Ontario is an incredibly diverse product and so of our goal is going to be to
improve student achievement so our children will grow into successful and
happy adult
we need to deal with adversity and so it's not seen as a barrier
it's seen as an opportunity and challenge
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from the outset
we agreed that we had to have special interventions in place
in order to bring the bottom up the students who
traditionally had not done well and
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but there's not a Mustang by sending
a lot of the students that to come new to the country have a variety
needs and that may be academic it may be social
it may be language-based maybe family-based it could be
just survival skills you know how do we get transit where is extra help
available
and a student success person is a critical piece in a school
to help support that child okay how far did you get to get to the N double
okay what's happened since I read with you
students that are new to Canada there's a large transition
the expectations that they read quickly that they process
in English and that they can make inferences
and those are skills they may not have learned in in their own schooling system
so we work with students
to bridge that gap the most 21 year house he has
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so he will also get a credit after school
we have weekly meetings it brings our team together
and it allows earth to track the students that we are
watching woulda support for him be
there's gonna be a new drama class created and it's going to be in 1910
split drama that may be a good place for him to be able to acquire some language
generally the entire school staff needs to be involved this is a collaborative
effort
although one person has the time dedicated two words making sure it all
comes together
really it is a full school initiative we've been working
um in success Jonathan choosing greed ninety came on her home
she came from Hong Kong some students come across the table
the feeling all four subjects they don't have money for a transit pass
their living with no parents in the country the parents might be living in
China
last year and even I worked with the family
to the guardianship to another family
home she wasn't progressing well without family she was not even allowed to stay
after school to see me
and and that team will not work everything from
the cultural settlement worker to the administrator to say
and alt ed teacher to make connections
and set up that program for success that's the best example the Student
Success Team
is looking at the child and looking holistically how we can support them
panini I actually found a way
so maybe she this is something new
anymore things look a lot better after nine hours of sleep
the one on one that's needed for some kids to be successful can't be done
when you have another job happening you can't sit
and take the time to meet with a student
and they really need that extra time
we don't want to be seen as a disciplinarian when I introduced myself
to this
new staff this year I said don't use me as a threat even my room
it doesn't look like a classroom I didn't put deaths in
I didn't want to earth if it's an uncomfortable and learn
they're not going to come after school for help or on their lunch hour
if it's more school so they may sit in a chair
and read their books that their behind in because they get to sit in a
comfortable chair
we're succeeding in the five or six years that we've been working at this
the performance gap for new english-language learners in this
prominent
has been closed by about half of that gap
and that absolutely critical in a province were up to forty percent of our
children
are in fact coming from places outside problems
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