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Domain One
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Quality Catholic Education
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Goal
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Provide opportunities for our students, staff, parents and trustees to encounter Jesus Christ in an explicitly Catholic environment through-out the division.
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Key Elements - Outcomes
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- 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
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- Implement a four-year faith plan - “Called By God”.
- 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.
- Provide stakeholder engagement sessions to share information and provide dialogue opportunities with families to review the purpose and mandate of religious activities involved in faith permeation.
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Ongoing Strategies
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- Provide professional development opportunities for teachers to learn religious and cross curricular programming.
- 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.
- One-on-one discussions with families, information via social media and print regarding celebrations, masses, etc. Father Roger's discussions with classes.
- Developing or sharing social media related videos explaining religious beliefs and practices.
- Educating staff about Catholic faith and giving them the confidence to participate in our faith celebrations and liturgical seasons.
- School celebrations. (Lecto Divina, monthly masses, service projects, student led liturgies, etc.)
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Performance Measures
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Domain One - Local Performance Measures:
- Gr. 7-9 Q-7 How satisfied are you with your opportunity to be involved in the religious celebrations in your school - 97% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 98%
- Gr 7-9 Q-22 How satisfied are you with the caring atmosphere in your school - 100% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 100%
- Gr. 7-9 Q-24 How satisfied are you with students respecting one another in school - 92% very satisfied or satisfied - Goal 95%
- Gr. 4-6 Q-5 I am involved in religious celebrations at my school - 77% - Goal 80%
- Gr. 4-6 Q-7 People treat each other with respect in this school - 91% - Goal 95%
- Gr. 4-6 Q-11 I feel safe at school - 86%.
- Count/tally of fully participating students rates during Masses.
Domain One - Provincial Performance Measures:
- Welcoming, Caring, Respectful and Safe Learning Environments - 87.8% Province, 96.3% TH - Goal 97%
- Citizenship - 83.2% Province, 96.4% TH - Goal 97%
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