Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies
| Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies ( English | |
|---|---|
| Colour(s) | Blue and Silver |
| Mascot | Eagle |
| Team name | SCAS Eagles |
| Website | scasonline |
Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies (SCAS), formerly
History
Beginnings
The Re-entry Program in Scarborough began in November 1977 at Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute with one teacher and fifteen students. Envisioned was a program which would meet the needs of dropouts or disadvantaged learners wishing to return to school; the program had grown and transformed into an adult program. By 1985, the program featured 9.33 teachers and 200 students.
In 1980, the Co-Op Re-entry Program was established. The program featured an in-school component with a job experience placement and grew from the original two teachers and 35 students to 5 teachers and 170 students in 1986.
Formerly known as Tabor Park Vocational School, the Re-entry Programs were united and expanded as Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies originally opened on September 2, 1986 at 959 Midland Avenue operated by the Scarborough Board of Education with 360 adults. At Tabor Park, agencies operating at SCAS included a rooms registry service called Scarborough Housing Assistance: Placement and Education for Singles (SHAPES), the counseling service Metro Youth Services, a day care facility operated by NYAD (Not Your Average Day Care), and the board's Community Liaison Office.[1]
Relocation
In May 1988, the SBE was planning to move the SCAS to a new facility.
Meanwhile, the SBE moved classes as a method to quickly find a temporary location before the Tabor Park property being transferred to the MSSB on July 1, 1989. To save the costs, 28 classes were moved to the former Highbrook Senior Public School on 39 Highbrook Drive, Thomson Collegiate received 20 classes at 2740 Lawrence Avenue East (along with the Carpentry program) and moved the remaining six to a commercial site in the area totaling to 54 classes.[6]
The original SCAS campus was reopened and became known as
After 16 years, in September 2010, the school moved to 720 Midland Avenue, the site of the former Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute as Centennial expanded the teaching space by acquiring the latter site.[9] The centre currently shares the Midland building with South East Year Round Alternative Centre and Caring and Safe Schools program.
SCAS also operated a satellite campus at the David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute for the Carpentry (Fix-It Shop) program until the Lawrence building was closed at the end of June 2019.
Overview
Like all TDSB adult learning centres, it has two distinctive programs, EdVance and Adult.
Campus
Since the school is located in the
Historically, the school was attached by a day care centre, Not Your Average Daycare, and continues to do so today.
As the Progress Campus built in the lands of Centennial College, the school was built in a triangular configuration and students would get lunches from the college's cafeteria. Previously, SCAS had lunch service at the Tabor Park campus.
Other SCAS-affiliated schools
Alternative Scarborough Education 1
Alternative Scarborough Education 1 (ASE 1) is an alternative school originally affiliated with SCAS. Founded in 1975, the school shares the space with St. Andrew's Public School on the second floor.
- Founded: 1975
- Address: c/o St. Andrew's Public School - 60 Brimorton Drive, Bendale, Toronto, Ontario M1P 3Z1, Canada
- School number: 4110 / 892475
- Superintendent: John Chasty (ER14)
- Area Trustee: David Smith (Ward 19)
- Principal: Denis Lopes
- Vice Principals Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Grades: 11-12
- Website: http://aseone.ca/moodle
Delphi Secondary Alternative School
Delphi Secondary Alternative School, formerly known as Alternative Scarborough Education 2 is an alternative school located on the second floor of the Chartland Junior Public School building. The school was founded in 1981 and in 2006, it was renamed to Delphi
- Founded: 1981
- Address: c/o Chartland Junior Public School - 109 Chartland Boulevard South, Agincourt, Toronto, Ontario M1S 2R7, Canada
- School number: 4109 / 892483
- Superintendent: Kathleen Garner
- Area Trustee: TBD
- Principal: Denis Lopes
- Vice Principals Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Grades: 9-12
- Website: schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/delphi/
Parkview Alternative School
Parkview Alternative School was originally established in the 1990s as a SCAS-branded campus known as SCAS Overflow in the former Highbrook Senior Public School building providing the alternative education for dropouts. In 2010, the school was renamed to the Overflow Centre and moved to the Terraview Learning Centre building in the Pharmacy Avenue/401 area. As of 2014, it then adopted the present name.
- Address: c/o Terraview Learning Centre - 1641 Pharmacy Avenue, Maryvale, Toronto, Ontario M1R 2L4, Canada
- School number: 4176 / 939480
- Superintendent: Tracy Hayhurst (ER15)
- Area Trustee: Manna Wong (Ward 20)
- Principal: Denis Lopes
- Vice Principals Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Grades: 9-10
See also
- List of high schools in Ontario
- Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute
- St. Joan of Arc Catholic Academy
References
- ^ Astorga-Garcia, Mila. "'Supermarket' education offered for adults at centre." Toronto Star. December 23, 1986. Neighbors p. E17. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.
- ^ Daly, Rita. "Scarborough centre for adult learning needs new home." Toronto Star. January 10, 1989. Neighbors p. E3. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.
- ^ Daly, Rita. "Trustees resent turning school over to Catholics." Toronto Star. September 20, 1988. News p. A7. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.
- ^ Daly, Rita. "Scarborough board tries to relocate adult school." Toronto Star. November 15, 1988. Neighbors p. E3. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.
- ^ "Donwood area parents oppose learning centre." Toronto Star. October 31, 1988. News p. A6. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.
- ^ "Theft suspect nabbed after alert shoppers flag a cruiser." Toronto Star. February 1, 1989. News p. A6. Retrieved on October 8, 2013. "In a desperate attempt to find[...]served mostly single parents who had dropped out of school. "
- ^ Boyle, Theresa. "Adult education centre will be constructed at Centennial College." Toronto Star. January 23, 1992. Scarborough/Durham SD p. 4. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
- ^ Deverell, John. "'One-stop' career training centre." Toronto Star. January 27, 1994. Scarborough/Durham SD p. 3. Retrieved on October 8, 2013. "The city's adult education programs, which usually enrol about 1100, have been in temporary accommodations ever since Tabor Park Vocational School was ceded to the separate school board several years ago."
- ^ "Centennial College | $10.8 million budget surplus and 24% enrolment growth fuels expansion plans at Centennial College". www.newswire.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-10-12.