Manitoba Education Fun Facts
According to the University of Winnipeg website, it on average takes 6 years to complete this program.
What is the "Community-Based Aboriginal Teachers Education Program"?
University of Winnipeg. (N.D.). About CATEP. https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/access-education/catep/
Made up of 5-11 Trustees
What are School Boards?
Manitoba School Board Association. (n.d.). About. https://www.mbschoolboards.ca/about/
A form of government in which the people elect representatives to make decisions, policies, laws, etc.
What is a Democracy?
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. (n.d.). Democracy. In Merriam-Webster.com dictionary. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy
In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance th process of Canadian reconciliation, the federal government was asked to eliminate the discrepancy of educational federal funding for First Nations children.
What is Call to Action Education 8: First Nation children being education both on and off reserves.
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 133)
UDL is an acronym for...
What is Universal Design for Learning?
CAST UDL Guidelines. (2024). CAST Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0. https://udlguidelines.cast.org
In Latin this is known as "Loco Parentis"
What is "Standing in place of a parent"?
Traditionally, the in loco parentis doctrine clothed teachers with the same responsibility as a parent and exposed them to the same liability for a child’s well-being. This meant a teacher must act in the manner of a reasonable and prudent parent.
Bowal, P. and Rollett, J. (2019, September 3). In Local Parentis. LawNow. https://www.lawnow.org/in-loco-parentis/
There are this number of public school boards operating across Manitoba.
What is 38?
Manitoba School Board Association. (n.d.). Members. https://www.mbschoolboards.ca/members/
The "Power of Three" is a collaboration between these three individuals
What are Parents, Students, and Teachers?
Source: Wallin, D., Young J., & Levin, B. (2023), Understanding Canadian Schools: An Introduction to Education Administration 6th Ed., Chapter 8, 8.2 Families and Schools.
This Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs said, "I want to get rid of the Indian problem..."
Who is Duncan Campbel Scott
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 8)
This act was created in 1876 to put all Indigenous people in Canada in one policy.
What is the Indian Act, 1876?
(Joseph, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 7)
The Compulsory School Age
What is 6 years old?
Children are required to attend school from the time they reach compulsory school age (6 years of age, or will be reaching 6 years of age by December 31 in a given calendar year) until they attain the age of 18.
The Public Schools Act, R.S.M 1987, c 258(2). https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/reccsm/p250e.php
The three qualifications to run for school trustee
What is
1.) A resident elector of the Division
2.) At least 18 years of age
3.) A Canadian Citizen
Manitoba School Board Association. (n.d.). Talking About Becoming a School Trustee. https://www.mbschoolboards.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/TalkingAbout_Becoming-a-School-Trustee.pdf
This is what the Manitoba Schools Act expects of their trustees.
What is, "once elected, the trustees are a corporate body." (with a legally defined range of duties) Think about this, a corporate body is a business.
Source: Wallin, D., Young J., & Levin, B. (2023), Understanding Canadian Schools: An Introduction to Education Administration 6th Ed., Chapter 2, 2.7 Role of the School Boards
In 2011 Statistics Canada reported only 1 in six Aboriginal people were able to do this.
What is use an Aboriginal language in conversation. In oral societies, when the words are gone, so are the histories, the value systems, the spiritual, ecological knowledge, the worldviews, the stories and the songs.
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 67)
As of 2020 there are approximately this many public schools in Canada.
What is 14,600?
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. (n.d.). Some Facts About Canada's Population.
https://www.cmec.ca/299/Education_in_Canada__An_Overview.html
There are this many days (including Professional Development days) making up the 2026-2027 school year in Manitoba.
What is 203 days?
Six-Day Calendar 2026-27. (2026) RETSD. https://media.retsd.mb.ca/media/Default/medialib/retsd-6-day-calendar-2026-27.4d527b35409.pdf
Elections for the office of school trustees are held this many years apart.
What is Four?
Manitoba School Board Association. (n.d.). Running For School Trustee. https://www.mbschoolboards.ca/about/school-board-elections/
These theorists generally possess a systemic preference for dominant white, middle-class male values, language and views of the world.
What are reproduction theorists?
Source: Wallin, D., Young J., & Levin, B. (2023), Understanding Canadian Schools: An Introduction to Education Administration 6th Ed., Chapter 8, 8.2 Families and Schools.
This summary report, findings, and this were released on June 2, 2015, after six years of hearings and testimony from more than 6,000 residential school survivors and their loved ones.
What is are the 94 Calls to Action.
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 130)
In the late 1880's to the early 1960's Residential Schools punished children when they did this at school.
What is punished children if they spoke their home language?
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 65)
Researchers at the University of Manitoba helped invent this oil.
What is canola oil?
Researchers at the University of Manitoba helped invent canola oil in the 1970s, transforming global agriculture and cooking.
Canadian Innovation Space. (2017, October 4). Canola. https://canadianinnovationspace.ca/canola/
1890- 1916, a school trustee was the only public office ___ were legally allowed to to hold in Manitoba.
What are Women?
The Canadian Encyclopedia Staff. (2016, May 6). Women's Suffrage in Manitoba. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/womens-suffrage-in-manitoba
This is what happens when education serves both individual children and our society.
What is Public Schooling In and As a Democracy?
Source: A Guide for Student Belonging in Public Schools in Manitoba, Manitoba Association of School Superintendents, 2024, page 2.
This Call to Action, 16 was the creation of university and college degree and diploma programs to do this.
What is universities and colleges create programs in Aboriginal languages.
(Jospeh, Bob, (2018) 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, p. 135)
These are four things that school boards are likely to address.
What are
1.) Setting Budgets
2.) Personnel
3.) Facilities
4.) Programming'
Wallin, D., Young J., & Levin, B. (2023). Understanding Canadian Schools: An Introduction to Education Administration, 6th Ed., Chapter 2, 2.7 Local Participation in Education Governance: The Development of School Boards.