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Creative Connections
through Learning

It has recipes for brownies and cookies and three kinds of milk shake – all the things you’d expect in a cookbook by 9-year-olds.

 

Staying Connected
While We Are Apart

The song you hear in the video is Drake’s hot new quarantine dance track Toosie Slide, which the superstar filmed in his Toronto mansion wearing a face mask and gloves.

The Magic of Music
at George Webster ES

For the 720 students here, music is not an add-on; it lies at the heart of school life and is embedded into many subjects. It's why the principal made a point of hiring two music specialists.

 

Treating Discipline as a Learning Opportunity at East York CI

You can get suspended from school in Ontario for a lot of things: Swearing at a teacher. Having illegal drugs. Being drunk. Vandalism. Bullying. Fighting. Stealing. Smoking on school property – or these days, vaping.

Recess Rangers at Ogden PS Strengthens Relationships and Reduces Conflict
Once a week Finn Clancy does playground duty at Ogden Public School. He listens for arguments, watches for tears and scans for children left out of the fun.

 

Improving Math by Improving Well-Being at Pelmo Park
Grade 4 students are gathered on the carpet, some lying on their backs, a couple munching on apples from the class fruit bowl. One boy pops over to help himself from a basket of “fidgies” – squeezeable tennis ball stress-busters - while another starts to stroll around the room. Is this free time?

Taking a New Path Through STEP to Construction
It's only 7:45a.m but Max has been at work for almost an hour, and he's sweating. A lot of the pipes he and the plumber have to lift as they replace the giant "chiller" can be heavy, and no wonder.

 

Planting the Seeds of Equity at Oriole Park PS
They’re only six years old, but they’re learning to write from someone else’s perspective. They quiz grown-up visitors about why some people get excluded from community life. And they’re excited to be able to tell you just what it means to be fair.

Student Voice is Making a Difference at Crescent Town ES
There’s a school in Toronto’s east end so rooted in a high-rise community, it has its own walkway overpass to one of the apartments. But the concrete setting of Crescent Town Elementary School also comes with a lack of play space, except for a steep slope and some asphalt surrounded by fence.

 

Creating a Culture of Reading at Emily Carr PS
How does a school pull its Grade 3 writing scores up to 100 per cent, from 59 per cent – in just one year? That means every student who wrote the test this time earned at least a B, or “Level 3,”

Moms of the World Unite at Rose Ave PS
A clamour of voices spills out of the school gym; the sound of 80 young mothers sprung free on a school night to share biryani rice with mango salad and talk about…being mothers.

 

High Expectations for Grade 9s at Westview
For the first time in 20 years, students starting Grade 9 at Westview Centennial Secondary School won’t be able to take English at the Applied level.

How Early Reading Coaches are Making a Difference
A new kind of support team is helping out dozens of Grade 1 classrooms across Toronto, ready with fresh tools and tactics to help every child read by the end of the year.

 

Student Voice Boosts Confidence at Amesbury
When it comes to confidence, the kids of Amesbury Middle School are on a roll. The school sent two Grade 7 students to observe the Toronto District School Board’s high school Student Senate

Right to Read at Runnymede
He was in Grade 9, but he read at a Grade 7 level. He could de-code words, but the overall meaning didn’t sink in. Books were boring, he said. He had no confidence in class.