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Commission scolaire English-Montréal ~ English Montreal School Board
EMSB
www.emsb.qc.ca
volume 11 | number 1 | Fall 2008
The EMSB Turns 10
elcome to this special 10 anniversary edition
of the EMSB Express, complete with a
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new design.
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It is hard to believe that a decade has already
passed since the launch of linguistic boards. The
EMSB, of course, was established as the result of
an amalgamation between the English sectors of
four boards – the Protestant School Board of
Greater Montreal, the Montreal Catholic School
Commission, the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le
Royer and the Commission scolaire Sainte-Croix.
To mark our important milestone, throughout the
2008-2009 school year, numerous activities have
been planned. We wish to commend our 10 th
anniversary committee, co-chaired by Region 1
Director Marzia Michielli and Assistant Director
of Human Resources Connie Primiano. Their
committee has recommended that whenever possible,
a special activity occur on the tenth day of each
month beginning in September 2008. In addition
to the monthly activities, there will be three major
events involving parents, employees and students.
With your involvement and participation we
will hold a concert showcasing our students’ talent.
The projected date for this concert is scheduled
for May 2009. The second celebration will occur
on a professional day that same month. The third
major event will be an evening gala for all employees
in June 2009.
Approximately 40,000 employees, parents,
children and adult learners will celebrate these
events. For a list of tentative dates and activities,
please refer to our website.
On September 10, 2008, one of our first
activities will involve all students at the EMSB .
On that day, elementary schools will hold a parade
through the streets of their neighbourhood. High
schools will be involved in a walk-a-thon to raise
funds for a worthy cause and educational scholarships
while adult and vocational centres will also be
implicated in different activities. We hope that every
student and employee will wear a donated t-shirt on
our special activity days.
A contest among our students has generated the
official tenth anniversary logo which will be used on
all correspondence during our celebration year.
In this edition of the EMSB Express we have
not only provided a look at some of our major
highlights over the past decade. We also took a
unique approach by having reporter Stuart Nulman
go out and inter view students. One group are
10 year olds, born the same year as us. Another
are high school students who were in kindergarten
when we began.
Angela Mancini
Chairman
Antonio Lacroce
Director General
Congratulations to Hi Ying Yi Li, a student at
the EMSB’s Rosemount Technology Centre,
who designed our 10th anniversary logo
which depicts a sunflower, health and the sunrise.
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EMSB EXPRESS | vol. 11 | N o 1 | Fall 2008
EXPRESSLINE
APPOINTMENTS
Several administrative appoint ments/changes have been made
for the 2008-2009 academic year.
New principals are: Demetra
Droutsas, John Grant and Paul VI
(from
viceprincipal
of
Westmount High
School); Alice
Buchanan,
Dante
(from
St. Dorothy);
Alice Buchanan
Rosetta OrtonaPerri, St. Dorothy (from vice-principal at Pierre de Coubertin); Itrat
Ahmad, Parkdale (from Carlyle);
Jacques Monfette, outreach
schools (from Mackay and Philip
E. Layton); Richard Mason, St.
Monica (from Marymount); Luigi
Santamaria, Marymount (from
James Lyng), Serge Furlanetto,
Lester B. Pearson
(promoted from
vice-principal);
Connie Forese,
Willingdon (from
Pierre Elliott
Trudeau); Joan
Serge Furlanetto
MacMillan,
Carlyle (from vice-principal of
Michelangelo); Patricia Ciccarelli,
Mackay/Phillip E. Layton (promoted
from vice-principal); Craig Olenik,
James Lyng (promoted from viceprincipal); Michelle Stein, Pierre
Elliott Trudeau (from Holy Cross);
Eleni Zervas, Holy Cross (from
vice-principal of Gardenview).
New vice-principals are: Steven
Erdelyi, Westmount High School
(from teaching at Marymount); Gail
Callender, James Lyng (from
teaching at Dalkeith); James
Fequet, Rosemount (from teaching
at Marymount); Sonia Marotta,
Pierre de Coubertin (from teaching
at St. Dorothy); Roberto DiMarco,
St. Pius Adult and Vocational (from
teaching at Outreach/Venture);
Joe Anne Desir, Mackay/Philip
E. Layton (from teaching at
Coronation);
Ranis
Delis,
Gardenview (from teaching at
Roslyn); Steven Rebello, Lester B.
Pearson (from teaching at the
same school); and Marylène
Perron, Michelangelo (previously
a special education consultant at
the EMSB)….Roma MedwidMichailuk has been appointed
assistant director of pedagogical
services. She succeeds Irene
Konecny, who is retiring. Ms.
Medwid-Michailuk began her
career in the public education
system 34 years ago at Dante
Elementary School in St. Léonard,
where she has spent all but one
those years as a teacher, viceprincipal and principal…. Brigit
Sellato, who served as the
executive secretary for the
Communications and Marketing
Division for five years, is now
the communications consultant
responsible for the Central Parents
Committee, special events and the
liaison for governing boards….
Yibing Shen is the new EMSB
webmaster and graphic artist.
Ms. Shen came to Canada from
China and enrolled at the
EMSB’s Shadd Business Centre.
She did an internship with the
Communications and Marketing
Division three years ago and was
then hired part-time to work on the
relaunch of the EMSB website. For
two years she served as the
webmaster for the City of Côte
Saint-Luc, returning to the EMSB
last fall in a part-time webmaster.
RETIREMENTS
Retiring as principals are Terrence
Quinn (Lester B. Pearson), Ivana
Colatriano (Willingdon), Jacklin
Webb (Parkdale), Linda Saukas
(John Grant and Paul VI) and Felix
Gelbart (outreach schools). Retiring
as a vice-principal is Luciella
Cianci-Teolis (St. Pius X Adult and
Vocational). Taking a leave of
absence next year as principal is
Andre Vamvakas (St. Monica)….
Julia Sarhan retired as director
of information technology ser -
EMSB
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Services Division of the
English Montreal School Board
6000 Fielding Avenue, Montreal (Quebec) H3X 1T4
Phone:
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Editor:
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[email protected]
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Michael J. Cohen
Communications & Marketing Specialist, EMSB
Copy Editor:
Stuart Nulman
Translation:
Aline Zerounian
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vices... Janice Lacroix retired as
the EMSB’s communications
consultant for parents and
coordinator of special events. …
Tom Booth retired as the high
school mathematics consultant.
DISTINCTION
Nina McGregor, a Grade 5 student
at Gerald McShane Elementary
School in Montreal North, sub mitted the winning submission
among 700 entries to name the new
Montreal Police Department
mascot. Her choice of “Flik” was
celebrated with the unveiling of the
actual mascot at the school. Nina
received a bicycle and recognition
Gerald McShane’s Nina McGregor,
in the company of mascot Flik,
receives her award.
from the Police Commander. She
and her classmates were invited to
the National Police Academy in
Nicolet to spend the day where she
was presented with a plaque. The
children were given the opportunity
to see two police dogs in action
and talk to their trainers. Following
that they met a group of 40 young
aspiring trainees. Each child had
his or her personal escort to visit
the academy. At the end of the visit
each received a gift bag with a
stuffed bear representing the
mascot and a Montreal Police
Department cap. To board the bus
they walked through two lines of
police officers and they were
saluted … Thirty-two people
attended the annual EMSB Long
Service Reception recently at Le
Challenger Reception Hall in St.
Laurent. The EMSB honoured 10
employees for their 25 years of
service with the Board, which
began in 1983. Sylvie Bureau
(John Paul I High School), Elizabeth
Segelstein (Royal Vale School),
Carter Mack (Galileo Adult Centre),
Stavroula Platanitis and Paul Naud
(LaurenHill Academy), Marie-Josée
Normandin (Rosemount High
School), Frima Shaffer-Ruby
(James Lyng Adult Centre), Rosa
Del Balso-Fuoco (Community
Services), Roch Tremblay
(Buildings & Grounds) and Angela
Monteferrante-Orsi (Galilio Adult
Centre) … In September 1908
Roslyn Elementary School in
Westmount welcomed 264 stu dents into its halls for the first time.
One hundred years later, alumni
and friends were recently invited
to walk through those doors once
again to celebrate the school’s
Centennial. This was an occasion
for alumni, former staff and friends
to re-discover the school, meet up
with old friends and re-connect
There were lots of photo displays at the Roslyn Centennial.
with former teachers! One of
Roslyn School’s defining moments
was 40 years ago, when a group of
active, committed and visionary
parents pioneered the French
Immersion education program, the
first on the island of Montreal. In
September 1968, the entire
kindergarten year started in the
French Immersion program. They
then con tinued their studies in
French until Grade 3, at which point
English was gradually introduced.
Joan Rothman, one of the parents
involved in launching the French
Immer sion program, who later
became the district’s school
commissioner from 1970 to 2003
states: “The push for French
Immersion was a parent-led
initiative, starting in 1965. Three
years later, Roslyn was the first
school in Quebec and Canada to
teach 75 percent of their students
how to speak, read and write in
French as well as English. Parent
demand soon spread the program
to many schools in the Protestant
School Board of Greater Montreal
and later across Canada.” … The
EMSB held its seventh Volunteer
Appreciation Evening last April 30
at Le Baron Royal in St. Léonard.
The 2008 Volunteer of Distinction
was Irene Berry, a volunteer at
Westmount Park Elementary
School for the past 20 years in
various capacities. Time and space
Irene Berry is congratulated by
Chairman Angela Mancini and
Principal Christina Delaney.
did not allow the EMSB to honour
all of its nearly 1,700 volunteers in
person. Therefore, only those
individuals who have volunteered
for more than five years attended
the reception, representing some
500 people. For a full pictorial go
to www.emsb.qc.ca.
MUSICIENS
Le violoncelliste Denis Brott,
l’un des musiciens les plus re nommés du Canada, a présenté
son nouveau programme intitulé
Breakdance with Brott à l’école
primaire Coronation de Côte-desNeiges. Le pianiste et compositeur
légendaire Oliver Jones a aussi
visité l’école pour s’entretenir avec
les élèves du Cycle III.
Oliver Jones
M. Brott est professeur de
violoncelle et de musique de
chambre au Conservatoire de
musique de Montréal et il est le
fondateur et directeur artistique
du Festival de musique de chambre
de Montréal. Sa carrière l’a mené
sur quatre continents en tant que
violoncelliste, membre d’ensemble
de musique de chambre et membre
du renommé quatuor à cordes
d’Orford. Jonathan Émile, JoDee
Allen et Helen Simard collaborent
avec lui à ce projet. M. Émile est
le fondateur de la maison de
disques Mindpeacelove où se
joignent l’esprit (l’intellect), la paix
(l’équilibre), et l’amour (émotion).
Mme Allen est une danseuse
accomplie, membre du groupe de
breakdance DysFunkShn . Elle
apporte une perspective con temporaine à ce projet et engage
les élèves à appliquer les
mouvements de cette danse à
la musique classique, jouée par
Denis au violoncelle. Mme Simard
est membre du Solid State
Breakdance.
