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Strengthening Canada’s future: A strong public education system is the foundation of our future!

Board Leadership 2013-2014

Chair, Kenneth J. FredeenGeneral Counsel, Deloitte LLP

Helen Burstyn Principal, Public Projects and

Co-Founder, Pecaut Centre for Social Enterprise

Dennis Cochrane Past President and Vice Chancellor

(Interim), St. Thomas University

Michael CotéSr. Vice President & Chief

Commercial Officer, Purolator Inc.

Deb Craven Sr. Vice President & Chief Financial

Officer, Purolator Inc.

Akela PeoplesPresident & CEO,

The Learning Partnership

Susan LaRosaFormer Director of Education, York

Catholic District School Board

John Malloy Director of Education,

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

Mike McKay Former Superintendent of Schools /

CEO, Surrey School District No. 36

Bill MorneauExecutive Chairman,

Morneau Shepell

Andrea O. Nalyzyty Vice President, Employee Relations,

Policy & Governance, CIBC

James PoliteskiPresident, Samsung Canada

Donna Quan Director of Education,

Toronto District School Board

Martha ToryPartner, Ernst & Young

Susan UchidaVice President, Human Resources,

RBC

Steven WolffChief Executive Officer, Nova Scotia

Pension Services Corporation

Cornell C.V. WrightPartner, Torys LLP

Audit and Finance Committee

Chair, Martha Tory Deb CravenKen GibsonRoss Peebles Akela Peoples

Nominating & Governance CommitteeChair, Andrea O. Nalyzyty Helen BurstynHeather ConnellyMichael CotéKenneth J. FredeenAkela Peoples

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CORPORATE ADVISORY BOARDRick Waugh, O.C.,

Chair / Président Former President & CEO, Scotiabank

Gerald T. McCaughey, Former President and CEO, CIBC (Past Chair, Corporate Advisory Board)

Ron Mock, President & CEO, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

James Politeski, President, Samsung Canada

Robert Hardt, President & CEO, Siemens Canada Limited

Carol Stephenson, O.C., Former Dean, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario

Bill Morneau, Executive Chairman, Morneau Shepell

Patrick Nangle, President & CEO, Purolator Inc.

Glenn Laverty, President & CEO, Ricoh Canada

Lloyd Bryant, Managing Director, HP Canada

Dale R. Ponder, Firm Managing Partner, Chief Executive, Osler

COMMITTEES

Policy and Knowledge Mobilization Advisory Council

Chair, Carol CampbellJoan AndrewJudith AndrewJane BertrandZahra BhanjiFiona BlaikieAndrew CoatesRaf Di CeccoPaul FavaroUsha GeorgeGerri GershonChris KnightDavid McCordicJulia O’SullivanBeth OakesAndrew ParkinTim ReidEric RoherStan ShapsonIdan ShlesingerEnid SlackRichard TaylorLinda WhiteWenda Yenson

Canada’s Outstanding Principals National Selection CommitteeMarny BealeTeresa BlumFred FaccaCecilia ReynoldsArdith ShirleyDuncan SinclairVianne TimmonsMario Tirelli

Canada’s Outstanding Principals Advisory CommitteeMarny BealeFred FaccaFrank KellyDeirole Kinsella BissPaul LacalamitaIan McFarlaneRobert PrattPeggy Sweeney

Entrepreneurial Adventure Advisory CommitteeChair, Adrian RansomeJohn DickieLea Konforte

Natalie LauChristian Matyasfalvi

Welcome to Kindergarten Advisory Committees

BCJanet Austin Sheri Brattson Heather DalyDebbie Desroches FultonColleen DickieMaureen Dockendorf Sandra HuggettDr. Sharon JeroskiChristy NorthwayJoanne SchroederJanet Tomkins

GTAMarilyn Baillie Denise Cave Alan Convery Ayn Cooney Margaret DaSilva Jayne Delbeek Eksteins Fran Hill Sandy Giles John Howard Diana Linardic Heather Ma

Janet Millar Maryteresa Nocera Toni Pucci Daniel Reidy Dianne Riehl Angie SferlazzaStephanie Spencer Pat Stellick Janine Stutt Francine Umulisa Rose Wegiel

PEIJosee AlainTracy BeaulieuPatricia CampbellPaul CyrLynn HoganShirley JayDoug MacDougallMelanie MelansonPam MontgomeryLaura Ann NoyeCarolyn Simpson

2013 New Brunswick Tribute Luncheon Committee

Co-Chair, Dennis Cochrane

Co-Chair, Roxanne Fairweather

Eric EstabrooksGeoff FloodTom GribbonsLarry HacheyCharlie HarlingDale KnoxPatrick LacroixBob NealRoxanne ReevesDerek RiedleEric SavoieColombe SmithBill TeedAmy Webber

2014 Toronto Tribute Dinner Committee

Co-Chair, Kenneth J. Fredeen

Co-Chair, Carol Stephenson, O.C.

