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Keechiu wants to collect textiles. 
This month, Tanjong Pagar Town Council is holding a
textile collection drive across Tanjong Pagar GRC. We will be collecting pre-loved items such as clothes, shoes and towels. They will be sorted and reused or recycled.
Please support this initiative! Details of the various collection points can be found in the video.
#OurGreenTPTC #SustainableTPtown
#SGGreenPlan
Chan Chun Sing
13 hrs ·This month, Tanjong Pagar Town Council is holding a
Please support this initiative! Details of the various collection points can be found in the video.
#OurGreenTPTC #SustainableTPtown
#SGGreenPlan
from straitstimes.com:
SINGAPORE - SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) will refine its funding framework for training to achieve better manpower outcomes, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (July 5).
From 2024, workers will no longer get subsidies from SSG for most non-certifiable courses.
SkillsFuture credits will also no longer fund these courses, which currently comprise about 7 per cent of the courses the national body for skills development funds, SSG said on Tuesday.
Mr Chan said the refinements to SSG’s funding framework are part of efforts to better support training with manpower outcomes.
They are also meant to ensure that training is refreshed to meet the objectives of job placement, skills deepening and career advancement for individuals, as well as job redesign and business transformation for enterprises, he added.
Mr Chan, who spoke at the launch of the SkillsFuture Forum 2022 on Tuesday, also announced his road map for Singapore's adult education sector to reach his goal of retraining at least half a million working adults a year.
He had announced this goal at The Straits Times Education Forum in February.
Tuesday's event was held at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Paya Lebar and kicked off the SkillsFuture Festival, which runs from Tuesday until Aug 14.
Mr Chan identified four key challenges that must be met for Singapore to upskill its workforce at scale.
First, the country must overcome an asymmetry of information to spark the interest of working adults in reskilling and upskilling, he said.
He noted that they have to juggle work, financial, family and social commitments and responsibilities.
"Many tend to apply a high discount rate towards training due to the tyranny of the 'urgent', and the 'here and now'. Bread-and-butter issues understandably occupy their minds."
He said efforts such as personalised skills advisory services have been set up. There are also plans to improve outreach to help people navigate the training ecosystem, but these are not enough on their own, the minister added.
These must be complemented by three other strategies, he said, namely, articulating companies' demand for future skills, aggregating such demand in different sectors and activating a supply of such skills through quality training.
On the need to articulate demand for future skills, Mr Chan said individual companies may not know what future skills they need.
He added: "This is where the Government, SSG, trade associations and chambers and our unions must come in and take the lead."
He gave the example of SSG's Skills Demand for the Future Economy report published in December. It drew on data from the global, regional and local jobs skills trends to show which skills are in demand from three sectors important for Singapore's growth: the green, care and digital economies.
Mr Chan added that human resource teams must then translate the demand for specific skills into their hiring and job design processes.
He said: "This will allow companies to focus more on skills and competencies, rather than relying on only qualifications such as degrees or diplomas as a proxy of the candidate's suitability."
Beyond articulating the skills demand of its companies, Singapore needs each industry to aggregate or collate the demand for skills across its different sectors, Mr Chan added.
This is where trade associations and chambers, being an important bridge between the Government and employers, must step up as intermediaries, he said.
They will play a leading role to support and engage small and medium-sized enterprises in identifying the skills the SMEs need, help disseminate jobs and skills insights, and put in place structures to accredit skills acquired at the workplace.
Mr Chan said: "For a start, SSG is working with the Infocomm Media Development Authority to partner SGTech and the Singapore Computer Society as skills development partners in the information and communications technology sector."
With the support of such intermediate bodies, Singapore will improve its agility and market responsiveness to accelerate the SkillsFuture movement, Mr Chan added.
Only when these conditions are met can the supply of future skills be optimised, he said.
Mr Chan said: "First, we must place more focus on how adult education is delivered.
"Our training providers and institutes of higher learning must step up to the role, to combine the currency of frontier industry knowledge with best adult education practices."
To this end, he announced that the Institute for Adult Learning will sign two separate agreements with the five polytechnics and NTUC LearningHub to enhance capability development in Singapore's training and adult education sector.
He said: "It is a worthwhile journey because if we do this well, workers and enterprises across all sectors of our economy will benefit from these investments."
