S CHOOL E DUCATION P LAN
“Our Children, Our Students, Our Future”
School Education Plan Principal: Anne Roberts
Trustee: Marc Beland/Clarke McAskile
2021-22 S CHOOL Y EAR
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School Education Plan Creation
Briefly describe how each of the following groups were included in the development of the School Education Plan.
A. Teachers
• Draft Ed Plan will be shared with staff. Staff will tear it down and rebuild it to their satisfaction.
B. Support Staff
• Draft Ed Plan will be shared with staff. Staff will tear it down and rebuild it to their satisfaction. Plan reworked May26th.
C. Students
• Students will be asked, what is important to you in Outreach.
D. School Council / Community
• N/A E. Other
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School Datasets
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School Education Plan
GOAL #1: EVERY STUDENT IS SUCCESSFUL
GOAL #2: QUALITY TEACHING AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP GOAL #3: EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE
DIVISION PRIORITIES:
1. FVSD will foster connectivity and well-being amongst community, students, parents and staff 2. All students will improve literacy skills across the content areas
3. All students will improve numeracy skills
SCHOOL GOALS
School Goal 1: Foster connectivity and wellness amongst students, staff, parents and
community.
Students
• CRM meetings monthly – discuss the progress and needs of students. This is a tiered system with several students requiring involvement with community organizations.
• Feed Students Healthy Food- Have lunches and snacks on hand for students. Healthy food helps to regulate.
• Weekly Student Contacts- Each Staff member has a group of Students to make contact with
• Building Skills courses - Learner’s training, first aide, financial courses, marketing courses, cooking courses, Health Courses (10 level and 30 Level Combo)
• Career counseling- Grad plans are built with students and are referenced often. Schedules are created for course completion.
• Mental Health Counseling- parents, students and staff have access to the services of mental health therapists. La Crete will have a therapist accessible on regular basis. (We need a soundproof space in La Crete and High Level for sessions to take place.)
• Wellness sessions monthly- students fill out a survey of needs in September, mental health therapists and success coaches present to students, topics such as Sleep Hygiene, Anxiety and Wellness, depression, drugs, and alcohol etc...
• Student Feedback- staff give students feedback on assignments, and call student with that information positive and negative. Staff will record the contact in student communication.
• Asset Building Sessions- Designed with information from the Search Institute on
Developmental Assets. Assets include Positive Identity, Social Competencies, Personal Hygiene, Positive Values, Commitment to Learning, Constructive use of Time, Boundaries and
Expectations, Empowerment, Support.
• Skill building Checklists for students- This can be their resume which describes the skills they have acquired or a checklist.
Staff
• Staff Wellness Sessions offered by the school division.
• 20-minute conversations with each staff member three times a year.
Parents
• 2 Wellness Sessions- First session- Gaming, How Many Are Addicted in your home? How Being Well Supports Your Child.
• Call Out Tidbits- Pieces of information Parents may find helpful included in a call out message.
• Phone Interviews- staff call parents to update them on student progress.
Community
• Service Learning - Use of the Outdoor playground by students. Student's plant and harvest the garden. They plant bumble bee gardens, butterfly gardens, root vegetables, vegetables, and care for the variety of trees. Students also use greenhouses to propagate plants. Our students mentor the grade ones and tour them through the gardening process. In La Crete there is an opportunity with a community garden as well. (See Chad)
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Target and Measurement Tools:
• Number of wellness sessions offered in the year to students.
• Number of wellness PD opportunities taken by staff.
• 2- 20-minute conversations with staff will take place.
• 9 CRM meetings will take place.
• 9 asset building sessions will take place.
Resources:
• Search Institute website
• Alexandra Barriera Schmidt local nursery operator
• Mental Health Therapists
• Wellness Team
• Community resource people for in person sessions Timeline:
• Ongoing 2021- 2022 Comments:
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School Goal 2: To increase our students’ skills in comprehension, writing and overall communication skills across the content areas.