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45Canadian business CEOs engaged

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394,281students and families engaged through student programs

183partners engaged

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165business, education and government leaders engaged

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1,563students consulted across13 provincesand territories in

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2013-14 Results Highlights

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Governance ...................................................................................................................2

2013-14 Results ............................................................................................................3

Message from President and Chair ................................................................................5

Programs for Students ...................................................................................................6

Programs for Educators .................................................................................................8

2013-14 Highlights at a Glance ...................................................................................10

Financials ....................................................................................................................13

Collaborations .............................................................................................................14

Policy & Knowledge Mobilization ................................................................................16

Celebration Events .....................................................................................................18

Our Supporters ............................................................................................................20

About The Learning Partnership

The Learning Partnership is a national charity dedicated to building stakeholder partnerships to support, promote and advance publicly funded education in Canada. We do this through five key deliverables – innovative student programs, executive leadership for educators, knowledge mobilization and credible research, tribute celebrations of excellence and ongoing collaborations across Canada. Since 1993, more than 5.7 million students have participated in The Learning Partnership’s programs. For more information on The Learning Partnership, visit thelearningpartnership.ca.

Supporting Curriculum• Programs address curriculum gaps• Builds relationships with educators• Supports teachers in

curriculum delivery

Addressing Relevance & Driving Thought Leadership• Strategic merger with Collegium of Learning• Canadian and international Research and

its relevance• Mobilizing Knowledge across sectors• Informs, guides our programming content

and focus

Building Partnerships• Connecting business and education• Education Summit, Business Education

Task Force, CEO Events

Strengthening Leadership• Executive Leadership incorporating

business perspectives

Raising Awareness of Public Education• Canada’s Outstanding Principals• Tribute events – Hall of Fame• Canada’s Outstanding Employers

Programs for students

Programs for educators

Collaborations Policy & Knowledge Mobilization

Celebration events

The Learning Partnership Model


From our Strategic Plan 2014-2017:

The Learning Partnership’s

FOUR-POINT STRATEGIC FOCUS

Akela Peoples, President and CEO


Akela Peoples, President and CEO The Learning Partnership

Kenneth J. FredeenGeneral Counsel

Deloitte LLP

Kenneth J. Fredeen, Chair of The Learning Partnership’s Board of Directors

Message from the President and ChairThis past year The Learning Partnership has been focused on one theme: the future. So when we reflect on last year, our eyes were firmly fixed on the future.

Our children are our future. Their future is dependent on us. This means it is up to us to responsibly and collectively ensure that our publicly funded education system is designed to be dynamic, relevant and ever evolving – with effective tools to prepare young people in Canada to succeed in today’s global landscape. So what are those tools?

In search of these tools, The Learning Partnership looked closely at the key issues that impact our publicly funded education in Canada today. Through an intensive strategic planning process we concluded that our activities need to focus on the following four priorities:

• Teaching for 21st Century Skills• Embracing a global view• Responding to the changing labour market needs• Developing leadership skills for educators

Have a look at our many outstanding accomplishments in 2013-2014. You will quickly see that what we have accomplished this year is well aligned with what we think is important to the future success of Canada’s students. Our programs and investments for the coming year will focus on our four priorities identified above.

Our message is simple: public education matters to all of us. The Learning Partnership is about business collaborating with public education leaders and government to continually enhance our public education system.

We hope you agree with us, that the four strategic priorities we have thoughtfully chosen address the needs of students, educators and employers – and will make a positive difference. We hope you enjoy reading our annual report and find it informative, and as always, please let us know if you have ideas or comments. We would love to hear from you.

Teaching for21st Century

Skills

Embracing aGlobal View

DevelopingLeadership

Responding to aChanging Labour

Market

21st Century Skills for the 21st Century Workplace• Strengthening world-class STEM and literacy skills• Entrepreneurship and innovation with a global view• Future-focused teaching pedagogy and tools

Embracing a Global Perspective in Education• Building relationships with local and global players• Great to excellent focus in education ensuring relevancy• Career education that integrates global relevance

Enabling Successful School-to-Work Transitions• Innovative career education tools for students• Advocating for relevant labour market information• Promoting multiple paths to success

Integrating Business Skills in Education Leadership• Incorporating global perspectives in education• Building synergies between education and business• Embracing 21st century complexities in education

Enhancing excellence in public education to prepare youth in Canada for the 21st Century world

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Our student programs address curriculum gaps, build relationships with educators and support teachers in curriculum delivery in class.

2013-14 Highlights

Programs for StudentsSupporting Curriculum

I3 – Investigate! Invent! Innovate! Instilling a passion

for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Entrepreneurial Adventure Unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit in Canadian classrooms

Take Our Kids to Work Connecting students with

the world of work

Welcome to Kindergarten Engaging students, parents and communities early for a smooth

transition to school

Turning Points Building character and

communication through literacy for the 21st century world

Take Our Kids to Work™ Leads to HR careerKarla Cabrera accompanied her father, the Assistant Chief Engineer at The Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver, to work on Take Our Kids to Work day in 2005. The day left her wanting to be a Human Resources professional, which she has since pursued through a sociology degree at UBC and her current HR diploma program at BCIT.

“Take Our Kids to Work opened my eyes to the different options out there,” said Karla. “I could have gone another route and probably would have gotten a bachelor’s degree and not know what to do with it. My experience that day gave me focus. I am truly thankful for that day in Grade 9.”

