Books to Digital Texts the New Direction

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 [...]

Summer School Registration

  Opportunity knocks this summer.  Summer school registration is now open.   You can get more information on the SCDSB website here. All currently registered SCDSB students can login and register here.

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New Essa secondary school opening fall 2011 now has name.

video

Rogers T.V. is screening the Filmpossible video winners this week.  Check your t.v. listings.  Well worth the view. The original entries are available on-line at filmpossible.ca.    

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Site is currently under renovation.

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Board meetings at the SCDSB are streamed live.  You can catch previous meetings on the board website in the meeting archive.  This past Wednesday Feb. 23rd’s board meeting is now available.  Link through below and view the archived meeting of your choice.