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2023 Excellence in Service Awards

On May 18th, the Greater Essex County District School Board presented the 2023 Outstanding Service Awards, Champions for Education Awards and 30 Years of Service Pins to staff and community members.  It was a beautiful evening celebrating excellence in education! Congratulations to the recipients and thank you to everyone who attended. More photos from the event can be found in the link below.

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2023 Outstanding Service Awards

Each year, Outstanding Service Awards are presented to 10...

Student of the Month May 2023

The Student of the Month for May is Avery Baker, a Grade 12 student at North Star High School. Avery is an outstanding role model for this month’s theme of “volunteerism”.

Since the age of 3, Avery has dedicated her time to the art and craft of dance. Volunteerism may be seen by some students as a task to be completed, but Avery saw this as an opportunity to give back to a place that had shaped her into the person she is today.  Avery has collected almost 400 community service hours, giving back...

Ontario eLearning Consortium Recognizes GECDSB's Peter Phinney

The Ontario eLearning Consortium is made up of 55 school boards across the province. The OeLC hosted their Field Operations meeting last week in Ottawa, where they presented the GECDSB's Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching Contact, Peter Phinney, with an award for Technological Development in eLearning. 

The OeLC had the following to say regarding Peter's work on the D2L platform, "Peter's incredible development work with the Brightspace API (Application Programming Interface) is worthy of a...

Kennedy and Massey Muslim Student Associations Raise Funds for United Way

Charity is one of the Muslim principles during the holy month of Ramadan. In 2022 students from Vincent Massey’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) raised $5,500 for the Windsor Downtown Mission. This year, the group partnered with the MSA from W.C. Kennedy Collegiate Institute to expand the initiative and continue to spread good will, giving back to the Windsor-Essex community.

KCI secondary teacher, Abdul Merhi, noted that Kennedy students were inspired by the work being done by the Massey MSA...

Health and Safety Week at the GECDSB

To some, occupational health and safety is a sombre subject, but it had its moment in the sun during a celebration at W.F. Herman Academy. The special day was proclaimed in order to raise awareness about the importance of physical and mental health and safety in the workplace.

The GECDSB’s enthusiastic Health and Safety Officer, Tim Lauzon, addressed the gathering of students, staff, senior administration, Trustees and special guests, “This event provides us with the opportunity to further...