Factors affecting secondary school success in Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park communities

This project explores factors that affect the success of secondary school students in communities with relatively high newcomer and immigrant populations. This project aims to gain unbiased insight from the students themselves, focusing on what they identify as barriers and how they would like to be supported to overcome these barriers. The partner organization, The Neighbourhood Organization (TNO) will assist with this goal by updating the resources and aids they provide to secondary school students in the Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park communities. This area is a hotspot for newcomers to Canada due to its diversity, but as a result, the area is densely populated and students have unique challenges relative to other Ontario high school students. Data will be collected through interactive techniques such as word cloud polls and focus groups.

Faculty Supervisor:

Julia O’Sullivan

Student:

Partner:

The Neighbourhood Organization

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

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