I was walking home last week from a school committee meeting, and thinking to myself with a smile “this is so NOT the person I envisioned myself being, when I was ‘young’ .” Bear in mind, that ‘young’ refers to various periods in my life. I think the first thing I wanted to be was [...]
Reinventing the High School Musical
David Field
The classical musical Les Misérables has been brought to the high school stage at Toronto’s St. Clement’s School. Taking the high school musical to a new level, the students from six area high schools—Cardinal Carter Academy of the Arts, Crescent School, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, St. Clement’s School, St. Michael’s Choir School and Toronto French [...]
Achieving higher academic confidence through single-sex schools
David Field
Marina Jiménez of The Globe and Mail investigates the benefits of single-sex schools on boys and girls. The catalyst of the article was a report from the University of California that compared the academic performance of girls in girls-only independent and Catholic schools in the United States. It found that girls had higher SAT scores, [...]
Environmental Education at the Frost Centre Institute
Joshua TusinThe historic Frost Centre Institute (née Leslie Frost Centre) is accredited, has teacher applications, and has a relationship established with the University of Guelph to offer a range of environmental research and education programs. All that sounds like enough to open as planned for grades 7-10 this September, but unless retired IBM executive Al Aubry [...]
Save Recess! Prevent Obesity!
Joshua Tusin
Calgary schools have done away with afternoon recess in favour of more instructional time, but the move has gotten more than a few people up in arms about the increased likelihood Calgary students become obese. The schools say they are still committed to providing 30 minutes of physical activity per day and that morning and [...]
What's On: Week of April 20, 2009
Joshua TusinWelcome to What’s On, The Chalkboard’s weekly roundup of interesting and exciting events on tap for the week. To help make sure we know about all the best events be sure to leave a comment below or send an email to agnes[at]ourkids[dot]net. Now on with the week ahead! Wednesday, 22 April 2009 Special Event | [...]