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student-programs

394,281students and families engaged through student programs

158

14,679

new Entrepreneurial Adventure business ventures

Turning Points essays submitted

103 business and community partners engaged

new I3 inventions

donated to charity through Entrepreneurial Adventure student businesses

1,543

$101,330

18,700teachers engaged

program showcase and celebration events nationally21

250,000 businesses participating in TOKW

813 WTK app downloads

students and 75,000


• Take Our Kids to Work 20th anniversary• I3 expanding to four additional provinces• Entrepreneurial Adventure expanding to four

additional provinces• Turning Points French expansion• Launch of five Take Our Kids to Work online

modules• Launch of Take Our Class to Work online career

awareness resource

Looking Ahead to 2014-15

Entrepreneurial Adventure Provides Lasting ImpactThrough the Entrepreneurial Adventure program, Grade 8 students Mavis, Amanda and their classmates left a lasting legacy in their final year at St. Richard’s Catholic School in Scarborough, Ontario.

They developed and sold a student-friendly but dresscode-appropriate school clothing line, winning a BMO National Student Innovation Award and donating all profits from their $6,000 in sales to two of the school’s favourite charities.

That’s what they left behind, but thanks to this experience, Mavis took with her a new appreciation for teamwork and Amanda took with her a triumph over shyness. As for the whole class, they walked away with a better understanding of algebra because of the real-life application of figuring out the variables of production.

Generating Confidence with I3 – Investigate! Invent! Innovate!Challenged with identifying an everyday problem and creating an invention to solve it, former Grade 7 student from Tom Bains School in Calgary, Alberta, Robin Kim, and four of her classmates developed the Footstep Generator. The invention takes energy created when a person steps onto a stair and transfers it into electricity to power a small LED light – a principle the students hope one day might even power a whole a house.

The invention process and the I3 – Investigate! Invent! Innovate! Invention Convention showcase, as well as the media attention around her team’s prototype, taught Robin more than she realized.

“I learned that you can gain a lot of confidence because you can build anything you want, anywhere, anytime.”

Leading the national conversation in Early LearningThe Learning Partnership’s Early Years Family and Community Engagement National Symposium, which took place on May 13 to 15, 2014, facilitated an important conversation about the shared responsibility of early childhood learning and development – family, educators and communities must all be involved.

Developed as an extension of The Learning Partnership’s Welcome to Kindergarten™ program, the Symposium gave early learning experts, educators and policymakers from across Canada the opportunity to share and learn from each other about how to prepare pre-Kindergarten children for success.

Tune into VOCM, Newfoundland for Turning Points, Live!Fred Hutton, radio personality and news director on VOCM in St. John’s participated for the first time as a Turning Points student essay judge last April. He was so impressed by the quality of the writing as well as the courage shown by the authors as they recounted personal challenges, that he invited students of winning essays to read their work and share their stories live on his morning radio show.

The Welcome to Kindergarten App was named one of iTunes Top 50 early learning apps in May 2014. Also available on Android, the free app can be downloaded at thelearningpartnership.ca/apps.


Victoria BC’s Outstanding Principal, Leslie LeeAs one of 2014’s Canada’s Outstanding Principals, Leslie Lee (centre) from British Columbia attended The Learning Partnership’s five-day executive leadership development program at the Rotman School of Management. As “CEO” of George Jay Elementary School, Leslie was able to network and share best practices with colleagues from across Canada, and learn management strategies from leading professors and C-level business executives.

“The Learning Partnership recognition has been an incredibly positive influence on the reputation of the school and our work. It has also helped with staff morale and acknowledges the improvements in learning we have been working on.”

Our Executive Leadership programs are offered in partnership with leading Business Schools Rotman and Ivey. We believe in investing in current leaders in Canada’s public education system.

2013-14 Highlights

Programs for EducatorsStrengthening Leadership

National Academy of Canada’s Outstanding

Principals

Directors Institute

Supervisory Officers Course

Canada’s Outstanding Principals

Leading Learning through Technology

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outstanding principals honoured in 10 provinces and 3 territories

senior educators across Canada bene�t fromexecutive leadership training

world-renowned business school partnerships2

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24 guest speakers including 19 C-level Canadian business executives

hours of executive leadership instruction

school boards across

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• Refresh Supervisory Officer course

• Build online resources for senior educators

• Expand Canada’s Outstanding Principals program in-class reach

• Revamp Canada’s Outstanding Principals application criteria to include innovation

• Upgrade Canada’s Outstanding Principals nomination process to online application


Ivey School of Business Helps Re-Launch Directors CourseThe Learning Partnership believes investing in the continued leadership and professional development of current leaders in the public education system is an effective way to strengthen the system. This year, The Learning Partnership announced a new partnership with Ivey Business School for the fourth series of our Directors of Education Institute on Leadership and Strategic Impact.

The program is a leading edge executive development course designed to develop the knowledge, practical skills, strategies and cross-sector networking required for leaders in education to successfully

deliver excellence in our publicly funded education system.

Committed to developing leaders in education, we re-designed our course for “CEOs” in education with Ivey’s highly regarded and renowned “case study” approach at the core. Case studies draw from experiences from the business world, the public sector and events in world history. The newly designed program covers, in three modules, themes of Connecting Strategy and Leadership, Connecting with Your People and Connecting Action to Outcome.

A total of 22 school directors and executive superintendents, including representation from Ontario, British Columbia and Atlantic Canada, attended the executive leadership course that began in May 2014, helping to strengthen 18 different school boards.

Through the Rotman School of Management, The Learning Partnership offered executive leadership development to 40 principals across Canada and 23 supervisory officers in Ontario in 2013-14.


