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“We are improving each year. People are getting smarter.
We are starting to think school has potential!”- Ontario elementary student 2010
Dr. Mary Jean Gallagher
Chief Student Achievement OfficerAssistant Deputy Minister Student Achievement Division
Ontario Ministry of Education
Ontario Education Improvement
Denmark, February 2015Deck D
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A Student’s Voice:“Education is not just about gaining
knowledge from a textbook but taking action by applying our knowledge to
make an impact.”- Ontario secondary student, Minister’s Student Advisory Council Representative, 2014
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Snapshot – Province of Ontario
Ontario has:
• 40% of Canada’s 33.6 million people (it is the most populous province)• In 2013, Ontario received 40.0% (103,402) of permanent resident
admissions to Canada (258,619)• Over 1 million square kilometres of land• 2.1 million students• English is not the first language of many of our students• Almost 126,000 teachers (unionized teaching and support staff)• About 5,000 schools in 72 school districts• Operational Funding of $22.53B (CDN) in 2014-15
Our Vision: Achieving Excellence
• Development of a high-quality teaching profession and strong leadership at all levels of the system
• High expectations and success for all
• Responsive, high quality, accessible and integrated from early learning and child care to adult education
• Learners…will develop the knowledge, skills and characteristics that will lead them to become personally successful, economically productive and actively engaged citizens
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Ontario’s Renewed Goals for Education
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• Achieving Excellence: Children and students of all ages will achieve high levels of academic performance, acquire valuable skills, and demonstrate good citizenship. Educators will be supported in learning continuously and will be recognized as among the best in the world.
• Ensuring Equity: All children and students will be inspired to reach their full potential, with access to rich learning experiences that begin at birth and continue into adulthood.
• Promoting Well-Being: All children and students will develop enhanced mental and physical health, a positive sense of self and belonging, and the skills to make positive choices.
• Enhancing Public Confidence: Ontarians will continue to have confidence in a publicly funded education system that helps develop new generations of confident, capable, and caring citizens.
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Signs of successSigns of Success
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Elementary Outcomes: Achievement Results
4 key levers for elementary reform:1. Improving
classroom teaching and learning
2. Improving school effectiveness
3. Leadership capacity building
4. Research and evaluation
Over 170,000 more students at provincial standard
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Secondary Outcomes: Achievement Results6 key levers for secondary reform:1. Leadership
infrastructure2. Engaging and
relevant programming
3. Effective instruction4. Focused
Interventions for students at risk of not graduating
5. Legislation and policy development
6. Research, monitoring and evaluation
Provincial Graduation Rate
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Capacity Building: Lessons from Ontario
Ontario’s strong PISA results would suggest that this emphasis on building the critical thinking and problem-solving skills of teachers has strengthened the capacity of teachers to enable the development of these same kinds of skills in their students.
From OECD Report: Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for Japan – 2011
Today, Ontario’s publicly funded education system – acknowledged as one of the best in the world – partners with parents, guardians and communities to develop graduates who are personally successful, economically productive and actively engaged citizens.
From Achieving Excellence, 2014
(Ontario Ministry of Education)
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How We’ve Done It…
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Levers to Successful Improvement Systems
1. A small number of ambitious goals2. Leadership at all levels3. High standards and expectations4. Investment in leadership and capacity building related to
instruction5. Mobilizing data and effective practices as a strategy for
improvement6. Intervention in a non-punitive manner7. Reducing distractions8. Being transparent, relentless and increasingly challenging
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1. A Small Number of Ambitious GoalsOntario’s New Education Vision, 2014• Achieve excellence - High levels of student achievement, professional
excellence– 75% of students with high level of literacy and numeracy skill by age 12– 85% of students graduating from high school within 5 years of starting– Students who are personally successful, economically productive, actively
engaged citizens• Ensure equity - reduced gaps in student achievement• Promote Student Well-Being• Enhanced public confidence in education
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2. Leadership at All LevelsA guiding coalition at the top:
• Premier• Minister of Education• Deputy Minister• Chief Student Achievement Officer
Distributed leadership with a focus on teaching and learning:• School Districts• School Principals• Teachers
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3. High Standards and Expectations• Standards based curriculum• Transparent standard of performance• Independent assessments of student achievement• Provincial standards of literacy and numeracy
require creative thinking, problem solving, higher order thinking skills
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4. Leadership and Capacity Building Related to Instruction – Focus, Alignment and Coherence
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4. Leadership and Capacity Building Related to Instruction – School Improvement Planning As An Engagement Tool
EvaluationEvaluation
ResponsibilityResponsibility
MonitoringMonitoring
Professional Learning
Professional Learning
ResourcesResources
Targeted, Evidence-Based Strategies
Targeted, Evidence-Based Strategies
GoalsGoals
Needs Assessment• Student achievement data• Demographic data• Program data• Perceptual data• Analysis of data
Needs Assessment• Student achievement data• Demographic data• Program data• Perceptual data• Analysis of data
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4. Leadership and Capacity Building Related to Instruction – K - 6 Literacy and Numeracy
– Collaborative inquiry– Tutoring – Resources: monographs, DVDs,
online supports
– Direct program supports– Research– Supports for teacher professional
learning
Improving School Effectiveness
Leadership Capacity Building
Improving classroom teaching and learning
– Targeted interventions– Student voice– Parent engagement
– Planning tools and processes– Networking schools– Collaborative professionalism
– Ontario Leadership Framework– School Effectiveness Leads
– Student Achievement Officers– Supports for principal
professional learning
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4. Leadership and Capacity Building Related to Instruction – 7 - 12 Student Success
School culture and the four pathways
– Student Success Leads, teachers and teams
– Student Success Education Officers– Career/life planning for all students– Parent engagement
Interventions for students at risk of not graduating
– Credit recovery– Caring adult– Re-engagement in high school
Engaging and relevant programming
– Experiential and co-operative learning (e.g., SHSM)
– Student voice– Alternative, adult and continuing
education
Effective instruction– Differentiated instruction– Professional learning cycle– Literacy and mathematics
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Engaging and Relevant Programming: Experiential Education
• Experiential learning is any activity in which students learn from an authentic, hands on experience, reflect on the learning, and then apply that learning to new situations.
