From recommendations of the above three reports and from the Women's Studies Coordinator and the Guidance Department, a wide range of activities and programs have been developed including the following:

1. Expanding Your Horizons Conference: The conference has been running for the last 4 years to encourage girls to consider mathematics and science as careers. At the Conference, 60-70 role models are available to talk about their careers and to give the students some hands-on experience. For the first three years, the Conference was aimed at senior secondary female students and was given on a Saturday. Last year it was decided to target a younger group. The Conference was held on a school day and grade 7 and 8 female students were invited to come. Pre-Conference and post- Conference activities for teachers were provided, in order to ensure that these issues would be addressed in on-going discussion. This year, a parents' workshop is planned to better equip parents to provide support and information to their daughters throughout their decision-making process. The Conference is one way of implementing the recommendations in the math report.
   
   
2. The Math Department has incorporated into its curriculum a wide variety of activities specifically designed to keep the interest of the female students and to help the teachers deal with the students' math anxiety.
   
   
3. A booklet for boys is currently being prepared, discussing gender role stereotyping and why and how it puts barriers up for men as well as for women.
   
   
4. Job Sites is a program for secondary students (about 75% of participants are girls) designed to give the individual students time at different job sites of their choice. This program also gives teachers an opportunity to get out into the job world to see how things have changed and how the students can apply their math or science background.
   
   
5. An American publication called "Choices and Challenges" is used throughout Guidance Departments in the schools. It is a work book designed so that individual students can proceed at their own pace and with or without help if they need it. Guidance Counselors have found that many students are still very "dated" in their plans for the future, even if their own mothers have worked outside the home.
   
   
6. For the last 5 years the Board has been screening any material that is produced by the Board for gender or sex biases.
   
   
7. Two years ago, every school in the Board was given a grant to buy only books that dealt with the history of women.
   
   
8. There is a well-stocked resource room on women's and labour studies in one of the high schools that both students and teachers from across the Board may use for information.
   
   
9. The Board has published a Speakers Directory on Women's Issues and encouraged the teachers to use it.
   
   
10. Focus on Equality -- a newsletter describing positive programs and new initiatives as well as good resources that can be used in the classroom.