School Services Division

During the 2010-2011 school year, we further developed our services to District Boards, as well as to schools directly through consultancy, professional development workshops to school staff, and collaborative work with principals. To learn more, click on the links below. 

• The CRRP Seminar Series
• Bala Avenue Community School Cluster
• Central Technical School (CTS)-Possibilities
• Inclusive Schools Pilot Project (TDSB/OISE/CUS)
• Lorraine Kimsa Theatare for Young People
• Model School for Inner Cities (MSIC)
• TDSB Boys Education Strategy
• Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB)

Other Professional Development Activities

This year, CUS presented several workshops and extended our outreach to work with new organizations. The topics included: Foundations of Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy; Social Identity and Power and Privilege; Bonds within our City: Parent-Caregiver Strengths instead of Deficits; First Nations, Métis and Inuit: The Power to Name and Reclaim Using the Five Step Lesson Plan for Unit Design; Connecting with our Students; and The Canadian Context for Equity Work in Schools.

Some of the other groups with which CUS School Services has worked this past year:

• Institute for Child Study
• United Way Toronto
• Westview Secondary School
• Galloway Road Public School
• TDSB South East 3, Family of Schools
• Greenholme Junior Middle School
• TDSB Social Workers
• Ontario Principals Council

Conference Presentations:

• TDSB Futures Conference
• TDSB Closing the Achievement Gap Conference