L’objectif de Breakdance with
Brott est de donner aux élèves une
connaissance plus approfondie
de la musique classique et de la
relation entre la musique classique
et contemporaine. Ce projet
renouvelle une appréciation des
classiques tout en répondant
aux besoins des élèves de la
société moderne.
Oliver Jones a grandi à Montréal
à quelques portes de feu l’ancien
grand musicien de jazz Oscar
Peterson. Un enfant prodige qui,
à l’âge de trois ans, pouvait jouer
par mémoire des chansons qu’il
avait entendu une fois à la radio,
Jones a fait ses débuts de pianiste
à l’âge de cinq ans à l’Union United
Church de Montréal. Il a ensuite
étudié le piano classique et a
connu une formidable carrière
à travers le monde.
DATEBOOK
~ 2008 ~
~ 2009 cont’d ~
October 5
February 2 to 8
World Teachers Day
Teacher Appreciation
Week (Quebec)
October 5 to 11
EMSB Commissioners
Les commissaires de la CSEM
Electoral Division ~
Circonscription ~ 19
Circonscription ~ 8
(Rosemont – Hochelaga
Maisonneuve – Centre-ville –
Le Plateau)
(Côte-des-Neiges –
Snowdon – Outremont)
(Rosemont)
ELLIE ISRAEL
ANGELA MANCINI
Vice-Chair, Finance and
Legislative Committee
Vice-présidente, des affaires
financières et législatives
Alternate / Substitut, Comité
de gestion de la taxe scolaire
de l’île de Montréal
Fire Prevention Week
February 9 to 13
www.afleq.ca
Teacher Appreciation
Week (Canada)
Chair
Présidente
Member, Executive Committee
Membre, Comité exécutif
March
Electoral Division~
October 8 to 12
Quebec Literacy Week
EMSB Nutrition Month
October 13
Thanksgiving
(Montréal Nord)
Career Fair For High
School Students
March 20
Hosted by EMSB Student
Services Department
and Adult Education
and Vocational Services
St. Pius X Adult Centre
9955 Papineau, Ahuntsic
Secondary IV students
Centre Pierre Charbonneau
November 3 to 7
National Media
Education Week
November 11
Remembrance Day
November 20 and 21
Quebec Provincial
Teachers Association
(QPAT) Convention
Palais des Congrès, Montreal
December 10
Human Rights Day
December 22, 2008
to January 5, 2009
Christmas Break
~ 2009 ~
January 26 to 30
EMSB Library Week
January 27
Family Literacy Day
(www.fld-jaf.ca)
February 2 to 6
Kindergarten
Registration Week
(Mont-Royal – Saint-Laurent)
LIZ LEAMAN
Vice-Chair
Vice-présidente
Circonscription ~ 1
(Saint-Laurent)
March Break
October 21 and 22
Circonscription ~ 9
SYLVIA LO BIANCO
March 2 to 6
Prelude to Career Fair
April 22
EMSB Volunteer
Appreciation Evening
Le Crystal in St. Laurent
MEETINGS
The EMSB council of commissioners meet in public once a
month. These sessions begin
at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the
Laurence Patterson Conference
Room of the administration
building at 6000 Fielding Avenue.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please note that occasionally
during the year special meetings are called. Parents are
urged to bookmark the EMSB
website (www.emsb.qc.ca) to
access Board meeting agendas
and to be advised about special
meetings. To register for question period please call 514-4837200, ext. 7264. The meetings
scheduled for this academic
year are as follows:
September 24, 2008
October 29, 2008
November 26, 2008
December 17, 2008
January 28, 2009
February 25, 2009
March 24, 2009
April 29, 2009
May 27, 2009
June 17, 2009
(Côte-Saint-Luc)
SYD WISE
Vice-Chair, Executive Committee
Vice-président, Comité exécutif
Circonscription ~ 2
BERNIE PRAW
Chair, Education and Facilities
Committee; Président, Comité
des affaires pédagogiques et
des services éducatifs
(Saint-Laurent – Cartierville)
AGOSTINO CANNAVINO
(Saint-Léonard)
FRANK DI CESARE
Chair, Adult Education and Vocational
Services Advisory Committee
Président, Comité consultatif
de l’éducation des adultes et
de la formation professionnelle
(Anjou – Pointe-aux-Trembles –
Montréal Est)
TED DONNINI
Representative, Quebec English
School Boards Association
Représentant, Association
des commissions scolaires
anglophones du Québec
(Montréal Ouest)
JAMES KROMIDA
JOSEPH LALLA
Chair, Finance and Legislative
Committee; Président, Comité des
affaires financières et législatives
Circonscription 22
ROSA CERRELLI
Circonscription ~ 3
(N.D.G.)
ALBERT PEREZ
Circonscription ~ 4
(Hampstead – Côte-Saint-Luc)
MARVIN HELFENBAUM
Member / Membre, Comité de
gestion de la taxe scolaire de l'île
de Montréal
Circonscription ~ 5
JOSEPH PETRAGLIA
(Park Extension – Le Plateau)
JULIEN FELDMAN
ROCCO BARBIERI
ANNE WILLIAMS
(Saint Henri – Pointe Saint
Charles – Westmount –
Centre-ville)
RICHARD LALONDE
Circonscription ~ 7
(Westmount)
GINETTE SAUVÉ-FRANKEL
Representative, Quebec English
Représentante, Association
des commissions scolaires
anglophones du Québec
Chair, Executive Committee
Présidente, Comité exécutif
(Rivière-des-Prairies)
PATRICIA LATTANZIO
Vice-Chair, Adult Education
and Vocational Services
Advisory Committee
Vice-présidente, Comité consulatif
de L'éducation des adultes et de
la formation professionnelle
(Saint-Michel)
(N.D.G. – Saint Henri –
Ville Émard)
Circonscription ~ 6
(Rivière-des-Prairies)
(Ahuntsic)
(Saint-Léonard)
DOMINIC SPIRIDIGLIOZZI
Immediate Past Chair
Président sortant
(Saint-Léonard)
FRANK VERRILLO
Vice-Chair, Education and Facilities
Committee; Vice-président, Comité
des affaires pédagogiques et
services éducatifs; Representative,
Quebec English School Boards
Association; Représentant,
Association des commissions
scolaire anglophone de Montréal
Parent Commissioners
Représentants
de parents
ANNE WADE
VIKY KELLER
For a complete list
of which committees
EMSB commissioners
sit on, please log to the
governance section at
www.emsb.qc.ca.
PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:
The EMSB
CAREER FAIR
2008
October 21 & 22
ST. PIUS X, 9955 Papineau
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EMSB 1 0 Y E A R
COMPILED BY
STUART NULMAN
1998 -1999
• On July 1, the English
sectors of the former Protestant
School Board of Greater
Montreal, the Montreal Catholic
School Commission, the Com mission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer
and the Commission scolaire
Sainte-Croix merge together to
create the English Montreal
School Board. At the time, the
newly-formed board has more than
30,000 students attending 67
elementary and high schools, seven
outreach schools, 10 social affairs
schools and 11 adult and
vocational centres. There are 19
elected commissioners and the
head office is housed in the former
PSBGM headquarters, located at
6000 Fielding Avenue. George
Vathilakis is elected the first
chairman.
• The Second Start pilot
project, geared towards severely
socially maladjusted students aged
10 to12, is approved by the board
to begin at St. Raphael School.
The project aims to provide a
meaningful learning experience, in
order to promote the eventual
inclusion of these students into a
regular school setting.
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• Le projet-pilote Deuxième
Début, visant les mésadaptés
sociaux graves âgés de 10 à 12
ans, est approuvé par la
Commission et lancé à l’école
St. Raphaël. Le projet vise à offrir
une expérience significative
d’apprentissage dans le but de
promouvoir l’inclusion éventuelle
de ces élèves dans une école
ordinaire.
1999-2000
• The EMSB website is
introduced.
• The “EMSB Express,” the
board’s tabloid newspaper, is
introduced. Published twice a year,
the Express is distributed to every
school, as well as every EMSB
representative and the local media.
• EMSB commissioners reject
the Proulx Report scenarios, which
recommends the gradual end to
religious instruction in public
schools, and recommends that the
EMSB support the continuation
of the existing right for parents to
choose between religious and moral
education as guaranteed in the
Education Act.
George Vathilakis,
the EMSB’s first chairman.
• The EMSB introduces the
draft of a Safe Schools Policy to
establish and maintain a safe
environment within each school
community.
• A policy is passed by EMSB
commissioners to recognize
employees who have attained 25
years of service to the board as of
June 30 of each year. It is also
announced that an annual dinner
will be held ever y October to
honour employees with more than
10 years of service as of June 30
of the academic year who have
retired from the board.
• “The Fielding Focus” is
introduced as the new EMSB
monthly newsletter.
• Plans are unveiled to relocate
MIND High School from its
University Street location to the
Bancroft School facility on St.
Urbain Street.
• The first Long Ser vice
Reception is held at the Buffet
Roma in St. Leonard. About 155
employees from the four merged
school boards that now make up
the EMSB are honoured for
their 25 years of service and are
presented with commemorative
pins and certificates.
• A Marketing Advisor y
Committee is established to take
a closer look at the board’s
corporate image.
A music class from Elizabeth
Ballantyne Elementary School in
Montreal West.
• After a consultation process,
the board adopts a plan to
harmonize French instruction. The
minimum instruction time at the
elementar y level will be at 32
percent; partial immersion or early
immersion will be at 52 percent in
Grades 1 and 2; and 44 percent
in Grades 3-6.
• The EMSB holds its first
annual Retirees Dinner at the
Omni Hotel in downtown
Montreal. About 120 retired
EMSB employees are honoured
at the event.
• Commissioners adopt the
EMSB’s first mission statement.
• Angelo E. Komatsoulis, the
EMSB’s first Director General,
announces his retirement. He is
succeeded by Charley E.E. Levy.
• The EMSB announces
plans for a new elementary school
in St. Leonard to be called
General Vanier.
• The EMSB starts the
process of establishing trans portation boundaries for its school
network. The board adopts a
resolution that the EMSB be
subdivided into geographical
zones.
• An advertising campaign
promoting the EMSB’s vocational
training program, in the form of a
52-second film clip, is played on
the screens of Famous Players,
Cineplex Odeon and Guzzo movie
theatres across the city. The
campaign’s slogan is “Choose your
program – choose your life.”
• The EMSB adopts a home
schooling policy and a new policy
that spells out the mandate of its
traumatic events support team.
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• À la suite d’un processus de
consultation, la Commission adopte
un plan d’harmonisation de
l’enseignement du français. Le
temps minimum d’enseignement au
primaire sera de 32 pour cent; de
52 pour cent à l’immersion partielle
ou l’immersion précoce en 1re et 2e
année ; de 44 pour cent de la 3e à
la 6e année et de 28-78 pour cent
de la 9e à la 11e année.
family pictures that are chosen, reshot and digitally restored by the
students, as well as family histories
that are written by the students, too.
