FIRST NATIONS TERRITORY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board spans 3 regions in Quebec, Canada which include many different Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge and thank the Indigenous people in all regions of our school communities and do so within those communities. 

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board is on land which is traditional territory of the Kanien’keha:ka or Mohawk nation. The Mohawk Nation is also known as the “Eastern Door Keepers” and are a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy which also includes the Seneca, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Onondaga and Oneida Peoples.

LISTEN      -       LEARN      -         DO BETTER

WELCOME

LEARN    -      WORK    -    GROW

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board's (SWLSB) mission is to provide engaging and innovative learning where everyone achieves success and well-being; to support student success, to prepare students for the future and to offer equitable and varied educational options. 

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano Ut Prosim Aliis 

Mission

SWLSB ASCEND Leadership (ASL) is a service of SWLSB Spiritual Animators to unite and support student leadership development in schools, within our school board.

ASL is an umbrella to serve school programs by helping staff to lead initiatives that help young people develop into engaged and authentic leaders. 

We work with schools to provide the tools, training and challenging experiences necessary to foster continuous success in the classroom and beyond as students construct healthy lives and relationships.

III PILLARS

Student Success & Personal Development

School Climate

Community Growth & Engaged Citizenship

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Scroll down to find out more about different ASL opportunities.

BULLY PREVENTION   -   WELL-BEING   -   COMMUNITY CARE   -   RESILIENCY   -   HABITS FOR LIFE-LONG SUCCESSS   -   RESPONSIBILITY   -   TEAM   -   GROW -   MENTAL HEALTH  -

-   SERVICE  -    LEADERSHIP    -

SWLSB ASCEND Leadership programs support a diverse and wide range of age groups, schools, teachers, and staff. 

Student leaders set out on a new trajectory that transforms the way that they think, act, and engage by fostering deep personal growth and taking responsibility for the world around them.

Our goal is to offer opportunities that position students to be prepared for and successful in a complex life and work environment through the 21st century classroom. Students use these skills to bring positive change to their school and community.

We work to support the transformation of classroom competencies into skills for life. We foster creativity and innovation, critical thinking, communication, and meaningful collaboration skills through experiential learning. 

We bring student leadership teams together.

We work to enable programs and generate innovative opportunities, approach, and develop meaningful program support for a positive school climate, student success, and community growth.

ASCEND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Grade 5 and 6 students are invited to participate in leadership training and to take on responsibility for younger students in their school yard at recess and lunch times throughout the school year.

Your personal leadership journey...

The SWLSB SECONDARY STUDENT LEADERSHIP Certificate program is designed to give you the training, skills, coaching, and experiences necessary to grow as an effective and successful student and leader.

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 

SWLSB Raise Craze mtwh 2023.mp4

A SWLSB student created charity supporting the breast cancer clinic and patients at the MUHC.

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Annual Student Leadership Recognition Ceremony

"ASCEND Leadership opportunities position students to be successful in a complex life and work environment through the 21st century classroom by facilitating creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills through experiential learning."

... you have 3 hours to do it!

PODCAST

Leaving Tread Marks

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LEARN, DISCOVER, SERVE

We have built a student leadership travel and experience program unlike anything else in the country.

All of our adventurous journeys are meant to deepen learning in the classroom as you explore who you are and what you are capable of becoming.  

If you want to be challenged and do things that you never thought possible, then take a look!

Fall Camp, Remembrance Day, Government, Walt Disney World, Alberta, Costa Rica.

STUDENT WELLNESS

Mental Health           -           Physical Health           -         Emotional Health      -      Digital Health

LEADERS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Albert Einstein once said, 

“The leader is one who, 

out of the clutter, brings simplicity… 

out of discord, harmony… 

and out of difficulty, opportunity." 

A natural expression of the leadership competency is engagement in entrepreneurship. ASCEND Leadership has been awarded grants for many different student created and led initiatives impacting the school community.

ASCEND Leaders are acquiring the skills required of the next generation of successful community and business leaders.

PARTNERS IN LEADERSHIP

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African Proverb

In my private life, I have been a parent-volunteer to this program while my daughter was attending high school,  and even though my daughter graduated a few years ago, I remained part of the ASCEND Leadership family but now as a Consultant/Mentor. The life experiences that I have been exposed to leadership though my association with the ASL is beyond words.  To be able to be part of a family of so many great individuals with a common thread (developing our youth to become exceptional leaders) has been, and continues to be, an incredible feeling of accomplishment.  I am forever grateful to the ASL family."

George Papathanasopoulos

Parent, Community Leader, Human Resource Manager



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DISCOVER MORE

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ASCEND LEADERSHIP 

#MODELTHEWAY

Podcast - LEAVING TREAD MARKS