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We acknowledge, respect and honour the First Nations in whose traditional territories the Kootenay Lake School District operates and all Indigenous people residing within the boundaries of School District #8.

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1 42 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 Our Vision First People’s Principles of Learning

We focus on excellence for all learners in a Our work is guided by the following principles: nurturing environment.

Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors.

Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).

Learning involves recognizing the consequences of one’s actions. CROSS-COUNTRY RUN LAKESIDE PARK Learning involves generational roles and Our Mission responsibilities. Learning recognizes the role of indigenous knowledge.

Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story.

Learning involves patience and time.

Learning requires exploration of one’s identity.

Learning involves recognizing that some knowledge is sacred and only shared with permission and/or in certain situations. Focus Learn Excel

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3 64 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 OECD* Principles of Learning Goals

Our Board of Education is committed to the following goals for all learners in School District #8 Learners at the centre •• Learning: Literacy, numeracy, inclusion, indiginenization. •• Organizational Excellence: Strategic Plan, Facilities Plan, Financial Plan, Technology Plan. Learning is social •• Relationships: Resilience: mental wellness; nurturing students, staff and families to excel. •• Engagement: Students first; Students, staff, community participation and leadership - local, provincial, global. Emotions are integral to learning

Individual differences matter

All students need to be stretched

Clear expectations, formative feedback

Horizontal connections promote deep understanding

*Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development LIFELONG EXPLORATIONS TRAFALGAR MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Goal: We provide opportunities for all students to reach the following goals: With a system-wide focus on intellectual, human and social, and career development our schools have a strong focus on academic success with a foundation of literacy, numeracy, and transitions. We support learners from pre-Kindergarten through to post- secondary, providing multiple pathways and a focus for all learners.

All learners are welcome and supported in a variety of ways. Understand, critically Understand, respect We ensure that all learners have access to educational programs analyze, and create and respond to the to be successful through our: a variety of communication diverse needs of all of forms, including oral, written, our learners. •• Compassionate, highly professional staff, visual, digital, and multimedia. •• Responsive learning environments, •• Safe and welcoming schools, •• Inclusion team, LITERACY INCLUSION •• Distance education program, and •• Ability to offer voice, choice and flexibility. LEARNING EXCELLENCE NUMERACY INDIGENIZATION RELATIONSHIPS Measures ENGAGEMENT Understand and apply Understand indigenous mathematical concepts, perspectives and knowledge • % of students reading by grade level • Numeracy Assessment processes, and skills as a part of the historical and • Grad Rates • Past provincial exams to solve problems in a contemporary foundation of • Completion Rates (Presentations of learning, variety of contexts. British Columbia and Canada, • Report Cards (Student-led conferences) Portfolios) and that Indigenous content is a • Meeting goals of IEPs • Successful Transitions (Strong part of the learning journey for • Satisfaction Surveys (Academic Start through K-12, 16) all learners. perception questions) • Capstone Projects • Transitions to Post-Secondary & Career • Teacher anecdotal reports • Parent perceptions • Interview data (Grad Trans meetings) • Literacy Assessment

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7 108 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 SD 8 Kootenay Lake - Strategic Plan 2018-2023 Organizational Excellence Organizational Excellence

How our system as a whole supports student learning Goal: Renew and implement Strategic Plan, Facilities Plan, Financial Plan, Technology Plan

Board of Education Trustees 9 + Student Trustees & Student Voice Standing Committees Education Committee Finance & Operations Committee Policy & Governance Committee

