2009

Friday, May 1, 2009 — Montreal, QC

Canadian Association of Independent Schools

BEST practconferenceices Friday, May 1, 2009 Lower College Montreal, QC

Conference Agenda

7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Keynote Speaker – Alan November

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Refreshment Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker – Alan November

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Workshop A

2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Workshop B

3:20 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. Workshop C

4:20 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Networking Wine and Cheese

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2009 BEST practices Conference presents Keynote Address Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Student as Contributor: Digital Farm Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders Teaching Zack to Think improve the quality of education through technology. 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America. Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Technology and Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling book, Empowering Students with Technology. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators. Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world- Alan November class presenters and international participants. Visit novemberlearning.com/blc for more details.

Student as Contributor: Digital Learning Farm Before tractors and combines, 80% of the population was involved in farming and children made a vital contribution to the family with real chores. While technology eventually eroded the meaningful work of children, we have enough technology today to restore the dignity of real work in school. All of our students can use collaborative online tools and research and global communications skills to add value to the learning community. These contributions include: • Curriculum Review Team • Tutorial Creation/Organizing/Design Team • Global Communication Team • Official Scribes • Resource Finders • Technical Editors

Teaching Zack to Think Developing Critical Thinking Skills on the Net Too many students are not sure how to separate fact from fiction on the Internet. The Internet can provide any version of the truth to support almost any belief. We can teach students how to read the “grammar” of the Internet and to apply strategies to validate information on a website. This popular workshop provides step-by-step teaching tips that help students and teachers think critically about Internet information.

