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20% of our students are English as an additional language learners and approximately 20% have significant diverse learning needs. #CCSDedu has more than 140 classrooms designed to support diverse learners, including three congregated schools. bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy Alberta Education and Childcare

Let go of comparison. Someone else’s success is not your failure Image: instagram.com/katie_illustra…

Happy birthday to our Pope @franciscus 🕊️ Your humility, compassion, and wisdom inspire millions around the world. May God continue to bless and guide you in shepherding His Church. 🙏✨

#FundOurStudents AB’s 4 metro school boards educate 49.5% of students, but only receive 47% of the provincial funding for school jurisdictions. We need adequate/sustainable funding in this provincial budget: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 Alberta Education and Childcare @CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents Alberta Education and Childcare needs to update the funding model to keep pace with inflation and growth. This provincial budget needs to adequately fund enrolment growth: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg #CCSDAdvocacy Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 @CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents Out of all the provinces, Alberta continues to spend the least on its students. In 2023-24, Alberta Education and Childcare spent the lowest per student—roughly $10,000—vs. the Canadian provincial average—roughly $12,000: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 @CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents Everyone is feeling the pinch of rising costs. Alberta Education and Childcare funding hasn’t kept pace with soaring costs of utilities, maintenance, insurance, carbon taxes, etc. Since 2018, our fixed costs increased by more than 50% bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 @CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents Alberta’s 4 metro school boards educate 49.5% of students, but only receive 47% of provincial funding for school jurisdictions.We need adequate/sustainable funding in this provincial budget: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 Alberta Education and Childcare @CCSD_edu

I was at a JH band concert last week at St. Martha. Each time I attend a band concert I'm reminded of how important band teachers are to a student's overall learning experience. Thank you band teachers! The development students show and their excellence is amazing. @CCSD_edu

Soup day St. Patrick School is an event that students look forward to monthly. Excitement and gratitude over soup and a bun! It's a reminder of the importance of providing nutrition to students at school. Shout out to the staff/volunteers that work to feed our students.@CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents Alberta Education and Childcare needs to increase overall education dollars for school divisions in a way that keeps pace with enrolment growth, inflation and classroom complexity: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 @CCSD_edu

#FundOurStudents If we don’t receive adequate funding from Alberta Education and Childcare in this prov budget, we’ll need to make hard choices about our classrooms. Gov’t decisions to scale back funding in any one year have implications for years: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 cc

#FundOurStudents~81% of #CCSDedu expenditures support the classroom.But without extra funding, those education $ also pay for students’ wellness, mental health, nutrition, transportation,etc. We need adequate funding in the provincial budget: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾

#FundOurStudents More students = more staff, supports and resources. We need appropriate and sustainable funding in this provincial budget to accommodate rising operating and staffing costs: bit.ly/CCSDAdvocacy #abed #ableg Demetrios Nicolaides 🇨🇦 🇨🇾 @CCSD_edu

Thank you to our Zone 5 members for a productive meeting today. Many thanks to Zone Chair Theresa Letendre for hosting, Zone Director Rob Pirie for his leadership and to all for the discussion. #abed

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Archbishop Richard W. Smith on his appointment as the next Archbishop of Vancouver. His years of dedicated service in Edmonton and his leadership as our bishop liaison have been a true blessing. Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton Archdiocese of Vancouver

The Holy See Press Office has released a picture of Pope Francis in prayer after concelebrating the Eucharist this morning. It's the first to be released since the Pope's hospitalisation on 14 February. Photo © Holy See Press Office

Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️

My annual tradition is to attend the mass at St Patrick school on March 17.Beautiful school! St. Patrick, pray for us and for publicly funded Catholic education as we nurture hearts and minds. @CCSD_edu