Michael Strembitsky School - Opening September 2012

This is an exciting time for the Edmonton Public School Board. Michael Strembitsky School will open in the Ellerslie/Summerside area in September 2012. This new school will offer regular programming for students in Kindergarten to Grade 9. Our official school opening ceremony will be held on October 18, 2012 at 6:30 pm.

To learn more about our new school, please take a look at this website or our school brochure: Michael_Strembitskty_Brochure.pdf

School Mascot Survey

In the Michael Strembitsky School logo, water is rendered to resemble the letter "S" for Strembitsky. Our logo represents ripples in the water. With that, we have come up with some ideas for our school mascot.  We are also in need of a colour scheme for team uniforms, t -shirts and spirit wear.  Please complete our survey!

School Vision and Programming Survey

Please complete the Michael Strembitsky Vision and Programming Survey.

Welcome to Michael Strembitsky School!

Dear Students, Parents, Guardians and Community Members,

We are merely months away from the opening of Michael Strembitsky School! As the Principal of this school, I welcome each of you to our newly-established school community.

At Michael Strembitsky School, our priority is student growth and success. We are committed to providing a positive learning environment that will foster and support high academic and behavioural expectations.

Our planning will recognize and honour students' diverse needs and individual interests. In an effort to ensure all students are successful, staff will use a differentiated approach to teaching. This approach includes thoughtful planning, strategic assessment of learning outcomes, and targeted, flexible instruction. Classroom teaching will be a blend of whole class, group, partner, and individual instruction. Students will be provided with a multiple opportunities to make sense of ideas and information, practice new skills, and to demonstrate what they have learned. Differentiated instruction is about creating a caring learning environment in which student differences are valued.

As a staff, we will provide challenging and engaging curricular learning within and across subject disciplines. Students will be engaged in learning and service projects that rely upon and strengthen human spirit and imagination. As a school, we will design and embrace projects that will allow students to engage in in-depth study of real-world problems that they care about and are interested in. Such opportunities to harness students' passion to explore problems or projects that affect their lives and the lives of their friends and family, will enable our students to become experts across subjects, use 21st century skills, and to collaborate with others at school and beyond to devise innovative solutions. Project learning will allow students to cultivate meaningful and memorable knowledge within authentic contexts for learning.

At Michael Strembitsky School, we will have access to new technologies that will serve as powerful tools for students to access, search, analyze, store, manage, create and communicate information and knowledge. These technologies will support our focus on learning, thinking, communicating, collaborating, and working in much more powerful, personalized, integrated, connected and efficient ways.

Finally, at Michael Strembitsky School, we believe that success is best achieved in an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust. A safe, healthy, and orderly environment will allow for a climate that supports relationship building and authentic partnerships among students, staff, parents and community members. We believe that these relationships are integral to supporting students' academic learning, fostering students' citizenship skills, and ensuring student responsibility.

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Very soon it will be the first day of school - see you on September 4th, 2012!

Sincerely,
Dr. Lisa Wright

• ASAP refers to the Alberta Schools Alternative Procurement project
• The P3 Initiative is a provincial Public Private Partnership
• Six Edmonton Public Schools ASAP schools opened in September 2010
• Three more ASAP schools will be opening in September 2012. Michael Strembitsky School will accommodate Kindergarten to Grade 9 regular programming.
• Consolidated schools into single package: design, construction and maintenance (30 years)
• Owned and operated by school boards
• Contractor does all maintenance for 30 years
• Available for Joint Use Agreement (community use) after hours