Page Content Vision
Leadership in Learning and Life
Mission
To Inspire and Empower One Another
Values
- Mutual respect, understanding and cooperation
- Integrity and ethical behavior, professionalism through honesty, respect,
- Commitment and dedication
- Holistic learning
- Meaningful, creative and innovative learning opportunities for all
- Cooperative and collaborative relationships
- Responsible leadership
Prairie Valley School Division believes in:
1. A culture that focuses on maximizing student engagement, student learning and student achievement through:
- Maximizing engaged learning time
- Tying all activities to curriculum
- Engaging all students
- An educationally-sound calendar structure
- Promoting a culture of learning
2. Maximizing student contact time with regularly assigned staff by:
- Improving and monitoring student attendance
- Focusing awareness of interruptions to instructional time and time utilization
3. Valuing learning opportunities for students both inside and outside of the classroom and school by:
- Providing extra-curricular learning opportunities that do not jeopardize engaged student learning time
- 50 minutes at noon and opportunities for organized noon-hour programming
- Activities linked to learning objectives/outcomes accessible to all students
4. Honouring the diversity of individual schools and communities within the unifying framework of a culture of learning with:
- An equitable calendar for all schools and communities
- Calendar flexibility at a local level to meet individual school needs
- Accountability by all levels of staff for calendar structure implementation
5. A culture of learning for all to maximize the quality of teaching and learning by:
- Providing access to relevant, quality professional development opportunities
- Up to 5 percent of the contract time for professional development
6. Continuous blocks of instructional days are critical to effective teaching and learning by:
- Protecting the continuity of instruction for all students
- Limiting any set of consecutive non-instructional days to groups of no more than three, wherever possible
7. Accountability for learning by all stakeholders. |
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