To help students improve their leadership and communication skills, we will create a Student Communications Team and media pool.

Stories About Students, By Students

Student journalists representing elementary and secondary schools would work as a team to:

  • Develop communications for students, by students, about the WRDSB community
  • Tell stories from around the WRDSB from a student perspective
  • Provide students with real-world work experience relevant to their future career interests
  • Position student journalists as ambassadors
    • They will share the learning happening in classrooms and WRDSB news with the broader community
  • Provide students interested in Communications, Public Relations, and/or Journalism with Co-operative Education opportunities

The purpose of this strategy is to:

  • Encourage and empower students to be ambassadors for their peers through communication
  • Create clear communication channels between the WRDSB and students
  • Offer Co-operative Education opportunities

It aims to better connect students to the broader community and the Learner Profile attributes.

Responding to Student Voice

The Student Agency and Voice strategy responds to what we heard from over 5,000 student voices across the WRDSB. We are committed to centring students’ voices, as the primary beneficiaries of our work.

We know the work ahead of us is significant. Our task is to evolve from the traditional models of educational systems where adults make decisions for students, to a system where students learn in partnership with educators, their families and the community in which they live.

This serves our Strategic Plan and supports us in striving to achieve the objectives laid out in the Learner Profile. If we are to truly prepare students for success in the future and to lead us in a world that will be vastly different from what exists now, we have to shift how we support their learning. They have spoken. As trusted adults we must respond knowing that this will ultimately improve their achievement, alongside their well-being.