One box of unused slate pencils, likely made of sandstone, used for writing on slates.

One school slate with a wooden frame.

One photograph of St. Jerome's College, now the Faculty of Social Work at Laurier University.

Photographs of staff at Brighton, Winston Churchill, Keatsway, and MacGregor School as well as administrative staff of the Waterloo County of Board of Education.

Contains correspondence and other material all of which relate to the affairs, activities etc. of the F.W.T.A.O. Includes correspondence received by Mary Johnston from the F.W.T.A.O. as well as other documentation issued by this organization. Among these items are: flyers, a questionnaire, report, F.W.T.A.O. pledge of acceptance, associate membership application form, information sheet on F.W.T.A.O. services and organizational structure, on F.W.T.A.O. policy re school assistants, on the inflation restraint act (Bill 179). Also contains a list of membership questions and answers, and ts. of an address by Norman M. Goble to the F.W.T.A.O. February Conference in 1981.

Items originally contained in folder. Includes information sheets about various aspects of the F.W.T.A.O. including: lines of communication, organizational structure, relationship to W.C.O.T.P., C.T.F. and O.T.F., the qualifications evaluation programme, as well as an F.W.T.A.O. glossary of abbreviations.

Contents include information on W.C.W.T.A. election of officers for unit executives, on regional and provincial meetings and conferences 1976-1977, on the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, and on the W.C.W.T.A.'s terms of reference and policies. Also includes a list of members of the Waterloo County Board of Education in 1976. Also includes two loose leaves - one ts. features a list of proposed slate of officers for the W.C.W.T.A. 1976-1977 and one illustration showing the structural organization of the Waterloo County Board of Education.

This series contains meeting agendas and minutes, Board of Director's reports, and Presidential addresses, as well as other supporting documents relating to the meetings of the teachers' organizations of which Mary Johnston was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Ontario Teachers' Federation, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association. These meetings include annual member meetings, executive meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of the North Unit of the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

Contains spiral-bound ts. including meeting agenda, the text of Bill 274 and Bill 275, and of amendments to Bill 274. Also includes some ms. annotations and additions.

Contains ts. photocopy of a report on the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly of May 6, 1972. Also includes single leaf featuring the ts. report of the Public Relations Committee at the F.W.T.A.O. annual meeting in 1981.

Contains president's message, meeting agenda, minutes, financial statement, lists of W.C.W.T.A. executive members, unit executive members, and committee reports.

Contains single flyer featuring details of the location, date, agenda, cost etc. of the W.C.W.T.A. North Unit's Annual Spring Dinner.

Includes booklet containing W.C.W.T.A. President's Report, W.C.W.T.A. priorities, lists of executive members and unit executive members, as well as a list of key teachers. Also includes a list of twenty-five year members, and a list of retiring teachers to be honoured at this dinner as well as a biographical note about each of these teachers.

Spiral-bound volume containing a list of conference committee members, details of the conference program, a plan of the hotel in which the conference is taking place, and blank pages for conference delegates to make notes. Also includes some loose leaf items: a conference application form, a conference evaluation sheet, and two tss. which were distributed at this conference.

Contains news clipping dated May 10, 1968 (source unspecified). One article reports that Education Minister Davis has announced that Waterloo county will not get two boards of education at least until 1970. Minister Davis says this is because he wants one or two years experience with the new system before amending the basic county plan. Another article relates to Waterloo public school teachers' salary increases, while an additional article relates to a school site swap negotiated by the Kitchener and district school board.

Contains news clippings which appeared in The Globe and Mail's "Education on Trial" feature on Dec. 28 and 29, 1992. One clipping provides statistics about the Canadian educational system, another reports that there there is no consensus in terms of what Canadians expect from schools. Another article focuses on a school in Edmonton which is "a model of self-improvement". Parents' dissatisfaction with the state-run school system forms the focus of another article, while another article focuses on the debate surrounding methods of testing students in the subjects they study.

Contains news clipping (source unspecified) reporting that Twyla Hendry has been nominated chairman of the Waterloo County Board of Education. In her inaugural speech Hendry referred to the innovations which have been implemented by the board trustees over the previous two years.

Contains article (The Record, Monday, 17 April 1995, sec. D, p. 1) which reports on the finances of the Waterloo public school board vis-à-vis the separate school board. Other articles contained in this section of the Record focus on the proposal that the Education Act be amended to allow instructors who are not certified teachers to supervise students under specified conditions and circumstances and to deliver certain non-academic programs, while the other article reports that the Open Sesame head-start pre-school is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Contains informational leaflets and flyers issued by the F.W.T.A.O.

Note on title page reads: "This summary presents some of the major findings of 'The Shortest Shadow': A study of the FWTAO membership. Recommendatons and plans for their implementation are included".