Due to growing interest in the #StudentVoice stories our website, we are excited to launch the Student Media Team! This new initiative allows all WRDSB students to share their ideas and voices.

Join the Student Media Team

The Student Media Team will act like a school newspaper. It will hold monthly meetings to brainstorm story ideas and content. Students have the chance to contribute:

  • Articles 
  • Poems 
  • Videos
  • Social media posts 

Once ideas are assigned, students will have two weeks to submit their work to the Team mentors for feedback. After any edits, the WRDSB will publish student work on its website and social media, and syndicate it to school websites.

Why You Should Join

By joining this Team, students will develop leadership, teamwork, writing, and communication skills while working alongside peers with similar interests. They will also be able to build portfolios of published work.

If you love storytelling, social issues, or creative media, join the Student Media Team. It’s your chance to make your voice heard.

The Rules

  • The Student Media Team is open to any WRDSB student in Grades 9 to 12.
  • Students must commit to one virtual monthly meeting per month to plan and create content.
  • Students must contribute one piece of content each month.

How Do I Join?

RSVP for the first meeting on Monday, September 23

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.

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.