• Types of experiential learning may include the following:– Educational programs linking to work and career – applying curriculum and skills from
the classroom in a ‘real world’ practical context– Volunteer experience – engaging in activities in the community to develop new skills, and
applying those skills to new contexts opportunities/experiences
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– Project-based, cross curricular learning – approaching a project/task from a mutli-disciplinary perspective and integrating a variety of sources and contexts
– Student voice, student inquiry – identifying and engaging in experiential learning opportunities that are student-directed/ selected, and reflecting on these
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Specialist High Skills Majors (SHSM)“…students enrolled in SHSM programs appear to improve their performance in terms of average course marks and rates of credit accumulation compared to those not enrolled; the SHSM programs are attracting higher proportions of males, students with a special education classification, and students from applied (college or workplace) streams compared to the general student population.” (Research funded by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario)
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Dual Credit Programs• Dual Credit programs allow students while still at secondary school to take college or
apprenticeship courses that count towards both their OSSD and post-secondary certificate, diploma, degree or apprenticeship certificate of qualification.
• All seventy school boards that have secondary schools and all 24 Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology are involved in providing secondary school students with dual credit learning opportunities.
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13* 2013-14* 2014-15*
Student Enrolment 361 2,500 4,300 4,500 7,500 12,800 16,000 17,500 21,000 21,400
Dual Credit Funding Only
$1M $4M $8M $8M $17M $25M $32M $32M $32M $32M
SCWI Funding in Total
$3M $7M $12M $19M $27M $30M $37M $36M $36M $36M
* Projected numbers
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5. Mobilizing Data and Effective Practices As a Strategy For Improvement
• Building a data system– Assessments– Tracking data
• Precise Teaching to meet students’ needs
Provincial Results for Junior Writing (English-Language)
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• Building on evidence-basedculture
• Research
Practice
5. Mobilizing Data and Effective Practices As a Strategy For Improvement
Our Shared Beliefs:• All students can succeed.• Each student has his or her own unique patterns of learning.• Successful instructional practices are founded on evidence-based research,
tempered by experience.• Universal design and differentiated instruction are effective and interconnected
means of meeting the learning or productivity needs of any group of students.• Classroom teachers are the key educators for a student’s literacy and numeracy
development.• Classroom teachers need the support of the larger community to create a learning
environment that supports all students.• Fairness is not sameness.
- From Learning For All: A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction for All Students, Kindergarten to Grade 12 (2010), Ontario Ministry of Education
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5. Mobilizing Data and Effective Practices As a Strategy For Improvement
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5. Mobilizing Data and Effective Practices As a Strategy For Improvement
- From Learning For All: A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction for All Students, Kindergarten to Grade 12 (2010), Ontario Ministry of Education
26- From Learning For All: A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction for All Students, Kindergarten to Grade 12 (2010), Ontario Ministry of Education
5. Mobilizing Data and Effective Practices As a Strategy For Improvement
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6. Intervention in a Non-Punitive Manner
Ontario Focused Intervention Partnership (OFIP)
What:• 2003-04: 760 schools with <33% of students at levels 3 & 4• 2012-13: 87 schools with <50% of students at levels 3 & 4 for two consecutive years• 2013-14: 69 schools with <50% of students at levels 3 & 4 for two consecutive years• 2014-15: 63 schools with <50% of students at levels 3 & 4 for two consecutive years
How:• Intervention strategies based on needs identified at school level • Completion of an action plan, including requested LNS support• Participation of principal & Supervisory Officer in learning opportunities• Participation in school-based professional learning communities• Participation of the school teams in formal and informal networked learning
opportunities.
6. Intervention in a Non-Punitive Manner
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Student Success School Support Initiative (SSI)
What:• SSI is a strategic intervention that provides differentiated support to schools where student
performance in Grade 9 and 10 applied classes is below the provincial rate and students are therefore not on target to graduate in 4 or 5 years
Result:• Improved student achievement in a majority of participating schools • Enhanced principal instructional leadership capacity• Enhanced learning and teaching practices
How:• Strategic and targeted professional learning sessions for principals and professional
learning teams• Focus on tracking and monitoring student achievement data• Focus on student intellectual engagement in their learning
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7. Supporting Conditions and Reducing Distractions
• Aboriginal Education• Safe Schools & Anti Bullying• Healthy Schools• Community Use of Schools• Anti Poverty Agenda• Full day Kindergarten• Negotiations and collective
agreements
• Ontario Leadership Strategy• Governance Legislation• Research Strategy• Equity Policy and Initiatives• Mental Health Strategy• Promoting Well-Being
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8. Being Transparent, Relentless and Increasingly Challenging
• All children and students can learn
• A sense of urgency• Sustaining and extending our
reforms
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Thank you!For further information contact:Mary Jean [email protected]
Or contact executive assistant:Josie [email protected]