During the early part of the 2012 there was much discussion about the SCDSB capital plan priorities. In advance of a request from the Ministry of Education a wish list of capital priorities was compiled and approved by the SCDSB Board. You can download the revised capital plan here. This past week B-memo 7 [...]
Special Education – Parents: Board needs to lose shields simcoe.com
March 27, 2012
Simcoe.com By Laurie Watt Parents: Board needs to lose shields March 27 2012 BARRIE – The Simcoe County District School Board must stop its ‘dark-ages’ way of treating students with challenging behaviours and begin respecting the Ontario Human Rights Code, says its Special Education Advisory Committee chairperson. Angie Bridekirk says her committee is calling on [...]
JK/SK cap detemined by MOE
March 27, 2012
A new B memo was issued by the MOE on Feb. 29, 2012 dealing with the issue of class caps in the JK and SK programs across the province. This would standardize class sizes across the province. B- 04 2012 Table A
How to Watch Board Meetings On-line
February 22, 2012
Dying to come to a SCDSB Board meeting but just can’t make it. Never fear the school board streams live the monthly board meeting and keeps an archive of past meetings on the SCDSB website.
What’s Up ! Feb 2012 Board Meeting
February 20, 2012
The March Board meeting includes 2 Attendance Area Reviews along with the Captial Plan 2012 and the school calendar for 2012-13. Presentations coming to Board include concerns over the moving of the Special Needs classroom(s) at Mapleview Heights Elementary School in Barrie.
Books to Digital Texts the New Direction
June 28, 2011
First text books by school text-book publishers are now going digital only. This follows years of a demographic downward slope in student numbers, coupled with two years of cuts [in Ontario] in text-book funding. US sales of K-12 textbooks dropped 16.9% in 2011, year over year. In this environment McGraw-Hill launched its first all-digital, cloud-based [...]
Principal Allocation Cut for Duntroon
June 4, 2011
This past week the SCDSB Human Resources committee staff announced the allocation for principals and vice-principals for the 2011-12 school year. The following are the key changes to Area 5 SCDSB elementary schools. Of particular note is the cutting of the principal allocation at Duntroon Central PS. Duntroon is one of the schools in the [...]
Year 3 Roll-out List SCDSB FDK
May 29, 2011
Early Learning Program will be added to the following schools for year 3 of the roll out MOE Site Selection Conformation March 2, 2011 ( download full memo and list for Ontario) Simcoe County District School Board • Allandale Heights Public School • Ardagh Bluffs Public School • Brechin Public School • Connaught Public School [...]
