The Extended French program iis available in 9 elementary schools with the SCDSB. The program starts at the grade 5 level. January open house meetings will be held at each of the program locations listeed below. Admiral Collingwood ES – Thursday, January 6 – 6:00 PM Alliston Union PS – Thursday, January 13 – 7:00 [...]
Opening French classrooms a hit
September 20, 2010
The story “A classroom makes all the difference for teacher” (Simcoe.com) on the subject of opening previously closed classrooms, is probably one of my favourites for 2010. Sometimes change take time to grab-hold and effects to be seen. Excellent initiatives in differentiated learning that were started over the last three years, are just now showing [...]
Good News for Schools Board Meeting Update
June 24, 2010
Good News for Schools Closed classrooms will open up for French core programming, where locked classrooms exist. This is going to be very positive for both students and teachers. This change will support core French but also allow for other uses of the home classrooms while students are in French Class. School Basic Budget - [...]
Budget Debate Part 2 – Opening classrooms
June 11, 2010
Opening empty/locked classrooms Does fairness mean sameness? Does equity in school facilities dictate that every school should be a duplicate of the others within a school board? On June 9th trustees debated whether it was fair to open locked classrooms in some elementary schools, when some schools had none to open. Schools differ widely in [...]
Mothballs – boules de naphtaline – Empty classrooms for French?
April 9, 2010
This past year it has become an all too common occurrence that one or two classrooms in a school have been closed off and locked. Within the SCDSB there are currently 27 elementary schools with 35 empty “mothballed” classrooms. Total funding for classrooms is determined by funding by province funding and allocations within the overall [...]
French Immersion – Looking at new options
February 27, 2010
News update: French Immersion Talk on Hold till April
