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Welcome to Student Voice
What is it?
Student Voice aims to promote student engagement and success in Ontario's schools by listening to and learning from students. Student Voice provides you, the students, with a variety of ways to share your ideas with your school, the education community and the ministry about what would help support your engagement in your learning. Student Voice can help you take action to shape your learning environment while you build your skills.
Check out this video to get an idea of what's changing for Ontario students!
It all starts with you.
Speak up! You have a voice and we want to hear what you have to say about your education. Your ideas and actions can make a difference in Ontario's publicly funded education system. We want to help you make your school a place where everyone feels welcome and where you are empowered to speak your mind, get involved and become active citizens and leaders.
Students told as that you want to:
●share your ideas with government on how to strengthen student engagement and make Ontario's publicly funded education system even better.
●have a school culture where all students feel and know that they belong.
●work as partners with your teachers, and participate in school decisions that will shape your lives and the lives of other students.
This is your education. Speak up and get involved! Let's all work together to ensure Ontario's publicly funded education system remains among the best in the world.
Send your comments and ideas to studentvoice@ontario.ca
On a steamy July day in Bayonet Point, Florida, Gene Work and his brother-in-law, Mark Rouco, were renewing Gene's lawn. It had grown brown and patchy in the heat, and the homeowners' association had threatened to heavily fine him if the situation wasn't improved. The new sod (草皮) was sitting in the driveway on four pallets, but the job was slow-going. Gene, then 40, wasn't feeling right. He went inside to take a break and collapsed on the couch, clutching his chest. His wife, Melissa Work, called 911 quickly.
Even though he was staring down death. Gene had one thing on his mind: that lawn. If the sod wasn't put down that day, it would die. "While he was having his heart attack, literally in and out of consciousness, he kept begging me to have it put down because he didn't want it to go to waste," Melissa wrote in a Facebook post.
Soon Pasco County Fire Rescue arrived and took Gene and Melissa to the hospital, leaving Rouco behind to tackle the yard. Within an hour, he had managed to remove the old grass. He was about to lay the new sod, which he feared would take him well into the night, when two emergency vehicles appeared. Seven men--the same ones who had treated his brother--got out. Gene had told them how badly he'd wanted to get the sod down, so they had returned to help. The job was done in under two hours.
Meanwhile, Gene had surgery to insert stents (支架) in his heart, alleviating a potentially deadly blockage. He's home now, fully recovered--and enjoying his beautiful lawn.
The Works are still amazed that those EMTs (Emergency medical technician) went above and beyond their job description. "These men," Melissa told tampabay.com, "saved Gene's life, and then came back to save his grass. That's just so awesome."
Washing habits have changed over the years. In the 16th century, most people had a bath once a month…if they were lucky. Up until the 1950s, it was once a week. Only just recently has the concept of daily showering become popular. But now, according to the New York Times, things are changing again.
The latest trend is known as "soap-dodging". It basically consists of washing less, having fewer showers and using less soap. "I just wash my hair once a month now," said Brett Dawson, a 32-year-old management consultant. "I have just one bath a week," said Miriam Bayliss, a 28-year-old accountant.
And it appears to be growing in popularity. A poll last year for tissue manufacturer SCA found that 41% of British men and 33% of women don't shower every day. And 12% of people have a proper wash just once or twice a week. Further research by Mintel found that more than half of British teenagers don't wash every day-with many opting for a quick spray of deodorant (除臭剂) to mask any smell. But why?
There are a variety of reasons. Some claim that daily hair-washing is unnecessary. Commentator Matthew admitted that he hadn't shampooed his hair for a decade. Others say they just don't have the time. In 2008, the chemist Boots reported a 45% rise in sales of dry shampoo - a product that can be sprayed on hair between showers.
And some people want to help the environment. "I limit my showers to about twice a week," said Nigel Hamerstone, a 42-year-old architect. "The rest of the time I have a sink wash." he adds. "I believe that I'm as clean as everyone else, and it's helped get my water consumption down to around 20 litres a day - well below the 100 to 150 average in the UK."
So, will you be joining the new "washing revolution"?
Like infectious diseases, ideas in the academic world are epidemic (传染的). But why some travel far and wide while equally good ones has been a mystery? Now a team of computer scientists has used an epidemiological model to simulate (模仿) how ideas move from one academic institution to another. The model showed that ideas originating at famous institutions caused bigger "epidemics" than equally good ideas from less famous places, explains Allison Morgan, a computer scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
"This implies that where an idea is born shapes how far it spreads," says senior author Aaron Clauset.
