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REGINA–The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Institute on Parliamentary Democracy recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. The SSTI is an intensive five-day professional development program hosted by the office of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and offered to all teachers from across the province. Teacher participants are given an exclusive view of the government and the legislative process.

Should you be looking for someone to fit with rose-coloured glasses for the upcoming year, you would be well-advised not to consider Randy Schmaltz.

Well, it’s 2019. The Christmas decorations are down and put away. The gift cards have been used or lost. The well-deserved break from work is over, and the push through to Easter is well underway. Those of us who are “old school” are shuttling appointments from the old day planner to the new.

And, as 2019 begins to lose some of its new car smell, I offer some random thoughts on the year ahead.

REGINA–Over the past two years, 373 students, educators, administrators and counsellors have gathered at the Saskatchewan Gay-Straight Alliance Summit to learn more about the LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, Two-Spirit) community, to build skills and to ultimately build community.

In thinking about the theme and the projects that will be presented at this year’s Learning From Practice conference, it is important for the McDowell Foundation and the involved researchers to continue to build on other conversations occurring throughout the province about the role of publicly funded public education.