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Workshop Sessions

Workshop Sessions A1- A10 Hall School, we are in the middle of a process a teacher, and an introduction to some of the 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. that seeks to make the realities of our life on ways that a suite of hardware, which includes a Please choose only one Earth stand as the central pivot for all of our PC, an interactive whiteboard and a document interrelated disciplines and grade levels. camera, could be used by a teacher. The ICT A1 Consider environmental education that is integration ideas will be presented in the context CSI-Creative Student Inquiry not described by a single program. Within of recent educational research regarding teacher Target Audience: Middle and Senior our Arts and Letters, Sciences, Humanities, adoption of ICT and the role of ICT in education. Marguerite Comley, Department Head of Mathematics, Athletics - lay something The workshop will be of interest to teachers Science, deeper than “integration”, more rewarding seeking ways to integrate technology into than “coverage”, and most meaningful. This their daily practices as well as tech leaders or Marc Shefler, Grade 9 Teacher, workshop seeks to uncover the possibilities for administrators who want to promote greater use Lower Canada College sharing the Earthling’s responsibility in our every of technology in the classrooms of their schools. Jamie Suprenant, Laboratory Technician, capacity at school. Lower Canada College A6 For the past three years, we have organized an A4 Illuminating the English Curriculum with in house CSI day for our grade 9 students. One The Gallery of Fame (research and Technology of our staff members is killed mysteriously in the biography unit) Target Audience: Senior and Administrators building. The students become engaged in solving Target Audience:- Middle Janet Holt, English Curriculum Leader, the murder. Specialists in the field of forensics Rhona Crossley, English Humanities teacher, Southridge School are invited that day to discuss their specialty. Glenlyon Norfolk School This workshop will look at how the English This presentation discusses how we link forensic Heather Lapper, Curriculum coordinator, department in a senior school environment inquiry to the curriculum, and how to organize an teacher/librarian, has integrated technology to improve student in school “field trip” based on a theme. Glenlyon Norfolk School learning and engagement in reading, writing, This presentation introduces an integrated unit and in the study of literature. The Accelerated A2 entitled “The Gallery of Fame”. It is a five- Reader program, which allows students to Planning for Success week research project where students choose read extensively at their optimum level, will be Target Audience: Middle and Senior a character in history and then work towards explained, and examples from resources such Theresa Blake, Department Head of Languages transforming into them. as Discovery Education.com and the Folger and Culture, The focus of this workshop is on sharing how Shakespeare Library will be explored. We will teachers and librarians can create an authentic examine how the use of specific websites, This presentation will provide an overview of research project and on providing activities, ranging from YouTube to the British Library site strategies that have been used in the Languages which empower students to guide their own can enrich the learning environment. A brief and Culture Department at Appleby College learning. The following skills will be addressed: look at the Sony (E-Book) Reader will end the to map curriculum. Specifically a backward inquiry note taking, reflection, website session. design principal has been used to consider the evaluation, citation, and avoiding plagiarism. elements of Knowledge/Inquiry/Communication A7 and Application - which is common to all subject A5 Evidence of I.T. Use to Enhance Critical areas, within second language subject area Moving to Catch the Digital Train Thinking strands through the consideration of assessment Target Audience: Middle, Senior and Target Audience: All and evaluation tasks. Administrators Brenda Rilling, Director of Technology, Alan Dick, Teacher of sciences and history, Selwyn House School A3 King’s-Edgehill School Despite the large investment in technology that “Breathing Life – Education for Earthlings” In this survey session practical and tested has been made by many schools, one could Target Audience: All methods of integrating Information and argue that not every classroom has harnessed James Hay, Green School Coordinator, Communication Technology, ICT, into classroom the potential of computers and the Internet to The Sterling Hall School practice for busy classroom teachers will be enhance learning. “Breathing Life - Education for Earthlings” presented. The applications and hardware One of the methods of demonstrating to outlines a path of the deepest re-structuring resources will include the use of a blog for a teachers the power of using technology in the of our School’s curriculum. 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2009 BEST practices Conference within a cognitive process/knowledge grid. curriculum. There are many issues that come term goals for your school to incorporate This grid combines Bloom’s revised taxonomy into safely planning and engaging student environmental sensitivity and education into the with different types of knowledge (factual, groups for international travel to developing school’s practices and curriculum. conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive), communities. This presentation will discuss a • Evaluate your curriculum. Are there additional and shows examples of computer and number of aspects of assessing the associated ways to incorporate environmental sensitivity Internet activities that fit within each cell of risks, preparing groups, training staff, industry and education into the classroom? this framework. The workshop is meant to be standards and resources that can help. • Evaluate your student activities. Are interactive participants making suggestions there other ways to introduce students to for activities for critical thinking tasks that are A10 environmental studies or sensitivity? enhanced by the use of technology. Attendees Teaching Multiplication Conceptually • Evaluate your current and future building will be emailed a summary of the presentation Target Audience: Primary/Junior, Middle and projects. Are there feasible ways to incorporate with participant suggestions included. Administrators environmentally friendly buildings? Lauren Phillips, Grade 5 Teacher, • Evaluate your operational practices (school A8 Havergal College lunch, etc.) Are there feasible ways to make your Critical Friends Groups: An Effective Jennifer Wyatt, Grade 4 Teacher, practices more environmentally friendly? Approach to Faculty Growth Havergal College Target Audience: All In the primary grades, students focus on B2 Brian Moore, English Department Head & understanding the operations of addition and Making Differentiation Possible in Middle & Literacy Programs Coordinator, subtraction, and begin to explore the concepts Senior School Lower Canada College of multiplication and division. When students Target Audience: Middle, Senior and Steven Lee, Middle & High School Teacher, enter the junior grades, the focus of instruction Administrators Lower Canada College shifts from additive to multiplicative reasoning Laura Malbogat, Senior School Director, Imagine a regular meeting time outside as students learn to make sense of and use Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s School school hours that teachers look forward multiplication and division. The key principles of differentiation strategies to and volunteer to attend. Imagine an Consequently, teachers must build on students’ for Middle & Senior School will be shared in a engaging conversation among teachers and early conceptual understanding of quantity, place practical and informative manner. Administrators administrators about classroom practices. value, and the operations in order to develop will gain an understanding of how to promote Imagine feasible, site-based and ongoing a concrete understanding of multiplication. differentiation in their schools. This is a hands professional development. Imagine no longer. Best practice strategies will be presented and on workshop meant to provide the participants Critical Friends Groups offer all these incentives explored in this hands-on presentation. with learning they can take back to their schools. and more. Attend this session to learn the FAQs Topics covered will include understanding about CFGs and how to start and run a CFG the differences between accommodations, program in your school. You will also engage in Workshop Sessions B1-B10 modifications, and differentiation. a mock CFG to get a taste of the benefits of this 2:10 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. highly effective professional growth vehicle. Please choose only one B3 B1 Technology Integration throughout the A9 Green School Planning 101 Elementary Years Risk Management and Student Safety for Target Audience: All Target Audience: Primary/Junior and Middle International Service Learning Tim Putt, Assistant Headmaster, Planning and Stacy Marcynuk, Director of Technology - Target Audience: All Technology and Head of Summer School, Curriculum, Rob McGuiness, Director, Intercultural Kingsway College School Programs, Andrea Fanjoy, Assistant Head, Academics, Environmental sustainability planning in schools Appleby College Kingsway College School can be overwhelming. This workshop will A presentation and workshop on how to assess explore the lessons learned from building an How can technology help your students? Let us and manage risk and best practices for schools environmental sustainability plan at Ashbury count the ways! From core skill development, who want to participate in valuable service College in Ottawa, Ontario. Topics will include: differentiated instruction, critical thinking and learning projects in diverse global locations. green construction; curriculum development; the student networking, this session will share Appleby College has been successfully running role of school leadership; student involvement some of ‘What Works Best’, taking you through international service learning projects that and motivation; and participants will review an a wide variety of software, interactive websites see a large proportion of its student body easy to use planning process. and the logistics to make it all happen. Buzz safely engaged in meaningful international What can your school do now? words such as Kidspiration, Inspiration, WordQ, service accompanied by a service learning • Work with leadership to discuss long- podcasts, and thatquiz are just a few that we Leadership and e-Learning Canadian Association of Independent Schools

