Community Collaboration

Below is a list of TVDSB opportunities to engage students with meaningful projects within our community. Projects are co-designed to enhance learning and connect to curriculum learning goals and Thames Valley's Strategic Priorities.


  • How can we empower relationships to build connections to promote well-being?

  • How can we connect with community to help students see their lived experiences directly connected to their learning experience?

  • How can we use these learning experiences to meet the needs of all students?

  • What interdisciplinary connections can be made through this process?

  • How can these experiences address equity?


"In an open schooling hub, external ideas need to challenge traditional internal views and, in turn, to benefit its students and the community it serves. Such engaging environments may vitally contribute to their community when student projects introduce real needs into a community outside of school, present them publicly, and enrich local expertise. Additionally, such environments may foster learner independence – and interdependence – through collaboration and the provision of opportunities for learners to understand and interrogate their place in the world." - Link to article


Community Projects

Students engage when they understand the goal, and who their work can impact. The following is an archive of past Innovation Projects!

"CRRP is a research-based pedagogy that has been around for many years and has proven to positively impact family engagement and student achievement. It is not a framework that can be quickly implemented, nor is it a set of lesson plans or activities. It is a shift in how we think about ourselves, students, families and communities and how we use lived experiences and culture to ensure equitable outcomes for all students."

Create learning opportunities that celebrate students and the way they learn and think.


Ongoing Community Opportunities

Boys and Girls Club & Digital Creative Arts Center

  • Register HERE to book a virtual workshop for your class

  • Checkout more Virtual workshops & open space collaboration

    • Virtual Yoga

    • Graphic Design (Ex. Postcard project)

    • Music Production

    • Photography

    • Life Skills


Children's Museum



Digital Books


‘Engage’ Augmented Reality App for London, St. Thomas & Port Stanley

  • Developing the "EngageARt" app with EXAR Studios (Free to download & approved by TVDSB)

  • Elementary and high school students are invited to provide input on the development of this fun, interactive technology.

  • There are opportunities for virtual sessions with the app developers at EXAR Studios and representatives of the Elgin County Museum, as well as teacher and industry walking tours to test out the app.


Fanshawe Pioneer Village

  • Free Virtual Sessions Available


Greenhouse Academy & TVDSB

  • Working through design thinking to make connections between Green Industries and all subjects.

  • Picnic Table project for the community with Greenhouse.


Jaffa Environmental Centre

  • Program Descriptions & Resources to explore our environment


Museum London


Museum of Ontario Archaeology



Museum Strathroy-Caradoc

  • On site visits

  • Virtual Programming


Ska-Nah-Doht Village & Museum/Lower Thames C.A.

  • On site visits

  • Virtual Connections

  • SHSM certifications


STEAM Community Studio

  • TVDSB Students can be involved in each ‘STEAM Community Studio’ with the opportunity to provide input on how to address real challenges facing the community. Funds are available to implement solutions.

    • Sensory Wall Development

    • Studio Design, Innovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship

    • Market Planning


The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum


Track to the Future Mural Project

  • Landmark murals have been installed in downtown St. Thomas to help beautify and animate the community, and more artwork will be added in spring 2021. Learn about the murals and their artists.

  • Watch Documentary to get started.

    • What would you like to see on a mural in your community?

    • Who would you like to see represented on a mural?