Twelve classrooms in Calgary, Ottawa, York Region, Toronto and Fredericton were recognized in the 2018 BMO National Student Innovation Awards for their exemplary business ventures, demonstrating originality, enterprising spirit, teamwork, and school and community impact. Judges’ Choice Awards were also given to the classroom ventures that best demonstrated all of these criteria.

On May 31, the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative school design program in Toronto, and TD Bank Group joined the ranks of former Premiers, Prime Ministers and CEOs as they were inducted into The Learning Partnership’s Champions of Public Education Hall of Fame.

Natalie Festa, an accountant and entrepreneur in Toronto, volunteers her time to support student entrepreneurs at Father Bressani Catholic High School in Woodbridge, Ontario, as a volunteer business mentor with The Learning Partnership’s Dragons’ Nest program.

Lisa Floyd, Director of Research and Inquiry at Fair Chance Learning, joins us on the blog to talk about computational thinking in math class.

The Learning Partnership honoured 40 outstanding Canadian principals tonight at an unforgettable gala event. Honourees from across Canada were recognized for their contributions to public education.

Natasha Evangelista is a Grade 12 student at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. She’s also an entrepreneur and the founder of Art-toons, a t-shirt design company she developed to promote the abilities of children with autism. Natasha was inspired to launch the business venture after getting a glimpse at entrepreneurship in the Dragons’ Nest program, which was integrated into her Grade 11 business course

The Learning Partnership is proud to receive funding from the Government of Canada’s CanCode program, which aims to invest in support of initiatives providing educational opportunities for coding and digital skills development to Canadian youth from Kindergarten to Grade 12.

John Howard, National Program Manager of Welcome to Kindergarten, joins us on the blog to talk about healthy media use with young children.

Fahad Martin Pinto, Director of Marketing & Communications at The Learning Partnership, joins us on the blog to discuss equity and excellence in education.

The Learning Partnership is pleased to join Canada Learning Code and Code.org in celebrating Hour of Code, a global initiative held in December to introduce youth to coding and to promote the field of computer science.

The Learning Partnership is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the TELUS Victoria Community Board to help expand the Welcome to Kindergarten program in British Columbia.

The Welcome to Kindergarten (WTK) team in British Columbia had an opportunity to visit two First Nations communities, Tsay Keh Dene and Kwadacha, to share the Welcome to Kindergarten program with teachers, community elders, the daycare supervisors and programmers.

Grade 9 students across Canada spent a day in the life of various professionals yesterday, as part of The Learning Partnership’s Take Our Kids to Work Day. Hundreds of thousands of students across Canada got an early look into the world of work, as they spent the day job-shadowing professionals across a range of organizations.

The Learning Partnership is pleased to announce the support of Salesforce.org to expand coding in Canadian classrooms through Coding Quest.

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