(For Prezi Video) Pathways to Success

hi, everyone from five p six to our policy class.

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So I've got all of here in my lap.

She's, uh, gonna do this presentation with me.

So, um, again, Thanks for watching and listening.

Um, I want to look at pathways to success in

Policy and program.

Memorandum 1 37 The Ministry of Education.

A student success policy.

I do work in an elementary school, and I am

a student success teacher.

In the last few years, that allotment has increased.

It went from 0.22 point three this year.

I know I'm not at school this year, but the

person in my rule has a 0.6 studentssuccess allotment with

a point for special education resource teacher allotment that's increased

exponentially. So some of you might be thinking, Well, listen

Studentssuccess only related to secondary programing and it ISS.

But it took a lot of research, a lot of

asking questions and seating through documents to figure it out.

That really secondary programing and secondary spending can go to

Great seven up to Grade 12 because it is intermediate

senior and because some secondary schools do have great seven

and eight.

So it's up to every individual school board to decide

how they want to spend their secondary spending within the

envelope that I'm going to look at in a few

minutes. Um, and Holden District School Board has chosen to

use its secondary the envelope for its secondary spending around

student success for hiring elementary school teachers to support great

seven and eight transition programming.

And there's a lot that I do, and I'm not

gonna be able to capture it all in 15 minutes

here that I have to record.

But let's get started and let's have a look at

ppm 1 37 So this is the root of student

success of funding and student success.

Teacher allotment.

Um, the purpose of this policy was to supersede and

revoke a few older policies left over from the nineties.

You can see what some of those are.

Here s So we have a policy and program memorandum

1 37 You'll see.

The date of issue was 2005.

Um, you'll see that the purpose of this of p

p. M 1 37 was to assist school boards and

allocating additional secondary school teachers to increase secondary school students.

Success? Um and that's where I was talking about Wolf.

It's all secondary.

All I could find was secondary secondary secondary.

Then I started asking questions and realizing that secondary does

include grade seven degree 12.

Ah, couple key things I wanted to point out here,

I underlined boards are in the best position to determine

how to deploy staff funding funded through the current student

grant structure.

So we've talked a lot all year, all semester about

centralized, decentralized, what's better and what makes it worse.

One of the challenges.

And here we have a policy ppm 1 37 students

success that is a centralized policy developed at the Ministry

of Education level.

But in its funding, Matte model is very decentralized in

that schools and school boards can kind of depend how

they want to spend that student success envelope.

Um, some key things that I do is I do

offer direct support instruction to students once a week.

I deliver an actual lesson and lesson plan in partnership

with the teacher if they stay in the room, which

they don't always.

Ah, big part of my role is supporting the great

to Grade nine transition.

Um, and then again, I just wanted to highlight that

the distribution of additional teachers among the board secondary schools

is on the basis of student needs.

So my school has 1200 students were a dual track

program. We have a very high immigrant on minority population

at our school, huge second language components as well.

So our allotment is 0.6 at another school.

A smaller school, a school that maybe only has one

or two great seven or eight classes may not have

a great of an allotment for full time equivalency.

So a big part of this p p.

M 1 37 is funding.

Why does help get to have this money to spend

on student success teachers when different school wards around Ontario

don't really do that on.

And it just depends on how each school board wants

to spend its funding and Halton, based on the 19

4020 guide to the Grants for Student Needs.

So this document contains all the funding related, um, to

secondary and elementary programming in schools, and I just wanted

to highlight where this envelope of funds is found.

So we do know that there is a funding formula.

We've talked about that in other classes, but again, just

wanted to highlight in this document as well states that

local school boards have flexibility and how they use funding,

so referencing that a few times in a few different

documents. So where does Studentssuccess funding come from?

And that comes from the Learning opportunities grant in a

specific envelope within that grant and the envelope is the

student achievement envelope, and there are six different allocations, and

this took me like a while to find a dig

through, um asking lots of different administrators in instructional program

leaders lots of different questions.

So the student achievement envelope again repeated.

There is flexibility and how school boards can use the

individual educations as long as the funding is spent.

Within these bold ID categories within the envelope, so you

will see student success is great.

Seven to Grade 12.

Because it's intermediate and senior, he'll also see Great seven

and eight Studentssuccess teachers.

So some key things that are bored uses this funding

for Is it clearly hiring Studentssuccess teachers for great 7

to 12 supporting Sorry, supporting different initiatives under student success

for 7 to 12 hiring for STUDENTSSUCCESS teachers and also

promoting and developing Chisholm programs onto your youth apprenticeship programs,

dual credit programs and court programs.

Part of my lessons and programming in the great 78

cohorts When I go in to teach alongside teachers or

sometimes by myself, if the teacher leaves, the room is

around those Chisholm programs.

Um, the whole purpose that Houlton wants to have student

success teachers in the earlier years and seven and eight

is to help students get that knowledge before they're in

the system.

The secondary system of what options they have, what lies

ahead if they aren't someone who likes to sit in

rows in a desk with luminescent lighting and no windows.

Then here are some options.

We want them to learn about their options early.

It might not come right.

A great nine.

But around great town and Grade 11 some windows.

Do you get to open for you in terms of

the way that you're schooled?

Okay, so what are some connections to class research?

An additional research I took from McDonald looking at alternative

education, which student success could maybe be considered as a

specific perspective.

Every board and every teacher might look at it differently.

Ah, student successful wants to capture those at risk students.

Like I just said, who learning in a classroom maybe

isn't for them.

And that comes from O'Connor.

I looked at the policy and program requirements from Ontario

schools and how much that supports the great to great

nine transition.

