Francine, Cheryl and I submitted our proposals to the Board office. We learned quite quickly that the Board had agreed to pass our proposals on to the Ministry. If the Board had rejected our proposals at this stage we would have been able to make revisions and try again, or give up entirely. We were pleased to hear that the Board felt our projects had merit.
So, we waited and waited and went on with the myriad tasks that a teacher undertakes every day. From time to time we wondered if the proposals had even been forwarded! We wondered if the Ministry had received them. We wondered if perhaps the Ministry of Education had laughed at our proposals and promptly shredded them. And then...
Success! We received an email from the Ministry, letting us know that..... both projects had been accepted.
My individual project was accepted with one revision: the books I planned to purchase had to be labelled with the school board's stamp and had to remain the property of each school. This is because the Ministry already funds text books and other books. The project could not be JUST about purchasing books. I agreed to this revision, since that was the plan from the outset; I just hadn't written that into the proposal.
The team project was accepted without revisions. The Ministry even approved the budget.