2009 BEST practices Conference will touch upon. By the end of the session, you be able to observe and interact and with an B8 will be inspired by the potential and energized associate presenter operating within this virtual Risk Assessment and Communication with a bag of ideas (a little bit of ‘everything’) to world. Print materials and video tutorials will be Target Audience: All take back to your school. Join us for an hour of supplied to participants. Louise Melville, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award integration adrenaline! Coordinator, B6 St. Clement’s School B4 Myths and Joys of Teaching Action Research for ICT Integration: How to Physics Online (?) Risks are inherent in all the off-site activities in which our students participate. Risk involve classroom teachers in meaningful Target Audience: Senior assessments are an integral part of managing professional development Anjuli Ahooja, Curriculum Chair-Science & those risks to our students and parents. This Target Audience: All Technology and Physics Teacher, session looks at why and how we assess risk in Nathalie Lemelin, Junior School French Appleby College off-site activities, and how we can communicate Teacher and French Programmes Coordinator, This session will focus on how to make Physics those risks effectively to our students, staff Lower Canada College (or any science) exciting by using technology for and parents. The session will make use of Rachel Gendron, Junior School French Teacher teaching and learning. The methods and best case studies to identify key components of risk and Assistant Director, Student Life, practices to teach online or in a hybrid mode will assessment and communication. Lower Canada College be shared. The myths attached to the “Teaching In the twenty-first Century schools need twenty- Physics Online?” question and positive aspects B9 first century technology (Prensky 2006) then, of this style of teaching will be discussed. The Using Rigour, Relevance and Relationships they also need twenty-first century teachers who presenter will also share ideas for experiments, to Build a Successful Mathematics Program cooperate with each other and work towards projects and assignments. Target Audience: Primary/Junior, Middle and their own knowledge construction. In this paper, Senior we discuss how a group of K-8 classroom B7 Carrie Annable, Middle School Mathematics teachers has embarked on an action research Curriculum 2.0 – Making I.T integration Subject Co-ordinator, to reflect on, analyze and assess their use and relevant and meaningful for the demands of Hillfield Strathallan College integration of technology across the curriculum. the 21st century The “New Three R’s: Rigour, Relevance, and We will relate the successes of our collaboration; Target Audience: All Relationships” were introduced by Bill Gates namely our work within a community of practice Justin Medved, Technology, Teaching and in a 2005 speech. In this workshop, specific (Wenger, 1998, 2000, 2002) and examine areas Learning Specialist, examples will be given in which these three where we have been able to instill significant The York School, components have helped to build a successful changes in our respective practices as well as As our world changes, so must curriculum if it enhance student learning. Middle School Mathematics Program at Hillfield is to remain a relevant institution whose mission Strathallan College. Participants will leave B5 is to prepare our students for the demands of with practical examples to use in their own citizenship on the world stage. Every day our mathematics classes. Although these examples Building a Virtual Curriculum: Teaching in a pupils read and navigate through a “global 3D virtual world using Teen SecondLife are from the middle school level, many of the electronic library” as well as through the media ideas presented can be adapted for older or Target Audience: Middle and Senior housed in traditional libraries. They have access younger grades. Current technology used in Christian Auclair, Computer integration to a wealth of information and resources mathematics classes will also be discussed. coordinator, unimaginable even five years ago. Students Participants will have a chance to ask questions Lower Canada College are able to access, create, design and present about building a relevant, rigorous, and Mona Chidiac, Modern languages department information in so many new and exciting ways enjoyable mathematics program. head, that educators are having trouble keeping pace. Lower Canada College A new literacy has emerged and with it comes B10 This workshop will explore Teen SecondLife and a brand new set of skills, responsibilities and Come On In–The Water’s Fine: Learning to its potential for teaching and learning across challenges. It is time to rethink the role that Swim in the Information Age a spectrum of disciplines. A demonstration of information technology plays in schools and Target Audience: All SL’s easy-to-use tools for 3D CAD design in transition from disconnected entities to partners Brad Ovenell-Carter, Assistant Head of School, science and art, as well as the collaborative in learning. This presentation tries to answer Island Pacific School advantages of delivering effective lessons in some of these questions. this virtual world, will be reviewed. The actual Session resources: Based on a year’s work with emerging workshop will be presented within the Teen http://newliteracy.wikispaces.com/ technologies such as wikis, blogs, WikiEducator, SecondLife environment, and participants will Google Apps and Twitter, this presentation and Leadership and e-Learning Canadian Association of Independent Schools

