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At RLC, we work to make sure each student's needs are understood and met. With small classes, our teachers know their students well, and they build classrooms where every student has a way to showcase what they’ve learned.
Learning at RLC is student-centred, with a strong focus on hands-on experience (often outdoors), inquiry, and creativity. Students often help design their own learning: they shape the questions that drive a unit, help plan learning experiences, and even help create their assessments.
Our Student Success program is led by Sarah Andras, OCT, Student Success Coordinator and Special Education Specialist.
Ms. Andras has taught students from elementary school to Grade 12, and she works closely with students, families, and teachers to help each student grow more independent and learn to speak up for what they need.
For each student with a documented learning need, Ms. Andras builds an Individual Student Strategies (ISS) Plan, RLC's equivalent of an IEP. Each ISS Plan:
Our goal is simple: to help students succeed, especially when learning feels hard. We want every classroom to be a place for what educator Carol Ann Tomlinson calls "fearless practice and discovery."
Every teacher plans using Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL doesn't change what students are expected to learn. It changes how they get there, so every student can:
Teachers also adapt their teaching for individual students and work with Ms. Andras to put the right accommodations in place.
From the Foundation Years to Grade 12, we teach students the skills that help them plan, organize, and manage their own learning, often called executive functioning.
Starting in Grades 7 and 8, students are taught six key learning skills: responsibility, organization, independent work, collaboration, initiative, and self-regulation. Every student receives an agenda at the start of the year to help them plan and manage their time.
As students grow, these skills build into the Rosseau Roots: being thoughtful, persuasive, adventurous, creative, self-aware, and community-minded. The goal is confident, resilient learners who can lead themselves and contribute to the people around them. From Grade 9 on, Student Success also includes academic and post-secondary planning.
Every RLC student has a Teacher Advisor, a faculty member who gets to know them well. Each Teacher Advisor leads a small group of students from different grades, and the group meets every week to set goals, reflect on how they're doing, and stay accountable. Along the way, students build strong friendships across the school.
Teacher Advisors help students understand how they learn and think through challenges, in school and beyond it. If a course is getting difficult, the Teacher Advisor is the first person to talk to, and they'll help the student and the course teacher work it out together.
"Mr. Walker put all of this effort into really trying to help me in chemistry class. Because he tried, and he showed faith in me, I was able to succeed."
Roberto '24, Canada, now studying Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo
Learning Strategies courses help students in Grades 9 and 10 build their executive functioning skills. We strongly encourage students in these grades who have an ISS Plan to take one. In the Foundation Years, the same skills are built into the whole program, so students start high school with a strong base.
Student success is a shared responsibility. Everyone in our Circle of Care works together to support students in their daily learning and their long-term goals.
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Support at RLC follows a Response to Intervention (RTI) model, with three tiers.
