By 2019, the District will reduce barriers to learning to improve equity of access and opportunity for all students.
Strategies & Actions:
‘Develop and implement enhanced methodologies to differentiate the allocation of resources to improve equity of opportunity for all students’
- Updated RAISE index;
- Reviewed school fees;
- Increased efficiencies in school budgets/finances;
- Differentiated staffing;
‘Identify students and groups of students who face barriers to learning anddifferentiate supports to close achievementgaps’
- Established Black Youth Conference;
- Hosted A Date with Diversity;
- Increased supports for English Language Learners;
- Adopted the UN declaration for People of African Decent;
‘Review and ensure effective use of FNMI funding to increase FNMI graduation rates’
- Began phase-in of grade 11 English course with Indigenous focus;
- Expanded Indigenous Education team;
- Established Indigenous Education Advisory Council;
- Piloted Indigenous STEM.