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The Students of Business & Organizational Leadership class have completed their journey through the Challenge Based learning model......for now.
Some highlights from the Big Questions asked and solved.
-Economic success for all members of society.
-Partnerships with other organizations to make solutions a reality.
-Innovative public services to facilitate economic growth.
-Sharing solutions with other students using social media, the latest presentation technologies to make and display solutions.
The journey was an innovative and life changing experience for all involved. Thank you Ciena & Digital Promise for all your guidance and support.

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Students asking some essential questions & possible challenges.

- Can affordable housing empower people and help foster a healthy economy?

- Can art help lead and inform people about this idea? Images & videos can say many things about a topic.

-What technologies can be leveraged?

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Guest Speakers

Speaker #1
Edward Jones Financial Executive
Topics

-Financial Markets

-Green Economy

-Corporate Responsibility
-Economic Indicators

Speaker #1
Artist & Professor at Local College
Topics

- Messages through art

- Art publishing business

- Digital art tools

- Creativity

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Byward Market Class Trip
Purpose: Study a Micro Economy

The Byward market has some of the following characteristics to be examined.

-Small, medium and large businesses all mixed together

-Low, middle, high income housing and homeless population all mixed.

-Pedestrian, automobiles, bicycles all share the streets. Public transit is also visible in the

market(light rail & buses)

What opportunities do we see to strengthen this economy and make life better for all?

Stakeholders? Refer to U.N. sustainable development goals.

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Students asking some essential questions & possible challenges.
-Does education improve an economy?

- Can student lead seminars that talk about the importance of education facilitate this idea?

-What technologies can be leveraged?

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Students asking some essential questions & possible challenges.
- Can good health & well-being improve an economic system?

- Can social media be used to promote strategies that will improve mental health and in turn help an economy?

-What technologies can be leveraged?

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The students have spoken! We voted on Global Goal #14: Life Below Water to focus our inquiry and action!

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The students have spoken! We voted on Global Goal #14: Life Below Water to focus our inquiry and action!

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Students for Change: Health and Well being

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Students for Change: Health and Well being

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Ari Lesser is joining the Ciena team at Ridgemont with his extra Curricular club Students for change.

The Club meets every Wed and is full of student activists looking to make positive changes in our school/community/world.

In the past students have done food drives, blood drives, planted trees, and run composting programs.

This year the club is taking on the Ciena Solutions Challenge. The focus of there big project will be to on the SDG "Health and Wellbeing" The Essensial question they have started with is "How can we increase the health of well being of our school and community"

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Students had discussions about Orange shirt Day and the importance of truth and Reconciliation in Canada.

Students asked "How do we increase participation in orange shirt day" and show support for indigenous people and reduce inequities.

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From Healthy Minds to Healthy Bodies!         During our discussions, students have asked questions surrounding the UN sustainable development goals of “zero hunger” and “good health and well being.” Last year, our school goal involved helping to create parameters for a “healthy mind” and this year students are interested in exploring what it means to have a “healthy body.” They have discussed the fast food culture and eating habits of their friends and family members and wondered, “How is it possible to eat healthy when the cost of food keeps rising?”  

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From Healthy Minds to Healthy Bodies!         During our discussions, students have asked questions surrounding the UN sustainable development goals of “zero hunger” and “good health and well being.” Last year, our school goal involved helping to create parameters for a “healthy mind” and this year students are interested in exploring what it means to have a “healthy body.” They have discussed the fast food culture and eating habits of their friends and family members and wondered, “How is it possible to eat healthy when the cost of food keeps rising?”  

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Persuasive presentations are underway! Once everyone has the chance to present, we will vote on a goal to guide our project! 

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Persuasive presentations are underway! Once everyone has the chance to present, we will vote on a goal to guide our project! 

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Once we have finished our research essays, students will use their information to create persuasive presentations for their peers. Students will vote as a class on the global goal we are most passionate about + want to focus our project on.

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Once we have finished our research essays, students will use their information to create persuasive presentations for their peers. Students will vote as a class on the global goal we are most passionate about + want to focus our project on.

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Grade 8 students are currently unpacking the Global Goals.

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Grade 8 students are currently unpacking the Global Goals.

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During the ENGAGE PHASE students working with each other asking essential questions.

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Big Idea:
-What could improve the economics of an area. An area can be defined by a neighborhood, city, province/state, nation or even a theoretical location(creators island)
Engage Phase(Fall 2022)
-Identify/create industries, civic organizations, currency systems, demographics statistics, education systems, and health facilities of the  economy that will be created/modified.
-Ask essential Questions about the economy using U.N. sustainable development goals as a starting point. An example would be to tackle affordable housing.

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Mr. Zap supports his grade 10 Intro to Business class using a makerspace style classroom; blending the integrated technologies lab with the school's comm tech computer lab.

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A smorgasbord of media awareness and marketing projects all centered around Quality Education in the world. student works include: social media campaigns, PSA's made for school morning announcements, shirts sales, and... a video game. See EFA for more details.

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Student Aidan decided to take matters into his own hands and organize a shoreline clean up. Partnering with the city of Ottawa to determine an effective location for this event, his tenacity brought him to Nepean creek; the tributary of the Rideau River.

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Ryan Smith is teaching a grade 10 TGJ20 Communications Technology course. Marianne Alexander is a guidance counsellor at the school and supporting Ryan and the students with the project.

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I am completing the Ciena Solutions Challenge with my Gr.9 Information and Communication Technology class. This year I am teaching grades 9-12 with a full business load.

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The grade 9s decided to focus on SDG 3  - Good Health and Well-being. Specific to our school community, we are creating a website that will act as a resource hub for students connecting them to resources and supports related to mental health. I've included a photo of one of our idea webs above!

It was important to the students that the website incorporated different voices and needs in our school. We are collaborating with our Addictions Counsellor, Mental Health Worker, Black Student Graduation Coach, Black Student Association, Rainbow Alliance, Chaplaincy Leader, and Student Success Team (guidance) to compile resources that support the diverse group of students at our school. Everyone has been SO willing and excited to help the grade 9s.

I've been most surprised by how enthusiastic the students have been about taking on this project. It took no more than a day for them to be completely on board with CBL and the project itself. They are so eager to use the awesome tools - especially the A/V equipment. They are so engaged and willing to 'trust the process'. As a leader, I've noticed such a positive impact on relationships and outcomes from the class.

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Motivated by aquatic ecosystems, student Allison created an ad campaign partnered with Ottawa Riverkeeper to bring awareness to invasive species affecting our environment. Alongside brochures and stickers, Allison has also created a music video bringing a voice to this undervalued concern.

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Students Jeralyn and Deborah bring awareness to the "Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup" by marketing their own Sticker campaign. Their fundraising goes to support the ocean wise organization and WWF at www.shorelinecleanup.org

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Student Jayla has been inspired to fundraise for a ocean preservation charity by creating a retail shirt campaign; designing, creating and marketing branded shirts. Proceeds are directed to the Ocean Cleanup

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We have a very quiet group interested in focusing on SDG 10 Reducing Inequalities in our Community. Students are interested in exploring a wide range of challenges as you can see form the brainstorm on the board above.

Initially students were and still are finding it hard to resist the jump to solving the problem before investigating etc. At times solving the problem with a solution that already exists.
We have the whole semester to work on these challenges. We have had Cam Jones in to help ignite and spark some interest, and engagement by encouraging students to explore their own stories. Hoping to  empower students to find challenges that they have perhaps had themselves and are interested in exploring/investigating if others have too.

It seems as though they have decided to break up into groups based on interest and investment of topics