SkillsFuture funding framework to focus on courses relevant to industry
SINGAPORE - SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) will refine its funding framework for training to achieve better manpower outcomes, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing on Tuesday (July 5).
From 2024, workers will no longer get subsidies from SSG for most non-certifiable courses.
SkillsFuture credits will also no longer fund these courses, which currently comprise about 7 per cent of the courses the national body for skills development funds, SSG said on Tuesday.
Mr Chan said the refinements to SSG’s funding framework are part of efforts to better support training with manpower outcomes.
They are also meant to ensure that training is refreshed to meet the objectives of job placement, skills deepening and career advancement for individuals, as well as job redesign and business transformation for enterprises, he added.
Mr Chan, who spoke at the launch of the SkillsFuture Forum 2022 on Tuesday, also announced his road map for Singapore's adult education sector to reach his goal of retraining at least half a million working adults a year.
He had announced this goal at The Straits Times Education Forum in February.
Tuesday's event was held at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Paya Lebar and kicked off the SkillsFuture Festival, which runs from Tuesday until Aug 14.
Mr Chan identified four key challenges that must be met for Singapore to upskill its workforce at scale.
First, the country must overcome an asymmetry of information to spark the interest of working adults in reskilling and upskilling, he said.
He noted that they have to juggle work, financial, family and social commitments and responsibilities.
"Many tend to apply a high discount rate towards training due to the tyranny of the 'urgent', and the 'here and now'. Bread-and-butter issues understandably occupy their minds."
He said efforts such as personalised skills advisory services have been set up. There are also plans to improve outreach to help people navigate the training ecosystem, but these are not enough on their own, the minister added.
These must be complemented by three other strategies, he said, namely, articulating companies' demand for future skills, aggregating such demand in different sectors and activating a supply of such skills through quality training.
On the need to articulate demand for future skills, Mr Chan said individual companies may not know what future skills they need.
He added: "This is where the Government, SSG, trade associations and chambers and our unions must come in and take the lead."
He gave the example of SSG's Skills Demand for the Future Economy report published in December. It drew on data from the global, regional and local jobs skills trends to show which skills are in demand from three sectors important for Singapore's growth: the green, care and digital economies.
Mr Chan added that human resource teams must then translate the demand for specific skills into their hiring and job design processes.
He said: "This will allow companies to focus more on skills and competencies, rather than relying on only qualifications such as degrees or diplomas as a proxy of the candidate's suitability."
Beyond articulating the skills demand of its companies, Singapore needs each industry to aggregate or collate the demand for skills across its different sectors, Mr Chan added.
This is where trade associations and chambers, being an important bridge between the Government and employers, must step up as intermediaries, he said.
They will play a leading role to support and engage small and medium-sized enterprises in identifying the skills the SMEs need, help disseminate jobs and skills insights, and put in place structures to accredit skills acquired at the workplace.
Mr Chan said: "For a start, SSG is working with the Infocomm Media Development Authority to partner SGTech and the Singapore Computer Society as skills development partners in the information and communications technology sector."
With the support of such intermediate bodies, Singapore will improve its agility and market responsiveness to accelerate the SkillsFuture movement, Mr Chan added.
Only when these conditions are met can the supply of future skills be optimised, he said.
Mr Chan said: "First, we must place more focus on how adult education is delivered.
"Our training providers and institutes of higher learning must step up to the role, to combine the currency of frontier industry knowledge with best adult education practices."
To this end, he announced that the Institute for Adult Learning will sign two separate agreements with the five polytechnics and NTUC LearningHub to enhance capability development in Singapore's training and adult education sector.
He said: "It is a worthwhile journey because if we do this well, workers and enterprises across all sectors of our economy will benefit from these investments."
from straitstimes.com:
SINGAPORE - Since last year, civil servant Samuel Tan has been embedded with e-commerce company Shopee, where his work is to understand business models in various markets, identify opportunities and develop solutions to capture them.
Mr Tan, who has been a civil servant for 16 years, took up the post to help him gain a deeper understanding of technology, which will serve him well on his return to the public service later this year.
Mr Tan, 41, said: "I saw it as a natural progression from my work in the Infocomm and Media Development Authority (IMDA) that would enable me to pick up new skill sets and gain new insights related to the technology sector."
