Summit is Ottawa's only Alternative Middle School. It is dedicated to providing an Alternative education based on the principles of Alternative Education:
- Co-operation and Teamwork
- Innovative teaching approaches, with shared responsibility amoung staff, students and parents.
- Student-directed learning
- Multi-aged groupings
- Integrated curriculum
- Parental Involvement
- Anecdotal reporting
The roles of the council are to:
- Build a sense of community by supporting experiential learning (field trips, Stock Market, carnival, workshops, etc.)
- Enhance the home-school relationship
- Provide advice and comments to administration, staff & board on areas such as:
- the school-year calendar;
- the school code of student conduct;
- curriculum and program goals and priorities;
- the responses of the school or Board to achievement in provincial and Board assessment...
