We would love to host you at our upcoming virtual information session.

Join us to learn more about Discover Year and meet some of our students, parents and staff members!

Here is what you can expect:

Meet and Greet: Meet Discover Year students, alumni, parents and staff
Discover Year 101: The what, how, where and when of a purposeful gap year
Student/ parent Q&A: Hear what our students, alumni and parents have to say about their experiences at Discover Year

"Inspiring, engaging, empowering"...Join us for Cannexus22 – now fully virtual!

Why attend Cannexus:

- Be part of Canada’s largest conference focused on career and workforce development
- Choose from 150 sessions on the latest research, policy and practice
- Stretch your budget – Great rates are still available!

Concours d'art oratoire - Canadian Parents for French (Ontario)

This year''s Concours d'art oratoire is going to be virtual. This spring, grade 11 and 12 students in French Second Language (FSL) programs (Core, Extended, or French Immersion) can participate in our annual public speaking contest. Students will submit their recorded speech according to the Concours d''art oratoire rules from February 14 th to April 8t th, 2022.

The winners will move on to compete at the Nationals in June 2022.

Please check out the scholarships that will be offered to the winners of the provincial competition HERE and for the CPF national competition HERE.

For FSL students who are thinking of studying in the sponsoring institutions, this is a wonderful opportunity to benefit from practicing and highlighting their public speaking skills! 

Information is HERE

Questions?  Contact Eillen Sellam esellam@on.cpf.ca

Effective career guidance helps individuals to reach their potential, economies to become more efficient and societies to become fairer. It is critical to the smooth transitions of people as they make choices about education and training and to mobility within the labour market. In December 2019, six international organisations came together to publish a first booklet on the importance of investing in career guidance. The joint effort reflected the fact that the need for guidance had increased sharply with people staying in education and training longer and pressure growing on people to upskill and reskill. Today’s labour market is still more turbulent.

This has been a school year filled with both opportunities and challenges. Schools are welcoming students back to learning after the winter break, continuing to bolster and support student well-being, while facing the continued uncertainties. This document is designed to provide educators with some ideas to help ease this transition and to support the continued development of skills.

When Alicia Dempster started her maternity leave in June 2019, she never dreamed that she would still be at home two and a half years later.

The Stouffville, Ont. woman fully intended to return to her job as an event planner for an area municipality after 15 months at home caring for her baby son and his toddler brother.

But COVID-19 derailed those plans. When her planned return-to-work date rolled around, the complete absence of public events meant the job she once had no longer existed. The alternative work her employer offered her -- cutting grass and picking weeds with the parks department -- seemed a poor match for her skills, so she opted to stay home "just a little longer."

For many years now the notion that individuals can benefit from receiving information in a preferred format (VARK) has attracted the chagrin of revered neuroscientists, academics and educators – in fact a letter (endorsed by 30 distinguished signatories) published in the Guardian in March 2017 could not have been more blunt in its headline, "No evidence to back idea of learning styles".

So how big a problem is there still and why does it matter to careers work?