At the TDSB we encourage strong community connections to provide our students with the balance of what they are learning and how it applies to life outside of the classroom. We engage the community in several ways.
For more information on Community Connections click on this link https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Community
We welcome volunteers to help support our students. If you are interested in volunteering at your child's school please connect with your principal directly.
We encourage organizations to permit the use of our facilities so that they can be used when school is out.
Learn more about our effective partnerships with communities and community agencies through our Community Use of Schools and Focus on Youth programs. We also provide a solution to the challenge of inadequate space in Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods for community use through our Priority Schools Initiative.
We welcome community feedback. Public input is critical in helping us make our school board the best it can be. Our community can take an active role in the decision-making process by attending town hall meetings, public forums, speaking to Trustee standing committees and participating in surveys. Please check out our community consultations section to find out what consultations are currently active.
We are committed to ensuring that every student succeeds academically and develops a positive sense of well-being; and that every family and community has access to opportunities and social supports. We recognize that families and communities have varied access to economic opportunities and social supports, and strive to create schools as the hearts of each community where access to educational, social and well-being supports is increased. The Model Schools program is committed to nurturing the individual and collective strengths of students, families and communities. By recognizing and honouring students’ identities and lived experiences in the classroom and larger school community, we can enhance equity, student achievement and well-being for all students.
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Model Schools for Inner Cities
Model Schools are committed to:
- Innovative teaching and learning practices
- Providing support services to meet social, emotional and physical well-being of students
- Establishing schools as the heart of the community
- Researching, reviewing and evaluating students and programs
- An ongoing commitment to share successful practice
The goals of Model Schools are to achieve and sustain:
- Equity: achieving fairness and equity to ensure the lives and realities of our students are reflected and affirmed. The strategic focus is on closing opportunity gaps and removing barriers to support equitable outcomes for all students.
- Community: equitable educational opportunities and adequate school resources to allow schools to become the heart of their communities.
- Inclusiveness: an inclusive culture that respects, reflects, welcomes and encourages all students and families
- Expectations: high expectations to enable all students to reach their full potential as valuable and contributing members of society
Property Tax School Support
MPAC maintains school support information for every property in Ontario as required by section 14(1.1) of the Assessment Act. School support information is included on every Property Assessment Notice.
Click here to download the Application to Direct School Support form.
Once the Application for Direction of School Support and/or School Support Lease Agreement are completed and signed, it can be returned to MPAC.
Mailing address:
Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC)
1340 Pickering Parkway, Suite 101
Pickering ON L1V 0C4
For more information please visit: https://www.mpac.ca/en/MakingChangesUpdates/ChangingYourSchoolSupport
MPAC staff will process the school support designation change upon receipt.