Sag Swag Orders Due Monday

Just a reminder that the last chance to order Sag Swag (Sagonaska Spirit Wear) is on Monday (May 10th).

Forms have been sent home with students.

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Family Tour Day

Families or educators that are curious about a possible application to Sagonaska are invited to attend our annual Spring Family Tour Day.  Come for a visit and tour of the Sagonaska School and campus. We will start the day by providing information about the application process, followed by a tour of residences, cafeteria, athletics centre, and the school.  We will spend some time visiting classes, talking to teachers, and hearing from current students.  

For Parents: How To Make an IEP Binder

Check out this great video that was shared at our School Council meeting! You can find templates and checklists here: https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/special-services/ieps/how-to-organize-your-childs-iep-binder

Tips for Parents of Students with Learning Disabilities

As educators who specialize in working with students with learning disabilities, we are often asked what resources are out there for parents or how can parents help their children at home.  A couple of weeks ago we shared the LD@School website and it is a great Canadian resource, full of relevant information for our parents and teachers.  There is another site called LD Online.  It is an American website but many of the strategies, tips, and resources are applicable for our Ontario parents. Below e is a link to an article, for example, that shares lots of great information for parents like how they can help with school work, and what medical professionals may be of assistance to a family with a child with a reading disability.  Please take a few minutes to read the article and look over the site and I'm sure you will find something of interest or relevance to you.

CLICK HERE  to read the article

A Great Read! "Jay Leno's Advice for My Dyslexic Son"

Here's a nice story shared by our psychologist, Don Shattuck! A great read for the start of the year! There's no secret to success - except persistence, humour, improvisation and grit!!

Click HERE to take you to the story!



21st Century Learning Video

For the past five years, Sagonaska has been a part of a 21st Century Teaching and Learning project through the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE) focusing on the use of personal devices to assist students with learning disabilities. Although the number one goal of our school is to help our students improve their reading, we also aim to improve our students proficiency with personal devices to support them both in and out of the classroom. Last year, we had the opportunity to capture our learning in a video that was recently shared on the Ministry of Education's EduGAINs website (http://www.edugains.ca) so that educators across the province can see first-hand the transformational learning that takes place at Sagonaska.  Not only do our students increase their reading scores, they develop life-long technology skills that support them in their learning and spark their curiosity and critical thinking skills.

To view this video, please click the following link, EduGAINs: Innovation in Action, and scroll down until you see the title, "Sagonaska Demonstration School: Using Assistive Technology for Creativity and Communication" then click on the image. You will catch a glimpse of how the use of mobile, personal devices is embedded in our daily routines and hear first-hand how the use of these devices is assisting our students with developing personalized learning strategies, while at the same time improving self-esteem and independence.