2009 BEST practices Conference discussion explores three critical lessons for Educators to share, collaborate and design borrowed through Apple’s Digital Learning administrators and teachers looking to exploit lesson plans that work towards meeting the program, students were able to create their own Web 2.0: 1.) The read-write web is too new, too needs of diverse students as well as support podcasts. The project allowed students who fluid—and too fun—to be institutionalized; key teacher professional development in all areas often feel marginalized in traditional classrooms decisions on how to use emerging technologies of instruction. Educators are provided the a sense of empowerment. Using technology in are best left to classroom teachers who opportunity to contribute to a system that will the classroom can establish a safe space where should be given room to experiment; 2.) In share best practices in any subject area and students can create and make decisions. In spite being labeled digital natives, students due to its organic nature, allow for constant this presentation, we will discuss the benefits of see Web 2.0 technologies as toys, not tools; updates in design and content. These design using technology to promote inclusiveness in the moreover, the collaborative nature of the web components allow schools to work towards classroom and will share concrete examples of is almost completely foreign to them 3.) The school improvement plans and instructional lesson-plan suggestions. web dismantles brick-and-mortar walls and the strategies at both high and granular levels. sense of security they gave; teaching students By maximizing the web, schools maintain low C5 Web 2.0 also requires giving parents training in IT support costs and increases user access, Making the most of your SMARTBoard return for their active support. regardless of operating systems. Target Audience: Junior, Middle and Senior This session would involve a live interactive Linda Moore, Senior School Math Teacher, session. St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School Workshop Sessions C1-C10 Lyndsey Pickering, Grade 6 Science and 3:20 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. C3 Language Arts Teacher, Please choose only one Learning Without Borders St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School Target Audience: All Allison Reynolds, Senior School Science C1 Sharon Peters, English, Science and Teacher, Learning Through Document Analysis Technology Teacher, St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School Target Audience: Middle and Senior The Study Clare Staszkiel, Grade 5 Math and Science Bob Loiselle, Department of Social Studies, Learning Without Borders: Six teachers from Teacher, Albert College CAIS schools across Canada joined Teachers St. Mildred’s-Lightbourn School Participants will learn how to support student Without Borders teams and travelled to Africa. This workshop will introduce attendees to learning through the skill of historic document Discover more about this organization and how general features of the Smartboard and analysis. Strategies to help students analyze these teachers have created meaningful learning some practical applications for teachers of both written and visual historic documents will exchanges, connections and projects based on mathematics and science, including website be reviewed. These methods are applicable to their experiences using the technology tools linking, scientific demonstrations and the use both Middle School and Senior School learners. to communicate and collaborate with those of the Smartboard Recorder to tape lessons. The use of SMART Board technology will be in developing nations. Students from Canada Examples will be drawn from both junior and employed to support the analysis process. The have been collaborating with students in Kenya, senior school grades. This session is aimed format for writing a Document Based Essay South Africa, Nepal and the United States at teachers with little Smartboard experience, (DBQ) questions will also be reviewed. in order to learn from each other and share or those who would just like to see what their important information to a worldwide audience peers are up to! C2 through video documentaries, podcasts and One Stop Shopping - A Digital Curriculum online spaces. C6 Management System for your Instructional Digital Passport Needs C4 Target Audience: All Target Audience: All Podcasting to Promote Inclusiveness George Briggs, Executive Director, Joanne Jackson, National Curriculum Target Audience: Middle and Senior Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario Specialist, Kate Faber, Middle and Senior School Learning This session will revisit the rationale for IBM Canada K12 Education Strategies Teacher, implementing technology in the curriculum IBM K12 Education will demonstrate a Branksome Hall as this is critical to preparing learners for the holistic approach to curriculum management, Jillian Strimas, English Teacher, 21st Century. The session will also provide assessment and instruction - helping educators Branksome Hall classroom teachers with practical, ready-to- analyze student performance, and identify the Every year, Branksome Hall hosts the “Leap use methodology for any and all grades and resources that effectively guide individualized into Literacy” summer camp for elementary subjects, as well as directing teachers to sites data-driven instruction. This web-based students many of whom are new to Canada. where they can connect their students to Curriculum Management System allows Last summer, using a class set of MacBooks students in other parts of the world in learning Leadership and e-Learning Canadian Association of Independent Schools

