Poster Contest - Due in February

Build Character Build Success Poster Submissions

This is not a homework assignment but since there are so many creative and artistic students in our class, I thought this announcement might be of interest to some.

The Toronto District School Board is looking for posters to visually represent our Build
Character Build Success initiative that will be unique to TDSB. Our slogan is Build Character, Build Success.

Between now and February 13, 2009, we encourage poster submissions from all students, staff
and community members. Your poster may represent a single attribute or may be a montage of
all ten attributes, and must include the TDSB slogan: Build Character, Build Success.

The ten attributes are:

Respect Responsibility Empathy
Kindness & Caring Teamwork Fairness
Honesty Co-operation Integrity Perseverance

All submissions are appreciated and finalists will be displayed on March 5, 2009, at the Character Development in Action Showcase 2009 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
In order to ensure fairness, equity, and inclusion, all submissions should accurately reflect the
diverse community of TDSB students, staff, parents, guardians, caregivers, and community
groups. Specifically, submissions should avoid bias and stereotypes based on any of the 16
prohibited grounds of discrimination as outlined in the TDSB Equity Foundation Statement and
the TDSB Human Rights Policy (for more information please visit www.tdsb.on.ca/equity).

We value everyone’s input and look forward to selecting posters that we can all embrace!

Please submit your posters electronically to cbls@tel.tdsb.on.ca or hard copy to Jane Reid at 140 Borough Drive – 2nd Floor, Route SE20 (Toronto, M1P 4N6) by February 13, 2009.
For more information on Character Development in Action see our web page at
www.tdsb.on.ca/character or the Character Development Conference on TEL.

Please note: If there is class interest for this poster contest you can submit to me and I will forward your posters on. Please get them to me 4 days before the deadline to allow for courrier delivery times.


Details:


Character Development Poster Submission Criteria:

- Posters may be submitted in electronic or non-electronic form. They should be formatted
or created on paper no larger than 8 1/2” x 11” (portrait or landscape).
- Electronic submissions should be in PDF (with fonts embedded), JPEG or TIFF formats
only.
- All submissions should include the following information either in the e-mail or printed
clearly on the back of the poster:

o Name of Artist
o Current Grade (for student work – this will be used to determine the category
entered)
o Name of Teacher (for student work)
o Name and address of TDSB school or site
o Address and telephone number (for parent/community member work)
- Posters must be an original work of the artist making the submission and must not contain
any copyright material (i.e., computer clip art, images from web sites or magazines)
- Posters with spelling errors will not be considered
- Posters which include bias or stereotypes (refer to TDSB Equity Foundation Statement
and the Human Rights Policy) will not be considered
- One submission per student/person only

Categories:

Primary – K - Grade 3
Junior – Grades 4 - 6
Intermediate – Grades 7 - 9
Senior – Grades 10 - 12
Staff, Parents and Community