Oct./Nov., 2013 Business-Education Task Force – Toronto

The Learning Partnership brought together leaders from business and education in Toronto over two days to discuss working together to advance students’ futures.

Dec., 2013 New website and brand

Sept. 13, 2013 Saint John

Tribute Luncheon

Dec. 5-7, 2013 Supervisory

Officer Course

Nov. 6, 2013 Take Our Kids

to Work

Sept. 19, 2013 CEO

Roundtable

250,000 students visited 75,000 organizations across the country on the 19th annual Take Our Kids to Work day.

Module 1 of the Supervisory Officer Executive Program on Leadership and Management at the Rotman School of Management.


The Learning Partnership launches a fresh new brand, website and look and feel as part of its 20th anniversary.

The Learning Partnership honoured Gerry Pond and J.K. Irving as Champions of Public Education in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Oct./Nov., 2013 It’s My Future Student Voice Consultations

In the fall we consulted students in Moncton, Calgary, Vancouver and Winnipeg on their opinions on public education.

The Learning Partnership hosted a CEO Roundtable for corporate CEOs and Ontario’s Minister of Education and Assistant Deputy Minister / Chief Student Achievement Officer.

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2013-2014 Highlights at a Glance

Aug., 2013 New Corporate Advisory Board

Chair

Retired Scotiabank President & CEO Rick Waugh, O.C. takes over chair position on the Corporate Advisory Board. CIBC President & CEO Gerry McCaughey stays on as past chair.

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Apr. 23, 2014 Invention

Conventions

Dec. 5-7, 2013 Supervisory

Officer Course

Feb. 6-8, 2014 Supervisory

Officer Course

Feb.-Mar., 2014 It’s My Future Student Voice Consultations

Feb. 23-27, 2014 Canada’s

Outstanding Principals

Apr. 23, 2014 Toronto

Tribute Dinner

Apr. 10, 2014 Partnership

Summit

Feb., 2014 Partnership with Samsung Canada

Feb.- Jun., 2014 Take Our Class to

Work pilot

Apr.-May, 2014 Turning Points Celebrations

Apr. 23-24, 2014 National Student

SymposiumThe new Take Our Class to Work career exploration program (with experiential learning for classes) was piloted in six schools in the GTA.

The I3 – Investigate! Invent! Innovate! program culminated in Invention Conventions in nearly 20 locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Kenora, New Brunswick, North Bay and Ottawa.



Forty principals from across Canada honoured at an awards gala and attended a five-day leadership course at Rotman School of Management in Toronto.

In the winter we consulted students in Edmonton, Charlottetown, Regina and

Toronto on their opinions on public education.

The Learning Partnership brought together over 100 leaders from education, business, government and the student community to the Partnership Summit to address school-to-work pathways.

Samsung donates $1M to public education through partnership with The Learning Partnership.

The Learning Partnership honoured Alan MacGibbon and Nitin Kawale as Champions of Public Education in Toronto, Ontario.

The Turning Points program recognized outstanding essay writers at celebration events in Brantford, New Brunswick, Calgary, Sudbury, GTA, Kenora, North Bay, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.

Twenty-two youth from every province and territory gathered in Toronto for The Learning Partnership’s first-ever National Student Symposium on public education.

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May 28, 2014 Business-Education Task Force – Calgary

May 22, 2014 New Directors

Course Launched at Ivey

May/Jun., 2014 Entrepreneurial

Adventure Showcases

May 13-15, 2014 Winnipeg WTK

Symposium

May 6-7, 2014 It’s My Future Student Voice Consultations

In the spring we consulted students in St. John’s and Halifax on their opinions on public education.

The Entrepreneurial Adventure program culminated with showcase events in nearly 20 locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Kenora, New Brunswick, North Bay and Ottawa.


This session in Calgary focused on how business and education can work together in Alberta to support students in school-to-work transitions.

The new Executive Leadership for Directors of Education course launched with the new Ivey Business School, our new curriculum partner.

Welcome to Kindergarten’s Early Years Family and Community Engagement National Symposium in Winnipeg facilitated conversation about family

engagement in early learning.

The Turning Points program recognized outstanding essay writers at celebration events in Brantford, New Brunswick, Calgary, Sudbury, GTA, Kenora, North Bay, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.

Apr., 2014 WTK App Launched

The Welcome to Kindergarten play-based learning app launches in pilot mode for iPad.

Jun. 13, 2014 Office Move

The Learning Partnership home office got more much-needed space by moving to 45 Sheppard Ave. E, Suite 400, Toronto.

May 15-16, 2014 Supervisory

Officer Course

May June July

FinancialsThe Learning Partnership summarized financial information (Year ending June 30, 2014)

Funding Sources Expenses

Copies of the audited financial statements may be obtained on request fromCarol Norsworthy, Director of Finance and Administration, The Learning Partnership at: 416-440-5110

More than 5.7 million children have participated in our programs … the momentum continues to enhance learning.

Programs 55%

Leadership Institutes 9%

Policy & Knowledge Mobilization

3%

Administration 20%

IT 2%

Fundraising 11%

Other 8%

Corporate 26%

Educational Institutions

35%

Foundations 7%

Government 24%


CollaborationsConnecting Business and Education

For more information, visit thelearningpartnership.ca/collaborations

Rick Waugh, O.C. Appointed as Corporate Advisory Board ChairIn 2013-14, Rick Waugh, (right) Scotiabank’s retired President and CEO and 2013 Champion of Public Education was appointed as the new Chair of The Learning Partnership’s Corporate Advisory Board.

