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Craig Spence Editor Susan Cairns Designer Andrew Sloan Advertising Success breeds Successes There’s so much going on in Langley <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong> of interest to families and students that we don’t always have room to fit it all into the print version of Student Success. And sometimes things come up between our Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer editions that we’d like to get to readers. And we also want to connect with secondary communities. So after just over a year in our current format, we’ve decided to launch a couple of initiatives we hope will improve our reach and the timeliness of the information we bring to you. First, I’d like to welcome you to visit the online version of Student Success at studentsuccessmagazine.blogspot.com. Going online opens up several new possibilities, which we’re really excited about. First, it allows us to post material whenever we like, and to have it available to readers 24 hours a day. All you have to do is bookmark the site. There’s more, though. In the blog we can provide you with live links to information related to the articles you read. That opens up whole new avenues of connectivity for parents and students, who can immediately follow up on information trails that might otherwise go cold. In an information age, where data passes by in a blink, that ability to click and go is essential. As well, the online version can be developed as a standing resource. If you go to the blog and look down the right column, you will come to a heading called ‘Labels’. Each article posted on the blog –just about every article that will appear in Student Success – will be labeled according to subject. So if, for instance, you want to find all the articles that have been posted related to Internet Safety, all you have to do is click on the label and up they’ll come. And if you can’t find a label, there’s also a search box you can try. Finally, the blog allows you to share information more readily. If you see something you like, you can email it, blog it, Twitter it, Facebook it and so on, all at the click of a button. Or, if you want to reach us with comments or ideas, there’s a direct email link posted on the blog’s home page. There are more features to the Success blog, but we’re going to have to let you discover them yourself because we want to leave a little room to talk about our Student Success <strong>Secondary</strong> edition. This targeted publication, which some of you are reading right now, having discovered it in your child’s report card envelop, will carry information about planning for post-secondary, events and activities going on in secondary venues, choices available to secondary students and issues secondary students and parents need to be aware of. Issue Number One is a pilot. Based on the feedback we get, we will determine the look, format and content of Issue Number Two. So let us know what you think. studentSuccess Student Success is published and produced by the Langley <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong> in partnership with the Langley <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong> Foundation. EDITOR Craig Spence cspence@sd35.bc.ca 604-534-7891 Designer Susan Cairns scairns@sd35.bc.ca 604-534-7891 Advertising sales Andrew Sloan Sloan & Co. 604-889-6397 andrew@sloanandco.ca Advertising Traffic Denise Begg 604-534-7891 dbegg@sd35.bc.ca Illustrations Raymond Brown <strong>Secondary</strong> Student Success is published once a year with a press run of 10,000. Student Success is distributed to school district families, businesses, associations and municipal offices throughout Langley. © sd35(Langley) 4875-222nd Street Langley, BC V3A 3Z7 secondary edition 3