The 2014 Complementary Educational Services (CES) Symposium—Caring for the Whole Child: A Multi-faceted Endeavour—attracted some 130 participants from English school boards across the province this past October.
Archive | 2014
“Entrepreneurial Adventure” to be Tested in Québec
The Western Québec and English Montréal School Boards will soon be piloting a program developed by The Learning Partnership to support classes engaged in entrepreneurial projects.
Compulsory Academic and Career Guidance Content on its Way
Starting this fall, 28 Québec schools will systematically apply the Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning to raise students’ awareness of their academic and career options. It’s part of the broader effort to lower the dropout rate by making school more relevant. Following this pilot project, the MELS will require all schools to integrate academic and career […]
Rosemount High School Plants Seeds of Empowerment
GOAL encourages students to explore their environment and discover the resources available to them. Sometimes those resources are staring us in the face—like the old-but-recently-restored greenhouse attached to Rosemount High School that has become a source of student learning, pride and self-discovery.
Teachers Ask Students: “Is War a Game?”
Most young people know a thing or two about battling the aliens, warlords and assorted bad guys that populate the virtual universe. But what of the real-life conflicts that inhabit their history books? Is war a game? That’s the big question Cycle Three teachers at two Riverside School Board elementary schools asked their classes.