2009 BEST practices Conference activities. George Briggs is the former Principal • Inspiring our children and sharing their work. summative assessment. Beyond this, the of Trafalgar Castle School. While at Trafalgar, We will share our experiences and our work in teachers from Rundle Academy will highlight George led the implementation of the school’s progress, from the first stretch to the Namaste. concrete examples of how they have balanced laptop programme, Grades 6 through 12, differentiated assessment and standardized ensuring implementation of technology in the C9 exam discrepancy. curriculum in an appropriate manner. The The e-Experience: exciting, engaging and initiative continues unabated today. effective. Target Audience: Senior and Administrators C7 Kate Neligan, Learning Strategist, Real Success with Virtual Science Fairs Target Audience: Middle and Senior Julie Smith, Secondary Science Teacher, Scott Morrison, Teacher/Consultant, Bayview Glen School Selwyn House School E-Learning is inspired through E-Leadership, Open Forum Event The Virtual Science Fair is a competition which can be demonstrated on so many PANEL DISCUSSION for students to present a science topic or levels both within the school community and experiment using web and media technologies. beyond. E-Leadership does not necessarily For several years, Selwyn House students have have to be virtual: it may be a physical presence “Are We Moving Too Slowly consistently experienced a great deal of success in a school, or it may be inspired through in Using Technology in Our in the competition and with their learning. various forms of media and technology itself. This workshop presents the tools, processes Regardless of its foundations, E-Leadership Schools?” and structures used to facilitate student is most evident in celebrating Best Practices. Despite substantial investment in the broad success. It covers research and organization After our first term as a tablet school, our use of technology in our schools, even that methods, collaborative strategies, and multiple staff has put together a collection of our most commitment seems to have fallen short of presentation technologies, including video and effective lessons using technology in the technology’s promise of a decade ago. web design. Additionally I will share lessons classroom. From SmartBoards to laptops to learned through four years of refinement of the tablets, these lessons demonstrate internal With the many impediments we know exist in project. leadership in forging creative and inspiring terms of financing, staffing and sustainability, Attendees will receive a listing of resources lessons that exhibit best practices and how do we take the exponential next step in should they wish to adopt similar projects. pedagogy. This session will walk through some the use of technology that may be required for of these lessons, tips, and tricks on our most teaching and learning in the 21st Century. C8 successful practices and lessons, and we hope Demystifying the “One Legged King Pigeon to inspire both the creation and implementation Pose” of Literacy in the Kindergarten of forward thinking approaches to the classroom Thursday, April 30, 2009 Classroom. Raising the Bar Whilst Having e-experience. Lower Canada College Fun. 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. followed by a wine and cheese reception Target Audience: Primary/Junior C10 Christine Stuart, Kindergarten Teacher, Differentiated Assessment Tickets: $20.00 Target Audience: All Register at: www.cais.ca Pauline Ursic, Kindergarten Teacher, Jason Rogers, Assistant Principal, Collingwood School Rundle College Academy This presentation will use yoga as an analogy Jamie Burla, Science Teacher & Head of Junior to explain the various aspects of creating, High, maintaining and continuously improving the Rundle College Academy balance in our Kindergarten Literacy program. As teachers begin to implement and understand We will look at the content, processes and differentiated instruction, the next question outcomes involved by showing participants ways that is often asked is: How do I assess these of: differentiated products? The answer to this • Sifting through the wealth of literacy resources question comes with an in-depth understanding to find what works in everyday practice. of all forms and purposes of assessment. • Assessing and evaluating for learning: This presentation aims to give teachers and having the flexibility to overcome tumbles along administrators a working definition of pre- the way. assessment, formative assessment and Leadership and e-Learning Canadian Association of Independent Schools

