by Marcia | Apr 16, 2026 | 30 Years in the Making, Events, Youth programs
The Circle Education is celebrating its 30th anniversary in August. Leading up to this milestone, we talk with people who played a significant role in our history. Kate Nash and James Cowan look back at Sparkfest, a grassroots music festival that raised funds for our...
by Marcia | Feb 12, 2026 | 30 Years in the Making, Pass It On, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
The Circle Education is celebrating its 30th anniversary in August. Leading up to this milestone, we talk with people who played a significant role in our history. Robert Birch was the first male facilitator for SWOVA (now The Circle Education) and one of the...
by Marcia | Oct 13, 2023 | Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Valeskca San Martin, a French immersion teacher at Salt Spring Elementary, has had the Respect Program – former Respectful Relationships – in her classroom for almost a decade. She sees social-emotional learning as an essential addition to the academics that are...
by Marcia | Apr 18, 2023 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Girls, Sexual safety, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Adele Mark arrived as a newcomer in this community at age 15. She had never been to a high school party before, but it didn’t take long for that to change. For this blog she sat down with Ruby and Sam, two recent graduates of Gulf Island Secondary School to hear their...
by Marcia | Nov 8, 2022 | Pass It On, Pass it On: Boys, Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
Bullock Lake Farm is going into its second year as a host location for the Pass it On Boys program. Zack Hemstreet and Eland Bronstein, the facilitators of the program, look back on their first year at the farm and talk about the (social-emotional) learning...
by Marcia | Apr 25, 2022 | Social Emotional Learning, Youth programs
The Circle Education works with children and youth to remove dividers that separate us and make us feel different from each other, when in fact we are inherently the same. Our executive director Janine Fernandes-Hayden learned an important lesson about...
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