Local Societal Context

Assurance Framework

Domain Six

Local Societal Context

Goal

To engage schools and communities to identify and respond to the learning needs, interests, aspirations and diverse cultural, social and economic circumstances of all students.

 

Outcomes

  • Engage education partners to develop a baseline understanding of the local and societal needs and circumstances.
  • Develop and implement a continuous improvement engagement process to support a shared vision for quality Catholic education taking into account the local context of each community within the division.
  • Identify the local context variables to inform decision-making and inform practice.

Primary Strategies

 
  • Engaging stakeholders to develop a share vision aligned to a continuous improvement framework.
  • Developing a budgeting framework to provide a sustainable, equitable staffing model, contracted services, resource allocation, and professional development to implement the Division’s shared vision for education in each community.
  • Engage and provide stakeholder feedback sessions to document local context variables and demographic information that can be access or gather to inform decision-making and practice. 
  • A collective office review of the registration process, documentation workflow and task assignment practices.
  • Consulting with a well-established online school to create a series of PD sessions on best practices in online schooling.
  • Running a ten-day Instructional Design/Best Practices Bootcamp at a start-up, where teachers have morning sessions run by experts in the field on key topics and have time in the day to explore and plan with the information in mind.
  • Ongoing PD opportunities in the year to continue implementing chosen areas to develop in programming.

OnGoing Strategies

 
  • Providing diversified and flexible program opportunities.
  • Engaging local businesses and learning opportunities through the use of the division CTS trailer.
  • Engaging stakeholders in the context their local school communities to improve the understanding of FNMI culture, knowledge and reconciliation.
  • Providing sharing opportunities at all staff and regular divisional monthly meetings.

Performance Measures

 

Domain Six - Local Performance Measures:

  • Yearly review of the ECCS local assurance surveys with school administration to improve the validity and alignment of questions that can be used to inform the continuous improvement process.
  • The number of school FNMI professional development and stakeholder engagement sessions.
  • Developing a school assurance presentation template to provide stakeholder assurance updates.
  • School administration completing assurance presentations to parent council and board members.
  • Apply for provincial grants to support the development of new Dual Credit programs in collaboration with Lakeland College.

Domain Six - Provincial Performance Measures:

  • Parent Involvement 79.5% Province, 80.0% SOH - Goal 85%
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