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Private education in Montreal

There are many reasons to choose a private school versus a public one for your child, including the small class sizes, safe learning environment, focus on academic achievement and variety of extracurriculars. In addition to these advantages, private education nurtures leadership skills early on in life and can help set your kids up to become the leaders of tomorrow, today. To find out which private school is best suited for your family and to learn more about the many private schools in Montreal, explore the interactive map below.

Michel Lafrance

Head of SchooL, Bishop’s College

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Encourage students to explore and engage in new experiences that will push them to discover their strengths and passions, and gain a better sense of who they are and want to be. Empower them to impact local communities through volunteerism, advocate for national concerns, and learn about global issues, so they understand how to initiate and lead substantive change.

What is the best way to support students to become leaders of tomorrow?

The best way to support students to become leaders is by believing in them and highlighting their potential. By acknowledging their strengths, we give students that extra power that will make a difference.

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Directrice Générale, Collège Charlemagne

Julie Beaudet

When you foster a student's curiosity, allow them to be creative and support their passion, you have given them a solid foundation to acquire skills and competencies that will serve them throughout their careers. Having authentic educational experiences serves to expand their confidence and leadership skills. These acquired competencies allow the students to succeed in a challenging and intercultural world

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Head of SchooL, Kells Academy

Linda Leiberman

It is crucial to provide a wide array of in-school leadership opportunities in arts, athletics, service, student government and global education. Concrete leadership experiences with peers from other parts of Canada and at the international level are also imperative if we hope to draw out hidden potential and awaken the best in our students.

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Head of SchooL, Lower Canada College

Chris Shannon

Loyola's Jesuit education seeks excellence in the individual and their commitment to the community. Excellence does not mean perfection, but discovery and rigorous application of an individual’s talents to serve the wider community.

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Principal, Loyola High School

Dr. Mark Diachyshyn

Our role as a school is to develop leaders who make informed decisions and then have the confidence and the courage to stand up for those beliefs.

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Headmaster of Selwyn House School

Michael Downey

At The Study, unique leadership activities and experiences begin in Kindergarten and are integrated within the curriculum as well as in our co-curricular programmes. Through forward-thinking pedagogy taught in an innovative all-girls’ environment, our students develop their own voices and their ability to lead, qualities that help them to be successful no matter how the world may evolve.

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Head of SchooL, The Study School

Kimberly McInnes

At Villa Maria, we foster the development of tomorrow's leaders by cherishing the fundamental values of respect and excellence, by empowering students to succeed through active pedagogy approaches, and by offering academic profiles geared towards the development of students' passions and in line with the job market. Finally, the involvement of all our students in community work ensures the development of a social conscience essential to the growth of engaged citizens.

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Director of Educational Services, Villa Maria

Stéphane Poupart

Help them to make connections between classroom learning and the wider curriculum of life. Build up their confidence in the face of an increasingly complex world by getting them to answer a few key questions: who am I? What do I stand for? Where do I want to go? Why do I want to go there?

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Head of SchooL, West Island College

Eric Jabal

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Shaping Leaders

In order to support students to become leaders of tomorrow we help them to build character, learn to overcome difficulties, develop self-confidence, engage in problem solving, make decisions and understand other points of views.

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Head of SchooL, Kuper Academy

Joan Salette

How is a leader of tomorrow shaped at school?

Helping students find their passion and empowering them to pursue it, whether it be through an in-class activity, a special project, an event or a committee, incorporates meaningful choice as part of the learning process. Private schools provide an ample variety of programs to help students develop various leadership qualities.

Meaningful choice

Based on real-life challenges and problem solving, experiential learning provides students with the opportunity to apply what they’ve been taught in the classroom to the real world. Different examples of experiential learning include entrepreneurship programs, gardening, and beekeeping.

Experiential learning

There are many student leadership positions for kids to get actively involved in at private school. This includes student government at the local, provincial and federal levels. Student councils help young people foster a sense of civic responsibility and leadership.

Student government

Whether it’s by hosting an international student or participating in a cross-cultural exchange, getting outside of your comfort zone, making new friends and learning new things are just some of the skills that are required to be a good leader. Effective communication, openness, understanding and empathy are all strengthened by international experience.

International experience

Students who play sports learn about teamwork, common goals, how to listen to others and treat them with respect, even if they’re on opposing teams. Dealing with failure is another aspect of leadership that sports teach students about, as well as success.

Sports

Group activities are great for promoting the skills that leadership requires: collaboration, communication, time management and decision-making. With everything from dancing, coding, model United Nations and photography on offer at most private schools, it’s easy for students to get motivated by a topic that inspires them.

Extra-curriculars

Students have countless opportunities to make a difference in the community, whether it be locally or internationally. Community engagement and volunteering are key to showing students what they can accomplish when they work together to help others or create change.

Community engagement and volunteering

Women are still missing in top leadership. Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s School was founded to challenge this inequity directly – to build the female leaders that a just, inclusive world requires. There are stereotypes ‘at work’. Women are considered empathetically community oriented and men as assertive agents of change – as if those two were not intrinsically interconnected. How to build such leaders involves curricula, considered always from a human rights' perspective, public position-taking (achieved through debating, public speaking, multi-media communicating), critical thinking serving creative problem solving, the development of empathy and cross-cultural awareness, and accountability for personal and collective integrity.

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Head of SchooL, ECS SCHOOL

Lauren Aslin

Leaders of tomorrow need to be equipped with knowledge and critical thinking skills, inspired to find their passion and purpose, and empowered to create and innovate.

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Associate Head of Progressive Education, St. George’s School

Kimberly Bartlett

Meaningful choice

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