TORONTO - Continuity is the name of the game at the Toronto Catholic District School Board, where all 12 incumbent trustees were re-elected. Now those same 12 trustees have opted to continue under the leadership of Ward 8 trustee Oliver Carroll.
Opening the world to students in his little part of Canada
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register
After Pope John Paul II鱿鱼视频app death in 2005, students in Joe Tersigni鱿鱼视频app Grade 10 history class reminisced via webcam with teens from the Pope鱿鱼视频app former high school in Poland about his legacy.It鱿鱼视频app this kind of interactive teaching style that has left an impact on students, earning the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School teacher in Guelph, Ont., a Premier鱿鱼视频app Award for Teaching Excellence as one of the province鱿鱼视频app 鈥渢eachers of the year鈥� in 2008-2009.
Durham Catholic District School Board teacher Catherine MacDonald didn鈥檛 expect to bump into anyone she knew, particularly one of her students, while visiting a Viking exhibit in Ireland.But a few years ago, the archeology and history teacher at Fr. Leo J. Austin Catholic High School in Whitby, Ont., heard someone call out for 鈥淢s. MacDonald鈥� and turned around to see a former student on a graduation trip.
TORONTO - The saying "out with the old, in with the new" did not seem to apply to Catholic school board trustee elections on Nov. 13, since almost all "the old" were re-elected, while "the new" were reluctantly given a chance.
The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board received the Marsha Forest Centre Rose Quartz Warrior Award on Oct. 30 for being the first school board in the world to include special needs students in its regular classrooms. The last program which separated special needs students closed down in 1969. 
TORONTO - A new project aimed at reducing the gap in reading and writing test scores for aboriginal students is producing impressive results, according to Mary-Catherine Kelly.Kelly, Director of Education, facilitated a presentation on the Oral Language Project at the 80th annual general meeting of the Ontario Catholic School Trustees鈥� Association from April 29 to May 1 in Thunder Bay, Ont.
{mosimage}As the prepares to launch into the second year of its mandate, trustees are still huddling with private consultants in hopes of articulating a common vision and priorities.
100 years of memories celebrated at Toronto's St. John's School
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register
TORONTO - Aside from the annual Lenten Masses at St. John's School, alumni Angela Carroll remembers joining her Grade 4 classmates in the hallway as the school set up TVs in the hallway to watch Paul Henderson's 1972 history-making goal against the Soviet team.Carroll is now a teacher at her old school on Kingston Road in Toronto's east end and will be joining alumni in celebrating St. John's centenary milestone May 8. Carroll says the event will be special, not only because she is an alumni, but her husband also attended the school, and their children are now students there.
Catholic principals slam minister over Ontario budget call to freeze wages
By Ron Stang, Catholic Register Special
WINDSOR, Ont. - Ontario Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky was taken to task by Catholic principals and vice principals here over her government鱿鱼视频app recent budget bill which could hit them in the wallet.Bill 16 proposes that non-bargaining employees across the public sector 鈥� about 350,000 employees altogether 鈥� have their wages frozen for two years as part of an austerity move by the province to cope with a severe deficit.
Dombrowsky was speaking before more than 300 delegates at the annual meeting of the the Catholic Principals鈥� Council of Ontario in Windsor April 22.
For Iraqi families that have endured months and years living as refugees in Damascus and Beirut, just landing in Canada doesn't solve all their problems.
But the Ontario's publicly funded Catholic schools come close. Take a virtual visit to St. Andrew's Catholic School in Etobicoke.
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TORONTO - Ontario鱿鱼视频app public Catholic schools will always assert their right to teach students Catholic doctrine on matters of faith and morality, says the Institute of Catholic Education.鈥淲hen it comes to matters of faith and morality, denominational rights accorded to the Catholic schools of Ontario supersede any Government of Ontario directives which are at variance with the teachings of the church,鈥� said ICE executive director Sr. Joan Cronin.
TORONTO - Anna Zappone stands less than four feet tall holding a beach-ball sized model of the Earth and its atmosphere. She鱿鱼视频app no scientist, yet. But she鱿鱼视频app figured out a thing or two about global climate change.
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is back on school shelves for Catholic students in Dufferin-Peel west of Toronto. 
TORONTO - May 11 marked the first Toronto Catholic District School Board collaboration with students to promote leadership on pro-life issues. The TCDSB hosted it鱿鱼视频app annual Respect for Life Week but turned its usual keynote address into a student leadership day which drew more than 70 students to learn about the issues and how to take action.