Domain One | Quality Catholic Education |
Goal | Provide opportunities for our students, staff, parents and trustees to encounter Jesus Christ in an explicitly Catholic environment through-out the division. |
Key Elements - Outcomes | - The Catholic faith provides a framework for learning and life.
- The Catholic faith is permeated into our curriculum so that contemporary culture is critically evaluated in the light of “The Truth.”
- Our staff witness to others a life lived in relationship with Jesus Christ.
- Our students, staff, and parents are honoured as distinct and unique while being brought together in a spirit of communion.
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Primary Strategies | - Develop and implement a four-year faith plan - “Called By God”.
- Develop a survey for students, parents, and division staff to evaluate the performance of our strategies to improve specific outcomes.
- Review and integrate curriculum resources to support faith permeation across all grade levels and subject areas that align with REN, CCSSA, and Catholic bishop recommendations.
- Religion Lead Teacher supports religious curriculum integration through coordinating faith and social justice activities for students and staff across the Division.
- Staff collaborate with the Faith Coordinator to assess for professional, personal and environmental needs to school and teachers.
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Ongoing Strategies | - Provide professional development opportunities for teachers to learn religious and cross curricular programming.
- Excellent Catholic educators teaching religion.
- Hiring and evangelization of faith-base educators and support staff.
- Educating staff about Catholic faith and giving them the confidence to participate in our faith celebrations and liturgical seasons.
- Maintain and expand faith development opportunities and evangelization through fostering a safe inclusive learning environment, prayer, liturgies, celebrations and retreats for staff, students, and parents.
- Advocate for quality Catholic education by participating in local and provincial initiatives such as SPICE, CCSSA, ACSTA, Religions and Moral Education Council (RMEC), Marked By God, and GrACE committee events.
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Performance Measures | Domain One - Local Performance Measures - Student Gr 4 Q5 I am involved in religious celebrations at my school? - 91% Yes - Goal - 95%
- Student Gr 7-12 Q7 How satisfied are you with your opportunity to be involved in the religious celebrations in your school? 82% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 85%
- Teachers Q4 - How satisfied are you with the Catholic Christian atmosphere of the school? 97% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 100%
- Support Staff Q4 - How satisfied are you with the Catholic Christian atmosphere of the school? 94% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 96%
- Parent Q5 How satisfied are you with the relationship that exists between the home, school, and parish? - 83% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 85%
Domain One - Provincial Performance Measures - Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning Environments - 87.8% Province, 89.6% ECCS - Goal 90%
- Citizenship - 83.2% Province, 86% ECCS - Goal 90%
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