• The EMSB publishes the
first edition of its Outreach high
school system booklet.
• Our Lady of Pompei Ele mentar y School in Ahunstic
becomes a Canadian Olympic
School.
• A summer language camp is
launched by EMSB speech and
language therapists at Pierre de
Coubertin Elementary School in
St. Léonard. The intent was to
provide intensive language
stimulation to a small group of
EMSB language disabled children
living in the East End of Montreal.
• Coronation School is the site
of an 11-hour live radio broadcast,
Students and staff from the EMSB’s first language camp.
2000-2001
• The Quebec Court of Appeal
renders a decision supporting
Education Minister Francois
Legault and Bill 111, which forces
the EMSB to transfer the Emily
Carr School building to the
Commission scolaire de Montreal
(CSDM); students are transferred
to Francesca Cabrini School.
• The EMSB approves a plan
of action for the Ministr y of
Education’s special nutrition
measures that will be used to
provide snacks, breakfasts or
lunches to needy students who
attend inner-city schools.
• The first Career Fair takes
place at St. Pius X Compre hensive High School. Originally
called “Career Day” over 2,000
Sec. V and senior Outreach
students attend and visit booths
manned by various vocational
centres, CEGEPs, universities,
youth employment services and
the Canadian Armed Forces.
• Elementary and high school
principals are asked to prepare
plans of action for educational
success, which is required by the
Ministry of Education. This plan
is to assist schools to do everything
in their power so that 100 percent
of EMSB students leave school
with the proper qualifications that
will aid them with their individual
choices and career potential.
• The Youth Horizons-Contact
Program, which is operated by the
EMSB along with the Batshaw
Youth & Family Services, changes
its name to Youth Horizons-Focus.
• Laurier Macdonald High
School publishes its second book
called Rainbow of Dreams –
Memories in Black & White. The
165-page book consists of old
Our Lady of Pompei Elementary School becomes an Olympic School.
• The EMSB establishes an
Advisory Committee on Special
Education ser vices to focus on
organizing educational services for
students with special needs.
• Mar ymount Academy
receives full authorization status as
an International Baccalaureate
Organization (IBO).
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• La première Foire de carrières
de la CSEM a lieu à l’école
secondaire polyvalente St. Pius X.
Désignée à l’origine comme
« Journée de carrières », plus de 2
000 élèves du secondaire et des
écoles innovatrices ont visité les
kiosques des divers centres de
formation professionnelle, des
CÉGEPs, d’universités, des
services d’emploi à la jeunesse et
des Forces armées canadiennes.
• La CSEM établit un comité
consultatif chargé d’examiner
l’organisation des services éducatifs
dispensés aux élèves ayant des
besoins particuliers.
• L’Académie Marymount
reçoit l’autorisation de dispenser le
programme international de
baccalauréat (PIB).
2001-2002
• The EMSB formally
approves the renaming of
Francesca Cabrini School in
Rosemount in memory of former
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre
Elliott Trudeau, who died in
September of 2000. The name
change takes effect on July 1,
2001.
which airs on Radio Centre-Ville.
Coronation is the only English
language school to participate in
this project, which is initiated by
the Ministry of Education. The
broadcast features inter views,
musical performances and pro gramming in English, French and
Tamil.
• Q92 radio morning show
hosts Aaron & Tasso launch a
fundraising campaign to replace
over $26,000 worth of computer
equipment that was stolen from the
Mackay Centre. By the time the
campaign ends, a total of $26,778
is collected.
• EMSB Chairman George
Vathilakis steps
down to run for
a city council
seat in the
Montreal megacity election. He
is succeeded by
Dr. John Simms.
Dr. John A. Simms
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The
EMSB adopts new and distinct
boundaries for its elementar y
school network.
• Commissioner Joseph
Petraglia represents the EMSB at
a Canadian solidarity mission in
his native New York City in the
wake of the September 11 terrorist
attacks. He visits Ground Zero
and presents Mayor Rudy
Giuliani with condolence cards
that were made by students at St.
Pius X, Honore-Mercier and Our
Lady of Pompei schools.
• The EMSB establishes a
new Spiritual Care and Guidance
and Community Involvement
Service at the secondary level, with
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eight full-time spiritual community
animators covering 17 schools.
The ser vice was created to
conform with the Ministr y of
Education’s guidelines for Bill
118, which responds to the
diversity of moral and religious
educational expectations. The
ser vice is implemented at the
elementar y level in September
2002.
• A Sports-Études program is
officially launched at Lester B.
Pearson High School in Montreal
North.
directives du ministère de l’Éducation relatives à la Loi 118 qui
répond à la diversité des attentes
d’enseignement moral et religieux.
Le Service est mis en œuvre au
primaire en septembre 2002.
2002-2003
• The EMSB and the McGill
Faculty of Education announce
a new agreement to explore
university collaboration. Teachers
at Bancroft and
MIND schools
would share fields
of expertise with
McGill faculty
and students,
which
would
benefit from a
greater on-going
access to the latest
developments in
research and
Lester B. Pearson High School students mark
education tech the debut of the Sports Études Program.
nologies under
• The EMSB Administration the auspices of the Faculty
Building is used as a location for of Education.
the shooting of the motion picture
• The EMSB approves the
“Confessions of A Dangerous new electoral map in time for the
Mind.” Actor George Clooney 2003 school board elections. The
(who also directs the picture) visits number of electoral divisions
the building on several occasions increases from 19 to 23.
to make arrangements for the
• The EMSB and the School
upcoming shoot.
Services Department of Jewish
• A ceremony takes place at Family Services launches a pilot
the Administration Building to project called Building Educational
name the foyer in honour of Assets Together (B.E.A.T.). The
Francesca Cabrini and the atrium project’s aim is to lessen the risk
in honour of artist Emily Carr. factors that can lead to such
Two schools were previously behaviour problems as drug abuse,
named after them, but were violence, sexual promiscuity, selfmerged in 2000 and later named destructive behaviour and gamPierre Elliott Trudeau School.
bling. The B.E.A.T. project is
• Nesbitt School in Rosemount implemented at six EMSB schools
celebrates its 90th anniversary.
– three elementary and three high
• The EMSB holds its first schools.
• “Once Upon A Journey,” a
Volunteer Appreciation Evening
at St. Pius X High School. Over documentary based on the book
500 people who have volunteered of the same name that is written
for five years or more attend the and produced by the Grade 10
event, which is emceed by Global students of Laurier Macdonald
Quebec’s Jamie Orchard and High School’s Media Literacy
Department, airs on CBC
Jonathan Freed.
• The Robert A. Peck Medal Newsworld. The documentary
is established to honour excellence deals with the immigrant heritage
in French. Mr. Peck was a former of the students’ parents and
French teacher, head of the French grandparents. The companion
Department and a vice principal. book was launched in December
The honour also comes with a of 2002.
• EMSB Director General
$150 cash prize, which is given to
the EMSB Secondary V student Charley E.E. Levy announces his
who obtains the highest mark in retirement after a 36-year career
in public education. He is
French 139-594.
succeeded by Antonio Lacroce.
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• At the second annual
• La CSEM approuve
officiellement le nouveau nom de Volunteer Appreciation Evening,
l’école Francesca Cabrini de held at the Congregation Notre
Rosemont qui portera le nom de Dame Mother House, 90-year-old
l’ancien Premier ministre du Eugene Lehman, a math tutor at
Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, three EMSB elementary schools,
qui est décédé en septembre 2000. becomes the first individual to be
Le changement de nom prend effet honoured as “ Volunteer of
Distinction.”
le 1er juillet 2001.
• Construction begins on two
• La CSEM établit un nouveau
Service d’animation spirituelle et new classrooms and two new labs
d’engagement communautaire au at John Paul I High School in St.
niveau secondaire et affecte huit Leonard. The construction work
animateurs/animatrices à temps is in response to two months of
plein qui couvrent 17 écoles. Le board consultations over the
Service a été créé conformément aux increasing enrolment at two
EMSB schools in St. Leonard
over the last five years, in which
enrolment rose from 497 to 620
students. The new expanded
facility will allow the school its
wide range of academic programs
to the entire student body.
Previously, 96 John Paul I students
were housed at Laurier
Macdonald High School.
• Five students from the
EMSB capture medals at the
Montreal Regional Skills
Competition Gala. The EMSB
hosted the prestigious event at
the St. Pius X Culinary Institute
in Ahuntsic. A student from host
St. Pius X captured bronze in
professional cooking.
• The EMSB expands the
Outreach School Network to the
East End, with secondary Cycle I
and Cycle II programs in St.
Michel called Perspectives.
The EMSB Career Fair is expanded.
• Career Fair is
expanded by one day in
order to allow Secondary
IV students a chance to
map out their respective
futures two years before
they graduate.
• The EMSB website
is relaunched, this time
with a completely new
French language section.
St. Pius X Culinary Institute chefs at
• Mar ymount Aca the Montreal Regional Skills Competition.
demy is chosen as a pilot
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school for the implementation of
• La CSEM et les Services Quebec’s curriculum reforms at
scolaires des Services à la famille the high school level.
juive lancent un projet-pilote intitulé
• The EMSB formally adopts
Building Educational Assets a communications with the media
Together (B.E.A.T.) L’objectif du policy. It provides the framework
projet est de diminuer les facteurs for staffers who deal with all types
de risques qui peuvent mener à of news and information media.
des problèmes de comportement,
• School
dont la toxicomanie, la violence,
board elections
la promiscuité sexuelle, la
take place, in
comportement auto-destructeur et
which 10 of the
les jeux de hasard. Le projet
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B.E.A.T. est mis en œuvre dans
electoral seats
six écoles de la CSEM - trois écoles
are contested
primaires et trois écoles secondaires.
(13 of the
Dominic
• La construction de deux
commissioners
Spiridigliozzi
nouvelles salles de classe et de deux
win their dis nouveaux laboratoires commence à tricts by acclamation). Dominic
l’école secondaire John Paul I de Spiridigliozzi, commissioner for
Saint-Léonard. Ce projet est le fruit Ward 16 (St. Leonard), is elected
de deux mois de consultation à to a four-year term as chairman.
l’école de la Commission, relatives
• The EMSB’s first flag is
à la croissance des inscriptions dans unveiled. It becomes a permanent
deux écoles de Saint-Léonard au fixture at the administration
cours des cinq dernières années, de building lobby and put on display
497 à 620 élèves. Les nouveaux at different board events.
locaux permettront à l’école de
• In a Ministry of Education
dispenser sa vaste gamme de study of graduation rates from
programmes académiques à tout 1998-2003, the EMSB recorded
l’effectif scolaire. Antérieurement, the highest results amongst public
96 élèves de John Paul I étaient school boards in the province with
placés à l’école secondaire Laurier a 72.2 percent success rate (the
Macdonald.
provincial average is 57 percent).
