By Rosemary Evans, Principal The introduction of any new technology always requires careful assessment to ensure that there is true educational value in the new approaches being considered. Some recent technological innovations are providing fascinating learning opportunities for students. Online simulations and models are helping science students to examine concepts which may be too large [...]

By Rosemary Evans, Principal. This week, I was fortunate to hear two inspirational speakers who have both left an indelible mark on education. John Mighton is the founder of JUMP Math (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) – and is also the past parent of UTS alumna.  John earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of [...]

by  Rosemary Evans, Principal. UTS is currently beginning a process to develop detailed action plans for our strategic initiatives. This fall we undertook a review exercise to ascertain the degree of implementation of our current strategic plan, Building the Future, launched in 2008.  That plan laid out a number of strategic directions. We also considered new [...]

by Rosemary Evans Principal Over the past five years the Ontario government has launched an Aboriginal education strategy. The strategy focuses on supporting learning and enhancing achievement for all Aboriginal students in the province.  A second area of focus is to increase understanding of First Nation, Métis and Inuit cultures, histories and perspectives, in all [...]

By Rosemary Evans, Principal. As I noted in the previous post, UTS was one of 12 GTA secondary schools participating in the Global Ideas Institute this year. At the culminating symposium each team presented their own unique analysis of the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge and had obviously conducted significant research and applied the insights garnered during [...]

By Rosemary Evans, Principal. Sixty senior secondary students, representing 12 schools from across the GTA will gather at the Campbell Conference Centre at the Munk School of Global Affairs this week. For over six months, the students have been grappling with a global challenge related to sanitation.  Each school group will have the opportunity to present [...]

This weekend, six students and two teachers arrived in Toronto from Pelican Falls High School to commence an exchange with UTS. The exchange was organized in part through the support of Canadian Roots. Canadian Roots is an NGO that strives “to breakdown stereotypes, open a dialogue, and build honest relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people [...]

While the UTS Site Search Committee is busy exploring options for a new home for the school it is interesting to reflect on the question of school design in the past and future. When UTS was opened in 1910, the building represented the latest thinking in school architecture for the period. The high ceilings and [...]

The 21st century has given rise to a world where information on almost any topic is readily available – in copious quantities. The term “information explosion” hardly captures the fundamental change happening in the realm of knowledge creation, and it has momentous implications for teaching and learning. Certainly one of the most pressing changes is [...]

UTS has been working closely with, I-Think, the K-12 Integrative Thinking initiative at the Rotman School of Management. The initial results are diverse and productive. Last summer, UTS teachers, Charlie Pullen, Anand Mahadevan and Susie Choi attended a week-long teacher training institute on Integrative Thinking offered by OISE at the University of Toronto and led [...]