DKG ALBERTA
AN INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S NETWORK THAT EMPOWERS AND SUPPORTS EDUCATORS AND ELEVATES THE PROFESSION
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Empowering Women Who Educate
Mission
Mission
To promote professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education.
Message from our Area Representative for Canada: Dr. Shar McGowan (Saskatchewan)
Message from our Area Representative for Canada: Dr. Shar McGowan (Saskatchewan)
As we head further into autumn, I imagine your State and Chapters are busying themselves with plans for an exciting year ahead.
At the International level, you may wish to be mindful of the following:
The 2025 Conference will see a return to New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference will be from July 29 – August 2; however, the State Organization Leadership Training (SOLT) will occur just prior to the conference, also in New Orleans.
Please log on often to DKG.org where you can keep updated with the latest news from International. Likewise, DKG International has a Facebook site that you may wish to view. Forwarding International messages to your own State or Chapter’s Facebook is encouraged. Similarly, all members are invited to attend the DKG Inside International Zoom events that are posted on DKG.org. This is a wonderful way to network with members from other areas and to hear what the International leadership’s current initiatives are.
At the Administrative Board level, ongoing conversations are occurring insofar as advancing Avenue M recommendations, the Strategic Plan, and updating the Bylaws.
We are all excited to continue plans for the Canadian Forum Conference to be held July 10-12 in Brandon, Manitoba. This conference will give members in Canada an opportunity to network together in the spirit of friendship and re-imaginings for how DKG can thrive as we head towards the 100th anniversary in 2029.
My own vision for DKG in Canada is for a deeper connection from one province to another. One way we may be able to do this is to open our virtual events to members in other provinces. We may also share our wonderful ideas for growth with each other whenever possible.
I wish you a wonderful year ahead. I am so delighted and proud to represent you at the International Administrative Board.
Congratulations to the Early Educators who received our gift bags!
Congratulations to the Early Educators who received our gift bags!
Supporting Early Career Educators
Supporting Early Career Educators
We recognize that educators are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. DKG supports early educators as an International Initiative since the International Convention in 2012. If you would like more information about our initiative, please contact women.educators.dkgalberta@gmail.com
We recognize that educators are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. DKG supports early educators as an International Initiative since the International Convention in 2012. If you would like more information about our initiative, please contact women.educators.dkgalberta@gmail.com
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Founders
Founders
Let us live the legacy that these visionary women began.
Nine years after women won the right to vote in the United States of America, DKG was founded to fill the needs of women in the educational profession. At that time, women teachers were offered few leadership positions, promoted rarely, fired easily, and paid less than male colleagues. Dr. Annie Webb Blanton, a university professor and a former Texas Superintendent of Education, dreamed of and planned for an organization in which women teachers could support one another and recognize themselves as leaders in a chosen profession. Blanton and eleven other women educators, representing different disciplines and under assumed names for fear of losing jobs, founded DKG on May 11, 1929.
Purposes
Purposes
To unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship
To honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education
To advance the professional interest and position of women in education
To initiate, endorse and support desirable legislation or other suitable endeavors in the interests of education and of women educators
To endow awards to aid members in pursuing personal and professional growth and to provide grants to non-ember educators
To stimulate the personal and professional development of members and to encourage their participation in relevant programs of action
To inform the members of current economic, social, political and educational issues so that they may participate effectively to support a sustainable world society.
Revised September 7, 2025
Revised September 7, 2025
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