survey inspiration: ASAC recommendations for improvement

Recommendations:
Revitalizing and supporting a successful and innovative educational program requires the
commitment of all partners; therefore ASAC proposed to recommend the following
actions:
For Schools
In order to give the school board confidence that the program they are supporting is
different and innovative, each school will provide the board every year with:
1. An outline of concrete structures, programs and projects that provide innovation
and support the Alternative Program tenets and philosophy as promised to parents
and students in board literature.
2. A plan for the upcoming year on new projects or plans to improve and strengthen
their Alternative Program
3. Commitment to one joint Professional Development activity per year devoted to
Alternative practices and concepts.
For the School Board
ASAC recommends that the school board consider the following actions and implement
some or all of them in order to support and strengthen the Alternative Program:
4. Require Alternative schools to indicate in their School Improvement Plans what
steps they will take in the coming year to strengthen their Alternative program and
offer innovative programming based on the Alternative tenets.
5. Designate a staff resource to work with the Faculty of Education at the University
of Ottawa to develop programming options and investigate accreditation
possibilities in Alternative Education.
6. Develop (in consultation with Alternative teachers) guidelines for flexible
curriculum delivery in order to accommodate multi-age classrooms. The target for
the development of the guidelines will be June 2009.
7. Permit Alternative schools to provide anecdotal report cards to their parents. In
addition, to work with ASAC to develop Alternative methods of reporting.
For ASAC
ASAC will undertake the following in order to provide ongoing support to the
Alternative Program and advice to the board concerning the program:
8. Work with Alternative schools to bring them together as a community in order to
share best practices and innovative ideas.
9. Evaluate possible program alignments in order to advise the board on where new
Alternative schools could be added or removed (when they are no longer
supported by their communities).
10. Develop a common Principal Profile that will support each school's Principal
Profile and will guide the board in the placement of new principals into
Alternative Schools.
11. Act as a resource for principals and school councils in the support and
enhancement of their Alternative programs.