MasseyVanier High School Eastern Townships School Board

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Massey-Vanier High SchoolEastern Townships
School Board

• Enhanced Learning Strategy
• TCEA
• 2008

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Eastern Townships School Board

• Enhanced Learning Strategy
• One to One laptop deployment
• 5600 student units
• Grades 3 - 11
• Fifth year of the project
• School Board is the geographical size of over 12
  000 sq miles.
• 15 000 000 investment without any outside
  funding.

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Mission Statement
Massey-Vanier High School encompasses a diverse
community that faces unique challenges and
provides many opportunities. We endeavour to
provide each student with the knowledge and
qualifications needed to succeed, while advancing
his or her academic, personal, social, physical
and moral development. Massey-Vanier High School
strives to create a positive environment in which
every student can learn.
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Our SchoolMassey-Vanier High School is located
in Cowansville and draws its students from as far
west as the Richelieu River, east as Eastman,
south as the U.S. border and north as Roxton
Falls. Services 75 different communities covers a
geographical area of 6500 sq km.

• 800 seat auditorium
• 100 seat video room
• Music room
• Dance studio
• Drama room
• 2 ITT workshops
• 4 Science labs
• Student Enrolment 980
• Number of Staff 90

• Library
• 9 gymnasia
• Pool, arena, sports fields, tennis courts
• 2 student drop-in centers (game rooms)
• Student Assistance Centre
• Student services
• 1200 seat Cafeteria

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Learning at our School
Academic Programs
Co-Curricular Programs

• Curriculum Programs
• French Immersion
• Team Teaching Model Cycle I
• French Second Language
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Mathematics
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Science
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Technology (ITT options)
• Language Arts
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Social Studies
• Music, Art, Dance, Drama
• Physical Education
• Moral Instruction
• Spanish
• Journalism, Digital Media
• Home Economics

Soccer Basketball Badminton Hockey Football
Rugby Floor Hockey Volleyball Mushball Tenni
s Golf Swimming School Band Yearbook Cross-C
ountry Running Drama Productions Job
Shadowing Fundraising Activities Kaleidoscope T
alent Show SADD Human Rights Group Art
Club Home Economics Club Billiards Club Prom
Committee Student Trips Montreal Level
I Quebec City Level II Boston Level
III Toronto / Niagara Falls Level IV New York
City Level V Stratford - Levels III/IV/V Europe
Levels IV/V
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ELS Integration

• Year I Grade 11 - 160 units
• Year II Grades 7,8,11 - 500 units
• Year III Grades 7,8,9,10,11 - 980 units
• Total 1100 (including teacher units spare units)

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School based Resources

• 1 - Technician
• 1 - 50 Technician
• 1 - Lead- Integration Teacher

• 31 Digital LCD Projectors
• 5 digital video cameras
• 5 digital still cameras
• 6 network printers
• 10 portable carts

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Wireless Infrastructure

• All classrooms
• Cafeteria
• Library
• Gyms
• Offices / staffrooms
• Common areas
• All lockers are equipped with an electrical outlet

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Pedagogical Shift

• Introduction of a new provincial curriculum.
• Shift to towards a social constructivist approach
  to instruction.
• Cross-subject / multi-displinary planning and
  organization.

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Insanity

• Insanity is doing what you have always done and
  expecting things to improve.
• Stephen Covey
• The Iditarod Project is not about technology, it
  is about student learning and engagement.