Contains newsletters issued by the Waterloo County Board of Education featuring highlights of the three regular board meetings and one special board meeting. The regular board meetings covered in these issues took place on Apr. 21, 1977, on May 28, 1981, and on Apr. 26, 1990. The special meeting took place Mar. 29, 1990. Also includes a memo addressed to all principals and staff dated Apr. 22, 1983 informing the recipients of this memo of the principal and vice principal transfers which were approved at the regular meeting of the Waterloo County Board of Education on April 21, 1983. This memo also contains a list of appointments to positions of responsibility.
This file also contains a notice and minutes relating to two separate Committee of the Whole Meetings, one of which took place on May 4, 1982 and the other on Jan. 13, 1983.

Contains minutes of a meeting of the Representatives of Affiliate Organizations in Waterloo County, Apr. 17, 1967. Also includes supporting documents relating to this meeting in the form of a memorandum issued by the O.T.F. re proposed reorganization of schools under County Boards of Education, as well as a rough ts. draft of a brief to regional government drawn up by the Study Committee of the O.T.F.
Also includes a seating plan for an O.T.F. annual meeting held Aug. 20-23, 1985, as well as the "Report of the Teacher Representaives to the Biennial Review Committee on Teachers' Superannuation to the O.T.F. Board of Governor's Annual Meeting, August 20-23, 1985".
Also includes an executive summary of the O.T.F. dated Feb. 12, 1997, in addition to a paper entitled "School Principals and Vice-Principals are Teachers".

Includes booklets containing the president's addresses presented at the annual meetings of the F.W.T.A.O. in 1976, 1979 (2 copies), and 1980 (3 copies).

Includes booklets containing Reports of the Board of Directors presented at F.W.T.A.O annual meetings in the following years: 1980-1981, 1984-1985, 1987-1988, 1988-1989.

Includes booklets containing Reports of the Board of Directors presented at F.W.T.A.O. annual meetings in the following years: 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1978-1979, 1979-1980.

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 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 a flyer produced to announce the first meeting of the E.T.F.O. This flyer contains details of the meeting agenda and motions. One of the invitations issued for this meeting is also contained in this file.

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 correspondence and other materials all of which relate to the affairs, activities etc. of the W.C.W.T.A. Includes correspondence sent by and received by Mary Johnston. Some of this correspondence was sent or received in her capacity as a key teacher, as President of Unit 1, as a W.C.W.T.A. Past President, as the association's County Adviser, and as a member of the Book Project Committee.

Other materials in this file include ts. of W.C.W.T.A.'s comments on the Reville Report, a poem by Joyce Lodge (West Unit Executive Member) entitled "You Will Be There", an information sheet featuring an outline of the history of the W.C.W.T.A. Also includes agenda for W.C.W.T.A. executive retreat in 1990, as well as a list of W.C.W.T.A. priorities for 1997-1998. Additionally, contains lists of association executive members from 1996-1997, a list of women administrators for 1997-1998, and a list of honorary association members for 1997-1998.

Contents originally stored in ring binder. Contains materials which relate primarily to the affairs and activities of the W.C.W.T.A. This includes correspondence received by Mary Johnston, as well as ms. notes, flyers, and two copies of an issue of the W.C.W.T.A.'s Unit 1 newsletter (Vol. 3, no.2). Also includes minutes of a meeting of the Representatives of the Affiliate Organizations in Waterloo County held in May, 1967 and hosted by the Ontario Teachers' Federation, in addition to a report on the F.W.T.A.O. Regional Assembly on May 6, 1972. Finally, this file includes an undated clipping (probably from Lehrgespäch) relating to a W.C.W.T.A. Key Teacher/Awareness workshop.

Contains 16 p. ts. featuring the articles and by-laws which comprise the constitution of the W.C.W.T.A.

Contains correspondence received by Mary Johnston from the Waterloo County Board of Education. Also includes a committee report dated May, 1982 on the subject of lunch hour supervision in the elementary schools, as well as an Information Report for Pilot French Program (May 1982) and a School Based Survey Report (April 1983). It also includes the transcript of a presentation hosted by the board. Other items include a salary proposal of the board for elementary teachers dated Nov. 1969.

Includes a copy of one item of correspondence sent by Mary Johnston to the parents of children who attend the Kindergarten at Brighton School. This outlines some of the aims of this kindergarten and outlines ways in which parents can co-operate with the teacher and the school.

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.

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.

Includes ts. document featuring details of E.T.F.O. fees, fee rebates, as well as release time information and calculations.

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.

Contents of this file originally stored in a binder. This appears to be a file which was maintained by Mary Johnston during her time as P.R. and county adviser with the W.C.W.T.A. This file contains miscellaneous materials including correspondence, information sheets about the F.W.T.A.O., flyers, notices of meetings, tss. relating to meetings, W.C.W.T.A. notices to members about actions being taken or proposed in a number of areas especially with regard to Bill 274. Also includes booklet containing legislation: Regulations (O. Reg. 95/47): General Regulations for Public and Separate Schools: Made Under the Department of Education Act.

Includes undated draft version #3 (incomplete) of the E.T.F.O.'s constitution and by-laws. Also includes another draft of this federation's constitution and by-laws dated Aug. 1997 - comments and explanations are provided for each article and by-law.

This series contains correspondence sent by or received by Mary Johnston as well as other administrative and legal documents maintained by her relating to the activities and affairs of the teachers' organizations of which she was a member. These include the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, The Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario, the Waterloo County Board of Education, and the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association.

This series also includes materials maintained by Mary Johnston when she worked for the Waterloo County Women Teachers' Association in various capacitites including Key Teacher, President of Unit 1, as a W.C.W.T.A. Past President, as the association's County Adviser and P.R., and as a member of the Book Project Committee.

Also included in this series is a file containing correspondence sent to parents by Mary Johnston when she worked with the Kindergarten at Brighton School.

The fonds consists of materials belonging to Mary Johnston which she acquired during her time as a school teacher and principal, as a member of various teachers organizations, and during the time she spent serving on various education-related local and provincial committees. This collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, minutes and other supporting documents re meetings, course materials produced for training courses and workshops, summary reports and other supporting documents re conferences, clippings, publications, printed materials, scrapbooks, and ephemera.