Student Success Centre

The Student Success Centre provides academic support for at-risk students. This support takes the following forms:
 
  1. GLS10: General Learning Strategies courses help students to identify their own learning styles and to use that knowledge to develop strategies for success in their other courses. This course is particularly valuable for Grade 9 students as they transition to high school. [Note: for a description of the GLS course, see GLE10 under “Learning Support Centre”. The content of these courses is almost identical.].
 
  1. Credit Recovery: students who have failed a credit or credits may be timetabled into the Student Success Centre to recover those credits. Students will repeat the core part of each course in its entirety, thus assuring their ability to proceed to the next level in that particular subject.
 
  1. Credit Support: students who are timetabled into the Student Success Centre will spend a portion of every class working on assignments from their current courses, with the support of the Student Success teachers.
 
  1. Credit Rescue: after the mid-term report card is issued, students who are in danger of failing credits are identified by the Student Success Team and sent to the SSC for extra support. Sometimes students are removed from one class and spend that period working with the Student Success teachers to ensure that the remaining three credits are successfully attained.
 
  1. Getting’ it Together: during the final exam period, students who are in danger of failing credits, are identified by their classroom teachers and offered the opportunity to work in the Student Success Centre. They complete and hand in missing assignments, thus increasing their chances of attaining their credits.
 
  1. Credit Recovery Blitz: after the exam period, the Student Success Team identifies students who have narrowly failed a credit. Those students are offered the opportunity to regain that credit by spending an intensive after school and evening session working on assignments provided by their classroom teachers.
 
  1. A.C.E.S.  (Alternative Character Education Students) was initiated in February 2010. This program offers a four credit package with an interdisciplinary approach which takes place both on and off the school site. Students are selected to be part of this program by the Student Success Team.