Students 5000

Finance Budget 18/19: approx $65M Operating: $55M Special Purpose: $7M Capital: $3M LEARNING Employees EXCELLENCE Teachers: 346 HC 292 FTE RELATIONSHIPS TTOCs: 148 HC ENGAGEMENT CUPE: 310 HC 241 FTE Measures CUPE Casuals: 86 HC Management/PVP: 13 HC 12.8 FTE Personalized Learning Opportunities • Qualitative Data: photos videos, Exempt: 32 HC 32 FTE Student Voice etc. Total: 935 HC* 578 FTE* Percentage of students who: • District Satisfaction survey -- Participate in Visual Arts • Update of and progress reports Operations -- Participate in Performing Arts on all plans Maintained: 91,000 m2 -- Participate in Media Arts • Alignment of policies to Strategic Number of schools: 23 -- Participate in Culturally-based courses Plan, Facilities Plan, Financial -- Participate in Language courses Plan, Technology Plan Transportation -- Participate in Trades • Update of administrative Minimum kms per day: 4770 -- Participate in Work Experience procedures to align with board Size of fleet: 50 buses in total -- Participate in Athletics policy 33 bus routes and 17 spare buses -- Participate in Extracurricular activities • Engaged employees who are Field Trips: 2000+/year (clubs etc.) proud to work for SD8

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*HC = Head count *FTE = Full Time Equivalent

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In order to have great relationships we know we need Physical K to 12 exemplars include but are not limited to: to inspire, model, and promote wellness, resilience, grit, •• Action Schools! BC Student Leadership confidence, and courage. These initiatives also reflect •• BC Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Program the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous •• School Based Breakfast Programs perspective that emphasizes balance within the whole •• School Based Hot Lunch programs • IH Cook it, Try it, Like it program. person: Emotional, Spiritual, Physical, Intellectual. We • •• Physical Literacy Initiatives also support the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning.

District Context: All our schools have a goal or goals around Intellectual K to 12 exemplars include but are not limited to: Relationships and Mental Wellness. •• Focus • Learn • Excel professionally •• Aboriginal Education Program Emotional K to 12 exemplars include but are not limited to: •• Physical and Health Education •• Social and Emotional Health •• Health Promoting Schools goal to educate students to be healthy, •• Career Education, Career Life and Capstone resilient, and empowered. •• Transitions •• Aboriginal Education Program •• International Education •• MindUp: (Elementary) •• Secondary/Post-secondary transitions •• Roots of Empathy: (Elementary and Primary) •• Zones of Regulation: (Elementary) emotional competencies. •• SafeSchools Employee & Family Supports include but are not limited to: •• Inclusion Team Support Services •• Crisis Intervention Team •• Health, Wellness and Safety Officer •• Violence Threat Risk Assessments (VTRA) •• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) •• Safe Schools Spiritual K to 12 exemplars include but are not limited to: •• Inclusion Team Support Services •• Crisis Intervention team •• Orange Shirt Day •• Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) •• Mental Health Week •• StrongStart with outreach •• Use of Kootenay Lake, Slocan Lake and surrounding natural environment as spaces for learning

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ORANGE SHIRT DAY LEARNING EXCELLENCE RELATIONSHIPS Measures ENGAGEMENT

EDI – Early Developmental Index MDI – Middle Years Developmental Index Child & Youth Resiliency Framework Sense of Self - Multicultural Day Celebrations Use of HUBS to integrate community services into the school Participation in presentations to school community Themed events (Mental Health week; Anti-bullying, Orange Shirt Day) Student-led workshops and conferences