Strategies
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Student Feedback- students will be taught the skills they require to be successful writers and readers through thorough teacher feedback. Writing samples and rubrics will be shared and taught.•
Transition most popular courses to online platform - Use Mrs. William’s Social Studies course offering as model or Google classroom.•
Course Focus on skill building - Our courses offer samples of students' work and step by step instruction. A collection of student writing samples will be available to students.•
Writing Workshops - Teachers will facilitate writing workshops twice a year in each location.•
Orientation Sessions - Teachers will facilitate orientation sessions at the beginning of the year to teach students how to be successful in their English and Social Studies courses.•
Collaborative Response Meetings - Can take on a skills focus, relating to the skills the student has acquired and needs to acquire to be successful. The meetings often have a wellness psychological focus.•
Model the love of literacy - Staff will identify their favorite book picks. We will ordermeaningful books for the library which focus on history, society and culture, humorous politics and biographies/ memoirs.
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Identify the requirements of students with learning disabilities - Keeping an updated document which outlines the accommodations students require. This document is fluid. It reflects the changes in the student as he/she builds skills. Jennifer Perry will assist in the training and follow through of the IPP’s for students.• Literacy Focus each staff meeting - a strategy on how to assist struggling readers will be reviewed each staff meeting- 15 minutes.
• Collaborative Teacher Meetings Hard scheduled into the year calendar - English and Social teachers meet to go over courses and intricacies of teaching these subjects.
Target and Measurement Tools:
• Student writing sample collections will be created and shared with student permission.
• Feedback will appear on each students’ work.
• 9 CRM meetings will focus on students’ academic skills as well as emotional well-being.
• Orientation sessions will take place in each location.
• Each location will have a library or high interest books for teens.
• Literacy will be reviewed at each staff meeting.
Resources:
• Booklist from Mrs. William’s website and Google classrooms
• Jennifer Perry for IPP creation
• Scott McKenzie for development of online courses.
• Books- high interest books for teens.
Timeline:
• Comments:
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School Goal 3: To build and improve understanding of basic math competencies so that students can enjoy mathematics and develop patience and persistence when solving problems.
Strategies
• Build/Improve understanding of basic math competencies: filling in learning gaps. Use online tools (such as Khan Academy) to build skills independently.
• Math teachers in each location- balance the workload of staff to ensure maximum teacher availability for core courses.
• Transition most popular courses to also be available online- Use Brightspace as a platform.
• Math tutorials- online tutorials can be accessed through the teacher’s online platform.
• Math courses updated and adapted- to the satisfaction of the teachers. Teachers finding supplementary resources/materials to teach junior high courses.
• Collaboration with Math Teachers- 3 collaborative afternoons per year.
• Encourage students to take mathematics courses at their level. Several students have been underestimating their skills.
• Engage all staff in learning mathematics- 15-minute tutorials during staff meetings or Monday memos. Our purpose is, not only the math teacher teaches math,we all teach and appreciate math.
Target and Measurement Tools:
• 3 collaborative afternoons PD
• Math courses will continue to be updated as required.
• Tutorials will be published on the teacher's platform.
Resources:
• PD on Brightspace platform.
• Time to compile tutorials.
Timeline:
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Communication Plan
Briefly outline your school communication plan in relation to parents, the community, staff, students, and stakeholders.
August
• Staff- create the vision for how they want their year to go
• Parents – contact parents re registrations
• Parent orientation
• Community- communicate to the community where our school in High level is temporarily located while awaiting the rebuild.
• Students- accept registrations in June for the next school year.
September
• Student Wellness survey- choosing topics for our Wellness talks.
• Student Orientations Frist Fridays of September
• Review Ed Plan resubmit on website.
• Invite community members to present at Wellness sessions and for CTS sessions.
October
• Share wellness calendar and topics.
• Share CTS course offerings.
• School plans gone over with all students.
November
• Report cards go home.
• Parent teacher interviews contact made with each parent.
December
• January
• Grad letters go home.
• Review school plans with students
• Alberta Gov. survey February
• Report cards
• Parent teacher interviews March
• Graduate letters go home.
• Student forum, students express their views on education and connection.
April
• Graduate meetings with parents and grads
• Review student plans esp. junior high.
May • Last grad letter
• Plan for transition next year June
• Awards presentation
• Graduation
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