Rosa Fazio Principal, Elsie Roy Elementary
Rosa Fazio is the
principal of her school and brought along three of her students who told us
about their school experience so far.
Rosa was a R.Y.L.A.
award winner and attended this Rotary camp several years ago as our candidate.
One thing she remembered from that program is her analogy of the ball sitting
in front of the goal. It is up to
you to score the goal.
Life is about
leadership. It is up to you to
lead and Rosa is certainly doing that.
She introduced three
of her students. Tara, Jackson and
Emanuel.
Her school is using
I pads to teach her students and this story got picked up by the Vancouver Sun
and they gave it front-page coverage.
Since then they have
had 122 visitors to their Scholl.
She says the kid’s
world has changed do much since she went to school.
They need a
well-balanced program and technology is part of that.
The purpose of
schooling is not to teach kids to do well in Scholl but well in life.
The three students
introduced them selves and their area of expertise.
Tara, does the student
awards.
Jackson is involved
in lecturing.
Emanuel is part of
the high tech team at school. He
said I run the cable and I fix problems!
They have two grade
11 students who come over from the high Scholl to run the back end of the
programs for them.
They have 350
students this year and will have 420 next year.
They still only have
one trolley with 30 I pads on it.
They could use at
least two and 150 I pads.
We ask, why do we
have to do this? It makes life
more exciting for us to learn.
School projects are
not so boring now.
We are more engaged
in our work. We are learning to
innovate. We have learned to take
the task into our own hands. We
want to go to school.
Our kids can access
their schoolwork via the “Moddle.” This is an on line program that allows us to book
on whilst we are off site, like at home.
Those ways we cant
say the dog ate my homework!
Everything that we
have done here at or school is though our own fund raising.
Our kids are always competing
for the I pads.
The speaker was thanked
by Jim Mackinnon