• Chairman Dominic
Spiridigliozzi, along with
representatives from five EMSB
schools – Gardenview, Holy
Cross, Cedarcrest, Parkdale and
• The EMSB launches the LaurenHill – visit the St. Laurent
academic year on a large scale on Campus of United Talmud Torahs
August 27. Over 4,000 EMSB (UTT) on April 15 in the wake
employees attend a rally at the of the firebombing of its library.
Pierre Charbonneau Centre on the They bring two boxes of new
theme of “Together We Are Better.” books to the school and offer the
It is the first time since the EMSB use of the five schools’ libraries
was established in 1998 that all while their own was being rebuilt.
board administrators, professionals, The EMSB as a whole condemn
teachers, administrative and the act of arson and anti-Semitic
technical support staff, caretakers vandalism, especially since it took
and cafeteria staff were invited to place just before the Jewish holiday
of Passover.
gather under the same roof.
2003-2004
fundraising fashion show, entitled
“EMSB in Vogue: Fashion for
Compassion” at Buffet Le Crystal
in St. Laurent. Forty EMSB
administrators and professionals
from its schools and the administration building become fashion
models for an evening, sporting the
latest styles in sportswear, leisure
wear and formal wear. Over 550
people attend the show, which
raised over $10,000 for the
Shriners Hospital.
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• La CSEM étend son réseau
d’écoles innovatrices à l’est de la
ville en introduisant des pro grammes du Cycle I et du Cycle II
dans Saint-Michel.
• Les élections scolaires dans
10 des 23 circonscriptions ont
lieu (13 commissaires sont élus
par acclamation). Dominic
Spiridigliozzi commissaire de la
circonscription 16 (Saint-Léonard)
est élu président pour un mandat
de quatre ans.
• Le premier drapeau de la
CSEM est dévoilé. Il est déployé
en permanence au foyer du centre
administratif et lors de divers
évènements.
2004-2005
• James Lyng High School is
the subject of a feature report
on CBC’s national TV news program, regarding its extraordinary
success in curtailing the school’s
dropout rate and improving
academic success as a result of
a $1.2 million grant it received
from the Ministry of Education.
• Rosemount Technology
Centre formally opens its second
campus in Montreal North, as a
response to the increased demand
for the centre’s day courses (which
includes cabinet making and
computer graphics), and address
a growing waiting list.
• The EMSB holds its very
first Scholarship Fund Golf
Tournament at the Lachute Golf
Club. Over $20,000 is raised, and
the proceeds go towards scholarships for graduating EMSB
students who are pursuing postsecondary education.
• Dina Koutsofakis, a grade
11 student at FACE, makes the
list of the top 155 finalists at that
year’s edition of “Canadian Idol.”
She was inspired to audition for
the hit TV show after a visit to
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Students raise awareness about the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia.
FACE by Canadian Idol runnerup Gary Beals in January.
• The EMSB begins its
commitment to brain tumour
research. Staff, parents and
students from Dalkeith School
initiate Brain Tumour Awareness
Day and raise over $2,800 for the
Franco Di Giovanni Foundation
of the Montreal Neurological
Institute. John F. Kennedy High
School and Business Centre,
Coronation, Dante and Laurier
Macdonald raise an additional
$3,000.
• Galileo Adult Centre is
officially dedicated at an inau guration ceremony in Montreal
North. It shares the facility with
the recently opened second campus
of Rosemount Technology Centre.
Originally called the General
Vanier Adult Centre, the name is
changed in honour of the 17 th
century Italian astronomer.
• Two students from
Coronation School are part of the
Canadian team that wins first prize
in one of the three competitions at
the Junior World Robocup robotics
tournament in Lisbon, Portugal.
• The Unicorn Children’s
Foundation gives the EMSB
a $1,500 grant to fund the
development of the board’s first
child development room project,
located at Westmount Park School.
The room helps ensure that any
child with a communication or
learning disorder will be given
the greatest opportunity to reach
their fullest potential. The project
later expands to Nesbitt and
Dalkeith schools.
• Holy Cross School launches
an education program that links
pedagogy and sports training.
Twenty-seven Cycle II students
register for the program, which
gives a quality education and
develop skills in ice hockey. It is
offered to elite students in sports
who are recognized for possessing
a certain skill level as prescribed
by the West Island Hockey
Academy and the Lac St. Louis
Lions. Former NHL defenceman
Shawn Anderson is the head
coach.
• The EMSB and McGill
University sign an agreement for
a 24-month program that will close
the gap between theor y and
practice for education students,
and will increase academic
cooperation and flow of knowledge
between the board and McGill.
This will help bring more student
teachers to the classroom and more
pupils to the university.
• EMSB schools and adult
centres step into action shortly after
the December 26 tsunami disaster
in South Asia in the form of
memorial services and fundraisers.
In all, schools raise over $50,000
to aid victims.
• In light of the tsumani
disaster, the EMSB launches a
cultural exchange between the
Grade 5 and 6 students of
Coronation School and the nearby
Jewish Peoples and Peretz School
(JPPS). Keshan Muthurajah, a
Grade 5 student, read aloud his
essay about his trip to Sri Lanka
following the December 26
tsunami. JPPS students presented
a $150 cheque to Coronation’s
Tsunami Fundraising Campaign
for UNICEF and World Vision.
• CBC National News anchor
Peter Mansbridge visits James
Lyng High School to speak to its
students. The school was featured
in a story on “The National” the
previous year because of the
successful turnaround of its
academic standing and the
lowering of its drop out rate.
• The EMSB adopts a fiveyear strategic plan for the provincewide delivery of English language
vocational training, and deals with
the major issues affecting vocational
education ser vice deliver y in
English.
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• Le Centre de technologie de
Rosemont inaugure officiellement
son second campus à MontréalNord pour faire face à la demande
croissante de cours de jour (qui
incluent l’ébénisterie et les gra phiques informatisés) et une liste
d’attente en croissance constante.
• La CSEM organise son
premier tournoi de golf des Bourses
d’études au Club de golf Lachute.
Plus de 20 000 $ sont recueillis et
ce montant est versé au fonds des
bourses d’études pour les élèves
diplômés de la CSEM qui poursuivent des études post-secondaires.
• La CSEM adopte un plan
stratégique quinquennal pour la
dispense de formation professionnelle en anglais dans tout le Québec
et aborde les problèmes majeurs qui
affectent la dispense de formation
professionnelle en anglais.
2005-2006
• EMSB representatives
attend the opening of the newly
rebuilt United Talmud Torah’s
(UTT) library at its St. Laurent
campus. The librar y was fire -
bombed on April 5. The board
helped out almost immediately
after the incident, when it donated
scores of books to UTT.
• Marymount Academy and
John F. Kennedy High School
open their doors to foreign students
from Korea, thanks to a program
initiated by the organization Study
English in Quebec. Grade 8 and
9 students are housed by local host
families and study at the two
schools for the duration of the
academic year.
• Principal Diane Wood-Nolan
of Coronation School is named
as one of Canada’s Outstanding
Principals by the Learning
Partnership. She is the only
recipient from Quebec for this
award.
• FACE High School
celebrates its 30th anniversar y
with a special concert featuring
performances by current and past
students from FACE’s music
program.
• The Mar ymount Adult
Centre is re-located to the Wagar
High School facility.
• The EMSB adopts a special
education policy. Its objective is to
provide and organize educational
services to students with special
needs, with the hope of integrating
them into regular classroom
settings.
• Jamie Deshaies of Westmount
High School finishes in first place
at the Regional Canwest Spelling
Bee competition. He and Marco
Monteferrante of John Paul I
High School go on to represent
Montreal at the National Spelling
Bee in Ottawa, and Deshaies
goes on to compete at the 78 th
Scripps National Spelling Bee in
Washington D.C. a month later.
• The first annual Brain Waves
Gala takes place at the Leonardo
Da Vinci Centre in St. Leonard.
Organized by four EMSB high
schools – Laurier Macdonald,
John Paul I, Royal West Academy
and Royal Vale – the gala raises
$25,000 for brain tumour research
at the Montreal Neurological
Institute, as well as help enhance
the lives of those stricken by
the disease.
• Education Minister Jean-Marc
Fournier announces three major
funding initiatives for the EMSB:
$2 million to construct a new gym
at Royal West Academy; $925,000
towards the expansion of Dunrae
Gardens School; and $3.5 million
to allow the EMSB to purchase
the East Hill School building from
BMO Bank of Montreal and to
add new classrooms.
• The board votes in favour of
relocating Paul VI High School
from the Lester B. Pearson High
School facility in Montreal North
to the St. Pius X facility in
Ahuntsic.
• Westmount High School
becomes the first public high
school in Quebec to offer advanced
placement exams to its students.
The Advance Placement Program
offers students an opportunity to
earn credit or advanced placement
in colleges and universities in over
29 countries.
• The EMSB signs an agreement with the Consul General of
Italy and the Italian-Canadian
Patronage for the Assistance to
Immigrants to allow the integration
of teaching Italian in the ins tructional schedule of students at
East Hill School for 90 minutes
a week. Such a program is
successfully introduced at Pierre
de Coubertin, Dante and General
Vanier schools.
• Students and personnel from
EMSB schools, centres and the
administration building do their
part in aid of the victims of
Hurricane Katrina, which struck
the Gulf Coast of the southern
United States at the end of
August.
• More than 100 volunteers –
comprised of parents and students
of Hampstead School, and
employees of Decarie Saturn and
Home Depot St. Henri branch –
spend the day refurbishing
Hampstead School’s playground
as well as plant 300 plants and
bushes, four trees, dramatically
landscape the surrounding terrain,
pave a relaxation area and install
wooden benches, planters and
trash bins. The Saturn Kidspace
Program provided the funding for
the repairs and improvements,
while the Home Depot’s Kaboom
Program for Playground Refurbishment provided funding as well
as the necessary equipment.
Town Hall Meeting, which was
initiated by the Quebec English
(QESBA), at St. Pius X Adult
Centre. Over 200 people attend
the meeting, which gave the
EMSB and QESBA the
opportunity to learn more about
the concerns of its stakeholders,
take suggestions and hear success
stories about English public
education in Quebec. Topics
included complementary services,
• Twenty-two cash scholarships
of $500 each are distributed to
graduating students of the class of
2005. The money was raised at
the inaugural EMSB Scholarship
Fund Golf Tournament, which
took place in June of 2004. The
scholarships are available in
two categories: high academic
achievement and involvement in
school life activities, and perseverance in the face of overwhelming
odds and personal difficulties.
• The Montreal Impact soccer
club, the EMSB and the CSDM
announce the creation of a new
program to encourage students to
stay in school, which is called “All
the Way with the Impact.”
• Students from St. Raphael
Centre, Westmount High School
and Mar ymount Academy
participate in a program with
Share the Warmth, in which
volunteer work at that organization
would be seen as an alternative to
a school suspension.