2009 BEST practices Conference Conference Location

Conference Venue: A Lower Canada College Hotel du Fort 4090 Royal Avenue Montreal, QC H4A 2M5 Accommodation (if needed): Hotel du Fort 1390 du Fort Road Montreal, QC H3H 2R7 1 514 938-8333 1 800 565-6333 www.hoteldufort.com

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This year’s conference is sponsored by the Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) in cooperation with the Canadian Educational Standards Institute (CESI) and the Quebec Association of Independent Schools (QAIS).

Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) Quebec Association of Independent Schools (QAIS) www.cais.ca www.qais.qc.ca The Canadian Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) is an The 25 member schools of the Quebec Association of Independent association of independent schools from across Canada dedicated Schools are English Quebec elementary and secondary independent to excellence in leadership, education and educational research, schools licensed in the public interest and guided by the QAIS management and governance. Principles of Good Practice. Our mission is to promote collaboration, Canadian Educational Standards Institute (CESI) provide services that further educational leadership and advocate www.cesi.edu independent English language education in Quebec. Schools are The Mission of the Canadian Educational Standards Institute non-profit, fiscally sound educational institutions governed by, and is to promote educational excellence through a rigorous school responsible to an arm’s length Board of Governors. accreditation process. CESI member schools are corporations with Boards that operate at arm’s length from the administration of the school and which maintain high educational and personal standards for their students while providing preparation for higher education.

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