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 options 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 of 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, open-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 over 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 Be Build Leverage Global Innovative Relationships Strengths Use TDSB’S size, Connect Lead with Grow expertise, financial locally, technology and Relationships capability, and scale content brand globally innovation
E 3 Equity, Education and Excellence
Strategic Directions • Make every school an effective school. • Build leadership within a culture of adaptability, openness 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
Vision: Co-create the Future School Prepare Build Create Tomorrow’s Today’s Schools Leaders Leaders for the future Early Learner District, Principal, Creating Innovative Instruction & Teacher/Staff District & School & Programming Leadership Plans Development FDK TDSB Teaching & Learning Academy
Dimensions of Equitable Education 1. What our students bring to the classroom 2. What we bring 4. Pedagogy to the classroom 3. Curriculum content
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 our 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 assemble, construct, create, design, product or point of view? develop, formulate, write Evaluating : Can the student justify a appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, stand or decision? support, value, evaluate Analyzing : Can the student distinguish appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, between the different parts? differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test Applying : Can the student use the choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, information in a new way? illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write Understanding : Can the student explain classify, describe, discuss, explain, ideas or concepts? identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase Remembering: Can the student recall or define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, remember the information? repeat, reproduce state
Academic Success for all Students Improved student performance depends on strengthening three legs of an instructional tripod: Content Relationships Are we a community? Do Pedagogy What should we students and teachers care teach? Does each about, inspire, and motivate teacher have deep How should we teach? Does each other? knowledge of the each teacher use effective curriculum? instructional techniques?
Relationships Matter! 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.
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 Family School Student Community
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!
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