by Monika Ferenczy | Aug 13, 2015 | Post
Now that municipal elections are over, new and returning trustees are heading up new school board administrative councils as of December 1st, 2014 for the next four years. School board trustees are one of four major players in the education sector, with teacher...
by Monika Ferenczy | Aug 13, 2015 | Post
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...
by Monika Ferenczy | Jul 24, 2015 | Post
Whether you go day tripping or globe- trotting, travelling with your children and teenagers is an experience rich in learning and social awareness that they will remember far more readily than some classroom learning. Why is that? Travel offers an opportunity free of...
by Monika Ferenczy | May 13, 2015 | Post
It used to be that parents registered their child at the local neighbourhood school, in early September, sometimes on the first actual day of school. The only choice available back then was whether to send a child to public or catholic school, but to some it was not...
by Monika Ferenczy | Mar 13, 2015 | Post
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...
by Monika Ferenczy | Jan 13, 2015 | Post
At the start of a new calendar year, people often choose goals and objectives that they hope to achieve to enhance their life, their health, their relationships or their learning. For many teens in their last year of high school, the start of the last six months of...
