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Learning Link: Jan. 25, 2008

CCL launches Practically Speaking, a new series highlighting effective learning practices

For years, educators have been searching for an effective way to address the high rate of high-school dropouts among Aboriginal youth. In 2003, April Shopland, a youth worker in a B.C. high school, and teacher Ken Lees decided to do something about it, launching “The Ravens,” a program aimed at re-connecting Aboriginal students with a love of learning.    
                  
This first article in CCL’s new series called Practically Speaking, explores the genesis of The Ravens program and how it has helped turn the tide in one school.

Practically Speaking is a new series of feature-length articles that highlight innovative, and inspirational, promising practices in each of CCL’s five main learning themes: Aboriginal, health, adult, work and early childhood learning. Go to article »

More CCL news

• CCL posts video primer on the 21st Century Learning Initiative, featuring its driving force, John Abbott
• Inaugural Minerva lecture now available online: Jacqueline Leighton examines the attributes of successful learners

Reminders

• CCL's Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre to host its annual conference, Seeing Ourselves in the Mirror: Giving Life to Learning, Feb. 28–March 1, 2008
• Why is it so difficult to increase the performance of our educational systems? Our second Minerva scholar, Dr. Clermont Gauthier, examines this question in his upcoming lecture scheduled for six Canadian cities, Jan. 29–Feb. 7, 2008
• CCL's Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre to present two workshops at the Early Years Conference 2008: Valuing all Children, Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 2008
• CCL co-hosts Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decisions in Education, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice, May 12–14, 2008
• Find out more about the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre's 2007–2008 Speakers Program. New speakers added monthly  

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