“[Health and wellness counsellors] always check in, making sure if anything is happening with [students] personally, we’re able to ask the teacher for a pass to health and wellness and do our work with the health and wellness, just to have our time to gather ourselves.” — Focus Group Report
This website is dedicated to the valuable lessons we can learn from students’ own experiences about how to create better schools. Decisions about schooling are often made without listening deeply to students themselves. But students are in the best position to understand what they need in order to do well in school.
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