Marwayne Jubilee Annual Report (2014/2015) and Education Plan ( )

Overview 1.Vision, Mission, Mantra 2.School Profile 3.Looking Back: Our Reflections 4.Looking Ahead: Our Goals 5.Our Celebrations

Vision, Mission, Mantra Vision: Marwayne Jubilee School will be the school of choice for students, parents and staff. Mission: Members of the school community will promote an enthusiastic environment and in co-operation with other institutions in society, assist students in maximizing their academic and social skills. Mantra: “In pursuit of excellence”

MJS Profile School Community: Marwayne Jubilee School is a fully modernized ECS-Gr. 12 school offering full programming to approximately 319 students. In addition to small class sizes, a dedicated staff and a variety of technology-related options, the school provides a multitude of professional development opportunities aimed at enhancing student learning. The school is an integral part of a close community and in partnership with the school council, parent, community agencies, and the general public, offers a complete range of both curricular and extra-curricular programming. The individual attention provided ensures students have the opportunity to maximize their intellectual, social, emotional, and physical potential in a safe and caring learning environment.

MJS Profile Demographics: Teaching Staff of 19.4 FTE Support Staff of 6.5 FTE Academic Programming includes: Kindergarten, Core Math, Science, Social, English, P.E., Chemistry, Physics, Biology. Complementary Programming includes: Knowledge & Employability, CTS Foods, CTS Industrial Arts, Art 7-10, Digital Photography, Off-Campus (Green Certificate, RAP, Lakeland College Courses, Work Experience).

MJS Profile School Budget Enrolment

Looking Back Maintained a number of our measures Stengths: Drop Out Rate, Rutherford, Transition Rate, High School Completion Rate Areas of focus: Safe & Caring, Education Quality, Citizenship, School Improvement.

Looking Back /2015 Areas of strength: ●We have continued to achieve above the provincial average in PAT Acceptable, Diploma Acceptable, Drop Out Rate, Rutherford Scholarships, Transition Rate. ●We have seen continuous improvement in Math 30 courses for the past 5 years.

Looking Back /2015 Areas for growth: ●Areas of Growth are: Jr. High Math, Safe & Caring, Education Quality, Citizenship, and School Improvement.

Looking Back /2015 ●Steady growth on ELA. ●New teacher took over in 13/14.

Looking Back /2015 ●Steady growth over the last two years

Looking Back /2015 ●Math 6 results have stayed consistent with assistance from our RTI program in our school.

Looking Back /2015 ●Steady increase over the two years.

Looking Back /2015 A low result this year. We have a number of students supported in RTI and program modifications. We are well above the Provincial average for % of students writing.

Looking Back /2015 ●Keep in mind we had 96.3% of our students write while the province only had 88.5%. ●I needed two more students to meet the BTPS avg.

Looking Back /2015 MATH 9 ACCEPTABLE ●Students did not do well this year. We had a steady avg. till the year.

Looking Back /2015 ●Steady results for Math Ex. ●Continue to monitor results ●Only need 1 student to be even with the province.

Looking Back /2015 Positive results for 2014 showing Intellectual engagement is higher than a replica school

Looking Back /2015 ●Our Intellectual Engagement has stayed very positive over multiple years.

Looking Back /2015 Writing is a strength for our school. Reading is very steady except Div. 3. The province and BTPS also saw a decrease as well.

Looking Back /2015 STAFF PROFESSIONAL GROWTH SURVEY Staff professional learning at my school influenced my implementation of new teaching practices this year: 80% of teachers agreed or strongly agreed To what extent do you feel your school’s professional learning this year has supported you in effectively addressing your school improvement strategies? 90% agreed or strongly agreed

Looking Back /2015 ●Steady results indicate Teachers and Parents are satisfied with programming at MJS.

Looking Back /2015 Very consistent results for Teachers and Parents satisfied with involvement with their child’s education.

Overall School Priorities Parental Involvement: We are dedicated to finding more ways to engage our parent community to become involved in our school. This involvement may include but is not exclusive to supporting curricular areas through volunteering, supporting our extra curricular pursuits, and attending Showcase of Learning evenings tied to our Parent-Teacher Interviews. We plan to employ new strategies this year to attract more parents to become involved in school activities and look forward to working with our parent council in this regard.

Overall School Priorities Exhibitions of Learning: We will continue to make student exhibitions of learning a priority at our school. All throughout the year we will post student work for all to see. Authentic audiences drive our students to engage in the learning process, while producing final demonstrations of learning excellence. We look forward to the high quality projects that students will be creating this year from Art, Industrial Art, Writing, and Foods as well as many others.

