Strategic Priority 3: Independence

A focus on engaging students’ innate abilities and curiosity to empower a love of learning, self-confidence, and self-efficacy.

Advancing this strategic priority is supported by the following strategic actions:

3.1. Promote learner agency and potential, as well as more accurate grading through the ongoing development of more formative and dynamic learner assessments.

3.2 Enhance student voice and agency to put students' experiences at the heart of decision-making in classrooms, schools, and divisional systems.

3.3. Create and teach an Information Literacy continuum and curriculum for all students that includes a focus on discerning safe and healthy behaviours when using and creating information, especially online.

3.4. Develop a framework to assist staff in supporting multilingual learners in becoming proficient in English – and French in the context of French Immersion schools – by valuing and developing their first language.

3.5. Create a flexible, short-term learning and therapeutic space for students needing to be away from their home school to support their successful return to a classroom.

3.6. Enhance Project-Based Learning, Arts Education, Practical Arts, Active Healthy Living, Technical Vocational Education, Apprenticeship, Adult Education, and Career Development offerings, their connection to each other and to all classrooms.