Minister-in-charge of the public service Chan Chun Sing said on Friday (July 8) that other public servants should take the chance to get exposure like Mr Tan, and take charge of their own growth and development.
Speaking at the One Public Service Observance Ceremony, which is part of the annual Public Service Week, Mr Chan, who is also Education Minister, said: "With the new skills, insights, and network that Samuel picked up at Shopee, he is much better equipped to drive digitalisation and tech talent development for the nation back at IMDA."
Adopting lifelong learning is essential for both individual public officers and the service as a whole to stay relevant so that it is ready to take on the complex challenges of the future, said Mr Chan.
He added that starting from this year, each public officer can also use up to 40 hours a year to pursue developmental opportunities with private, social, and non-profit organisations.
Public Service Week has been held since 2008 to celebrate and recognise the work of government officers.
Friday's event at the HDB Auditorium in Toa Payoh was attended virtually and in-person by about 15,000 public servants from across the Government.
Mr Chan said Singapore's public service must also be agile and collaborative if it is to steer Singapore successfully through the coming period of global political and economic instability and change.
How nimble it is will determine if Singapore can seize opportunities within the challenges, and secure its future, he said.
Citing how the public service was swift to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and how it is now cross-training its officers in front-line services, he said: "We were able to do these (measures against Covid-19) in an agile and coordinated manner because of our early steps to form cross-functional teams like the multi-ministry task force on the virus and the Homefront Crisis Executive Group.
"Working together gave agencies a deep understanding of the challenges that we were all facing together. It gave us a deep sense of trust in one another. This is the 'secret sauce' that allows us to be agile."
The service must also cultivate a culture of collaboration, said Mr Chan, adding that no single agency has a monopoly of knowledge or skills.
In tackling climate change, for instance, various agencies are working with businesses, households and individuals to bring Singapore's carbon emissions to net zero by the middle of this century.
Besides collaboration at agency level, all officers are encouraged to work with one another, said Mr Chan.
He said: "The next lap of our nation building will not just be about how well we do as a public service.
"It will also be about how well we bring the rest of the country along with us, where everyone feels a sense of commitment in this journey ahead. It is not just about delivering for our people. It is about delivering with our people."
Civil servants must take charge of own learning and growth: Chan Chun Sing
SINGAPORE - Since last year, civil servant Samuel Tan has been embedded with e-commerce company Shopee, where his work is to understand business models in various markets, identify opportunities and develop solutions to capture them.
Mr Tan, who has been a civil servant for 16 years, took up the post to help him gain a deeper understanding of technology, which will serve him well on his return to the public service later this year.
Mr Tan, 41, said: "I saw it as a natural progression from my work in the Infocomm and Media Development Authority (IMDA) that would enable me to pick up new skill sets and gain new insights related to the technology sector."
Minister-in-charge of the public service Chan Chun Sing said on Friday (July 8) that other public servants should take the chance to get exposure like Mr Tan, and take charge of their own growth and development.
Speaking at the One Public Service Observance Ceremony, which is part of the annual Public Service Week, Mr Chan, who is also Education Minister, said: "With the new skills, insights, and network that Samuel picked up at Shopee, he is much better equipped to drive digitalisation and tech talent development for the nation back at IMDA."
Adopting lifelong learning is essential for both individual public officers and the service as a whole to stay relevant so that it is ready to take on the complex challenges of the future, said Mr Chan.
He added that starting from this year, each public officer can also use up to 40 hours a year to pursue developmental opportunities with private, social, and non-profit organisations.
Public Service Week has been held since 2008 to celebrate and recognise the work of government officers.
Friday's event at the HDB Auditorium in Toa Payoh was attended virtually and in-person by about 15,000 public servants from across the Government.
Mr Chan said Singapore's public service must also be agile and collaborative if it is to steer Singapore successfully through the coming period of global political and economic instability and change.
How nimble it is will determine if Singapore can seize opportunities within the challenges, and secure its future, he said.
Citing how the public service was swift to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and how it is now cross-training its officers in front-line services, he said: "We were able to do these (measures against Covid-19) in an agile and coordinated manner because of our early steps to form cross-functional teams like the multi-ministry task force on the virus and the Homefront Crisis Executive Group.
