Tendril Design Animation is a digital animation and vfx studio. We have a highly rated community outreach program where we engage with young artists to show who we are, the kind of work we do and how they could develop a career in our field. Our virtual presentation is totally free, as we're keen on giving back and helping foster creative talent! Presentations and discussions usually run about 60 minutes but can be altered to fit your class time and specific goals. Our speakers range from artists and directors to producers and accountants, who discuss their career path, projects, and how they ended up at Tendril.

To get a better sense of our work and how an informative, inclusive talk might benefit your students, visit
tendril.ca

To get in touch, email Emma at officemanager@tendril.ca

"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!

Grade 10 students thinking about university are invited (along with their supporters) to an information session on admission requirements, financing their education, and advice on how to get started preparing for university.

Thursday, February 24, 2022

6 to 8 p.m. ET

University of Waterloo – MS Teams Live

Discover our Programs: Current Student Experience Panel
Thursday, February 17, 11 am - 12 pm

Join us online to hear from a panel of current students from across our faculties and programs, representing a range of student experiences and voices. This session will provide valuable insights for you to share with your students as they consider their post-secondary options.

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

Hope is a vital ingredient in general well-being, as well as in career development, but you might be feeling like it’s in short supply these days. New restrictions in many parts of Canada amid surging COVID cases have left many feeling like there’s "no end in sight."

While we weather this latest storm together, we’ve pulled together together some words of wisdom from career professionals about hope. Many of the articles are geared toward supporting your work clients or students, but there are suggestions you can apply to your own life as well. If nothing else, we hope this provides a little reprieve from "doomscrolling" through the news.

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.

Career centres are generally viewed as a staple within standard student services at any post-secondary institution in North America, as it should be. If we ask many centres who their target market is, the most obvious and immediate response is: students, of course! However, while this is a true representation of the clientele who come through our (virtual) doors, ongoing research into post-secondary student career development is emerging with a consistent theme: students have a preference to seek career advice first from those they are in regular contact with, such as faculty members, academic advisors and volunteer program managers, before they even consider setting foot in a career centre – if they do at all.

Technology is part of the future of Indigenous education but conventional classes still needed, says educator.

A report about the impacts of remote learning on children includes a section specific to Indigenous youth, including perspectives from a Nipissing First Nation educator.

On Dec. 9, The Information and Communications Technology Council published 'Uncharted Waters: A World-class Canadian E-learning Paradigm.' The 56-page report explores virtual learning in Canada and the ways in which it may be useful beyond a COVID-19 context.