Not long ago I posted articles here on what makes an excellent school and a successful principal. I also published my disagreement with the Toronto District School Board decision to fund an Africentric black-focused school. This post will deal with an excellence piece in the Toronto Magazine section of Saturday’s National Post. Written by Ben Kaplan, it [...]
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My father has always had an interest in Inuit art, but he took me by surprise one day when he suggested we pay a visit to Canada’s far north. His initial motivation in going there was to see the Inuit stone carvings. Later, however, he became more and more curious about the Inuit culture in [...]
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Imagine a school with the motto — Struggle and Emerge — and you will get an idea of what is so special about the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a private high school located in Wilcox, Sask. Started in the 1930′s by Athol Murray, a priest with the personal credo — God, Canada and [...]
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