Domain Six
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Local Societal Context
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Goal
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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.
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Outcomes
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- 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.
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Primary Strategies
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- 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.
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OnGoing Strategies
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- 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.
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Performance Measures
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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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