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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Just a reminder that //Reach for the Top// practice will be starting this week! The senior team this week will be meeting on Wednesday in my room at lunch. Bring your friends and get ready for some random trivia! I'll fill you in on the details of how the team works and the rules that apply to the competition. I'm excited to get started and I think you guys will really enjoy it.


 * Senior team (grades 10-12): Tuesdays and Wednesdays at lunch**

See you then!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011
There's a great opportunity coming up hosted by SFU's Philosophers' Café for teenagers.

Topic: Kids should run the Schools! – Will it work?

Lord of the Flies? Really! Do we believe anarchy will take over and civilizations crumble? Our schools are still organized and run the way they were originally; to prepare workers for the then-new industrial age factories and assembly lines. Now in an age where creativity, self-directed learning, personal expression and leadership are valued, who would you ask to redesign and run our schools?

Date: **Tuesday, 15 November 2011** Time: **6:30 – 8:30 pm** Location: **Fleetwood Library Conference Room at the Fleetwood Community Centre** (15996 – 84th Avenue)

Host: Dr. Pamela Richardson Dr. Richardson is director of The Conversatorium, a Vancouver-based learning studio for gifted, asynchronous and independent learners and their families (www.conversatorium.org). She completed both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Special Education at The University of British Columbia with a focus on giftedness. Since 2001, she has taught at the high school and university level and worked as a counsellor and consultant. While doing her graduate work at UBC she developed a peer-mentorship project focused on social and emotional well-being for teens that had entered UBC at a radically early age. She tends to see giftedness and the unfolding of human potential as creative and poetic processes rather than a science. She has published her research into arts-based ways of understanding giftedness in scholarly journals and presented at conferences across North America. Dr. Richardson is a certified teacher through the BC College of Teachers.

As with all G/LD events, **there is a minimum $5 donation** to cover the cost of the room. Please don’t forget to RSVP info@gldnetworkbc.ca

Hope you can make it!