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Important Information for Parents of Special Needs Children with Individual Education Plans (IEPs)

Important Information for Parents of Special Needs Children with Individual Education Plans (IEPs)

On February 1st, 2013 the Ministry of Education released a new policy with regards to transition plans for all students with special needs who have Individual Education Plans (Policy/Program memorandum no. 156). All students from kindergarten to grade 12 must now have a transition plan completed as part of their IEP including transition plans for […]

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Please keep your child home from school today…

It used be a saying that school secretaries would tell parents when their child was sick and parents sent their child to school anyway because last minute care-giver arrangements were too complicated, or not pre-arranged, or the other parent was not able to stay home...

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Back to school – for adults too!

September is often a month that evokes back to school for students, with images of backpacks, lunches and yellow school buses. With a growing number of adults returning to school in recent years, the extra lunch is headed with a parent to a classroom instead of a...

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Why Certain Video Games Make Kids Smarter

Ask any young person, parent or teacher if they have had a discussion on this topic and the chances of them saying yes is very high. That is because in every generation there is a hot button topic that fires one set of minds against another: two generations ago it was...

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Teen girls and volunteering

Why are teen girls more likely to volunteer? Visit any fundraising event, sporting event, social or cultural event and the number of girls volunteering far outpaces the guys. Is this because girls are more social than boys? Have different motivational reasons? Are...

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