MasseyVanier High School

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Massey-Vanier High School

• Enhanced Learning Strategy Showcase
• 2007

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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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About our School
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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Learning at our School
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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ELS 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 - full time Technicians
• 1 full time on-site maintenance tech.
• 1 - 60 Lead Teacher

• 30 Digital Projectors
• 6 digital video cameras
• 5 digital still cameras
• 6 network printers
• 10 portable charge carts
• 1 Apple G5
• 1 Mac mini
• 1 scanner

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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.
• Cycle I QEP could not have been implemented
  without the technology.
• Requests from teachers for tables, not desks.

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Observations cont

• The integration of technology must be seen as an
  opportunity to increase student learning and not
  as a tool to teach.
• Professional development must be timely,
  responsive, and linked to existing initiatives.
• Integration and evolution are not events, change
  is a process that you cannot expect to occur in a
  short period of time. Change, improvement, and
  integration will take time and is hard work.

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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.
• As the technology becomes increasingly integrated
  there is a lower tolerance for disruptions, which
  places a increased pressure on infrastructure.

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Experiences cont

• There seems to very little connection between the
  numbers of years experience a teacher has and
  their comfort level with technology.
• Senior math has been the most difficult to
  integrate the technology due to the issues of
  time, curriculum, and current models of
  evaluation.
• Any technology initiative must be driven by a
  desire for increased student success, not
  constrained by finances or technology. Its about
  building a culture and not restraining or
  controlling access.

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Teacher Tube Video
Our Digital Students
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Insanity

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

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Our Enhanced Learning Strategy is about student
learning and not technology.