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SQI – Funding

By socialed_adminPosted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020Posted 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 […]

Square Apple Institute – The Curriculum

By socialed_adminPosted on February 6, 2020February 26, 2020Posted 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.

Politics vs. Unions

By socialed_adminPosted on December 16, 2019December 16, 2019Posted in UncategorizedTagged cdnpoli, education minister, government of ontario, ministry of education, OntEd, ontpoli, osstf, politics, speced, unions2 Comments

OPINION: Politics vs. Unions (A pdf version of this opinion piece can also be found here) By Larry Pattison, former HWDSB Trustee and Protector at INSE RE: Recent Labour Negotiations Between the Province and OSSTF December 16, 2019 – Although I have never personally been represented by a union, I have seen more than a […]

Update: Status of Delta Sale

By socialed_adminPosted on December 5, 2019December 5, 2019Posted 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 […]

Let’s Buy A School

By socialed_adminPosted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019Posted 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 […]

PSA: Delta, INSE Intro

By Larry PattisonPosted on November 4, 2019November 4, 2019Posted 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 […]