"Working together gave agencies a deep understanding of the challenges that we were all facing together. It gave us a deep sense of trust in one another. This is the 'secret sauce' that allows us to be agile."
The service must also cultivate a culture of collaboration, said Mr Chan, adding that no single agency has a monopoly of knowledge or skills.
In tackling climate change, for instance, various agencies are working with businesses, households and individuals to bring Singapore's carbon emissions to net zero by the middle of this century.
Besides collaboration at agency level, all officers are encouraged to work with one another, said Mr Chan.
He said: "The next lap of our nation building will not just be about how well we do as a public service.
"It will also be about how well we bring the rest of the country along with us, where everyone feels a sense of commitment in this journey ahead. It is not just about delivering for our people. It is about delivering with our people."
Keechiu congratulates new teachers. 
Congratulations and a warm welcome to the newest members of our teaching fraternity!
More than 800 new and returning teachers are graduating from National Institute of Education (NIE) and will join Ministry of Education, Singapore family to inspire and nurture our next generation.
Glad to share that 6 of our teachers have received the Outstanding Youth in Education Award (OYEA) for their steadfast dedication in holistically developing their students through innovative and meaningful learning experiences. These include creating interactive virtual learning journeys to engage their students and using games and apps as a form of learning assessment. Well done to all of you!
To our graduands who have chosen this noble profession, I hope you embrace the joy and fulfilment in teaching and continue to develop yourselves and broaden your perspectives. I am confident that each of you will enrich our education fraternity and guide your students to the best of your abilities.
Read my speech here:
go.gov.sg/chanchunsing-speech-nie-tic
#NIETIC2022 #niesingapore #nieconversations
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Chan Chun Sing added 3 new photos.
Yesterday at 21:46 ·Congratulations and a warm welcome to the newest members of our teaching fraternity!
More than 800 new and returning teachers are graduating from National Institute of Education (NIE) and will join Ministry of Education, Singapore family to inspire and nurture our next generation.
Glad to share that 6 of our teachers have received the Outstanding Youth in Education Award (OYEA) for their steadfast dedication in holistically developing their students through innovative and meaningful learning experiences. These include creating interactive virtual learning journeys to engage their students and using games and apps as a form of learning assessment. Well done to all of you!
To our graduands who have chosen this noble profession, I hope you embrace the joy and fulfilment in teaching and continue to develop yourselves and broaden your perspectives. I am confident that each of you will enrich our education fraternity and guide your students to the best of your abilities.
Read my speech here:
go.gov.sg/chanchunsing-speech-nie-tic
#NIETIC2022 #niesingapore #nieconversations
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He is a true representative of stinkies.
Loud. Boastful. Ignorant. Imbecile. Thinks too highly of himself. And a true blue stinkypura paper general.
If anybody thought these paper generalss would know a thing or two about defence affairs, geopolitics and independence, he would need to watch keechiu's moves again. And again.
Loud. Boastful. Ignorant. Imbecile. Thinks too highly of himself. And a true blue stinkypura paper general.
If anybody thought these paper generalss would know a thing or two about defence affairs, geopolitics and independence, he would need to watch keechiu's moves again. And again.
Keechiu is looking forward to the Singapore Youth Festival - SYF Arts Presentation.
Our primary school students in the performing arts CCAs are taking the stage for the Singapore Youth Festival - SYF Arts Presentation
After a 4-year hiatus due to #COVID19 the SYF Arts Presentation will see our young students from more than 180 schools showcase their diverse talents in the various performing arts categories.
May our students put forth their best performance as a team and shine brightly as unique individuals.
Do catch the live streaming of our students’ performances from now till 25 August at https://www.syf.gov.sg/arts.../about-the-arts-presentation
Chan Chun Sing
13 July at 09:10 ·Our primary school students in the performing arts CCAs are taking the stage for the Singapore Youth Festival - SYF Arts Presentation
After a 4-year hiatus due to #COVID19 the SYF Arts Presentation will see our young students from more than 180 schools showcase their diverse talents in the various performing arts categories.
May our students put forth their best performance as a team and shine brightly as unique individuals.
Do catch the live streaming of our students’ performances from now till 25 August at https://www.syf.gov.sg/arts.../about-the-arts-presentation
Keechiu encourages you to head down to National Museum of Singapore from now till 25 July to view some of the artworks on display.
