在学年初，儿童村学校收到了Enerplus的一笔1万美元的捐赠，用于支持学生的读写能力学习。Enerplus长期以来一直通过志愿服务以及对非营利组织和社区组织的捐款支持社区需求。今年，他们联系我们，看看如何帮助儿童村帮助学生实现他们的学术潜能。 儿童村学校是卡尔加里教育委员会内的一个特殊机构，学生群体多样化，都经历过在社区学校中学习上的社交、情绪或行为挑战。该项目致力于满足每个学生的独特情绪调节需求、社交技能发展需求和学术学习需求。通过为学生提供克服社交和情绪挑战所需的工具和策略，为他们重新适应较少支持的学校环境创造机会。 校长Melanie Clark表示：“通过努力弥补学术成绩差距并建立可转移的学习技能，我们为他们未来的生活和学习成功打下基础。” 改善这些学生的读写能力学习需要使用多种不同的工具和策略。通过使用辅助技术，教职工能够为学生个性化学习。今年学校发展计划中明确了一个特定的需求，那就是学生写作质量的提升，这个需求每年都存在。 许多写作的优先教学策略通过使用辅助技术才能实现。教职工非常高兴能够利用Enerplus慷慨的捐款购买八台新的Mac笔记本电脑供教室使用。 校长Clark解释道：“克服障碍是我们在儿童村所做一切工作的核心。在Enerplus的支持下，我们正为学生找到令人兴奋的新途径，实现学术成功。”

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​Early this school year, Children’s Village School was gifted with a donation of $10,000 from Enerplus to support literacy learning for its students. Enerplus has a longstanding tradition of supporting community needs through volunteerism and contributions to non-profit and community-based organizations. This year, they reached to see how they could support Children’s Village in helping students reach their full academic potential. Children’s Village School is a unique setting within the Calgary Board of Education – their students are a diverse group of individuals who all have experienced social, emotional or behavioural challenges that have created obstacles to learning in their community schools. The program addresses the unique emotional regulation needs, social skills development needs, and academic learning needs of each student. By equipping students with the tools and strategies they need to overcome social and emotional challenges, they create opportunities for them to reintegrate into a less-supported school setting. “By working to close the academic achievement gap and build transferable learning skills, we set them up for success in life and future learning,” says Principal Melanie Clark. Improving literacy learning for these students requires a number of different tools and strategies. Having access to learning technologies is one of the ways that staff are able to personalize learning for students. A particular area of need identified in the school’s development plan this year, and a need that arises year over year, is the quality of students’ writing. Many prioritized instructional strategies for writing are enabled through the use of assistive technology. Staff were delighted to be able to use Enerplus’ generous donation to purchase eight new Mac laptops for classroom use. “Overcoming obstacles is at the core of everything we do at the Village,” explains Principal Clark. “With support from Enerplus, we are finding exciting new ways for our students to achieve academic success.”