STF Webinar: Teachers In Their First Five Years

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On February 24th, the STF is hosting a free Zoom webinar for all teachers in their first to fifth year in Saskatchewan. This will be an opportunity to share important information on the pension and benefit plans, while also giving you an opportunity to network and ask any questions you may have. The webinar will be facilitated by Troy Milnthorp, STF Senior Managing Director, Corporate Fund Services.

There will be 2 Zoom sessions on February 24th at 4pm and 7pm.  Registration is not required.

Go to the STF Website to join the sessions. 

PSTA Wellness School Teams

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The PSTA Well-Being Committee met Monday to sort through the applications and selected 8 schools for the PSTA Wellness sessions. We wish we could have accepted all of the applicants but with the level of interest our budget would not allow for us to accept all the teams.

Congratulations to the following schools:

  • Aberdeen Composite School
  • Clavet Composite School
  • Delisle Composite School
  • Hepburn School
  • Lake Vista Public School
  • Traditions Elementary School
  • Waldheim School
  • Warman Community Middle School

We look forward to working together to develop practices that will help teachers focus on their wellbeing and balance.

The Prairie Spirit Resource Centre Has Moved

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The Resource Centre moved out of the Division Office this summer and was initially relocated to Warman High School, but when Spirit eLearning grew and needed more space, the Resource Centre was relocated again to a portable classroom on the south side of WHS.

Unfortunately, professional resources are currently unavailable as they are being relocated to Warman Community Middle School, but theme boxes and novel sets are available for borrowing.

To request bins from the Resource Centre, you can either email resources@spiritsd.ca or through the Destiny Library website.

Resource Centre hours:

  • Monday 9:30-5:00
  • Thursday 9:30-5:00

Join the PSTA Teacher Wellness Team

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The PSTA Teacher Well-Being Team seeks to create an intentional practice of well-being for teachers to be used throughout the school day and build capacity in teacher leaders in the selected schools to enable them to develop, launch and maintain a teacher well-being program within your school.

The PSTA Teacher Well-Being committee is planning three days of learning. While we wish we could meet as a group, due to current restrictions, each school group will meet at a shared location and join the meeting remotely via MS Teams. Remote meetings will allow us bring in guest speakers from across Canada and have tentatively booked Wade Repta, Patrice Palmer and Cara Taylor to present.

The deadline for your school team to apply is December 18th.

Application Form

Accessing Quarantine Days

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Did you know you don’t need to use your sick days when you have been instructed self-isolate? Article 12.2 of Provincial Collective Bargaining Agreement entitles a teacher quarantined by order of a medical health officer up to 20 days paid leave for quarantine per academic year.

To access quarantine leave days, submit your leave request in Atrieve as sick days and email Jon Yellowlees with the date public health mandated you to self-isolate, the days you will be required to self-isolate and if possible the name of the person you spoke to at public health so the dates can be re-coded as quarantine days.

STF Members and Family Assistance Program

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Did you know all STF members have access to the Members and Family Assistance
Program (MFAP) which provides a wide range of mental health supports for
teachers and their family including referrals for work-life solutions, health & wellness
coaching, legal consultation and short term counselling.


If you need support, please call 1-833-485-4245 any time of day, any day of the year

2020-2021 LINC Memorandum of Agreement

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For the 2020-2021 school year, the Prairie Spirit School Division and the Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association LINC have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to clarify changes to access and benefits regarding leaves of absence.

In regards to clauses 12.5.9, 12.8.10 and 12.10.7 of the current Prairie Spirit Collective Agreement, the maximum allowable carry-over of earned days off and personal days with pay to the next academic school year is increased from three (3) days to five (5) days.

Read the 2020-2021 LINC Memorandum of Agreement to increase noon supervision EDO carryover from 3 to 5 days.

Follow us on Twitter

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Melissa Murray has joined our executive this year as Communications Chair and we now have a twitter account to share ideas and all the amazing things our teachers are doing in their classrooms. You can find us at @PSTAteachers

Join a PSTA Committee

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The PSTA is currently looking for members to fill a few vacancies on our committees. Our Social Committee has been vacant for a few years and the PSTA Executive would like to appoint someone for this position. We also have two ad hoc committees that are open to all members: the LGBTQ Committee and the Teacher Wellness Committee. If you are interested in joining either of these committees, please contact Scott Woods-Fehr.