The Singapore Youth Festival - SYF Art Exhibition gives plenty of food for thought on “Sustainability”, and how it relates to people, culture, the environnment and future possibilities.
Students from Dunman High School 德明政府中学 highlighted the impact of climate change through the use of paper sculpture to depict bleached corals in Singapore waters.
And for Micole Leanne Koh from East Spring Secondary School, sustainability is about a society with healthy mental wellness and she hopes to remind people that they are not alone through her painting.
Do head down to National Museum of Singapore from now till 25 July to view some of the artworks on display. You may also view the full collection of more than 500 artworks by students from over 120 Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, and Millennia Institute via the online gallery at https://go.gov.sg/artist-and-sustainability
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Chan Chun Sing
Yesterday at 08:11 ·The Singapore Youth Festival - SYF Art Exhibition gives plenty of food for thought on “Sustainability”, and how it relates to people, culture, the environnment and future possibilities.
Students from Dunman High School 德明政府中学 highlighted the impact of climate change through the use of paper sculpture to depict bleached corals in Singapore waters.
And for Micole Leanne Koh from East Spring Secondary School, sustainability is about a society with healthy mental wellness and she hopes to remind people that they are not alone through her painting.
Do head down to National Museum of Singapore from now till 25 July to view some of the artworks on display. You may also view the full collection of more than 500 artworks by students from over 120 Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, and Millennia Institute via the online gallery at https://go.gov.sg/artist-and-sustainability
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Keechiu is glad to see Wan doing well!
How do you give back to your school?
For Boon Lay Secondary alumnus Wan, he returned to his alma mater to operate a canteen stall, offering his juniors delicious meals that brighten up their school day. The popular stall serves up western-fusion dishes like black pepper pasta, tom yum pasta, and Cajun chicken.
After graduating from secondary school, Wan, who is 28, pursued culinary studies and worked in fine dining restaurants to gain experience, before returning to Boon Lay Secondary to open this stall 3 years ago.
Starting a business at 25 takes courage. With #COVID19 in the past 2 years, Wan also had to weather some challenging months when home-based learning had to kick in. But he shared that “things are getting back to normal”. Glad to see Wan doing well!
#ourschoolstories #ourcanteenfood
Chan Chun Sing
Yesterday at 07:45 ·How do you give back to your school?
For Boon Lay Secondary alumnus Wan, he returned to his alma mater to operate a canteen stall, offering his juniors delicious meals that brighten up their school day. The popular stall serves up western-fusion dishes like black pepper pasta, tom yum pasta, and Cajun chicken.
After graduating from secondary school, Wan, who is 28, pursued culinary studies and worked in fine dining restaurants to gain experience, before returning to Boon Lay Secondary to open this stall 3 years ago.
Starting a business at 25 takes courage. With #COVID19 in the past 2 years, Wan also had to weather some challenging months when home-based learning had to kick in. But he shared that “things are getting back to normal”. Glad to see Wan doing well!
#ourschoolstories #ourcanteenfood
Keechiu has conversations with students.
Student A: Minister, can we have a lift in school?
Me: Your main reason for the request being ….?
Student A: So we don’t have to run up and down the stairs when we move between classrooms… it’s tiring…
Me: Ah… I see. Let’s discuss how we should fund the construction and operation?
Student B: How much does it cost to build a lift?
Me: Well, it depends on the construction specifications … maybe $xxxK?
Student C: Wow… so expensive …
Me: So if we have $xxxK, what should we prioritise?
Student D: Improve the flooring mats for the gym…
Student E: Covered walkways…
Student F: Help our poorer students …
Student G: Improve the toilets …
(There were many more ideas with the excited sharing. And after a while…)
Me: So should we go for the lift?
Students: No…!
Me: Then what if we have a student in a wheelchair?
Student H: Put the class with the student who needs a wheelchair on the ground floor!
Glad to hear our students learning to prioritise, and to care for those around them more than themselves, and coming up with creative solutions when confronted with resource constraints.
#OurSchoolStories
Chan Chun Sing
14 hrs ·Student A: Minister, can we have a lift in school?
Me: Your main reason for the request being ….?