• John F. Kennedy High
School renames its auditorium
after Antonio Colannino, a former
principal at the school who died of
a brain tumour earlier in the year.
Colannino graduated from JFK in
1968 and returned to the school
to serve as a teacher, assistant to
the principal, vice-principal and
fine arts program coordinator.
• The EMSB decides to
rename the former Wagar High
School facility in Cote St. Luc
as the Giovanni Palatucci facility.
Palatucci, a police chief and civil
servant in northern Italy during
the 30s and 40s, was credited
with saving the lives of over
5,000 Jews. He died in Dachau
concentration camp in 1944. A
series of programs are planned
with Laurier Macdonald and
Bialik high schools, which include
a visit to the Holocaust Museum,
Major General (ret’d) Louis MacKenzie meets with students at the renaming
of the former Wagar High School to the Giovanni Palatucci Facility.
the range of educational programs
and responding to an incredibly
multi-cultural and multi-racial
population. The meeting ended
with an impassioned speech about
the benefits and future of public
education by Director General
Antonio Lacroce.
• The LaurenHill Lynx
hockey team face off against the
Israeli Junior National Hockey
Team in a high profile exhibition
game at the Samuel Moskovitch
Arena in Cote St. Luc. The
Israeli team win by a score of 8-1.
• The EMSB introduces an
occupational therapy services pilot
project to 15 elementary schools
via a contractual arrangement with
Jewish Family Services.
cultural exchanges and the official
dedication ceremony in May,
in which former peacekeeper
Gen. Lewis Mackenzie attends
as a guest speaker. Rev. John
Palatucci, a Catholic priest from
New York City and one of
Giovanni Palatucci’s surviving
relatives, also attends the
dedication ceremony.
• John F. Kennedy Business
Centre introduces a new hotel
reception program into its
curriculum. It will prepare students
to operate hotel computer systems,
efficiently handle reservations,
sell hotel products and services,
and communicate effectively in
English and French.
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School opens its very own radio
station and recording studio, in
which the inaugural broadcast
is aired on 560 AM. The station,
which will broadcast programs
and announcements across the
school, can also be tuned in using
any radio receiver. It is created
by Laurier Macdonald graduate
Daniel C. Orsi.
• The EMSB and the
Montreal Impact holds its first
annual “School Board Night” at
the June 14 game against Atlanta
at the Claude Robillard Centre.
Over 3,500 tickets are sold to
EMSB students and staff. In a
pre-game ceremony, two EMSB
students, Nicolina Zampino of
Michelangelo School and Steven
Masi of Dante School, were each
presented with a $500 bursary
that was named in memor y of
Tony Licursi, a graduate of James
Lyng High School and Impact
statistician, who passed away in
December of 2005.
• Rosemount Technology
Centre Campus II is renamed
the Curtis George Campus in
memory of the long time assistant
director who died of cancer in
2005. Mr. George played an
important role in the establishment
of Rosemount Technology Centre
Campus II, which is located in
Montreal North.
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• L’école secondaire FACE
célèbre son 30e anniversaire en
organisant un concert mettant en
vedette ses anciens élèves et ses
élèves actuels du programme de
musique de FACE.
• Le ministre de l’Éducation,
Jean-Marc Fournier, annonce trois
mesures majeures de financement
pour la CSEM: 2 millions de
dollars pour la construction d’un
nouveau gymnase à l’Académie
Royal West; 925 000 $ pour
l’expansion de l’école Dunrae
Gardens et 3,5 millions de dollars
pour permettre à la CSEM
d’acheter le bâtiment de l’école
East Hill appartenant à la Banque
de Montréal et pour ajouter de
nouvelles classes.
• La CSEM signe une
entente avec le Consul général
d’Italie et le Patronage italocanadien pour l’aide aux immi grants afin de permettre l’inté gration de l’enseignement de
l’italien au programme d’études
des élèves de l’école East Hill
pour une période de 90 minutes
par semaine. Ce programme est
aussi introduit avec succès aux
écoles Pierre de Coubertin, Dante
et Général Vanier.
2006 -2007
School launches its sixth studentproduced book of true stories of
their family ’s past generations
called Ripples in Time at the
Leonardo Da Vinci Centre. The
event also features a 48-minute
companion film by Laurier
Macdonald Media Film Pro ductions, in which three stories
from the book are recounted
through interviews and drama tizations. The students – along
with faculty advisors – wrote, acted
and edited the film.
• Pedagogical Services designs
a new pre-school and secondary
Cycle I report card as a pilot
project for the 2006-2007 school
year. It is based on competencies
– in accordance with the Quebec
Education Plan – in an electronic
format that is clear and under standable for all users.
• For the second time in three
years, Coronation School wins
first place at the International
Junior Robocup Competition,
which is being held that year in
Bremen, Germany. They also win
robotics competitions that year in
Montreal and Boston.
• The EMSB expresses its
deep sadness in the wake of
the Dawson College shooting on
Sept. 13. Anastasia De Souza,
a former student at Royal Vale
and graduate of St. Pius X High
School, was tragically shot and
killed at Dawson. That year ’s
Career Fair is dedicated in her
memor y. The administration
building holds a memorial service
for De Souza and the students
that were wounded. Royal Vale
holds a dress down day on Sept.
20 and raises $1,400 for the
Montreal Children’s Hospital.
• The EMSB, along with
Foster Pavilion and CSSS St.
Leonard/St. Michel, sign a threeway entente, in which EMSB
students and other anglophone
clients in the East End will benefit
from access to substance abuse
rehabilitation services with the
founding and establishment of
Foster Pavilion East.
• The EMSB and four other
Montreal school boards hold their
very first Public School Education
Week from Jan. 15-19. Entitled
“Following in Their Footsteps,”
local celebrities are invited to return
to their former schools and talk to
the students about the benefits of
the public school system. Guest
speakers for this year include Ernie
Butler from The Comedy Nest,
rock star Jonas, Dr. Phil Gold,
Montreal comedy legend Ernie Butler visits his old school
St. Monica in N.D.G. as part of Public School Education Month.
Sadly, less than a year later he passed away from cancer.
CTV News’ Tarah Schwartz and
CBC’s Marianna Simeone.
• Westmount High School is
chosen by the CBC to be the
focus of that year ’s “Montreal
Matters” project, in which the
topic is schools and what issues
are important, what works well,
what successful programs and
people are in place and what
issues and situations are present
that need to be improved and are
being improved. It starts with a
live broadcast of the local CBC
Radio morning show “Daybreak”
from the school.
• The EMSB launches its
new promotional campaign called
“Today’s Choice, Tomorrow’s
Success,” which is aimed at
kindergarten and elementar y
school registration and enrolment
in the youth and adult sectors.
The campaign relays the message
through banners, as well as ads
on TV, radio and in newspapers.
• The Council of Commis sioners approve the structure
for the EMSB Educational
Foundation.
• Laurier Macdonald and
James Lyng high schools are
amongst the 21 English schools in
the province to be designated by
the Ministry of Education, Leisure
and Sports (MELS) to become
Community Learning Centres
(CLC), which are hubs for education and community develop ment in their respective Englishspeaking communities.
• Mar ymount Academy
Principal Paola Miniaci is the
only Quebec-based principal to
be chosen as one of Canada’s
outstanding principals for 2007
by the Learning Partnership.
• Montreal Impact owner Joey
Saputo is named honourar y
chairman of the fourth annual
EMSB Scholarship Fund Golf
Tournament.
• James Lyng High School
alumni hold their inaugural Hall
of Fame ceremonies, in which the
proceeds from the event will benefit
the enrichment of academic life
for current students at the school.
The first inductees are Gordon
McCambridge, Antoinette Sassi,
John Maloney, Cathy Belisle and
the late Tony Licursi.
• Thirty-eight students and
five staff from Lester B. Pearson
High School return safely to
Montreal after surviving a sinking
ship disaster near the Greek island
of Santorini. They are met at
Trudeau Airport by family members, local media and several
EMSB administrators and commissioners, as well as Principal
Terence Quinn.
• Marymount Academy wins
one gold, two silver and three
bronze medals at the Bell Regional
Science Fair. Student Alexander
Winkler Schwartz wins four
awards for his training analytical
perception exhibit, and wins the
right to display it at science fairs
in Sherbrooke, Truro, Nova Scotia
and Durban, South Africa.
i-movie festival for Cycle II and
III students at Cedarcrest School.
The idea for the festival came
from three Cedarcrest teachers,
who found out about i-movie
festivals from a scholarship program for classroom film and
TV production that took place
in several schools in Florida.
Students from six EMSB ele mentary schools participated in
the inaugural festival.
• Former Quebec Premier
Bernard Landr y visits Lester
B. Pearson High School and
talks to students about some of
the hot issues affecting Quebec
society, as well as sovereignty
and bilingualism.
School premieres its latest Media
Education Department venture, a
40-minute film drama called
“Class Dismissed.” The film,
which deals with the dramatic lives
of ordinary teens, was put together
by staff and students over a ninemonth period, mostly outside of
class time. Also, the school
renames its Media Education
wing after retired teacher Frank
Tiseo, who launched the Media
Education Department.
• Formula 1 race car driver
Kimi “The Ice Man” Raikkonen
of the Scuderia Ferrari Team, pays
a visit to Coronation School on
June 6, on the eve of the Canadian
Grand Prix. Sponsored by F1 tire
supplier Bridgestone Firestone
Canada, the event also included
an F1 race simulator for students
to try out and displayed an F1
Ferrari show car. Coronation’s
world champion robotics team also
performed a special demonstration
for the Finnish-born Raikkonen.
• Laurier Macdonald becomes
the first high school in Quebec to
participate in the inaugural Relay
for Life fundraiser organized by
the Canadian Cancer Society.
This 12-hour event, which has
groups of 10 people each walk
or run around the school’s race
track, raises over $25,000 for
cancer research.
• The EMSB Chorale is one
of the 32 choirs chosen to par ticipate in the prestigious Festival
500 choral festival in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, along with choirs
from Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba
and Finland in a week filled with
performing in choral concerts and
attending workshops. Chorale
director Patricia Abbott is selected
by the festival board to receive
the first Ambassador Award for
her outstanding contribution to
promoting the ideas of the event.
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• Le club de soccer Impact de
Montréal, la CSEM et la CSDM
annoncent la création d’un nouveau
programme intitulé “Jusqu’au Bout
avec l’Impact” visant à encourager
les élèves à poursuivre leurs études.
• La CSEM exprime son
profond chagrin à la suite de
la fusillade au Collège Dawson le
13 septembre qui a coûté la vie
d’Anastasia De Souza, ancienne
élève de Royal Vale et diplômée
de l’école secondaire St. Pius X.
La Foire de carrières de cette année
est dédiée à sa mémoire. Le centre
administratif a tenu un service
commémoratif pour De Souza et
les élèves qui ont été blessés. Royal
Vale organise une journée de tenue
décontractée le 20 septembre et
recueille 1 400 $ pour l’Hôpital de
Montréal pour enfants.
