•Superintendent’s Report - Aug. 2011

•Gifted trip to China

•Supt. Mission to China

•ELC

•contingency

•Grand Opening - Oct. 17

Joint Use Agreement

•Pilot

•Committee

•Revenue Generation (after pilot)

•Partnership/Community Service/Sharing

•Prince George - opinion after 20 years

•“delightful”, “painless”, “slick as heck”

Ministry Update - Deputy Minister James Gorman

Personalized Learning

21st Century Foundational Skills21st Century Foundational Skills

Reading

Writing

Numeracy

Critical thinking and problem solving

Creativity and innovation

Collaboration, teamwork and leadership

Cross-cultural understanding

Communications, Computing and ICT

literacy

Career and learning self-reliance

Caring for personal health and planet earth

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Student Student initiated, self-directedinitiated, self-directed, interdisciplinary learning, interdisciplinary learningTeacher Teacher facilitatedfacilitated

Co-planned withCo-planned withparentsparents and and

teachersteachersCORECORE

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Intermediate YearsIntermediate YearsEarly YearsEarly Years Graduation YearsGraduation Years

2121stst Century Century

Choice (Electives)

Choice (Electives)CORECORE

NowNow

Foundational SkillsFoundational SkillsTeacherTeacher driven drivenSet coursesSet coursesCORECORE

Choice (Electives)Choice (Electives)Student chooses Student chooses fromfromMenu of coursesMenu of courses

SupplementalSupplemental

Possible Independent Study

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HOWdoing

process

WHAT“knowing”

theoryresearch

BEINGmindshift

our philosophy

Where are we?

•Non Instructional Days... how do we get our $ worth?

•Performance management needs to be developed

•Flexible school calendars...

•Moving the system towards personalized learning... implementation

•Technology

•Technology

• byod

• anytime, anywhere for teachers

• new deal with Telus ($1.2 Billion)

• teach WITH it, not ABOUT it

• PTC Report:

• From ----- To

• learning information to learning to learn

• data to discovery

• one size fits all to tailored learning

• testing to assess to assessing to learn

• classroom learning to lifelong learning

Downsides..?