Two SHA board members retire

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Two SHA board members retire

At the Nov. 12 Annual General Meeting of the Selwyn House Association, it was announced that SHA Board Members Charles Bierbrier ’93 (left) and Parent Of Old Boys Christine Cachia (right) were retiring from the Board, to be replaced with SHS

Parents Courtney Beckerleg and François Hudon. At centre in the photo is SHA Board Chair Jonathan Goldbloom ’72.

Minna Shulman picked for Speirs

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Over the years, Selwyn House, like many schools, has adapted to the changing needs of today’s students. There is now a much greater awareness of learning differences and special needs.

“We were able to work with the faculty to offer extra time and smaller exam spaces for boys who were slow readers or had disabling anxiety or ADHD,” she recalls. “This was a precursor to our hiring our wonderful learning strategists and starting the Student Success Centre. It also opened the floodgates on parents sharing their understanding and assessment of their sons’ learning needs. This openness was very helpful to the students and the faculty. Today, 20 per cent of students need special services.”

Family is of utmost importance to Minna, her own and all

families, and she advocates a “back-to-basics” approach to counter current trends in society. “There used to be a lot more parental involvement, along with organized religion and other community support groups,” she says. “The community looked out for you.” Today’s families often don’t even eat dinner together, she laments. But she still loves our Minna with Evren Boisjoli 2008 (left) and Reid Hannaford 2012 Selwyn House families. She would prefer that we all learn to slow life down and pay more attention to what really matters And what matters most? “I feel my biggest responsibility is to listen and not judge,” she says. At one point she made a pledge to herself: “From now on,” she said, “I’m going to try to do everything with love.”