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Toronto District School Board

Where Amazing Happens!

Raise the Praise

The TDSB will be the first school board in Ontario to offer a range of consultation services and training

• ptions to staff through this

Telepsychiatry Program.

• Make health care more accessible for students
• One school based clinic in each priority community
• Up to 2 half-day clinics per week
• Paediatrician one half day per month

Amazing In Ward 3

Amazing things in Ward 3:

• Hockey Academy
• 18 laptop carts in Ward 3
• Co Learn Project with the MOE
• Improvement in EQAO scores
• Diamond Jubilee medal
• ESA grad, Jacques St. Pierre
• IThink program at Lakeshore CI

Challenges:

• Accommodation space for FDK.

Facts

• Widening achievement gaps
• Disengaged parents & community
• Students’ health & mental health problems
• Financial stability is within reach, $3 billion dollar

backlog in deferred maintenance

• Declining Enrolment
• Growing cultural & language diversity

Guiding Questions

Who are our learners? What are their needs? What skills, values, and knowledge will they need to be successful, productive members

• f society?

Student Core Competencies & Skills

The classical 3R's: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic The modern 3X's eXploration, eXpression, eXchange

The 3 X's

eXploring: discover information and ideas,

• pen-ended discovery;

children in the driver's seat of their own learning experience eXpressing: using digital media for expressing ideas and representing knowledge eXchanging: asking questions, sharing ideas and working with others

A university degree’s value is incontestable:

In 2009, according to data from the agency’s Labour Force Survey, those with a bachelor’s degree had an unemployment rate of 5.2 per cent, about 2.5 points below the national rate. Those with graduate degrees were doing even better, at 4.6 per cent.

By comparison, those with only a high-school degree had a jobless rate of 9.1 per cent, and those with only “some” high school faced a unemployment rate of 15.9 per cent.

The conference Board of Canada estimates that

• ver the next 10 years,

there will be a million jobs going wanting across the

• country. This shortage is a

drag on Canada’s potential to innovate and compete into the future.

Forecast

The looming exodus of baby boomers, is creating an unprecedented demand for skilled workers.

In-Demand Trades

According to the Construction Sector Council, the following trades are among those in highest demand:

• Boilermakers
• Crane operators
• Electricians
• Construction millwrights
• Plumbers
• Gas fitters
• Sheet metal workers
• Managers and supervisors

Improving Achievement

• Belief in their abilities to master a

rigorous curriculum.

• Time tailored to specific student

needs.

• Understanding that not all students

learn the same way and at the same rate.

Our Strategy

Be Global

Connect locally, scale globally

Be Innovative

Lead with technology and content innovation

Build Relationships

Grow Relationships

Leverage Strengths

Use TDSB’S size, expertise, financial capability, and brand

E3

Equity, Education and Excellence

Strategic Directions

• Make every school an

effective school.

• Build leadership within a

culture of adaptability,

• penness and resilience.
• Form strong and effective

relationships and partnerships.

• Build environmentally

sustainable schools that inspire teaching and learning.

• Identify disadvantage and

intervene effectively.

Fuel Excellence in Education Through the Power of Innovation:

“There is no lack of creativity and willingness to try new innovative approaches in our

• schools. Our goal is to help

unlock that creativity and give schools, principals, teachers, support staff and children the resources to succeed.”

Vision: Co-create Future TDSB Schools

Prepare Tomorrow’s Leaders Build Today’s Leaders Create Schools for the future Early Learner Instruction & Programming FDK District, Principal, & Teacher/Staff Leadership Development TDSB Teaching & Learning Academy Creating Innovative District & School Plans

Vision: Co-create the Future School

Dimensions of Equitable Education

• 1. What our students bring to the classroom
• 4. Pedagogy
• 3. Curriculum content
• 2. What

we bring to the classroom

To Achieve Excellence, We Must Be Inclusive. To Be Inclusive, We Must Be Equitable.

From Exclusion To Inclusive Education?

Education for all: inclusion Understanding: Special needs Education/ integration Acceptance (charity) Segregation Denial: Exclusion

Guidelines for inclusion: ensuring access for all (2005), UNESCO: Parijs

Inclusion

“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.” George Dei

Our job is to teach the kids we have, not the kids we used to have, not the kids we wish we had, not the kids who exist only in

• ur dreams.

We Need to Become More Right Brained to Compete & Survive

“The future belongs to a very different kind of mind─ creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people─ artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers─ will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”

Daniel Pink A Whole New Mind

• Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Creating: Can the student create new product or point of view? assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write Evaluating: Can the student justify a stand or decision? appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate Analyzing: Can the student distinguish between the different parts? appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test Applying: Can the student use the information in a new way? choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write Understanding: Can the student explain ideas or concepts? classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase Remembering: Can the student recall or remember the information? define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, repeat, reproduce state

Content

What should we teach? Does each teacher have deep knowledge of the curriculum?

Pedagogy

How should we teach? Does each teacher use effective instructional techniques?

Relationships

Are we a community? Do students and teachers care about, inspire, and motivate each other?

Academic Success for all Students

Improved student performance depends on strengthening three legs of an instructional tripod:

You can’t motivate a student you don’t

• know. There is no

learning without trust and respect, and neither are granted automatically by today’s students. They must be earned.

Relationships Matter!

Building Relationships with Families

Families are the enduring presence in the lives of young children. This volume contains activities to support early care and education staff and families in developing positive relationships that support collaboration and family leadership.

Parent & Community Engagement - Together We’re Better!

When schools work together with families to support learning, children tend to succeed not just in school but throughout life.

Overlapping Spheres of Influence

School Family Community

Student

Benefits of Parent Involvement

The Triple A’s

• 1. Student Achievement
• 2. Student Attendance
• 3. Student Attachment

Thank You! Together We’re Better!

For believing in the words of Butler Yeats who said “education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” For understanding that the head may need instruction, but the heart craves inspiration. For partnering with us to make the TDSB an AMAZING place to be and a GREAT place to learn.

Believe!