Overall School Priorities Implementation of Response to Intervention: We are committed to continue with our three Tiers of support for our students in our RTI program in the curricular areas of Literacy and Numeracy. Our goal is to achieve this by using instructional time through teaching staff collaborating to build this into our timetable. This program will be school wide.

Essential Conditions Mission: Buffalo Trail Public Schools is committed to maximizing student learning, in a safe and caring environment, supported by a highly effective team. Essential Conditions: As a jurisdiction we believe that teacher effectiveness has the greatest direct impact on maximizing student learning. BTPS is involved in a number of initiatives therefore, it is vital to our success that we ensure these initiatives support teacher effectiveness. The essential conditions for increasing teacher effectiveness and maximizing student learning are shown on the next slide and are indicated as part of our school’s strategies.

Essential Conditions for increasing teacher effectiveness and maximizing student learning

Essential Conditions Leadership: Our new initiatives for Leadership come from the following: Acct. Pillar, AB. ED., Curr. Updates, Prof. Dev. We also have Lead Teachers in place for many of our school initiatives. Research and Evidence: We are gathering evidence from the APORI, Prov. Exams, and Formative & Summative Assessments. Resources: We are using Power School, OBRC, Acc. Reader, Mathletics, Raz Kids, PAT & Diploma exams, and Technology. Time: We will be utilizing our School Based PD days, TES Team days, Webinars, and Video Conferencing.

Strategies Support Services: We will require Technology Infrastructure, SES, Help Desk, ATA, AB. ED., and Facilities. Staff Professional Growth: Our plan will continue to build on our Literacy and Numeracy. Our Literacy will have us continue to build our capacity to engage our students. In Numeracy we will continue to build our RTI programming for student success. Stakeholder and Community Engagement: We have expanded our communication to include a student body representative council, Twitter, New Website, expanded use of Syner-voice.

Progress /2016 EVIDENCE OF LEARNING: Our Balance Literacy program is providing students with a great start to reading in DIV. 1 and is expanded in Div. 2. Formative and Summative Assessments using A-Z as and Dibels well as others measures are put into place to monitor our students progress.

Strategies BTPS Goal #1: Students are intellectually engaged in their learning. School Strategies: Students Union in Jr./Sr. High School Student leaders in Gr. 6 to support our Elementary Intramural Program Student leadership group to lead sharing of TTFM survey results and follow up (Leadership) Student Exhibitions (Stakeholder/Community Engagement) (Parent-Teacher Interviews) School Trip with (Staff,Parents, and Students planning it) Student Leadership with our Yearbook Use of Tell Them From Me Survey to measure students’ intellectual engagement (Research and Evidence)

Strategies BTPS Goal #2: All learners’ needs are met. School Strategies: Guided Reading K-3 (Resources, Staff Professional Growth) Response to Intervention - Implementation of Tier 1, 2, & 3 (Time, Staff Professional Growth) Inclusive learning teacher to work with Grade K-12 teachers to create universally accessible learning environments through infusion of technology (Support Services, Staff Professional Growth) Implementation of Google Apps for Education (Resources) Maximized use of Learning Support Team (Support Services) Family School Liaison to support students at risk (Support Services) Using DIBELS assessment to track student progress in reading. (Research and Evidence) FNMI student growth - focus on Math and ELA through RTI and Dibels. Tracking of student progress particularly at grade 9.

Strategies BTPS Goal #3: Instructional Design enables students to attain the 21st century competencies School Strategies: All teachers in the Jr./Sr. will collaboratively design inquiry-based projects designed to engage students in the 21 st century competencies (Staff Professional Growth, Time) Two staff members will lead inquiry-based instruction in action (Staff Professional Growth, Time) Peer Instructional Coach has common planning time with 50% of staff members to assist them with instructional design (Leadership, Staff Professional Growth, Time) Invitations extended to parents and community members to serve as experts in the classroom (Stakeholder and Community Engagement)

Celebrations 2014/2015 Industrial Arts

Celebrations 2014/2015 The school raised over $4000 for the Terry Fox Run

Celebrations 2014/2015 Gr. 4-6 students were able to take part in a swimming program organized and funded in partnership with the School Council

Celebrations 2014/ A PROVINCIAL BASKETBALL 2015 ZONE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

Celebrations 2014/2015 Movember

Celebrations 2014/2015 Our Balanced Literacy Reading in grades K-6

Celebrations 2014/2015 Community members attended our Remembrance Day Assembly with a guest speaker from Cold Lake Air Force Base