1. Adult Learning for Student Success

2. Clear vision within a supportive network While primary responsibility for student success lies within the classroom, we recognize it is a joint responsibility shared by all educational partners. We want to create a commitment to the system and through that commitment individual’s own professional responsibility accepts that there are expectations of the individual balanced with supports from the system.

3. Guiding Principles for Professional Capacity Building GYPSD has a clear vision with a supportive network. GYPSD is reflective, evidence informed and motivated towards improvement for all students. GYPSD believes in adult learning for student success.

4. Gather evidence to inform practices Evidence in multiple forms: Broader humanistic measures Trailing and leading data Artefacts, observations, implementation and goal progress data, surveys from stakeholders

5. Student Success Make it relevant, rigorous and build relationships Students find their passion, develop their skills, put it to good use, and be the best they can be Help students help themselves to be motivated, independent, connected and generous All students as partners Clear goals, authentic feedback, scaffolded and challenging instruction Parent and community partners How does the evidence inform practice- What do we do if they can? What do we do if they can’t?

7. Development of Application Cycle for Planning and Reporting Leads to ongoing communication Professional responsibility for student success Broader humanistic measures/evidence Research based Evidence provides checks and balances Evidence informs improvements Clearly defined vision that is aligned with what is valued Look at a continuum of growth Gather evidence/data Strategic adjustments needed to support all learners and their learning Application Cycle

8. School Continuous Improvement Plan School Common Focus/strategies SuccessesAreas to grow Rubrics to place growth on a continuum Evidence informed improvements Evidence provides checks/balances

9. Clear vision within a supportive network Joint responsibility for success for all students Supportive relationships Clearly communicated plan Ongoing, sustained communication Inquiry Trust Reciprocity Collaborative environment Support for growth areas Engaging in critical conversations of inquiry and sharing what works based on evidence Build capacity for evidence use: how/why we use evidence, how to act appropriate upon it for continuous improvement Evident is aligned with values and used for checks and balances