“Expect Nothing; Appreciate Everything”: The impact and implications of immigration, demographic changes, and increasing ethnocultural diversity on teachers, administrators, and students in a New Brunswick high school context

This report is based on survey, interview data, and documental data collected between March and December 2019 at three rural schools in an Anglophone School District in New Brunswick. Our qualitative study focused on educators and new Canadian students and their parents (the students and parents comprise International, Temporary Foreign, Permanent Resident, and Refugee students) at the high school level and how participants were responding to immigration, demographic changes, and increasing ethnocultural diversity in their schools, community, region, and province. Two of the schools, Western Regional High School (WRHS) and North Country High School (NCHS), are secondary schools only, while Highlands Rural Academy (HRA) is a K-12 school.