hamont – Social Education

PSA: Delta, INSE Intro

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in PSATagged delta collegiate, delta secondary, education, hamilton, hamont, inclusion, inse, ontario, public education, speced, special education2 Comments

Please click on the image below to open up the full PSA before reading the article that follows. This attached document also highlights the guidelines for sharing this article on social media, and within your paper or your online publication. Schools to Condos: Should Delta Secondary Be ‘Saved’? by Larry Pattison(Words 1,628)November 4, 2019 UPDATE: We […]

Public Meeting: Delta’s Future

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in UncategorizedTagged community hubs, crown point, delta collegiate, delta secondary, hamilton, hamont, hwdsbNo Comments

I was notified the other day that there will be a public meeting on the future of Delta Secondary School on Wednesday December 4th at 6:00pm (next week). It will take place at A.M Cunningham Elementary School which is a block south of Delta at 100 Wexford Ave S. Here is the flyer on the […]

Update: Status of Delta Sale

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in UncategorizedTagged delta collegiate, deltasecondary, hamilton, hamilton-wentworth district school board, hamont, heritage, hwdsb, OntEd, specedNo Comments

Delta Secondary School (Collegiate) Disposition of Sale Update1284 Main St E, Hamilton, ON Date of Update: December 5th 2019 Please see the below links for documents related to the public meeting I attended last evening regarding the process to sell Delta and status of it’s sale. PSA – www.socialeducation.ca/ PSA – Public meeting regarding sale […]

While they fall in love, I’m falling out

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in UncategorizedTagged caroline mulroney, cdnpoli, doug ford, hamilton, hamont, light rail transit, lrt, OnPOLI, ontario, province of ontarioNo Comments

A dear friend whom we lost this year, was one who delegated at city hall, was a huge booster for the project in general, and he could be found commenting on almost every conversation on line discussing the pro’s, providing the real facts, in an effort to tirelessly do his part to help our city see this project through. If he wouldn’t have been taken from us so suddenly, he’d be back at it again this past week in fiery but professional rebuke of opposition. This is just one example of the time that cannot have been for not because this passion for our city I am quite sure was a factor in his early demise. He cared too much and could not rest until he knew the projects near and dear to him, were safely on their passage through the home stretch.

Square Apple Institute – The Curriculum

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 23, 2023Posted in Square Apple InstituteTagged alternative education, cdned, cdnpoli, community hubs, delta, education, hamilton, hamont, hwdsb, OnPOLI, ontario, OntEd, schools as hubs, speced3 Comments

“I’ve chaired expulsion and SAL (Supervised Alternative Learning) hearings, and have seen long rap sheets of suspensions, expulsions, missed school days, and poor grades over a lengthy period of time before their case was brought before a Trustee. What if we had a system in place that focused more on physical and mental well-being, and less on grades or discipline or inclusion at all costs? Let’s keep kids in school at their best, AND during their hardest of struggles, and give them the tools to engage in alternatives on their own accord rather than waiting for the hierarchical processes of failed inclusion to throw them an olive branch. That’s when we show them that we truly care and that they matter so much more than rankings on some institutional list, or proving the success of our political ideologies. That’s when we say to them it isn’t about the delivery, but that they want to engage in learning.” Larry Pattison, former HWDSB Trustee and Protector at INSE.

SQI – Funding

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in Square Apple InstituteTagged cdned, charter schools, delta secondary, hamont, OntEd, private schools, public education, speced, special education, sqi, worlded2 Comments

Part 1 – Square Apple Institute IntroductionPart 2 – The CurriculumPart 3 – The Funding Model Listed below, are some possible funding sources to support INSE’s Square Apple Institute of Alternative Education Concept: 1. Government Per Pupil Funding Current per-pupil funding under Ford Government $12,246 Avg Kindergarten class sizes: 29 cap, avg 26 Primary […]

Your Child Matters

By socialed_adminPosted on February 22, 2023February 23, 2023Posted in Moral CourageTagged black lives matter, cdned, chloe s. valdary, critical race theory, crt, defund the police, hamont, hwdsb, OntEd, theory of enchantmentNo Comments

From the early imaginings of INSE, I seen a different approach to building a stronger sense of community, belonging, and understanding within what I imagined being a very diverse organization – both in ethnicity, and in viewpoints.

As If It Was The Last

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in Mental Health, Sport and RecreationTagged cdnpoli, covid19, girls hockey, hamont, hgha, hockey, hockey canada, OnPOLI, ontario womens hockeyNo Comments

Originally published on The Point – https://www.thepointhamilton.com/2020/11/27/as-if-it-was-the-last/ We never know when something will be our last and a couple Sundays past, I watched on with this in mind. Nothing is forever. We never know when our favourite player might retire, the band we have followed since a young child might call it a day, when […]

Square Apple Institute

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in Square Apple InstituteTagged delta collegiate, delta secondary, education, education reform, hamilton, hamont, OntEd2 Comments

Teach. Grow. Fly. Alternative Education for those lost within existing educational structures Concept drawings for the former Scott Park Secondary School. Preface Some of these thoughts below were born out of my early engagements with the Parkview Secondary School family back in 2013. Otherwise, visions for educational and architectural rebirth have mostly lived in the […]

Let’s Buy A School

By Larry PattisonPosted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023Posted in UncategorizedTagged cdned, community hubs, creativity, education, hamilton, hamont, OntEd, parkview, speced, worlded, writing3 Comments

While still a Trustee, I started a project to help me create a business plan for a school I started to envision as I learned more and more about the former Parkview Secondary School that lived on Balsam Ave., and as I gradually came to terms with the fact that there would never be a […]