WE WILL WE WON’T
BY KOENRAAD BEUGELINK, FAITH FORMATION DIRECTOR Before reading any further: Please try not to respond to your phone notifications until you are done reading. This week we started our “We Will, We Won’t” digital citizenship series at the secondary campus. This will be a staggered system-wide series of various lengths over the next few weeks. So, if your kids come home wanting to delete their social media apps or they ask you to turn the Wi-Fi off at supper time or they admit your idea of wanting to take a hammer to their device is not a [...]
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To launch the Inside Out blog in 2015, we created this music video to introduce our brave writers. While some of the writers have changed since then, we still feel it celebrates the spirit of who we are and the types of stories we want to share with you. Enjoy!