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ENGAGEMENT: How our system works together with Education Acronyms for groups we have relationships with: community to support student learning ABE Adult Basic Education AUD Adult Upgrading and Development BAA Board/ Authority Authorized Courses BCCPAC BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils BCCT BC College of Teachers BCPSEA BC Public School Employers’ Association Relationships are most important to engagement. BCPVPA BC Principals’ & Vice-Principals’ Association BCSDSTA BC School District We know we maximize student success when we maximize our Secretary-Treasurers’ Association BCSSA BC School Superintendents’ Association relationships in a positive way. BCSTA BC School Trustees Association BCTF BC Teachers’ Federation CAPSLE Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education CEA Canadian Education Association CMEC Council of Ministers of Education CSF Conseil scolaire At SD 8 – Kootenay Lake, we focus on our students, first. francophone de la Colombie-Britannique CSBA Canadian School Boards Association Next, our relationships extend to families, teachers, support staff, our CTF Canadian Teachers’ Federation CUPE Canadian Union of Public Employees village, town, and community mayors and councils, and the Regional DIAND Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (also INAC) DPAC District Parent Advisory Councils FNESC First Nations Education Steering Committee FOIPOP District of Central Kootenay (RDCK). Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (also FIPPA or FOIPPA) MAE Ministry of Advanced Education MCFD Ministry for Children and Family Development In addition, we are focussed more and more on the post-secondary MOE Ministry of Education LEA Local Education Agreement NSBA National School transitions of our students and have forged relationships with Boards Association PAC Parent Advisory Councils (each school) TQS Teacher Qualification Service UBCIC Union of BC Indian Chiefs institutions across the province and our great country. We do foster a special relationship with those closest to us: LEARNING EXCELLENCE ••Selkirk College RELATIONSHIPS ••College of the Rockies ENGAGEMENT ••UBC – WKTEP (West Kootenay Teacher Education Program) Measures ••BCIT British Columbia Institute of Technology Participation in Board of Education ••University of Lethbridge Participation on Student Council and as a Trustee ••SFU – Simon Fraser University Participation on Student Voice/Leadership ••UBC – University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Kelowna, and Presentation to PAC, DPAC, Board of Education Prince George Participation in Aboriginal Leadership & other courses ••Thompson Rivers University Participation in District PowWow ••Gonzaga University Participation in Student Forums ••Okanagan College Participation in Student Symposium (Budget) Local Service Engagement And many, many, others throughout our country, and throughout the Provincial Service Engagement rest of the world. National Service Engagement Global Service Engagement Participation in Local Communities

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CRAWFORD BAY KASLO FAMILY OF SCHOOLS FAMILY OF SCHOOLS Jewett Elementary School Crawford Bay Elementary Secondary School jvh.sd8.bc.ca • 250-366-4224 crawfordbayschool.ca • 250-227-9218 JV Humphries Elementary/Secondary School jvh.sd8.bc.ca • 250-353-2227 CRESTON FAMILY OF SCHOOLS Lakeside Adam Robertson Elementary School ares.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-2051

Canyon Lister Elementary School canyon.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-4161

Erickson Elementary School erickson.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-2363

Homelinks Creston homelinks.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-2217

Prince Charles Secondary School pcss.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-2274 Compass

Wildflower Creston wildflower.sd8.bc.ca • 250-428-2217 ext. 241

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NELSON FAMILY OF SCHOOLS SALMO Blewett Elementary School FAMILY OF SCHOOLS blewett.sd8.bc.ca • 250-352-5314 Salmo Elementary School DESK Distance Education salsec.sd8.bc.ca • 250-357-2214 School of the desk.sd8.bc.ca • 250-354-4311 Salmo Secondary School salsec.sd8.bc.ca • 250-357-2226 Hume Elementary School hume.sd8.bc.ca • 250-352-3186 LV Rogers Secondary School SLOCAN VALLEY • lvr.sd8.bc.ca 250-352-5538 FAMILY OF SCHOOLS REACH program Redfish Elementary School Brent Kennedy Elementary School redfish.sd8.bc.ca • 250-229-4224 bkes.sd8.bc.ca • 250-359-7292

Rosemont Elementary School Mount Sentinel Secondary School rosemont.sd8.bc.ca • 250-352-3182 mtsentinel.bc.ca • 250-359-7219 South Nelson Elementary School Sequoia southnelson.sd8.bc.ca • 250-354-4139 Winlaw Elementary School Trafalgar Middle School winlaw.sd8.bc.ca • 250-226-7217 trafalgar.sd8.bc.ca • 250-352-5591 WE Graham School Wildflower weg.sd8.bc.ca • 250-355-2212 wildflower.sd8.bc.ca • 250-505-7020

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