downloadBIGREAD.php
+ Keep your eyes peeled for our email campaign with Make Poverty History. Late this week, we'll be asking Canadians to contact their MPs to ask them to show support for more aid to education
+ Plans for a highlight event at a school here in Ottawa are coming together. BIG READ authors, Jan Andrews and Frank Edwards have agreed to come and we're awaiting confirmation on whether the Minister for International Cooperation will attend
+ Our colleagues at the Global Campaign for Education are doing an awesome job in compiling and sharing updates on the BIG READ campaign. You can follow the GAW campaign around the world on:
New Canadian Author for the BIG READ: - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
We're pleased to announce that we have a new author for the Canadian version of the BIG READ.
Mary Swan is the winner of the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction and the author of the collection The Deep and Other Stories and The Boys in the Trees. Her work has appeared in literary magazines including Harper’s, Malahat Review, Ontario Review and Best Canadian Stories.
You can read the story that she wrote for the BIG READ at:
http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/gawfiles/BR-MarySwan.pdf
Global Action Week Update - April 7, 2009 - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Hi! A few Global Action Week updates for you:
+ Queen Rania of Jordan announced at a BIG READ launch in South Africa that she will serve as the honorary chair of Global Action Week. Visit http://www.campaignforeducation.org/en/news/gces-news/209-queen-rania-of-jordon-reads-her-story-to-children-and-announces-her-role-as-honorary-chair-of-action-week--the-big-read-in-johannesburg-on-the-27th-march for more details and photos.
+ A Story by Canadian author Eric Walters, has been added to the Canadian BIG READ site @ http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/en/curriculum/downloadBIGREAD.php It was inadvertently deleted during a previous web page edit.
+ More stories from an array of international authors are available at www.campaignforeducation.org/BIGREAD/ in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and a few other languages.
+ Plans are being finalized to hold a BIG READ event at a local school in Ottawa; the Minister for International Cooperation, Bev Oda, may be dropping by to make an announcement. Stay tuned.
+ We have started an online petition at http://petitions.tigweb.org/GAW2009-EFA to call upon the Canadian government to do more support Education for All
Global Action Week - The BIG READ Updates for March 31, 2009 - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Hello, everyone. I'm pleased to see that this Facebook group is growing and I expect that more folks will be signing up once they register for Global Action Week via our site (http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/en/form_09.php).
A few campaign updates for you:
+ The Global Campaign for Education has posted a bunch of new stories for the BIG READ campaign at http://www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread/, including stories from member countries. Many are available in English, French, and Spanish.
+ We now have English and French curriculum materials designed by the Canadian Teachers' Federation for Grades K-3, 4-6 & 7-12, along with PowerPoint slide decks. These can be used in conjunction with the BIG READ stories to help the students learn more about the situation of education for millions of kids and adults around the world. You'll find these on our BIG READ site via http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/en/curriculum/downloadBIGREAD.php
+ We have posted a new YouTube video of one of our Canadian BIG READ authors, Marla Stewart Konrad reading her story, "Surprises". You can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-JLVXQBrE
+ Taking IT Global published a short article on GAW in its March 2009 TIG Update 3.2 See (http://www.tigweb.org/)
+ The Canadian Teachers Federation just launched an April 2009 Special Issue of its VISION e-newsletter that features Global Action Week and a News Release about GAW. CTF will also feature Global Action Week prominently in its forthcoming Global Teacher print publication, which will go out to thousands of teachers across the country sometime this week or next. See http://www.ctf-fce.ca/e/index.asp for details.
+l'Institut de coopération pour l'éducation des adultes (ICÉA) is hosting a GRANDE LECTURE event on April 21 in Montreal that will feature stories about literacy from Adult Learners in Quebec. They should have more stories and details posted in early April at http://www.icea.qc.ca
+ Access Charity (http://www.accesscharity.ca/) is organizing its own Global Action Week campaign. You can view their blog post on GAW on the Speak Up for Change blog (http://speakupforchange.blogspot.com/2009/03/want-to-take-action-global-action-week.html) .
Please feel free to post details about what you are doing for Global Action Week on this Facebook group. And please invite your friends to join our group and take part in Global Action Week.
2009 Global Action Week Curriculum & BIG READ Stories Now Available - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Hello everyone!
I am pleased to announce that the first set of 2009 Global Action Week curriculum materials and BIG READ stories are now available at our website, http://www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/gaw/en/ .
Click on the links to register for Global Action Week and to access:
+ A BIG READ School Pack that explains how the campaign works and contains a Validation Form and Petition
+ curriculum materials on Education for All created by interns from OISE and the Canadian Teachers' Federation. (With more modules coming later this week).
+ The BIG READ stories on education and literacy by authors like Nelson Mandela, Paulo Coelho, Wayson Choy, Elizabeth Hay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tarini Chandak, and many more.
+ Links to posters, flyers and stickers
Global Action Week will take place between April 20-26, 2009. It aims to raise awareness about the 75 million children and 774 million adults around the world who are denied their rights to a basic education, and to call upon the governments of the world, including Canada's, to do more to support education for all.
Please pass this notice on to friends on Facebook, TIG, and in your other virtual and real-world networks. And be sure to check back at our site for more updates and additional stories from our Global Campaign for Education partners around the world
Global Action Week: Calling All Authors! - Posted By: Dwayne Hodgson
Every year, GCE and its affiliates hold Global Action Week (GAW). This past spring (2008), 8.8 million students took part in the Worlds Biggest Classroom and set a Guinness Record for the largest simultaneous class.
This year, GAW will be held from April 20-26, 2009, and we'll be focusing on youth and adult literacy by undertaking an action called the BIG READ in classrooms and public spaces across Canada (and the world!). GCE is compiling a book of reflections on literacy by some well-known authors like Nelson Mandela, Queen Rania of Jordan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paulo Coelho, Alice Walker, Devli Kumari, and Dakota Blue Richards (Golden Compass).
We are now looking for Canadian authors who can write a short piece on literacy issues (non-fiction or fiction) that can be added to a global compilation of work by authors like Nelson Mandela, Queen Rania of Jordan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paulo Coelho, Alice Walker, Devli Kumari, and Dakota Blue Richards (Golden Compass).
If you are interested, please drop me a note at dhodgson@cgce.ca or via TIG.
NB: If you are an author in another country who'd like to contribute, please visit the GCE website to find your local country affiliate @www.campaignforeducation.org
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