TDSB’s Black Student Summer Leadership Program inspires youth to take on the world

Through BSSLP, self-identified Black students were matched and placed in one of the 18 for-profit and not-for-profit organizations who partnered with the Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement, which is where the program is housed. The goal of the program is to build each student’s competency in the workforce and their connections to professionals in the industry.

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Black TDSB students explore the wide world of Engineering in latest summer program

Through the Black Students Adventures in Engineering Program Black identified students across the TDSB logged on virtually three times a week, from June 28th to July 23rd to learn the fundamentals of computer science, engineering design and it’s affects and influences on the environment and society.

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Pre-K Summer Learning Program helps give racialized students a voice

The Inspired to Excel program focuses on supporting young children’s transition into formal schooling within a culturally relevant and responsive academic framework. Over the course of four weeks, young learners with the help of their parents, build self-confidence, self-awareness, a sense of self-identity and develop a foundation for academic success in preparation to enter the school system.

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Upending stereotypes at West Hill C.I. through the arts

The sounds of singing voices filtered out of West Hill Collegiate Institute’s music room. Members of the school’s senior choir were rehearsing with their Dramatic Arts vocal teacher Lizzie Kurtz, West Hill’s Assistant Curriculum Leader of the Arts. The students are part of the school’s Upend Project, which supports the TDSB’s Black Student Achievement & Excellence Strategy.

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Voices in Black Excellence: Vibing at Amesbury Middle School

The students rose in the gymnasium of Amesbury Middle School for the singing of the Black National Anthem. That’s how the day started at the school’s V.I.B.E. (Voices in Black Excellence) conference.

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Black Community Partnership Event a Success

Nearly 70 community agencies and organizations who serve Black communities attended two recent workshops to learn how to engage and partner with the TDSB.

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