Throughout the year, Mr. Waugh hosted three CEO events engaging more than 25 C-level Canadian business leaders in meaningful conversation about the work of The Learning Partnership and public education in Canada. As a result, we have created an HR Intelligence Committee with HR representatives from these companies to inform our work on school-to-work transitions.

Build partnerships through summits, business task forces, events.

2013-14 Highlights

Partnership Summit

CEO Events

Business-Education Task Forces

recommendations for public education from collaboration events

Calgary2Toronto

Business-Education Task Forces ONE Partnership

Summit

3move-to-action priorities

employment-to-education transitions

45Canadian business CEOs engaged

roundtable events3 CEO

donated to public education via Samsung partnership

165business, education and government leaders engaged

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• Business-Education Task Forces in Winnipeg and Prince Edward Island

• Partnership Summit 2015

• Protocol for developing business-education partnerships


Co-chaired by Corporate Advisory Board leader Rick Waugh, O.C., Scotiabank’s retired President and CEO, The Learning Partnership’s one-day Partnership Summit brought together over 100 leaders from education, business, government and the student community to address the compelling challenges of creating successful school-to-work pathways for young Canadians.

With sessions moderated by Steve Paikin, Host and Producer of TVO’s The Agenda and Carol Stephenson, O.C., Former Dean, Ivey Business School, as well as interviews and group discussions, attendees examined the importance of gaining a global perspective; what innovation disruption means to our

economy and education system; education for the 21st century; moving from education to employment; education experience from students; and business and education taking action together.

Participants and panellists included Ontario’s Minister of Education Liz Sandals; author and professor Michael Fullan O.C.; James Politeski, President, Samsung Canada; Nitin Kawale, President, Cisco Systems Canada; Acting Director for Education and Skills at the OECD, Andreas Schleicher; Alberta’s Deputy Minister of Education, Greg Bass; Director General, Andrew Parkin, representing the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada; George Zegarac, Deputy Minister who also represented

Ontario’s Ministry of Education; and Linda Franklin, CEO of Colleges Ontario.

The information from the sessions and roundtable discussions was captured in a final report by The Learning Partnership to help key decision makers develop school-to-work transition strategies.

Read the Partnership Summit Report at thelearningpartnership.ca/ summit-report

The Learning Partnership held two Business-Education Task Forces in 2013-14, one in Toronto and one in Calgary, to facilitate business-education relationships locally.

Collaborating to Create Successful School-To-Work Pathways for Young Canadians

Report on the Partnership Summit 2014Convened by The Learning Partnership, April 10, 2014

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INFO-RICH, ACTION-POOR?What are we doing to successfully move young Canadians from education to employment?

Terry Stuart, Chief Innovation Officer, Deloitte (left); Michael Fullan, O.C., author/professor (centre left); and recent graduate Jamil Jivani (centre right) discuss critical skills needed for the 21st century workplace in a panel moderated by TVO’s Steve Paikin (right) at the Partnership Summit in April 2014.


Our Policy & Knowledge Mobilization department addresses the relevance of all programs and drives thought leadership in the education sector.

2013-14 Highlights

Policy & Knowledge MobilizationAddressing Relevance & Driving Thought Leadership

Student Voice

Research

School-to-Work Transition

For more information, visit thelearningpartnership.ca/ pkm

Canada Needs Consistent Approach to Career EducationIn November 2013 The Learning Partnership released It’s Their Future: A Pan-Canadian Study of Career Education. The research, a national scan of curriculum and policy initiatives focusing on school-to-work transitions, was conducted in response to Education Summit attendees wanting to understand more about how Canadian schools prepare students for the world of work.

The paper illustrates the various approaches to developing the workforce preparedness of students through Canadian public schools, an area of challenge for public education. It demonstrates the need for a more consistent national approach to workforce preparation.

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4 reports in production

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national research collaboration with Samsung

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Policy & Knowledge Mobilization

Vulnerable Communities: Success for Boys


• It’s My Future Report

• 2015 National Student Symposium

• Use of technology in schools research project with Samsung Canada

• Boys success project expanding


Students Tell The Learning Partnership What They Need from Public EducationThe Learning Partnership’s It’s My Future! initiative reached out to 1,563 Canadian students through 15 regional youth forums and an online survey across 13 provinces and territories in two official languages, to ask students – as key stakeholders – what’s working for them in Canada’s public education system and how can we improve.

The sessions asked students ranging from Grade 12 to post-secondary levels where they see opportunities to enhance their education, how they feel it’s preparing them for life after school and what information they are missing in order to make post-secondary choices.

While there were significant regional differences in students’ opinions, several key themes emerged which share a common Pan-Canadian perspective – all involving relevant, real-life matters. Students want: experiential and out-of-classroom learning opportunities; applicable courses; individualization, flexibility and choice; transition information/support; financial support; and the opportunity to have their voices heard.

We hope the insights we gathered will better inform critical discussions and strategy development with leaders and influencers across all sectors to

help support our youth for tomorrow’s workplace.