• Les écoles secondaires Laurier
Macdonald et James Lyng sont
parmi les 21 écoles anglophones du
Québec désignées par le ministère
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$3.5 million, and were funded by
the provincial government.
• Roslyn School celebrates its
100 th anniversar y with the un veiling of a stepping stone path, as
part of its playground improvement
program. Each stone is engraved
with the names of families who
have donated to the school’s
playground improvement fund.
A re-enactment of the laying
of Roslyn’s cornerstone also
takes place,
• The Ministry of Education,
exactly 100
Sports and Leisure announces that
years to the day
new report cards with percentages
when it actually
for marks will be introduced.
happened.
• Retired East Hill School
•
The
principal Maria Cesta is made a
EMSB holds
Cavaliere All’Ordine Della Stella
its third school
Della Solidarieta Della Republica
Italiana by the Consul General Angela Mancini board elections,
of Italy. She receives the honour in which 23 ward seats are up
in recognition of her life long for grabs, and 19 are contested.
dedication and commitment to Ward 19 commissioner Angela
youth and to the Italian community Mancini is later elected as the
for her role in preser ving and EMSB’s first woman chair.
promoting Italian heritage, Ward 15 commissioner Sylvia
especially with the integrated LoBianco is elected as vice chair.
• Three EMSB administrators
Italian program that she initiated
are honoured by the Association
at East Hill.
• Eva Avila, 2006 “Canadian of Administrators of English
Idol” winner, performs in front Schools of Quebec (AAESQ).
of 800 students at Marymount Director General Antonio Lacroce
Academy. She is there to promote and Parkdale School principal
an upcoming benefit that she Jacklin Webb received the
Distinguished
Service
Award, while
LaurenHill
Academy
principal
Claude
Dansereau
received the
Outstanding
Achievement
Award.
Former
Eva Avila, 2006 “Canadian Idol” winner, speaks to students.
Pedagogical
will be headlining at Place des Services Director John Ryan was
Arts to aid Leave Out Violence given the AAESQ’s Honourary
(LOVE), an organization that Life Membership Award.
helps youth who have lived with
violence, so they could end violent School opens its Community
behaviour in their lives and become Learning Centre (CLC), making
community leaders in violence it one of the 22 schools in Quebec
to have a CLC. It’s named
prevention.
• The EMSB holds its eighth after Linda C. Moro, a former
annual Career Fair at St. Pius X computer programmer at John
Adult Centre, which attracts over Paul I High School and Laurier
3,000 Secondar y IV and V Macdonald, who was known
students. Serge Tremblay, Chief for her outstanding community
of the Montreal Fire Department, involvement.
• Global Television celebrates
is the keynote speaker and
MusiquePlus VJ Malik Shaheed its 10 th anniversar y in Quebec
ser ves as emcee. This year ’s by launching a series called
Career Fair is dedicated to the “My Planet.” Students from
memory of John Szuber, a former Willingdon, Honore Mercier
guidance counsellor and vice and Leonardo Da Vinci schools
principal, and founding chair of are selected to file reports on
the Career Fair, who died of a Global’s evening newscast dealing
brain tumour in June 2007.
with the environment.
• Prince Edward of the British
• Fifty EMSB students are
Royal Family meets with students honoured by the Provincial
from FACE and Royal West Association of Social Studies
Academy at the Queen Elizabeth Teachers for scoring a perfect
Hotel to promote Free the Child- 100 percent mark on their
ren, a charitable organization that History/Histoire 414 exam. Each
the prince supports.
student received a certificate
• East Hill School officially of excellence at the Palais des
opens up two newly-built class- Congrès, during the annual
rooms that increases student Quebec Provincial Association of
capacity to 580. Tony Tomassi, Teachers (QPAT) convention.
Liberal MNA for Lafontaine,
• Students from 18 EMSB
formally cuts the ribbon at a schools are featured doing various
ceremony held at the school. The fundraising activities during
classrooms were built at a cost of CTV’s annual Christmas “Spirit
de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du
Sport (MELS) comme Centres
communautaires d’apprentissage
(CCA). Ces centres sont des foyers
d’apprentissage et de développement
communautaire dans leurs com munautés anglophones respectives.
2007-2008
of Giving” campaign. The
activities, ranging from General
Vanier students singing Christmas
carols at a seniors’ residence, to a
charity cricket match at Carlyle
School, to a Dante School holiday
concert, were shown on segments
of the CTV News broadcasts.
• For the first time, the EMSB
sets up an information kiosk at
Rockland Shopping Centre.
Representatives from Dunrae
Gardens, Carlyle, John Caboto,
Sinclair Laird, Coronation, John
F. Kennedy High School and JFK
Business Centre are present to
showcase their programs.
• Principal Ivana Colatriano of
Willingdon School is chosen as
one of the only two Quebecers for
the honour as one of Canada's
Outstanding Principals of 2008
by The Learning Partnership.
• The EMSB formally issues
a directive to all of its schools
and centres, effectively banning
the use of 15-passenger vans in
the wake of the tragedy in New
Brunswick, in which seven
students and one teacher from
Bathurst High School were killed
when their 15-passenger van was
involved in an accident.
• Royal West Academy’s new
gymnasium is officially opened
in a ceremony attended by
EMSB Director General Antonio
Lacroce, N.D.G. Liberal MNA
Russell Copeman and Montreal
West Mayor Campbell Stuart.
The $2.5 million state of the art,
stand alone facility will not only
be available for gym classes,
but also for special events, assemblies, concerts, presentations and
theatrical productions.
• Canadian Olympic gold
medalist Jennifer Heil helps launch
the Heart of Life Fund’s fifth
annual Heart Week celebrations
at John Paul I High School, along
with Mauro Biello of the Montreal
Impact, Paul Lambert of the
Montreal Alouettes, and CJAD
Sports Director and Montreal
Canadiens play-by-play announcer,
Rick Moffat.
• Holy Cross School dedicates
its library in memory of former
principal Francine Jarret Imhoff,
who passed away the previous
summer after a battle with cancer.
• Students from Rosemount
High School, along with principal
Ginette Clarke, are featured
on a series of TV commercials
sponsored by the Quebec government that focuses on healthy eating
in school cafeterias.
• The Mackay Centre School
celebrates the 35th anniversary of
its Reverse Integration Program.
Since that time, hundreds of
students got the opportunity to
learn alongside students with
disabilities, and become sensitized
to their peers who have disabilities.
• The EMSB Council of
Commissioners agree to spend the
equivalent of $1 per student over
the next three years in support of
a legal defence fund for parents
who are contesting Bill 104, an
amendment of a provincial law that
closes the loophole which enabled
some students access to English
public schools after they have
attended a non-subsidized English
private school. It was struck down
in August by the Quebec Court
of Appeal, but the provincial
government decided to appeal
the decision.
• The EMSB records a $1.5
million surplus in 2006-2007, and
decides to allocate the money
to each school and centre, so that
they could undergo physical
improvements to their respective
facilities.
• The EMSB hosts the annual
Bell Montreal Regional Science
Fair at Lester B. Pearson High
School. Over 250 students from
30 schools participate in the fair,
which attracted over 4,000 visitors.
Seven EMSB schools won a
combined 27 medals. Marymount
Academy Science Department
head Steven Erdelyi receives the
Educational Alliance for Science
& Technology Science Teacher
Recognition Award.
• Popular children’s entertainer
Fred Penner visits Coronation and
Hampstead schools, where he
gives special performances for the
students of both schools.
• Secondar y II and IV
students at Rosemount High
School prepare 400 Project
Love kits, so that children in
Tanzania will have better access
to education. Each kit contains
basic school supplies such as
notebooks, rulers, pencils, and
erasers, along with heart-shaped
personal notes, Canadian flags
and Canadian pins.
• Michelle Courchesne,
Quebec Minister of Education,
Leisure and Sports, pays a
special visit to Merton School.
Her visit consists of meeting with
the entire teaching staff, touring
the school, visiting various classrooms while classes were in session,
and getting two special pre sentations dealing with the school’s
pedagogical mission.
School holds its first ever Media
Festival – called “M-Fest” – at the
Leonardo Da Vinci Centre. The
festival displays a wide assortment
of students’ work in animation,
sculpture, painting and photo graphy. It also features the launch
of the Media Education Department’s latest student-published
book “Boxes Re-Opened, Stories
Re-Told,” and a film festival. As
a prelude to the festival, Montrealborn filmmaker Phil Price visits
Laurier Macdonald to talk to
students about his new film “Prom
Wars,” which was shot entirely in
Montreal and is released across
Canada on May 9.
• Federal Liberal leader
Stéphane Dion visits Parkdale
School to lend his support to the
school’s book drive, which helps
put more books at the disposal of
its students and promote the
importance of literacy.
• The EMSB’s Commission
on Focus Schools holds three
scheduled regional hearings
throughout the month of May.
Parents, representatives from
the community-at-large and from
local municipalities and boroughs
present briefs on what their visions
would be for their ideal elementary
or high school with a specialized
focus program. The focus school
commission is chaired by EMSB
Commissioner Syd Wise.
• Justin Trudeau is the guest
speaker at the launch of Down
to Earth, a collection of writings
and responses about global
warming, environmental change
and other issues dealing with the
environment. The book was put
together by a group of students
from Lester B. Pearson High
School. Trudeau, along with
Roberta Bondar – Canada’s first
woman in space – wrote the book’s
two introductions.
• The EMSB Scholarship
Golf Tournament moves to a new
location, Golf Saint-Raphaël.
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• Le ministère de l’Éducation,
du Loisir et du Sport annonce que
les nouveaux bulletins de notes avec
pourcentages seront introduits.
• L’école Roslyn célèbre son
100e anniversaire par le dé voilement d’un sentier de pierres
dans le cadre de son programme
d’amélioration de la cour de
récréation. Chaque pierre est
gravée du nom des familles qui
ont fait des dons au fonds
d’amélioration de la cour. Une
reproduction de la pose de la
première pierre de Roslyn a aussi
eu lieu, exactement 100 ans
après l’évènement.
• La CSEM a tenu ses
troisièmes élections scolaires au
cours desquelles 19 sièges sur
23 ont fait l’objet d’élections. La
commissaire de la circonscription
19, Angela Mancini, a été élue
par la suite la première femme
présidente de la CSEM. La
commissaire de la circonscription
15, Sylvia Lo Bianco, a été élue
vice-présidente.
• Des élèves de l’école se condaire Rosemont, ainsi que leur
directrice Ginette Clarke, ont figuré
dans une série d’annonces à la
télévision commanditées par le
gouvernement du Québec pour
promouvoir une alimentation saine
dans les cafétérias d’école.
