School Resources

This section of the website contains resources for teachers and schools as well as blog and forum areas for professional discussions and collaboration.  Please contribute to this section by sending your 'time-tested' or interesting and innovative resources (electronically please) to George Briggs - director@cisontario.ca.

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"Cancer Connections"

St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School, in partnership with Photosensitive, invites students of CIS and CAIS affiliated schools to join us in a national Cancer Connections photography exhibition.

The Cancer Connections exhibition features photographs that will help to raise awareness and foster sensitivity to those affected by cancer and the people close to them. The photographs document the effects of cancer on the lives of people across Canada. It is currently touring the country and appears in the online gallery at www.photosensitive.com/cc.

Since 1990 PhotoSensitive, a not for profit organization of photographers, has been harnessing the power of black and white photography to raise public consciousness of critical issues around the globe. Cancer Connections provides the opportunity to take photographs of a wide range of subjects: people who have survived cancer, those who have lost friends or family to the disease or people involved in the fight against it. The group welcomes student submissions to the exhibition.

Students are asked to be creative in the portrayal of their subject. Visit the website to get ideas and view the over 400 photographs currently online. Submissions will be accepted in September 2009, with photos posted onto the web gallery over the fall and winter. All student photographs will appear in the Cancer Connections web gallery. A select number of submissions will appear in a physical traveling exhibition as it goes to Vancouver, Calgary and the Grand Finale show in Ottawa in 2010. Mini exhibitions organized by individual schools or groups of schools (perhaps in conjunction with local cancer societies) are also possible.

Download more information here.

CIS eLearning Consortium

Thirteen CIS Independent Schools have collaborated to create leading Canadian online courses withinin a not-for-profit eLearning Consortium. Based on a Think Tank led by The Bishop Strachan School, who endorse and practice 21st century skills, the Consortium developed its unique model. Not only are the courses creatively designed and developed for the 21st Century student, it sets the pace for teacher collaboration, a leading model for instructional design, partnerships and even administration. Through shared decision-making and policy directions, the Consortium fosters flexibility, collaboration and a shared culture of learning. These shared ideals developed a unique learning community. Exemplary online curriculum is developed through a partnership with the University of Ontario Institute of technology (UOIT). Teachers learn to design and deliver interactive, highly collaborative online courses through a jointly taught Online Teaching and Learning Continuing Education course. This ongoing teacher PD model encourages transfer of digital technology skills from the online to the face-to-face classroom.

Visit the CIS eLearning Consortium website at http://ciselc.com/