It’s My Future:

Student Voices From Across Canada

Final Report

September 2014

Copyright © 2014 The Learning Partnership

. All rights reserved.

Read the It’s My Future Report at thelearningpartnership.ca/imf-report

The inaugural National Student Symposium in April 2014 gathered 22 student representatives from every province and territory to get their feedback on the education system.


Celebration EventsRaising Awareness of Public Education

Samsung Donates $1M to Public Education Through The Learning Partnership’s Canada’s Outstanding PrincipalsIn February 2014, James Politeski, President, Samsung Canada (right) announced to the 350 Canada’s Outstanding Principals gala attendees a substantial commitment to Canadian public education, pledging $1 million in Solve for Tomorrow school technology grants in 2014.

Samsung, The Learning Partnership’s official Technology Innovation Partner, surprised the award winners with the news that they would be the first beneficiaries of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow program, each receiving a $20,000 technology grant for their school, which Samsung will help them implement to most effectively integrate technology into their classrooms.

“I want to thank Samsung for not just throwing money at our school, or saying here’s a gift, but for really sitting down with us,” said secondary principal Rene Bibeau of Ottawa. “They’re going to come to our school, they’re going to work with us... to try and figure out what our needs are and work as a team.”

Celebrating exemplary education leaders in business and education.

2013-14 Highlights

Champions of Public Education

Canada’s Outstanding Employers

For more information, visit thelearningpartnership.ca/ celebrations

1,530 attendees from business, government and education

4 Champions of Public Education honoured

outstanding employersrecognized

threegala events

10outstanding principals recognized40

Canada’s Outstanding Employers

2013 AWARD RECIPIENTS:

APTN

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

Candu Energy Inc.

CBC/Radio-Canada

Copernicus Educational Products Inc.

Deloitte

The Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver

Metrolinx

Samsung Canada

Toronto Hydro

James Politeski, President, Samsung Canada announces a donation of $1 million to public education at The Learning Partnership’s Canada’s Outstanding Principals Gala in February 2014.

Canada’s Outstanding Principals


• Tribute Moncton – Nov. 10, 2014

• Tribute Toronto – May 28, 2015

• Canada’s Outstanding Principals gala – Feb. 24, 2015

• Canada’s Outstanding Employers nomination – Nov. 3, 2014


Four Champions of Public Education HonouredIn 2013-14 The Learning Partnership honoured four exceptional Canadian business leaders as Champions of Public Education for their personal and professional contributions to Canada’s public education system: innovator and technology entrepreneur Gerry Pond, O.N.B.; Alan N. MacGibbon, former Managing Partner and Chief Executive of Deloitte LLP; Nitin Kawale, President of Cisco Systems Canada and lifetime achievement Champion of Public Education, J.K. Irving, Chairman of J.D. Irving Ltd.

As The Learning Partnership’s largest celebration events, the Tribute events – a dinner in Toronto and a luncheon in Saint John, New Brunswick – brought together more than 1,500 attendees to celebrate

these outstanding Canadians and to raise funds for The Learning Partnership’s student programs in these communities.

The Toronto event featured keynote speaker Rex Murphy, Social Commentator and Editorialist, and emcee Pattie Lovett-Reid, CTV News’s Chief Financial Commentator. Co-chairs for Toronto were Carol Stephenson O.C., Former Dean, Ivey Business School and Kenneth J. Fredeen, General Counsel, Deloitte LLP and Chair of The Learning Partnership’s Board of Directors.

TD Bank Deputy Chair the Honourable Frank McKenna delivered the keynote address at the New Brunswick Tribute event with Dennis Cochrane, former President of St. Thomas University and Roxanne Fairweather, President and CEO

of Innovatia Inc. co-chairing and the Honourable Marilyn Trenholme-Counsell, O.C., O.N.B., former Senator and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick as honorary chair.

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President, Cisco Systems Canada

Alan N. MacGibbon F.C.P.A, F.C.A., C.M.C.,

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I f the job of a principal conjures up visions ofPrincipal Seymour Skinner chasing Bart Simpson,

the reality couldn’t be further. Rather than the dis-ciplinarians of the past, today’s principals have toknow and help every student, cope with parentaland political demands and ensure that their schoolscores highly on standardized tests. It’s no wonderthe appeal of the job is declining.

“The research for the last 20 years is quite clear,teachers are not attracted to the principalship,” saysPaul Newton, an associate professor at the Univer-sity of Alberta who has researched the role of theschool leader. “Principals were always responsiblefor ensuring efficient management of the school,but, increasingly, the principal has become respon-sible for the academic achievement of students.This is not an insignificant shift.”

Principal Lorraine Kinsman, head of CranstonSchool, which she helped open four years ago inCalgary, has experienced how complex the job canbe. She expected to run the school, set up timeta-bles and monitor the day-to-day happenings.Instead, she also has to contend with the involve-ment of parents, the community, the school boardand the province. “Instead of just knowing sixcourses of study, I now need to know 575 children,and all of the options that are available to them,”she says.

Ms. Kinsman is among 40 principals honoured bythe Learning Partnership as Canada’s best in a rolethat clearly has some exceptional leaders. But overall, school boards are having a difficult time recruit-ing new people to the leadership ranks. Studiesshow that school systems in Canada, Australia, NewZealand and the United States are struggling torecruit teachers to become principals, and researchsuggests vacancies are expected to climb.