• Le conseil des commissaires
de la CSEM a convenu de dé penser l’équivalent de 1 $ par élève
au cours des trois prochaines années
pour soutenir un fonds de défense
pour les parents qui contestent la
Loi 104, un amendement à une loi
provinciale qui était l’échappatoire
qui permettait à quelques élèves
d’avoir accès aux écoles publiques
anglophones après avoir fréquenté
une école privée anglophone nonsubventionnée. Cet amendement
a été défait en août par la
Cour d’Appel du Québec mais le
gouvernement provincial a décidé
de faire appel.
• La commission de la CSEM
sur les Écoles à thème particulier a
tenu trois audiences régionales au
cours du mois de mai. Les parents,
les représentants de la communauté,
des municipalités locales et des
arrondissements ont présenté des
mémoires sur leur vision de l’école
primaire ou secondaire idéale avec
programme à thème particulier.
Cette commission est présidée par
le commissaire Syd Wise.
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EMSB Student Profiles a 10 Year Perspective
As the EMSB Turns 10, so do some of our students.
Stuart Nulman profiles three of them – each from one of the EMSB’s administrative regions
JARED ZILBER
Gardenview Elementary
School in St. Laurent
HANNAH GOLD-APEL
Willingdon Elementary
School in N.D.G.
ALESSIA MARAVENTANO
Dante Elementary
School in St. Léonard
A
B
A
Gardenview student since
kindergarten, and currently
living in St. Laurent, Jared Zilber
is a sports enthusiast, especially
soccer, where he has been the school
team's goalie, and has been voted best goalie in his league
for four years straight.
Although he enjoys gym class, Jared has excelled not
only on the soccer field, but in math as well. "I'm the best
in my class, and I love learning multiplication, since it's
something that I'm good at," he said. He is also involved
with the Basic after school program and athletics.
Jared has two favorite memories of his life so far as a
student at Gardenview. The first was when he was in
kindergarten, and was part of a school delegation that
presented a donation cheque to the St. Laurent campus
of the United Talmud Torahs (UTT) School after the
devastating firebombing of its library in 2004; the second
was during Public School Education Month last January,
when he got to interview former Just For Laughs CEO
and Gardenview alumnus Andy Nulman before all of his
classmates. “It was almost like being on Oprah," he says.
Jared hopes to become a pro soccer player in the future.
If he does not end up stopping flying soccer balls, he aims
to stop cavities by becoming a dentist.
orn in Montreal and currently
residing in N.D.G., Hannah
Gold-Apel has been a student at
Willingdon since kindergarten.
She enjoys all her subjects at
school, especially English and French. "I'm actually good
at it," she said. "I like to be outgoing, and I enjoy speaking
in front of the class when everyone's listening, especially
when I'm giving an opinion about something."
Hannah likes to get involved in a variety of
extracurricular activities, including the school's Green
Committee, the student council and peer mediation. "It's
fun learning good life skills," she said. "I get to learn how
to solve life problems with people. When you help people,
it's a good thing and you feel good doing it."
Hannah hopes to use those skills later in life, as she
aspires to become either a veterinarian or a teacher. One
of her favorite moments at Willingdon was during
Grade 2 when she was given a special student award at
an assembly. "It felt great to get the award, and seeing
all those people clapping for me, especially those who
didn't even know who I was," she remarked.
lessia Maraventano is not the
only member of her family
to attend Dante School. Her sixyear-old sister Victoria is also a
student there, and her father
attended the St. Léonard-based elementary school, where
he graduated in 1974.
Although she enjoys taking math ("When I start
something, I pick it up very quickly," she admits), Alessia's
passion is sports, and she has a fondness for her physical
education classes. However, it's soccer that's in her blood.
She is a member of the Dante soccer team after school and
is a devoted follower of the Montreal Impact. Off the soccer
field, Alessia enjoys being a big sister to Victoria. And
she wants to take her love of sports to the next level after
she is finished her education and one day be a school
gym teacher.
Her favorite memories so far at Dante were her
Grade 2 classes with her teacher Ms. Josie. "She's a really
nice teacher who cares a lot about her students," she said.
Last spring’s visit by the Montreal Alouette to play a
game of basketball game against the staff was also
a highlight for her.
Who were the first EMSB kindergarten students 10 years ago?
Today they are in Grade 10. Stuart Nulman met with three of them.
SHANNEN CIRICILLO
Vincent Massey
Collegiate in Rosemount
B
orn and raised in Rivière des
Prairies, Shannen Ciricillo
spent hear elementar y years at
Gerald McShane (kindergarten)
and Michelangelo (Grades 1
through 6).
While she enjoys student life at Vincent Massey
Collegiate in Rosemount, her favorite memories include
participating in the 2007 and 2008 school variety
show – in which her singing talents easily won over the
audience – the fashion show, and the annual school
trips, especially the one to Boston, where she got the
chance to learn the city’s impressive history through its
monuments. She is also involved with the Youth Coalition
Against Smoking.
Shannen says her favorite subject in school is English.
“I enjoy reading a lot, and using my writing skills which
can only be done in English class,” she said. She would
like to apply her developing writing skills when she finishes
her education, as she hopes to be an author and write
books like her favorite author, Harry Potter creator J.K,
Rowling. Her favourite books in the series, she says, are
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows.
MARIA SCOTTO
John F. Kennedy High
School in St. Michel
M
aria Scotto, a resident of St.
Michel, has been a student at
John F. Kennedy High School since
Grade 7, after she attended nearby
St. Dorothy Elementary School.
She enjoys both and math and French classes, but when
she’s not in the classroom, she is actively involved in many
of the school’s sports leagues, particularly basketball, soccer,
swimming and track and field.
“I also like when our school team goes to another school
to compete in our G.M.A.A. (Greater Montreal Athletic
Association) soccer league games. Ever ything is so
organized,” she said.
Maria believes that of the three high schools she had to
decide on attending, she made the right choice to be a
student at John F. Kennedy. “I not only got to go with all
my friends from St. Dorothy, but it was great having the
chance to make new friends here,” she said. “And I like
how the teachers conduct their classes here, because they
are able to explain very clearly what they’re teaching and
they do it very well. It makes it very easy for me and the
other students to understand the subject.”
When she completes her education, Maria has set her
career ambitions towards either the medical or legal field.
MICHAEL BRUCCOLERI
Marymount Academy
A
native Montrealer and residing
in N.D.G. Michael Bruccoleri
started his EMSB schooling as a
student at St. Monica and has
been a Marymount student since
Secondary I.
A whiz at science (“It’s one of my easiest subjects, and
it’s where I get my highest marks,” he admits), Michael is
also a sports enthusiast at Marymount, where he participates
in the school’s soccer, floor hockey and badminton teams.
He is also a member of the school’s concert and jazz bands,
where he plays trombone. “I really enjoy going to band
practices and performing in concerts, because it’s a great
way to bond with the other students in the band,” he said.
“Also, our band director, Mr. Grey, makes it even more
enjoyable because he is so easygoing, he gets along well
with the students and he is very funny.”
When Michael finishes his studies, he hopes to pursue
a career in the medical profession, whether it is optometry,
dentistry or surgery. “Science is something that I really
excel in, and it’s something that I want to continue with in
the future,” he said.
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EMSB holds fifth
Scholarship Golf Tournament
CAREER
FAIR
CHANGES
The EMSB held its fifth annual
Scholarship Fund Golf Tour nament on June 27 at Club de
Golf St. Raphaël in Île Bizard.
Montreal Impact president and
noted businessman Joey Saputo
served as the honourary chairman. A record number of 240
golfers helped raise a tournament
high of more than $40,000.
Proceeds will go towards the
EMSB Scholarship Program,
which benefits a number of
graduating EMSB students so
that they can pursue their post
secondary studies at a CEGEP
or in vocational education.
Besides 18 holes of golf, there
was a brunch, dinner, plenty of
fabulous door prizes (a fur lined
coat, golf clubs, a Montreal
Impact signed and framed jersey,
The EMSB Career Fair
will move in a new direction
this fall, announced event
chair Susan Freed. A former
guidance counsellor at John
Grant High School and now
a special education consultant
Veejay Malik Shaheed will be
back as Career Fair emcee.
at head office, Ms. Freed
notes that Secondar y V
students will visit the St.
Pius X Culinary Institute in
Ahuntsic October 21 and 22.
Whereas over the past number of years Secondary IV
students have also been
part of the program, they
will instead have their own
separate event on March 20,
2009 at the Centre Pierre
Charbonneau called Pre lude to Career Fair. Media
personality and Westmount
High School graduate Malik
Shaheed will host both events.
Honoré-Mercier Principal
Donna Manos on the links.
Nick Katalifos and Gilles Boudreau wait by the Saturn automobile
that was up for grabs.
a Dell laptop computer, an
IMAC computer, a weekend in
St. Adolphe and jewelry) plus
prizes for longest drive and closest
to pin. There was no hole-inone recorded during the day.
Participants made valiant attempts
at the 18th hole, where an automobile from Saturn Mondial was
up for grabs. The organizing
committee for the tournament was
chaired by Mario Tirelli, deputy
director general and ably assisted
by his predecessor Donald A.
Reid. At the awards banquet,
Mr. Tirelli and Mr. Reid thanked
Mother Nature for delivering five
consecutive years of sunny skies
for the tournament.
N.D.G. Liberal MNA Russell Copeman, EMSB Commissioner
Frank DiCesare, Lafontaine Liberal MNA Tony Tomassi and
George Lambrinos from Johnson and Johnson.
Deputy Director General Mario Tirelli, Joey Saputo,
Vice-Chairman Sylvia Lo Bianco and Director General Antonio Lacroce.
SECTEUR DES JEUNES ~ YOUTH SECTOR
2008 ~ 2009
CALENDRIER SCOLAIRE
SCHOOL CALENDAR
September 2008
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Last day of classes: June 23, 2009
Dernière journée de cours : 23 juin 2009
Holidays / Congés : 21
Holidays
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www.emsb.qc.ca
Student Services Department
NEW
looks back on a decade of achievements Special needs
BY CLARISE SAMUELS
SPECIAL NEEDS
CORRESPONDENT
As the
English
Montreal
School
Board
celebrates
its 10th
anniversary,
Lew Lewis
Director of
Student Ser vices Lew Lewis
looks back with pride on the
accomplishments
of
his
department which promotes the
progress and education of both
students in the mainstream and
those with special needs. But
having worked for the department
as it existed under the former
Protestant School Board of
Greater Montreal (PSBGM).
“I love what I do, and I am
never bored,” gushed Mr. Lewis,
a member of the Ordre des
Psychologues du Québec who
has spent 36 years in the
same department dating back
to the days of the PSBGM.
Mr. Lewis has maintained a
lifelong interest in education,
psychology and students with
special needs, starting out as
a summer camp counsellor at
the age of 16. The EMSB
Express asked Mr. Lewis to
review what he considers to be
among the department’s most
successful accomplishments over
the past decade.
• The Traumatic Events
Support Team is equipped to
handle traumatic situations within
the school environment, most often
involving the death of a student,
a staff member, an administrator
or a parent, whether by accident,
illness, suicide or homicide.
that enable them to function
more effectively and help them in
such areas as anger management
and conflict resolution.
