Westmount High School’s bike co-op, student-run fitness centre and other entrepreneurial activities encourage kids to take responsibility and practise life skills. When Andrew Robinson began his career as a history, English and geography teacher a few years ago, he found students had little outlet for what he calls “hands-on, tied-to-the-outside-world learning.” That “huge learning gap” sent […]
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Entrepreneurial Students Leave a Legacy to Their School
March 1, 2013
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Tags: CD, EMSB, Entrepreneurship, Explo, MST, OSentreprendre
·All Those Little Steps Open Doors for Students
March 1, 2013
Principal Corinne MacDonald is passionate about giving children in her Jonquière school a head start exploring different career fields, in part because of her own experience as a parent. “I was completely blown away when my mechanical-engineer son announced he was moving to Vancouver to pursue his real passion—acting,” she relates. “I wondered whether I […]
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Tags: Community Engagement, CQSB, Languages, PD, Work Placements
·Kids Retain Learning that has Real-life Relevance
March 1, 2013
I recently met a student in the Work-Oriented Training Path who was questioning the need to learn long division. He planned to become a dairy farmer and saw no connection between the two. My parents are dairy farmers and I was able to explain how they use multiplication and long division when mixing feed for […]
