Creating Success 2011-2012
Ditidaht School Staff and Ditidaht Education Authority

• Student, Staff, School leadership alignment:
“Getting on the same page”.
• Relationship Building:
“We are all learners”
• Considering School Goals:
“What’s important to you?”

“If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our jobs easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families it makes our job more important”- Barbra Color
Activity: Guess Who?
1. Each person writes down a memory, event or occurrence that happened to them in school.
2. Move into teams of three. Guess who “belongs” to each card.
3. Each team of three pick one card. Present to large group.

1. Create a learning environment where all learners are engaged.
“Students who are not confident of their skills in language arts and math have lower levels of engagement across all dimensions. When students are not confident and not challenged, the chances of them being engaged are even lower.” (Williams, 2009)

2. Assist each student to find their gift, develop their dream or find a career path to enable them to transition to post-secondary or the world of work after grade 12.
We have approximately 15, 300 (13.5% of their time on this planet) hours to assist students to find their dream or their job and to help prepare them for it.

1. In groups, discuss the community level goals for the school.
2. On the post its, write an activity, thought, question or strategy that is happening, will be happening or that you want to happen in the school that relates to the community goals.
3. Post the notes on the larger chart paper.
4. Each group will present the idea or activity that is most meaningful to them.

• It takes commitment and courage to move your students forward.
• It takes knowledge.
• It takes teamwork.
• While you are viewing the following short video, ask yourself…do I have what it takes to make change in Ditidaht Education?

• Important to know “why”…important to help students understand the
“why”
• The why changes…industrial age to contemporary age.
• Important to know the specific purpose of Ditidaht Community School.
Activity:
1.
Break into three groups.
2.
Discuss what are the three most important purposes of school.
3.
Report back to the main group.
4.
Two Resources: 21 st Century Learning Framework and “Old” K-12 provincial learning goals.

• Generation Lap
• World Context-Community Context: Is school a box?
• Everyone learns differently
• Is grammar important or is it more important to be able to communicate well?

1. Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water: 3
R’s
2. More choice for students: Thinking about
“electives” in Kindergarten (passions).
3. Collaboration and Leadership
4. Adaptability
5. Creativity and Innovation
6. Effective oral and written communication
7. Assessing and Analyzing information

1. Three Groups
2. Read intro plus one myth
3. Report Back: Has the myth influenced your thinking on what is important in education?
Video: 21 st Century Learning Skills

• Your job is to create the highest level of achievement possible for students so they can use their gifts to find success and be a part of a sustainable economy.
• Have you considered….?

• All decisions use Mission and Goals as a filter.
ACTIVIT Y: Pair and Share
Read the K-12 Education Plan and the Current Mission and Goals for DCS.
1) Be prepared to describe what the DCS mission statement means to you.
2) Consider the goals: Would you change anything?
3) Choose the two goals that you think are the most important and describe why.