Emily Follensbee School specializes in providing educational programs for students (aged 2 years 8 months to 13 years) of age, with multiple, complex learning needs.  Operation Communication was designed to promote educational and social opportunities for the school’s special needs students who are nonverbal and present with complex physical access needs through the use of  Continue Reading »

When was the last time you spoke with an astronaut?  The answer from 40 high school students at Winston Churchill may surprise you. Launched in 2008, the NASA & Global NetGeneration of Youth (NGY-NASA-SWC), a unique multi-year educational initiative with two American schools, NASA, the International Space Station,  corporate, government and community based partners, is  Continue Reading »

The Louise Dean School (LDS) is a high school for pregnant and parenting teenage girls. 30 percent of LDS students are of Aboriginal descent; the Aboriginal Leadership and Connection Circle Program at the Louise Dean School is intended to help girls who are vulnerable in society and have an increased risk of dropping out of  Continue Reading »

Literacy is a crucial life skill and an important step toward the Calgary Board of Education’s Mega End goal: “each student, in keeping with his or her individual abilities and gifts, will complete high school with a foundation of learning to function effectively in life, work and continued learning.” The CBE’s Aboriginal Families Learning Together  Continue Reading »

An invisible expanding keyboard in space. It sounds more like something you’re more likely to find in an episode of Star Trek than in a school music room, but the Soundbeam keyboard is quite a fixture at Alexander Ferguson Elementary School. Soundbeam is a technology that was developed in the UK and is primarily used  Continue Reading »

When Anne Tucker said “all art requires courage,” she described the students in the art therapy program at Hull School.  All too frequently the children that come to Hull feel helpless and believe their futures are hopeless, but you would never know this walking through the doors at Hull, surrounded by the hope in colourful  Continue Reading »