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Publications for Administrators
Ongoing Interest
- Activity Fee Guideline (PDF, 34 KB)
- Aboriginal Education Strategy
The strategy includes initiatives that support learning and achievement for Aboriginal students. It will also help raise awareness about First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures, histories and perspectives in schools
- 'B' Memoranda
'B' memoranda are issued to school boards to provide direction on funding policy and other financial matters.
- Boys' Literacy
The resources are designed to help teachers make a positive impact on the learning environment and the reading experience for all students. - Combined Grades: Strategies to Reach a Range of Learners in Kindergarten to Grade 6
This resource document provides literacy and numeracy strategies to support teachers and administrators in the successful management of combined grades classes in kindergarten to Grade 6.
- An Introduction to Combined Grades
An Introduction to Combined Grades brochure is intended to answer many of the questions parents may have about combined classrooms (also called split grades).
- e-Laws
This web site contains current consolidated versions of most of Ontario's public statutes and regulations.
- Education Funding
- Enrolment Registers and Instructions
Forms for enrolling students, with instructions for completing them.
- English Language Learners / ESL and ELD Programs and Services: Policies and Procedures for Ontario Elementary and Secondary Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12
- Highlights of Regulation 181/98: Identification and Placement of Exceptional Pupils
The Education Act requires that school boards provide, or purchase from another board, special education programs and services for their exceptional pupils. This attachment provides information about the Identification, Placement, and Review Committee (IPRC), and sets out the procedures involved in identifying a pupil as "exceptional", deciding the pupil's placement, or appealing such decisions when the parent does not agree with the IPRC.
- Inspire
This online journal continually adds successful practices for teachers and principals. Thematically grouped articles will be published in hard copy three to four times a year.
- Learning for All – A Guide to Effective Assessment and Instruction for All Students, Kindergarten to Grade 12, 2011
- Policy Statement and Guidelines on the Admission, Welcoming and Support of Students in French-Language Schools in Ontario (PDF, 3.05 MB)
- Policy/Program Memoranda
Numbered policy directives are issued to district school boards and school authorities to outline the Ministry of Education's expectations regarding the implementation of ministry policies and programs.
- PSAB & School Board Financial Reporting: A General Guide
What is PSAB? What are the PSAB standards and how will they affect school boards' financial reporting? When and how will the change be implemented? This booklet is designed to provide the answers to these, and other, questions for trustees, parents and other stakeholders in local school boards.
- Ready, Set, Green! Tips, Techniques and Resources from Ontario Educators
This guide is intended to stimulate discussion of this increasingly important issue, and provide practical tools and strategies that can be put to use in boards, schools, and communities.
- Supporting English language learners: A practical guide for Ontario educators Grades 1 to 8, 2008
This resource guide provides a rich source of practical techniques, research findings, and strategies that can be put to immediate use in the classroom and in the school. It also contains valuable information on working with families and communities, and as a whole school, to enable English language learners achieve curriculum expectations while they learn English.
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2010
- 2010 School Board Elections
- Board Leadership Development Strategy Requirements Manual (PDF, 1.46 MB)
- Conversation Starters for mentees, mentors, school and system leaders (PDF, 336 KB)
- Education Funding : Technical Paper 2010-11 (PDF, 1.48 MB)
- Enrolment Registers and Instructions, 2010-2011
- Evolving perspectives: leaders & leadership (Winter 2010) (PDF, 564 KB)
- Examples of Completed Forms (Performance, Annual Growth and Improvement Plans) (PDF, 666 KB)
- Growing Success : Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools
- Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting in Ontario's Schools, First Edition Covering Grades 1 to 12
- Ideas Into Action: Courageous Conversations : Exploring Five Core Leadership Capacities Engaging in Courageous Conversations (PDF, 784 KB)
- Ideas Into Action – Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures (PDF, 1.21 MB)
- Leading the instructional core (Summer 2010) – An interview with Richard Elmore (PDF, 593 KB)
- Legislative Grants 2010-11 (PDF, 1.65 MB)
- The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 to 12 : Course Descriptions and Prerequisites (PDF, 1.14 MB)
- Ontario Leadership Strategy: Building Leadership Capacity for Student Achievement Resources Flyer (PDF, 3.45 MB)
- Ontario Leadership Strategy: Quick Facts 2010-11 (PDF, 605 KB)
- The Ontario Student Transcript Manual, 2010
- Principal and Vice-principal Technical Requirements Manual, 2010 (PDF, 3.51 MB)
- Reporting to the Principal : Requirements for School Bus Drivers (PDF, 49 KB)
