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Assessment

Assessment and Accountability in Public Education

Links:
BCCPAC FSA Information Kit for Parents (January 2010)

Class Size

Reducing Class Size: What do we know? - (Canadian Education Association, February 2010)
Ontario's Primary Class Size Reduction Initiative - (Canadian Education Association, February 2010)
BCSSA Review of Bill 33 Provisions and Implementation - (for Learning Roundtable, June 2007)
BCSSA Discussion Paper on Class Size and Composition for Learning Roundtable - (Dec 2005)
Bill 33 (slides, Rick Davis, August 2006)

Links:
BC Ministry of Education - Class Size and Composition
Commission on Class Size and Composition, Final Report (Manitoba Department of Education, April 2002)

Early Learning

Response to the Consultation Paper Expanding Early Learning in BC for Children Aged 3-5 (July 2008)

Health & Safety

Links:
Directorate of Agencies for School Health (DASH) Feeding Minds and Bodies of BC Students Project
Dieticians of Canada
Ministry of Education - Healthy Schools Publications
Action Schools! BC
BC Ministry of Education - BC Safe Schools Strategy

Literacy

Multiliteracies and Equity: Becoming the Canada We Want (Jim Cummins, BCSSA Fall Conference 2006)
Literacy Assessment (Faye Brownlie) November 2004
Literacy Assessment (Faye Brownlie) March - April 2005
All About PWIM, 'Picture Word Inductive Model' August 2004
Picture Word Inductive Model August 2004 (slides) School District 58 (Nicola-Similkameen) and School District 37 (Delta)
The Reading Project Part 1 August 2004 (session handout)
The Reading Project Part 2 August 2004 (slides) School District 57 (Prince George)

School Calendar

School Calendar Options - Keven Elder, SD 63 Saanich (February 2010)
Journey to the Four Day Week
- SD 51 Boundary (March 2003)
Survey Results: parents, students, teachers, teaching assistants, secretaries, drivers

It's About Time: A Discussion Paper - SD 35 Langley (February 2003)

school improvement

Links:
International Congress for School Efectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI)
Manitoba School Improvement Program (MSIP)
21st Century Learning Initiative
Network of Performance-Based Schools

Special Education

IEP for Students with Special Needs - A Resource Guide for Teachers (November 2009)
Every Principal's Guide to Special Education in British Columbia (August 2002)
Every Principal's Guide to Special Education in British Columbia (slide presentation at BCSSA orientation session, November 2002)
Parents Guide to Individual Education Planning (IEP) (updated July 2002)
Special Education Review Workplan Update (February 2002)

Links:
BC Ministry of Education - Special Education
BCTF Teaching to Diversity

Technology

Links:
BC Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium (BCERAC)
BC Ministry of Education - ICT & Technology Resources for the Classroom
Education Profiles (Apple Computers Education)

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