Canada-wide School Twinning Pilot Project

CIC is launching a Canada-wide School Twinning Pilot Project!

This initiative will engage and challenge grade 7-12 students from schools across the country, as their classrooms are virtually “twinned” with another Canadian school to jointly develop and implement multiculturalism and civic participation projects.

The objective is to cultivate a better appreciation and understanding of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, as well as their roles as citizens of our diverse country. CIC’s study guide, Discover Canada: the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, is an integral part of the project’s reference material.

There will be three themes during the pilot phase of this initiative:

• Be Heard! The Democratic Process in Canada.
• Take Action! Volunteering and Community Engagement.
• Getting it Right: Past Lessons and Current Applications (learning, understandings and applying past lessons to today’s issues).

Participating schools will be asked to submit their completed projects by March 31, 2013, which will be showcased by CIC on the Teachers & Youth Web Corner They will also be eligible to receive reimbursement for up to $500 in expenses related to their project, and to host a guest speaker provided by Historica-Dominica Institute’s Passages to Canada Speakers’ Bureau.

Teachers from schools recognized by their provincial or territorial Ministry of Education, or by INAC for on-reserve schools, are invited to contact CIC-Twin-jumelage@cic.gc.ca for more information on the program and how to participate.