Goals

Goals of the Learning to 18/Student Success Initiative:

• Increasing graduation and reducing drop out rates
• Changing pedagogy and culture through focused, instructional leadership at all levels of the school and system
• Providing new and relevant opportunities
• Building on students’ interests and strengths
• Ensuring effective transitions from elementary to secondary school, between schools and from secondary to post secondary destinations

Pillars of Student Success:

• Literacy
• Mathematical Literacy
• Pathways
• Community, Culture and Caring

Deliverables of Student Success Team for 2007-08

• Develop and use a system for monitoring and tracking students at risk
• Execute a coordinated timeline that ensures there is a plan in place for students at risk
• Clarify roles and responsibilities within the team
• Execute a staff development and communication plan to encourage shared ownership and responsibility within the school community
• Measure its team effectiveness in improving student achievement

Education is not the filling up of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.

W.B. Yeats