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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
-Mathew 6:21-

Our Education Reports
Our Report Card
On behalf of the Trustees of East Central Alberta Catholic Schools, I am proud to present to our educational community this snapshot of our annual report for the 2003-2004 school year. This document represents the last year of our reporting on an existing Three Year Education Plan. The goals, outcomes, measures and strategies of the plan were implemented by each of out schools over the past three years.
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Christ-King School, Stettler Alberta.
The school opened in the fall of 2003. It has an enrolment of 30 and offers a Catholic education for students in grades Kindergarten through grade 6.

Kindergarten room looking from back. Computer workstations are used by students here as well as throughout the school.

Ron Lindsay
The August 22 Maclean's magazine profiled Canada's best schools and the top Canadian Principals and teachers. Blessed Sacrament Outreach School was picked as one of the ten best high schools in Canada, and Ron Lindsay is one of three top Canadian principals profiled in this edition. The ECACS board wanted to nominate Ron for a provincial Alberta Excellence in Teaching Award, but since he won this award in 1990 he was not eligible. When Superintendent Valerie Burgardt was sent the Maclean's survey and nomination forms in February, for profiling best practices in education (which was sent to every school division in Canada), she nominated the BSS Outreach School with Ron as principal. Over 1,000 letters were sent in from all across the nation. In mid May Maclean's called Ron and said they wanted to profile the school and sent out a reporter in June. They interviewed me and a couple of my students. The reporter had just come from Old Scona and Jasper Place High School in Edmonton, and I am sure he noticed a difference here, Ron commented. Karen Marley, a Maclean's reporter, phoned and told him that some incredible things were said by his colleagues and students. After receiving this distinction, many people in the community called and emailed him offering their congratulations. Some people I haven't seen for 15-20 years have called. It's kind of neat. Ron noted. Comments from students included, He gives you the space to be person, not the clone you're expected to be at a normal school (alicia Beswick), and He's not like some of teachers, where as soon as you walk in, they are cussing you for not doing your homework (Ty Miller). Its pretty shocking - a huge surprise to be nominated, and a shock to be profiled in Maclean's magazine, he concluded. The Macleans's article noted that over 80 percent of the students at the Blessed Sacrament Outreach School earn their high school diploma, yet what pleases Ron most is seeing the students blossom as individuals. Reprinted Erika Foley Wainwright Edge

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