Strategic Planning
Our 2023-2028 strategic plan was developed in partnership with a wide variety of rights-holders, in partnership with Tla’amin Nation. These groups include: parents, staff and teachers, community members and students. In May 2023, the Board launched a public survey which received over 500 responses, indicating priorities, visions and ambitions for the future. Focus groups and meetings were held with qTA, CUPE and other key partners, at schools and local meeting places.
We do this by:
• Aligning our education vision and activities with the principles outlined in the Policy for Student Success;
• Anchoring our beliefs in the First Peoples Principles of Learning;
• Using an equity framework to support student achievement; and,
• Partnering with Indigenous Peoples, particularly Tla’amin Nation, who are guided by the principles of Taʔow.
We are privileged to encompass an incredible group of students, families, caregivers, staff, and community members, each with their own unique stories. As a District, we are big enough to welcome a diverse group of learners and small enough to be creative, adaptable, and flexible to meet their varying needs.
Ensure early learners and students have the best possible learning experience.
- Focus on foundational learning in literacy and numeracy.
- Enhance early learning plans, opportunities, and partnerships.
- Foster deep learning so all students can flourish in a rapidly changing world.
- Increase student engagement and voice.
- Expand school food programs to ensure all students have access to nutritious meals and are ready to learn.
Transform our learning environments into places of innovation.
- Continue to support land based and place based learning.
- Strengthen personalized and flexible learning opportunities, including redesigning learning spaces.
- Create a culture of inquiry and innovation.
- Strengthen our competencies around environmental stewardship.
Prioritize mental health, community connections, and social-emotional learning.
- Enhance mental health opportunities and partnerships that support well-being.
- Engage, involve, and support connections within the school and community.
- Continue to create and promote safe, welcoming, and inclusive learning environments.
- Promote the development of social-emotional learning skills.
Ensure holistic Indigenous student success.
- Ensure consistent access to enriching, innovative, identity affirming, and culturally relevant opportunities and supports.
- Ensure educational spaces are culturally safe by committing to system wide respect of this place and our shared history by prioritizing Indigenous languages, perspectives, values and cultures.
- Support students with setting goals for the future (ʔimot θ titiwšɛm, toχnɛgosəmčxwʊm θoθo)
Honour Truth and Reconciliation.
- Work to undo the legacies of colonialism through diverse pathways including supporting ʔayʔaǰuθəm language revitalization initiatives and education.
- Continue our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action and the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Prioritize climate change, organizational health and sustainability.
- Provide climate action education and leadership opportunities grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing.
- Align planning, processes, policies, and procedures to improve the effectiveness of the system.
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