In Ontario, the number of educators receivingtheir principal qualifications dropped from 1,056 in2003 to 590 last year, according to data from theOntario College of Teachers. A spokesman forAlberta Education says school superintendentshave indicated a greater challenge than in the pastin recruiting teachers to become principals.

In spite of those numbers, great principals canmake a huge difference in the lives of students andtheir communities.

“I like helping people solve problems, whether it’sa staff member or a student or a family,” says John-Paul Elliott, the principal at St. Joseph CatholicSchool in Gananoque, Ont. “And then when youfinally see some success, you know, … you finallysee somebody moving forward, it’s very motivat-ing.”

To become a principal in Ontario, an educatorneeds at least five years of teaching experience, al-though most have more, as well as certification thatincludes the principal’s qualification program.

Lately, the role has become more political. Al-though test scores are not used to penalize a prin-cipal, leaders whose schools don’t fare well are stillscrutinized and questioned by parents and politi-cians.

“The increased hours, responsibility and publicscrutiny are not compensated for by minimal salaryincreases,” says Prof. Newton, who is about to pub-lish a paper on this topic. “Most teachers wouldprefer to remain in teaching roles than transitioninto administrative positions.” He added that this isparticularly acute in remote parts of Canada thathave long faced a shortage of school administra-tors.

In Alberta, the average salary for a teacher with 10years’ experience is about $92,000; and at the topend of the scale, teachers could earn as much as$99,000. A principal at the top end of the scale inAlberta would earn about $99,000, with an “allo-wance” of between $20,000 and $45,000. Principalsin Ontario are on the province’s annual sunshinelist, earning more than $100,000 annually. Teachersat the top end of the scale earn more than $90,000.

Prof. Newton argues that while principals havealways been responsible for the management ofschool, lately they’ve taken on an additional task ofstudent achievement. When organizations like theFraser Institute rank schools based on test scores,provincial governments see principals as key agentsin educational improvement efforts and, as Prof.Newton says, “an easy target” when a school is notfaring well. The research, however, “is less thanconclusive with respect to the impact that princi-pals have on student learning,” he adds.

But Andrea McAuley, who is in her fourth year asprincipal at R.H. Cornish Public School in Port Per-ry, Ont., and among this year’s winners, says“changing the trajectory of outcomes” for studentsis what keeps her energized. “The role of principalenables us to keep one hand front-line for our stu-dents, so we see the individual faces and can sup-port in individual conversations with kids, but alsohave a wider connection to systemic change,” shesays.

John Hamilton, president-elect at the OntarioPrincipals’ Council and a principal for the last 10years, says not only are principals taking on the re-sponsibility of student achievement, they also seean increasing number of students coming to themfor help with mental-health issues. Mr. Hamilton,the principal at Sunderland Public School in Brock,Ont., says he and his colleagues spend a lot of theirtime helping children with emotional needs.

“You’re trying to manage a global landscape in aneducational setting,” he says. “None of the issuesthat we are expected to deal with are bad things,they are good things. But what is our role? Itbecomes difficult to define it when you’re beingpulled in a lot of different directions.”

Leslie LeeGeorge Jay Elementary SchoolVictoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ms. Lee describes her first four years as aprincipal as “a roller-coaster ride whirl-wind.” When she arrived at George Jay Ele-mentary, a school that scored high on theprovince’s vulnerability index, she had herfirst experience of an urban school wherenearly half of all students speak a lan-guage other than English at home.

In some years, the rate of transience –students who “go in and out” of school –was 35 per cent. She realized that for manyyoung people at her school, the challengeof fulfilling basic needs is so great that ac-ademics are simply not a high priority, norfor their families. “So one of the thingsthat we focused on meeting [was] thesocial and emotional needs,” she says.

Her school ramped up its breakfast andlunch programs, knowing hungry childrenstruggle to focus, and worked to removethe stigma from coming early for break-fast. And Ms. Lee has full-time family andparent-liaison counsellors who can reachout to families and support students’ par-ents – one of the few schools in her dis-trict to do so.

She has also embraced technology as away of tailoring learning more closely tothe needs of each student, especially the10 to 15 per cent each year who have desig-nated special needs. “You can set up differ-ent levels of learning by using the techtools,” she says, noting it helps engage-ment too because “the kids love it.”

These initiatives have already helpedtransform the school’s performance onprovincial benchmarks and drasticallyreduced the number of behavioural inci-dents. But Ms. Lee still thinks her schooland others need more funding to supportstudents with special needs.

Sheldon BarryHoly Heart of Mary High SchoolSt. John’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mr. Barry says one of his biggest challeng-es is helping his students understand whythey should want to be at school at all.After 11 years as a principal in a provincewhere demographics and migration havecreated a labour shortage, it’s hard tomotivate students when they can see well-paid jobs waiting unfilled that don’talways require postsecondary education.

A lot of his students are the sons anddaughters of immigrants, many of whomcame to St. John’s to fill vacant jobs – theyhail from 50 different countries. At thesame time, 55 per cent of his students,work a part-time job outside of class. Thedemands of late-night hours and extrashifts can leave them drained before theyeven begin their first class in the morning.

To spur ambition and persuade potentialearly leavers to stay, he offers programssuch as credit recovery, and has raised pri-vate funds from the local community forprograms, especially for newcomers toCanada.

