Local Education Program Promoted

A program helping local students improve their oral language skills is being highlighted at national conference in Calgary today.

Rainy River District School Board's Education Director Jack McMaster has joined with educators from Kenora and Dryden to promote the Oral Language project to delegates attending the Canadian Association of School Administrators

McMaster says the success of the program here is gaining interest elsewhere.

"It's really starting to peak some people's interest," says McMaster, "mostly in Ontario, but this is a national conference. What's happening with this oral language project is going to be fairly large in North America and probably worldwide because a lot of countries are teaching their children English in school."

McMaster says the program, developed in the northwest, has been successful in helping children early in their school years improve their oral language skills.