And that could be a very difficult transition and create

our students that really weren't at risk to begin with,

but are just struggling to get into the secondary mindset.

I pulled from Tortelli, looking at what the dominant social

identity is her address student.

But some of the deficit thinking and as my role

of student success.

I want to counter that deficit thinking.

I want to ensure that students have what they need

and are knowledgeable before entering the secondary program.

Uh, hunger.

Later, I took, um, from the incredible increased graduation rates

because again, the more you are informed about how credits

work on what credits are available, programs are available.

The hope is that you will increase your graduation rate,

and I also check from Winton.

I found an article related directly to student success in

Ontario, and this article from Winton looks at dedicated student

success teachers and some of the challenges and successes that

they face.

So what is the significance?

I'm not going to read everything on these two groups

on those two squares, But here are some of the

reasons why I think my rule batters and why I

think this ppm is important.

Um, student success comes again with a lot of people

working a lot of bureaucracy and a lot of meetings.

Um, my role also helps people in the community, parents

and guardians, or help them navigate the secondary system before

they get in it.

And then I often answer questions from parents of students

in our school for in grade five in Grade six

because maybe they've just come to Canada.

They're just getting used.

Your key to Ontario.

They're just getting used to the elementary program, and they're

already feeling anxiety about moving their students into the secondary

program on.

You'll see a few other reasons.

They're a swell and then some personal thoughts.

Why I wanted to look at this policy is because

I truly do you think that my role matters.

I really do enjoy what I do.

I love looking at pathway planning and talking about option

sheets, and the kids asked the best questions and some

of the funniest questions about high school in about secondary

and about postsecondary.

And they have so many stories to talk about their

parents or older siblings or cousins or whatnot, or what

happens in the country where they came from.

And I just think I'm helping students planned for their

futures, and we really try to emphasize the student success

teachers. It doesn't matter what your future is.

I don't care if you do an apprenticeship for College

University. I just want you to know how to navigate

it, and I want you to know where to go

if you need help.

Another big part of what I do is looking at

my blueprint.

Halton has subscribed to this on my platform.

It is phenomenal.

I do want to take a few minutes just to

talk about it on one of the next slides.

A lot of surgeons Success is helping students take learning

surveys and surveys about who they are or what they

like to do just to help them kind of get

their heads and wrapped around the idea of having a

career or a profession someday.

I'm also the key contact.

We're hosting career panels.

Last year I invited different members from our community and

talk about their career pathway if they dropped out of

school, if they didn't what credits they took, how they

got to where they are and how they got to

be successful in whatever rule that they have.

We also do the rial game where students are given

a specific career and have to learn how to budget

and time manage, and you and, um, use financial literacy

lessons. And there is a while.

I also do healthy transition planning with our traveling youth

counselor in the spring where we look at mental health

with all of our great eight students before they go

into great nine.

So they know howto have some tools to help them

with stress.

And I also plan, um, the career Center visit that's

here in Burlington with the whole Industry Council Education Council,

that's what.

Hi it It's helping Industry Education Council.

So how does Houlton practice this BPM?

1 37 here?

Something's taken directly from our website.

Um, elementary student success serves to answer those questions that

were posted there.

Who am I?

What are my opportunities?

Who do I want to become and what is my

plan for achieving my goals?

And we also talk a lot about the different pathways

apprenticeship, college, community, university or work, and we try not

to value one over the other.

We just want students to know how to navigate it,

whatever pathway they choose.

Um, here's some things about my blueprint.

These are all the things that it holds.

It is a powerful tool.

If you don't know it, I would strongly encourage youto

look it up for research or find it as a

parent as a teacher of someone in post secondary secondary

wherever field you're in.

It's a great housing online housing space for, um, exploring

careers and occupations.

Students can hold on, keep their online digital portfolio there.

Of all the work and sound recordings and snippets of

things that they've done and video recordings throughout their school

years, you could start a new portfolio every year, and

it becomes digital.

It also holds resumes cover letters for our students in

June. That's the lesson that I do with all of

our great Eights is we start working on our resumes

and cover letters for anyone that wants a paper route

or is thinking about just getting a simple baby sitting

job or something that can do when they're in.

Great. Um, whole muscle has a student success profile.

That's another part of my role.

Hum his meetings and talking about at risk students.

So this is for any student who does not have

an I P.

And we don't think it's like a learning or cognitive

need that something else is going on.

We fill one of these out before school team or

school resource team meetings, and then also we look at

these when we have the high school into our school

and we talk about all of our great eights, Um,

we use this to help guide her conversation and again

to click on it.

More specifically, you can just click on the actual document

pieces. So what are some of the implications?

Oh, that site is not showing.

Sorry. Okay, so what?

I think some of the implications horror at the school

level, um, is it gives a single point of contact

for anyone talking about high school transition planning career on

behalf of planning financial literacy.

So many things come in and out of the school

that if you're the great teacher, the music teacher, the

librarian, a lot of those things get dropped and miss

because there's not a key contact person.

So, as a student success teacher, I'm able to take

that information, do something with it.

High school option sheets.

I organized all of that high school visits.

I'll organize all of that.

Um, I also think it helps us a key contact

point for people that are new to the community as

well, and helps people sort of navigate some of those

systems. Um, that wasn't all the applications, but hopefully on

my click through slide, you can read through some of

those many questions, comments or feedback.

Let me know.

Mostly. I just want to talk about that.

I think ppm 1 37 is a good policy on,

and I think it helps students with success.

And, um, I really think it's a good centralized policy

that is decentralized in its funding model.

Okay. Thank you.

(For Prezi Video) Pathways to Success

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