• The department has im plemented an excellent and
exemplar y regional model of
highly effective spiritual com munity animators, who have
developed a multitude of services
and programs aimed at instilling
Mr. Lewis has maintained a lifelong
interest in education, psychology
and students with special needs,
starting out as a summer camp
counsellor at the age of 16.
• Project Harbour is an on-site
inter vention program, where
Student Services personnel visit
classrooms and help teachers
develop strategies targeting
students who are difficult or
disruptive in class and consistently
display behavioural problems.
• The Summer Language
Camp is a point of pride – a twoweek camp for students, aged six
to eight, who are experiencing
speech and language difficulties.
• The Kindergarten Behaviour Enhancement Program is an
on-site program that is proactive
and pro-social. Kindergarten
students are taught strategies
communal and spiritual values in
our students.
• The EMSB Career Fair has
always been a significant event,
which includes about 4,000
students. As well, the Fair now
boasts a new section set aside for
students with special needs.
• The implementation of
occupational therapy ser vices
addresses elementar y school
students who need help with fine
and gross motor skills, sensory
integration skills and mobility.
• Student Services has over
the years developed a working
relationship with Health and
Social Services Centres. There
are now 10 of them with which
the department has built strong
partnerships and programs
centered on various issues such
as drug education, diabetic
clinics, gambling addiction
programs and services to special
needs students.
• The department has es tablished the Centre of Excellence
for Speech and Language
Development for English Quebec,
which includes workshops, on-site
consultations, a web site, a library,
program development, etc.
• The department has
developed a huge network of
child care workers (CCW ’s)
and, as well, will be reinstating
its highly successful Resource
Teacher Network in the fall.
• The Autism Task Force
includes 10 to 15 Student
Services professionals who meet
regularly to brainstorm and
formulate recommendations to
meet the needs of students with
autism spectrum disorders.
Mr. Lewis says he plans to
continue to broaden the scope of
his mandate with such projects as
early screening at the kindergarten
level, the formulation of smaller
teams in specific regions, and the
promotion of an ever closer liaison
with the Health and Social
Services Centres.
“I have a lot of ideas,” Mr.
Lewis concluded. “And I keep
learning something every day.”
Explore our website • www.emsb.qc.ca
Students, parents and staff
are urged to consistently log
on to the bilingual EMSB
website at www.emsb.qc.ca,
which enjoys an extraordinary
amount of traffic from stakeholders and the community at
large. The site is esthetically
pleasing and easy to navigate
for both experienced and
not-so experienced web surfers,
with convenient drop down
menus. Information is readily
available at the click of a
mouse.
In the Press Room section,
you can read press releases and
access publications such as
the annual report, elementary
and high school guides and
the EMSB Express newspaper.
There is a frequently updated
photo album, featuring activities at the schools. The Fielding
Focus monthly newsletter is
detailed and a great resource.
You can subscribe to receive
this by email once a month via
[email protected]. It is sent
as a link, meaning it will not
take up any space in your
mailbox. There are also videos
of board-wide and school
events online.
The listing of schools and
adult/vocational centres in clude important links to their
re spective websites. School
calendars for 2008-2009 are
available if you want to check
on particular holidays and
professional days.
Dates for registration and
open house periods, as well as
Interested in seeing student photos?
Log on to www.emsb.qc.ca
and go the Press Room
special events and meetings are
always posted. Board policies,
bylaws and minutes can also be
found here.
publication
to debut
The Communications and
Marketing Division of the EMSB
and the Student Ser vices
Department will be launching a
new publication this fall called
Inspirations – A Snapshot of Our
Special Needs Community.
As a leader in catering to
special needs children and young
adults, the EMSB is proud to
be sponsoring Inspirations. It
will initially be published twice
annually (fall and spring) and be
distributed widely in the Greater
Montreal area to English school
boards, institutions dealing
with special needs individuals,
hospitals, CLSCs, doctors’ offices,
community organizations, the
media and government. The
magazine will also be available
at many dropoff points across
the island.
Inspirations will provide
uplifting stories of success stories
in the area of special needs. We
will also have experts in various
fields provide timely advice to
parents. While the EMSB is the
publisher of this magazine, the
content will ultimately cover the
entire Greater Montreal area.
We are taking this initiative upon
the demand of many of our
parents. While another such
magazine was launched in this
city just over two years ago, it
now considers itself a national
publication. As such, many of
the good local stories are not
being covered. We intend to
rectify that.
Through the pages of
Inspirations we will bring you
feedback from psychologists,
guidance counselors, speech
language pathologists, autism
spectrum disorder consultants,
behavior specialists, social workers
and physiotherapists. We’ll go into
the classrooms of the intellectually
and physically handicapped as
well as examine how the visually
and hearing impaired population
cope day to day. The underlining
message is that these people
continue to be “Inspirations” to
all of us.
Advertising inquiries are
welcome. For more information
call (514) 483-7200, ext. 7245
or email [email protected].
Michael J. Cohen
Editor
Take a look at what
our High Schools
have to offer!
Parents needn’t wait until their child is in Grade 6 to begin
examining our diverse secondary network
Emphasis on the Fine Arts;
Advanced Drama; Orchestra
F.A.C.E.
www.face.csdm.qc.ca
3449 University, Downtown
514-350-8899
OPEN HOUSE :
October 18, 2008; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Sports Études;
Secondary I Honours Program;
Advanced Science
Lester B. Pearson
High School
www.emsb.qc.ca/lesterbpearson
11575 P.M. Favier, Montreal North
514-328-4442
OPEN HOUSE:
October 30, 2008; 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Placement Exams for
Secondary I Honours Program:
November 8, 2008; 9 a.m.
Student-Directed Initiatives;
Support for Literacy
Advancement;
Computer-Based Research
James Lyng High School
www.emsb.qc.ca/jameslyng
5440 Notre Dame West, St. Henri
514-846-8814
OPEN HOUSE: November 6, 2008
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Enriched English and Math
Programs; Advanced Science;
Computer Technology
Integration; Work Study
Transition Program
John F. Kennedy High School
www.emsb.qc.ca/jfk
3030 Villeray, St. Michel
514-374-1449
OPEN HOUSE: October 16, 2008
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Fine Arts; Enriched English,
Math, Science and French;
Career Exploration and
CEGEP Orientation;
Advanced Computer
Applications; Junior (Grades
7 and 8) and Senior (Grades
9, 10 and 11) Campuses
LaurenHill Academy
www.emsb.qc.ca/laurenhill
Junior Campus
2355 Decelles, St. Laurent
514-331-8019
OPEN HOUSE:
October 22, 2008; 6:45 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Unique Music Concentration
Program; Fine Arts; Tutoring
and Peer Mediation
Rosemount High School
www.fortunecity.com/campus/creators/6
41/rosemount.html
3737 Beaubien Street East
514-376-4720
OPEN HOUSE: October 14, 2008
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Only Public School in
Quebec to Offer Advance
Placement Examinations;
Enriched Math, English and
French; Art, Music, Computer
Science, Wood Work,
Business Education and
Sports Leadership Electives
Westmount High School
www.emsb.qc.ca/westmount
4350 Ste. Catherine Street West
514-933-2701
OPEN HOUSE: November 6, 2008
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Enriched CEGEP
Preparatory
Program
Compulsory
Extracurricular
Student Involvement
Increased Physical
Education and Arts;
Integrated Science
Royal West Academy
John Paul I Junior High
School (Grades 7 and 8)
www.emsb.qc.ca/royalwest
189 Easton, Montreal West
514-489-8454
OPEN HOUSE:
October 7, 2008; 7 p.m.
ORIENTATION NIGHT:
October 15, 2008; 7 p.m.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:
October 17, 2008; 3 p.m.
ENTRANCE EXAMS:
October 18 (A-L) & 19 (M-Z), 2008
9 a.m. to Noon
Accelerated Mathematics
and CEGEP Calculus;
Enriched Sciences
Vincent Massey Collegiate
Alternative Environment for
Students in Secondary III to
V; More Intimate Setting;
Partnership with McGill
Faculty of Education;
Bi-Weekly Seminars
M.I.N.D.
www.emsb.qc.ca/mind
4563 St. Urbain, The Plateau
514-842-0792
OPEN HOUSE: February 19, 2009
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Visits to the school also by appointment.
www.emsb.qc.ca/vincentmassey
5925 27th Avenue, Rosemount
514-374-1999
OPEN HOUSE:
October 15, 2008; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.
ENTRANCE EXAM:
November 1, 2008:
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Secondary I);
February 7, 2009:
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Secondary II)
Advanced-Level
Mathematic and Science;
French Immersion
Royal Vale High School
Alternative Programs
for Students With
Special Needs
Basic Literacy; Fine Arts
John Grant High School
www.emsb.qc.ca/johngrant
5785 Parkhaven, Côte Saint-Luc
514-484-4161
OPEN HOUSE : April 2, 2009
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
International
Baccalaureate Middle
Years Program
www.emsb.qc.ca/royalvale
5851 Somerled Ave., N.D.G.
514-481-2463
OPEN HOUSE:
October 23, 2008; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
(tentative)
Stay tuned to
www.emsb. qc.ca/royalvale
for details on an expanded
open house day.
ENTRANCE EXAMS:
November 8, 2008; 9 a.m. to noon
www.emsb.qc.ca/johnpaul1
8455 Pré-Laurin, St. Léonard
514-328-7171
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM (IBMYP)
INFORMATION NIGHT:
October 8, 2008
7 p.m.
IBMYP ENTRANCE EXAM:
October 18, 2008
8:30 a.m.
BILINGUAL AND CORE PROGRAM
INFORMATION NIGHT:
January 22, 2009
7 p.m.
Acclaimed Media
Education Department;
Enriched English,
French, Mathematics
Laurier Macdonald High
School (Grades 9 to 11)
www.emsb.qc.ca/lauriermac
7355 Viau, St. Léonard
514-374-6000
OPEN HOUSE :
September 25, 2008; 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Technology, Music and Art
Studios; Photography Lab
Marymount Academy
www.emsb.qc.ca/marymount
4100 Côte St. Luc Road, N.D.G.
514-488-8144
OPEN HOUSE :
October 15, 2008; 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME
ENTRANCE EXAM:
November 15, 2008; 9 a.m.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION:
November 13, 2008
Personalized
Instruction
Work-Study Program
Paul VI High School
Psychosocial, Behavioral and Educational Programs;
Problem-Solving Techniques; Confidence Building;
Reintegration into Educational Mainstream
St. Raphael Center
www.emsb.qc.ca/paulvi
9905 Papineau, Ahuntsic
514-723-2845; Visits by appointment
www.emsb.qc.ca/straphael
8735 Henri Julien, Ahuntsic
514-381-0811; By appointment
To download a copy of the EMSB High School Guide or to learn about other
programs offered to secondary level students, please log on to www.emsb.qc.ca.

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