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The Ottawa Catholic School Board is the first school district ever to receive the Deep Learning Distinction Award. Over 1500 schools across eight countries take part in the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning network, and the OCSB is the first board from all participating countries to receive this honour. 

The OCSB is one of the Top 3 Energy Performing School Boards in Ontario. It is recognized by the Sustainable Schools program, which works with Boards across Canada to establish best practice energy efficiency targets.

Holy Trinity Catholic High School is the top Terry Fox Fundraising secondary school in Ontario. The school was recognized for its annual commitment to eradicating cancer.

St. Pius X High School Educator Lili Bastianelli received the Descartes Medal for her contributions to the teaching of mathematics.

Kinsley Jura, a St. Peter High School Student, is a 2020 Loran Scholar. She competed with 5,194 applicants from 21 regions across Canada to be one of just 36 chosen to receive the prestigious scholarship.

Grade 12, Notre Dame High School student, Erin Donahue-Boyle, is a 2020 Schulich Leader Scholarship Fund winner. The Fund supports undergraduate scholarships each year in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

The Grade 1 teaching team at St. Thomas More School won Mindshare Learning’s Classroom of the Future Challenge for demonstrating the role that technology plays in engaging and motivating students in its classroom.

Grade 5 class at St. Augustine School channelled their curiosity into a marketing idea to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, winning them the Judge’s Choice Award in the Learning Partnership’s Entrepreneurial Adventure Program. The students raised proceeds for CHEO by organizing a performance of an adapted play, which profiled the social struggles that Syrian refugees might experience upon arriving in Canada. 

St. Patrick’s High School principal, Brid McDonald, was honoured as one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals by the Learning Partnership for her exemplary leadership and commitment.

Two Ottawa Catholic School Board students placed first and second in the Ontario French Public Speaking Competition. Other students received university scholarships as national video contest winners for their creative French video entries on the topic of social media and virtual identity.

Math department teachers at St. Patrick’s High School received an award from the Ontario Association for Mathematics Education for Exceptional and Collaborative Mathematics Teaching, recognizing their creative use of modern technology and open communication channels to help students succeed in math.

The annual EduGala Awards were established in 2001 by a group of business and education leaders as a realization of their goal to recognize the role of the many dedicated top educators in Ottawa, and OCSB has had 22 nominees in the past 8 years.