But more personal interaction, oftenone-on-one with students, can be themost effective tool. “You have statistics onyour side, and you have community lead-ers coming in and talking about their ex-periences and just showing real-worldexamples of, ‘This is where your path isleading, and this is where you could gowith a little more effort,’ ” he says.

It isn’t an easy pitch, but most such con-versations “go really well.”

They’re no longer the disciplinarian or just the school manager. They can be a target when standardized test results are low. As 40 of Canada’s best principals are honoured – including the five profiled here – Caroline Alphonso and James Bradshaw look at their changing role

A matter of principal: What makes a grea

One of the things we have been

working on is a focus on language

objectives – that is, when we’re

teaching, we are proactive in

ensuring that the children

understand the vocabulary of what

they’re doing. ... When you have

English-language learners and

vulnerable learners, they learn

language in a different way.

In Newfoundland, we’re seeing a very

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years ago [there was] a lot of focus

on university being the postsecondary

choice for students for success. Now

it’s not necessarily universities –

there’s other options available ... so

keep keeping the student motivated

to achieve their top potential,

whatever that might be, is a constant

battle.

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Andrea McAuleyR.H. Cornish Public SchoolPort Perry, Ont.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ms. McAuley has the same achievementgoals for all her students, but the pathsthey take are very different. For four years,she has been principal at what she calls “afour-track school,” with more than 800students divided between English, Frenchimmersion and gifted streams, as well as aseparate stream with four other “self-con-tained” classes.The challenge is makingsure all four tracks are successful.

Her task is made all the more tricky bythe fact that, in her mind, that desireddestination is less clearly defined than itwas earlier in her career. Ms. McAuley hasa background in special education and thearts, and puts a premium on buildingthinking skills on top of the core literacyand numeracy curriculum. Learning howto use information has become as impor-tant as knowing facts and equations, if notmore so.

That means principals like her spendless of their time being “managerial,” andmore being instructional leaders setting adirection for the way their students willlearn, down to a personal level. And itmeans striking more community partner-ships to keep the education taking placeinside the school as connected as possibleto the students’ experience outside it.

What has been a major change in

education just in my time as an

educator is that we’ve moved from

preparing kids for a workforce that

we fully understood to preparing kids

for a workforce that we haven’t yet

seen. So the challenge becomes, what

is the best preparation for a world

that our kids will inherit that we

didn’t experience ourselves as kids?

John-Paul ElliottSt. Joseph Catholic Elementary SchoolGananoque, Ont.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As far as Catholic education is concerned,the school where John-Paul Elliott hasspent all six of his years as a principal isthe only game in town in Gananoque. It ispart of a community he calls beautiful,cultured, close-knit and supportive, butalso one that has its share of challengesborn out of unemployment and demo-graphics. To succeed in his job, he has tobe flexible and adaptable, or as he puts it,“you need to have all your skills.”

He gets the students he shepherds, whocome from a variety of family back-grounds and with different abilities,involved in fundraising efforts for theschool. And he has set up initiatives thatare pushing the school past the under-achieving label it once bore, including anintensive French program for Grade 5 stu-dents and his district’s pioneering full-daykindergarten program.

His mantra is to keep things simple. Helooks to signals from Ontario’s educationministry and his local school board togauge where educational priorities areshifting. But that big picture is sometimessubsumed by “the very specific needs thatare right there at your door.”

Staff and parents look to him to be thedecision-maker, but in six years as princi-pal he has learned to work closely withstaff to make changes. “That’s somethingthat you might know in your head, butknowing it in practice is a different thingaltogether. Being in charge isn’t being theboss, it’s about collaboration, it’s about lis-tening,” he says.

Lorraine KinsmanCranston SchoolCalgary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nothing stands still at Ms. Kinsman’sschool, whether she likes it or not. For thelast four years, she has been the inauguralprincipal at Cranston School, a brand newinstitution she took over when it was stillunder construction, and where she helpedchoose everything from the furniture tothe philosophy, which focuses on creativ-ity and world issues like the environment.

The chance to start a kindergarten toGrade 4 school from the ground level is“the opportunity of a lifetime,” she says.The school opened with 300 students andwill reach its maximum of 620 this fall,“bursting at the seams” – some families inthe community have even had to beturned away.

“For the last two years, I’ve added five orsix classrooms every single year, five or sixteachers, changed the complexity of theschool,” she says.

Growth is the big story at many Calgaryschools, where the youth population is ris-ing fast, and that puts pressure on schoolsat a time when new ways of learningbrought about in part by technology, andwhen learning to sort and use informa-tion, are becoming paramount skills.

That is forcing “huge changes,” Ms. Kins-man says, “because we’re educating chil-dren for a world that none of us can reallyscript.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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at one – and why so few want the job

I would love to see more support staff

in the schools. And I’ll leave it at that

– trained support staff, supporting

kids with autism, mental health

issues, those sorts of things. There are

itinerants that come back and forth,

that are in your school one day, not

the next. I would like to see more

consistent support for those students.

Staff want it, parents want it,

students need it.

It’s an unknown future, but we know

that if you have literacy skills and

numeracy skills and communication

skills, you can go most anywhere. The

biggest change is a social change to

talk to parents who say, ‘But it wasn’t

like that when I went to school,’ and

it wasn’t. ... To get to the point where

society can accept some of those

changes more willingly.

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