Student A: So we don’t have to run up and down the stairs when we move between classrooms… it’s tiring…
Me: Ah… I see. Let’s discuss how we should fund the construction and operation?
Student B: How much does it cost to build a lift?
Me: Well, it depends on the construction specifications … maybe $xxxK?
Student C: Wow… so expensive …
Me: So if we have $xxxK, what should we prioritise?
Student D: Improve the flooring mats for the gym…
Student E: Covered walkways…
Student F: Help our poorer students …
Student G: Improve the toilets …
(There were many more ideas with the excited sharing. And after a while…)
Me: So should we go for the lift?
Students: No…!
Me: Then what if we have a student in a wheelchair?
Student H: Put the class with the student who needs a wheelchair on the ground floor!
Glad to hear our students learning to prioritise, and to care for those around them more than themselves, and coming up with creative solutions when confronted with resource constraints.
#OurSchoolStories
Keechiu was honoured to attend the third and final NE show today as Reviewing Officer.
The National Day Parade National Education (NE) shows are back after two years. Honoured to attend the third and final NE show today as Reviewing Officer, joining thousands of our primary five pupils and Singaporeans at the Marina Bay floating platform.
Beyond an NE show, this is also a story of resilience and resourcefulness in spite of the challenges - of how we have continued to keep going so that our children’s learning does not get compromised. This is also a story of how our community stood together proudly as One People, One Nation and One Singapore
. When it comes to the fight, you can hear the Lion City roar!
Glad to see everyone enjoying the wonderful show. Made possible only by the dedication and hard work of many Singaporeans, including many of our students who put in hours and hours of preparation and rehearsals to present this spectacular show.
Thank you very much to everyone! Let us cheer them on to the finale on 9 August!
Stronger Together, Majulah!
Chan Chun Sing
2 hrs ·The National Day Parade National Education (NE) shows are back after two years. Honoured to attend the third and final NE show today as Reviewing Officer, joining thousands of our primary five pupils and Singaporeans at the Marina Bay floating platform.
Beyond an NE show, this is also a story of resilience and resourcefulness in spite of the challenges - of how we have continued to keep going so that our children’s learning does not get compromised. This is also a story of how our community stood together proudly as One People, One Nation and One Singapore
Glad to see everyone enjoying the wonderful show. Made possible only by the dedication and hard work of many Singaporeans, including many of our students who put in hours and hours of preparation and rehearsals to present this spectacular show.
Thank you very much to everyone! Let us cheer them on to the finale on 9 August!
Stronger Together, Majulah!
Keechiu visited AWWA.
Job coach Mr Kel Lim’s eyes shone with pride as he looked at Sarah carefully preparing a cup of peppermint tea.
As part of the vocational training at AWWA, Sarah is now doing an internship at Swensen's Singapore, while some of her schoolmates are attached to Sushi Express Singapore and Beeworks Pte Ltd. It was clear the teachers and trainers were proud of how far the students have come.
At AWWA, students are provided with an enabling environment to prepare them for independent and meaningful living.
With a team of nurturing teachers, the use of assistive technology, and within varied, stimulating environments, students are taught life skills in addition to vocational skills.
Met some of the parents during my visit and observed how the school works closely with parents and the larger community to provide a circle of care.
It takes a village to raise a child — and I hope more of us will come forward to help our Special Education students reach their maximum potential, and support their caregivers.
#ourschoolstories
Chan Chun Sing added 5 new photos.
11 hrs ·Job coach Mr Kel Lim’s eyes shone with pride as he looked at Sarah carefully preparing a cup of peppermint tea.
As part of the vocational training at AWWA, Sarah is now doing an internship at Swensen's Singapore, while some of her schoolmates are attached to Sushi Express Singapore and Beeworks Pte Ltd. It was clear the teachers and trainers were proud of how far the students have come.
At AWWA, students are provided with an enabling environment to prepare them for independent and meaningful living.
With a team of nurturing teachers, the use of assistive technology, and within varied, stimulating environments, students are taught life skills in addition to vocational skills.
Met some of the parents during my visit and observed how the school works closely with parents and the larger community to provide a circle of care.
It takes a village to raise a child — and I hope more of us will come forward to help our Special Education students reach their maximum potential, and support their caregivers.
#ourschoolstories
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