Not only is this unfair— "it reveals a big weakness in how we're doing science," says Simon DeDeo, a professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon university, who was not involved in the study. "There are many highly trained people with good ideas who do not end up at top institutions. They are producing good ideas, and we know those ideas are getting lost," DeDeo says. "Our science, our scholarships, is not as good because of this."
The Colorado researchers first looked at how five big ideas in computer science spread to new institutions. They found that hiring a new faculty member accounted for this movement a little more than a third of the time--and in 81 percent of those cases, transmissions took place from higher – to lower-prestige (声望) universities. Then the team simulated the spread of ideas using an infectious disease model and found that the size of an idea "epidemic" depended on the prestige of the originating institution.
The researchers' model suggests that there "may be a number of quite good ideas that originate in the middle of the pack, in terms of universities." Clauset says. There is a lot of good work coming out of less famous places, he says: "You can learn a huge amount from it, and you can learn things that other people don't know because they're not even paying attention."
Finding time for yourself
Few people, these days would disagree with the theory that it's vital to take time for yourself. Creating some space for enjoyment and restoration each day or at least every week, is a win-win proposition. It'll make you both happier and more effective in fulfilling your responsibilities at work and home. . Here are some useful suggestions.
Don't wait until it feels right. , so you want to tell yourself that you'll only relax once everything is under control. But since both work and family life generate an infinite number of to-dos, that strategy is doomed (注定要失败的). As time-management writer Laura Vanderkam points out, it's far more useful to learn to tolerate the discomfort of knowing your email inbox is filling up, or that the living room is still a pigsty.
. It's all too easy to fill 'me time' with things you think you should enjoy, above all exercise. If you genuinely love such activities, they're perfect. But if the truth is that you don't, you'll only get angry. , even when the person doing the telling is ourselves. Make sure at least a small part of your week is spent doing something you can honestly say you enjoy for itself.
Pay attention to good feelings. Once you do get some restorative time, borrow a Buddhist technique for making it count: when you realize you're enjoying yourself, spend half a minute consciously paying attention to the feelings of pleasure. .
A. Choose true enjoyment
B. We hate being told what to do
C. Make commitments in advance
D. It's unpleasant to have unfinished tasks bother you
E. So, you'll often find that those feelings increase as a result
F. Making a plan in advance can create the space you need for your own happiness
G. Making sure you actually get a moment to yourself requires a shift in perspective
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight on the way from Boston to Los Angeles. A flight attendant asked a (n) 1 question over the loudspeaker: "Does anyone on 2 Know American Sign language?"
Clara, 15 at the time, 3 the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the 4. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf," she said. The passenger 5 to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn't 6 out what he needed, according to people.com.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her 7 in reading and knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's 8. So she 9 her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and 10 by the aisle seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she 11, "How are you? Are you OK?" Cook asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third 12, she stopped and stayed a while.
"He didn't need 13. He was lonely and wanted to talk" Clara says.
So for the next hour, that's what they did. She 14 about her family and her plans for the future (she wants to be a politician). Cook told Clara how he had 15 become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. 16 he couldn't see her, she "looked attentively at his face with such 17," a passenger reported.
"Clara was 18," a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. "You could 19 Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such a(n) 20."
Cook's reaction: "Best trip I've ever had."
For thousands of years, doctors (recognize) that childbirth can have a big effect on a woman's mind and body. Many women experience a time of sadness they give birth to a baby. This is called the baby blues, or postnatal depression.
Doctors do not know the exact cause of postnatal depression. But they believe that an imbalance of brain chemicals (be) probably the cause. Hormones are (nature) body chemicals. They affect a person's emotions. Immediately after pregnancy, a woman's hormone (level) change a lot. So, a woman's emotions and ways of thinking also change a lot.
Other brain chemicals also influence the way a person feels. They (physical) affect the brain. They make a person feel depressed. There are ways to fix and balance these brain chemicals.
Some medicines, (call) anti-depressants, can help to treat postnatal depression. But these medicines may cost a lot of money. And not all people can get them. However, there are ways that women may be able to treat and recover from these sicknesses without medicine.
If you are a new mother (suffer) from the baby blues or postnatal depression you should know that you are not alone. Other women have had same experiences. They have lived to have happy and healthy lives. If you are a husband, friend, or family member of a new mother, you should know that you can help! You can support the new mother. You can share the information her. You can help her find hope.
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Dear Jack,
I am writing to ask for your help. I am going to organizing a money-raising project for poor students. However, I am at a loss about what to start. I don't know what type of people was most likely to donate. Is it a good idea to visit to local business people? Besides, what is best way to let the public know your ideas? Last but not least, how can I guarantee that the money raising will be sent to the students who really needs it?
Considering that you have much experience in organizing similarly projects, I am wondering if you could give me some suggestion. I am looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
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