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Alberta Teaching Profession Commission statistics

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These quarterly updates provide information on conduct or competency complaints about teachers or teacher leaders in Alberta, and on the commission’s activities during the reporting period.

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Private career colleges engagement summary

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Engagement report summarizing stakeholder feedback during a review of the private career college sector in Alberta. From February 16 to March 15, 2024, the Government of Alberta solicited feedback... More ≫

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Engagement report summarizing stakeholder feedback during a review of the private career college sector in Alberta. From February 16 to March 15, 2024, the Government of Alberta solicited feedback from stakeholders in the private career college sector to better understand how private career colleges interact with organizations and post-secondary institutions, how the successes of private career colleges can be built upon, and what can be done to address the rising instances of non-compliance.

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Engagement on cellphone use in schools : survey and stakeholder discussion analysis

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Survey and stakeholder discussion analysis of Alberta Education's Engagement on Cellphone Use in Schools between April and May 2024.

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Results for the consultation surveys with interested Albertans on social studies curriculum

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Between March 14 and April 2, 2024, Albertans provided input on key learnings within the draft K-12 social studies curriculum through an online feedback form. This report presents an analysis and... More ≫

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Between March 14 and April 2, 2024, Albertans provided input on key learnings within the draft K-12 social studies curriculum through an online feedback form. This report presents an analysis and key findings of the survey.

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Alberta Teaching Profession Commission annual report

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Annual report of the Alberta Teaching Profession Commission, which is an independent, arms-length regulatory body overseeing disciplinary matters for teachers and teacher leaders.

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Outcomes of the 2022/23 school nutrition pilot

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Summarizes the results of a pilot program to fund non-profit organizations to deliver nutrition programs in partnership with school authorities during the 2022/23 school year. The funding was in... More ≫

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Summarizes the results of a pilot program to fund non-profit organizations to deliver nutrition programs in partnership with school authorities during the 2022/23 school year. The funding was in addition to base nutrition funding allocated to public, separate, francophone and interested charter school authorities.

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Social studies curriculum engagement

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Between September 18 and October 16 2023, Albertans provided input about what they would like students to learn in new social studies curriculum through an online survey. This report presents an... More ≫

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Between September 18 and October 16 2023, Albertans provided input about what they would like students to learn in new social studies curriculum through an online survey. This report presents an analysis and key findings of the survey.

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The finer features of the Junction Site

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This paper reports on the success of three seasons of excavation at the Junction Site, where anomalies identified through the use of a magnetometer became focal points for the mitigative... More ≫

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This paper reports on the success of three seasons of excavation at the Junction Site, where anomalies identified through the use of a magnetometer became focal points for the mitigative excavations completed. Here we assess the utility of this technique in identifying buried features and further describe the many different features exposed. Our discussion concludes with an analysis of results and identification of the salient characteristics that distinguish the different functions of the features identified.

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The PaleoIndigenous component of the Ahai Mneh Site (FiPp-33), Lake Wabamun, Alberta

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This paper presents several years of field school research at Ahai Mneh in central Alberta, including spatial analytical methods to disentangle artifact distributions. We were able to identify a... More ≫

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This paper presents several years of field school research at Ahai Mneh in central Alberta, including spatial analytical methods to disentangle artifact distributions. We were able to identify a deeper PaleoIndigenous Period component at the site, also present in surface collections from an adjacent cultivated field. Enigmatic and initially unprepossessing artifacts from Ahai Mneh actually have fascinating stories to tell if we are willing to delve into the microcosm of human decisions for which they still preserve traces. Examples include a failed effort at making a fluted point, an unusual Hell Gap-like point, a Scottsbluff point, and a fractured Alberta point base. While the results of such analyses involve inferences, they are much better than casual assumptions about associations, and point to the need for serious regulatory reform in requiring 3-D piece-plotting of artifacts.

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Many edges to the wedges : an overview of microblade technology in western Canada

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Microblade technology in western Canada is reviewed within a regional framework to broaden archaeologists’ understanding of its geographic and temporal distribution. Substantial references are... More ≫

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Microblade technology in western Canada is reviewed within a regional framework to broaden archaeologists’ understanding of its geographic and temporal distribution. Substantial references are made to archaeological grey literature. Focusing on two main microcore forms (Denali and fixed platform), the technology is shown to be found throughout the Holocene epoch, concentrated principally in British Columbia and the Yukon, with fewer occurrences in the Northwest Territories and Alberta. Microcore morphologies are strongly dependent on the qualities of toolstones used in their manufacture; the principal core forms demonstrate regionally distinct distributions and weak temporal trends. From the Late Pleistocene and through the Holocene, microblade technology in northwestern North America appears to increase and decrease in popularity on track with major climatic episodes. Substantial progress has been made in recent times in substantiating a north to south time-slope trend in...

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