Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Mathematics



  • We are encouraging free math clubs in each school.
  • A larger number of students are encouraged to participate to math clubs, that would provide high difficulties math problems.
  • A magazine / newspaper with problems and articles wrote by teachers and students could be published at York district level.
  • Participation to the international mathematical competition of students is encouraged.
  • Internet math applications could be designed by students in cooperation with math teachers.
  • On line math games designed by students and supervised by math and computer departments and promoted for sale by students and board could be a source of additional income of the Math Departments.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Technical Clubs

  • At the end of the high school every student should be able to build and understand the functionality of a motor.
  • Build and understand the functionality of a radio.
  • Some should be able to build a TV.
  • An  approximates equal number of girls and boys should be encouraged to participate in technical clubs.
  • Mathematics clubs should prepare students for national and international competitions.
  • Techniques of fast calculating should be thought.
  • At least one student fro York District School board should be in the International Mathematics Competition.
  • Teachers should be encouraged to create materials for alternative math physics chemistry and science manuals. York District School Board should be able to produce this manuals available as an alternative to the existing manuals.
  • Mathematics Physics and Chemistry magazines can be produced printed at the York District level, sold / distributed to students with problems, projects articles on monthly basis.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Music Initiatives

Music is a social art that can lift the entire society.

  • Each School can have a Youth Orchestra that once a month will have a concert in the school Bakcyard.
  • Each school would have Instruments for an orchestra purchased by the school, donated by former students that do not use them any more or donated by companies.
  • After school programs - free music lessons.
  • Schools would invite the local tv stations to their Saturday concerts. 
  • Large public or parents of the students are invited to these weekly or monthly outside concerts, one grade at a time.
  • School competitions of Youth orchestras with registration of the concerts on the York District School Board Youtube Channel school Channel and local television

Monday, September 22, 2014

Book Clubs













Each school can have a book club that would encourage students to read and have the resume of the books they have read in a forum or common Blog

Each student of the school would be registered in these book clubs. The more variety in the books they read the better.

Each school can have a forum with the number of distinct books read by the students and thle school board would have a competition between schools. Students would have a short resume of each book they have read.

Different records can be kept

What is the name of the students that  read more books.
What school has more students that participate in these clubs
How many different books have been read in each school.
Who are the most talented students in writing.
What are the books that are favored by the highest number of students
A reward system with diploma and public recognition for the readers of the highest number of books.

Schools can increase the books library by requesting donations from students and community.
Students can collect books used books and build school library.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Initiatives

Schools should give hand on experience to the students.


Each school should have a garden. Biology classes should teach real life gardening skills

Art Departments should design a parks in the backyard of every school and the students should participate in the design and maintenance of these parks.

Technology departments should give hands on experience to students in installing pumps electrical wires for fountains in the backyard of schools.


Each school should have a YouTube channel with the best initiatives / projects of students.
Best Lectures of the teachers should be posted on line to be viewed by everyone. The school with best votes would win an award at the end of each year.

Permaculture principles ( food Forest principles) Should be toughs in school,  So at the end of the high school each student can have useful knowledge about plants and sow to cultivate food on small and large areas.

Financial education should be important in giving students a tool for the future.


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Science Departments could build mini Science Centers

The physics projects should build a science room with functional objects.

 The prototype of Leonardo Da Vinci inventions or Tesla inventions should be in these science room open for the public and promoted with the YouTube channel of every school in the district school board.

Computer Departments should build forums for discussions between schools, an inventors forum where students will be encouraged to promote new ideas of inventions.
At the end of the school year each student should be able to build a website, a blog a forum and will have basic understanding of codding, and databases.

English departments is encouraged to build a book club where students would read a book a week and have the books resumed in a common forum. Students that read most of books in a year will receive a reward at the end of the year. General public will benefit by finding the best books available.Students will have the desire and tools to build a personal library at the end of the high school. Weekly discussions will be posted on the school channel available for everyone.

Each school should have a newspapers with students contribution, released monthly with information from school, research papers, projects.

Monthly outdoor concerts of the music school band would be in the school backyard and public participation would be encouraged. each trimester has 4 moths so each month one grade 9, 10, 11, 12 would have school backyard concert scheduled.

School backyards should be a place where students would want to gather. School Backyard should be like a public parks with art students designing the park and biology department maintaining the perennial and annual gardens. This way the learning would last a life time.

Musical fountains will be in school backyard build and installed by students. Competition between schools with the best maintained schools and school yards will be rewarded at the end of the year and posted on the school channel.

Math Competitions will have 4 stages every trimester for students in each grade in the district school board.

A Mathematics Magazine will be published at the board level distributed to students that are encouraged to solve the math problems and submit the solutions. students will be recognized in the pages of the magazine for correct solution to the problems. Articles and math papers would be published in the magazine.

Similar Chemistry Physics magazines would be produced and published by the board with volunteer contribution of teachers and students.

Inventiaca clubs would attract students to create and focus on science technology. readings and understanding of great inventors of all ages would be promoted to these clubs. The results of the work would be published in the school YouTube channel.

A record of formers students of each school that achieved great results in science art business would be kept and they would be invited to have speeches in front of the students to promote their area of expertise and inspire the new generations. These speeches would be also registered in the YouTube channel of each school.

A voting pool would be placed on the school video YouTube channel and the best channel would be rewarded by the board at the end of each year.

Local and national Cable companies are invited to each school end of the year schools and again these shows would be posted on the national and local TV stations in addition to the school channel.

School libraries should be open for public donations of books. Also open to the public is encouraged to donate books to school libraries that would be integrated with public libraries. School libraries are going to be able to receive book donations from parents and companies or public libraries.

Again we are encouraging landscape design by the art departments of school and in collaboration with science departments to build nice landscape in the backyard of schools where music department would have outside concerts.

Mini Science Centres would be build with projects of science departments, and inventica clubs that would promote students to invent new things and to go trough the process of brevet their inventions.

Rooftop gardens would be tested an implemented,  Fruit trees would be planted on school properties.












Unconventional energy sources solar panels wind turbine should appear on each school property to teach students about energy. Inventions on unconventional energy sources would be promoted and a energy competition would take place every year at the board level with students from all schools.

Art Students should have their paintings sculptures exposed on the school property and those that want to have the art sold on line on the school website. Schools should luck like art galleries with the students and teachers authors promoted on the newspapers and on line.

Since the teenagers have a lot of imagination an architecture club with interesting buildings design should be promoted. At the end of each year best designs would be rewarded and published on line and on school newspaper.