MasseyVanier High School

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Massey-Vanier High School

• Enhanced Learning Strategy Showcase
• 2008

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Mission Statement
Massey-Vanier High School encompasses a diverse
community that faces unique challenges and
provides many opportunities. We endeavour to
provide each student with the knowledge and
qualifications needed to succeed, while advancing
his or her academic, personal, social, physical
and moral development. Massey-Vanier High School
strives to create a positive environment in which
every student can learn.
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Massey-Vanier High School is located in
Cowansville and draws its students from as far
west as the Richelieu River, east as Eastman,
south as the U.S. border and north as Roxton
Falls. Services 75 different communities covers a
geographical area of 6500 sq km. 800 seat
auditorium 100 seat video room Music
room Dance studio Drama room 2 ITT
workshops 4 Science labs Library 9
gymnasia Pool, arena, sports fields, tennis
courts 2 student drop-in centers (game
rooms) Student Assistance Centre Student
services 1200 seat Cafeteria Student
Enrolment 980 Number of Staff 90
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Programs
Academic Programs
Co-Curricular Programs

• Curriculum Programs
• French Immersion
• Team Teaching Model Cycle I
• French Second Language
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Mathematics
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Science
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Technology (ITT options)
• Language Arts
• Regular / Enriched Programs
• Social Studies
• Music, Art, Dance, Drama
• Physical Education
• Moral Instruction
• Spanish
• Journalism, Digital Media
• Home Economics

Soccer Basketball Badminton Hockey Football
Rugby Floor Hockey Volleyball Mushball Tenni
s Golf Swimming School Band Yearbook Cross-C
ountry Running Drama Productions Job
Shadowing Fundraising Activities Kaleidoscope T
alent Show SADD Human Rights Group Art
Club Home Economics Club Billiards Club Prom
Committee Student Trips Montreal Level
I Quebec City Level II Boston Level
III Toronto / Niagara Falls Level IV New York
City Level V Stratford - Levels III/IV/V Europe
Levels IV/V
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One to One Integration

• Year I Grade 11 - 160 units
• Year II Grades 7,8,11 - 500 units
• Year III Grades 7,8,9,10,11 - 980 units
• Total 1100 (including teacher units spare units)

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Resources

• 2 - ICT Technicians
• 25 Lead Teacher

• 28 Digital Projectors
• 5 digital video cameras
• 5 digital still cameras
• 6 network printers
• 5 portable carts

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Wireless Infrastructure

• All classrooms
• Cafeteria
• Library
• Gyms
• Offices / staffrooms
• Common areas
• All lockers are equipped with an electrical outlet

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Observations

• Technology must be dependable and durable.
• Human resources of support must be in place.
• Senior levels struggle between time to experiment
  and curriculum constraints.
• Questions of relevance and outcomes.
• Classroom management issues are magnified.
• The integration of technology must be seen as an
  opportunity to increase student learning and not
  as an add on.
• Integration and evolution are not events, change
  is a process that you cannot expect to occur in a
  short period of time. Change will take time and
  is hard work.
• Professional development must be timely and
  specific.

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Experiences

• Integration is on a continuum, there must always
  be an expectation of change and a standing offer
  of support for risk taking, and trust.
• The teacher must be comfortable with the
  curriculum before they take chances.
• There seems to very little connection between the
  numbers of years experience a teacher has and
  their comfort level with technology.
• Math has been the most difficult to integrate the
  technology due to the issues of time and
  curriculum.
• Teachers struggle with the issue of double
  planning.
• Students are light years ahead of the adults.
• Issues of collection, deployment, and financial
  concerns of parents.
• Image control and firewalls are rarely effective.

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Question

• Before deployment you must ask?
• What is our goal?
• What interventions are in place to make it
  happen?
• What measures are in place to tell us if we have
  met our goal?

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• Insanity is doing what you have always done and
  expecting things to improve.
• Stephen Covey