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Enduring Sustainability

ENDURING sustainability

DEMONSTRATE THE VALUE OF SUPPORTING CATHOLIC EDUCATION

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Identify, Develop & Support Leaders

Leadership plays a pivotal role in any organization. Implementation of a Board Leadership Development Strategy (BLDS) is extremely imperative in the roles of Principal and Vice Principal. Focusing on mentoring aspiring and experienced leaders is imperative in succession planning and performance appraisal. Unfortunately, the Ministry put a pause on funding this program for the 2020-21 school year. We are in the process of reviewing the Aspiring Leadership Program with the intention of finding innovative ways to support it through our own funds.

Resource Support

Board Resource staff follow a two-tiered system of support for students considered at risk academically. One level focuses on the teachers and the other on the students themselves. Support for staff includes: capacity building in Literacy and Numeracy and Indigenous world views, to help increase performance at all levels for all students. Our Literacy, Numeracy and French Resource teachers co-plan, co-teach and co-debrief with classroom teachers to strengthen content area understanding and instructional strategies. An emphasis on improving teacher pedagogy, including the integration of Deep Learning, is a focus for this team. The Indigenous Student Support Teacher works directly with students to inquire and discover which learning strategies work best for which students.

Our English Language Learner Teachers work to support student culture and to strengthen language development and learning skills. Our Technology Resource Teacher worked alongside students and teachers to maximize the effective use of technology in the classroom; helping students at all levels demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Our Indigenous Education Resource Teacher worked with teachers to infuse Indigenous worldviews into classroom work, bringing Indigenous perspectives into the curriculum. Part of the role includes highlighting resources that teachers can use to support the integration of the TRC Calls to Action within their practice. Our Resource SSPs, provide support to staff and students in the areas of ABA, technology support and communication support. Our Resource ECE provides support to ELKP educators in programming, self-regulation, and assessment. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reallocation of resource staff, not all staff support was available consistently throughout the 2020-2021 school year.

Special Education Teacher & Student Support

In order to remain up to date on topics relating to Special Education, Board resource staff attend professional development conferences and participate regularly in RSEC (Regional Special Education Committee) meetings to share best practices and resources. In turn, resource staff facilitated virtual sessions for all school special education teachers addressing: Ministry or Board initiatives, changes or additions to current regulations or processes, data sharing and reports on current trends as well as

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