- Reporting and Responding to Incidents : a Resource for Occasional Teachers (PDF, 235 KB)
- School Board Funding Projections for the 2010-11 School Year (PDF, 463 KB)
- Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Equipment Amount (SEA), 2010-11 (PDF, 437 KB)
- Special Education Funding Guidelines: Special Incidence Portion (SIP), 2010-11 (PDF, 1.02 MB)
- Tip Sheet Courageous Conversations (PDF, 630 KB)
- Tip Sheet: Setting Goals : Principal/Vice-Principal Performance Appraisal (PPA) (PDF, 567 KB)
- Tip Sheet: Receiving and Giving Feedback : Principal/Vice-Principal Performance Appraisal (PPA) (PDF, 707 KB)
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2009
- Equity and Inclusive Education in Ontario Schools: Guidelines for Policy Development and Implementation (PDF, 3.3 MB)
- Ideas Into Action – Five Core Leadership Capacities of Effective Leaders (PDF, 524 KB)
- In conversation : The authentic leader (Fall 2009) (PDF, 476 KB)
- Keeping our Kids Safe at School: Reporting and Responding to Incidents (PDF, 261 KB)
- Leadership and integrative thinking (Spring 2009) (PDF, 811 KB)
- Planning And Possibilities: The Report Of The Declining Enrolment Working Group
- Policy Statement and Guidelines on the Admission, Welcoming, and Support of Students in French-Language Schools in Ontario
- Quick Facts : Ontario's Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, (PDF, 84 KB)
- Realizing the Promise of Diversity : Ontario's Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy, (PDF, 2.3 MB)
- The Road Ahead : Boys' Literacy Teacher Inquiry Project 2005 to 2008
- School Board Governance : a Focus on Achievement : Report of the Governance Review Committee to the Minister of Education of Ontario
- Values-Driven Leadership (Winter 2009) (PDF, 526 KB)
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2006
- Ministry of Education – Pupil Accommodation Review Guidelines
This document provides school boards and their communities with a tool to ensure transparency and accountability in an accommodation review process.
- Ministry of Education – Administrative Review of Accommodation Review (PDF, 28 KB)
- Parent Involvement (PDF, 448 KB)
This report is the result of four months of work during which members had the opportunity to further the work undertaken in the winter of 2005 for the Parent Voice in Education Project (PVEP).
- Parents Reaching Out Grants (2006)
Parents play a vital role in public education. Ontario's new Parents Reaching Out Grants are designed to encourage parents' involvement in their children's education, and support student learning.
- More Ways to Succeed in High School
These new programs are at the heart of our Student Success initiative. They give Ontario high school students more ways to accumulate credits to graduate, while improving the quality of a high school education in this province.
- Special Education Transformation: The Report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education
The report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education
- Daily Physical Activity in Schools: Guide for School Principals (PDF, 734 KB)
- Daily Physical Activity in Schools: Guide for School Boards (PDF, 824 KB)
- Many Roots, Many Voices: Supporting English Language Learners in Every Classroom
Many Roots, Many Voices is designed to support teachers, principals, and other education professionals at the elementary and secondary levels in working effectively with English language learners.
- 2006 School Board Elections
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2005
- Ontario's Aménagement Linguistique Policy
This document sets out the guidelines for aménagement linguistique interventions both for the Ministry of Education and for Ontario's French-language school boards.
- Good Places to Learn: Renewing Ontario's Schools
The following is a considered action plan to deliver "Good Places to Learn" for all Ontario students over the next 18 months. It sets out policy direction and goals to achieve a high standard for the environment in which our students learn, together with the resources and flexibility to make that environment achievable across the province.
- Leading Education: New Supports for Principals and Vice-Principals in Ontario Publicly Funded Schools (December, 2005, v. 2)
Part of a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table to permit wide input to the direction of education in Ontario. This paper articulates the government's comprehensive strategy to strengthen school leadership.
- Ontario Parent Involvement Policy (December, 2005, v. 2)
Part of a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. The Ministry of Education is striving for a new relationship among the groups that make up public education in Ontario. This paper is one of several setting out proposed government policy changes to help such a partnership to thrive.
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2004
- Me Read? No, Way! A practical guide to improving boys' literacy skills (2004)
This guide focuses on boys' literacy. Based on an international review of effective practices, the guide is intended to stimulate discussion of this important issue among educators in Ontario and to provide practical and effective strategies that teachers across the province can put to use in the classroom, both immediately and over the longer term.
- Teacher Excellence: Unlocking Student Potential Through Continuing Professional Development (August, 2004 v. 2)
Fifth in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. This paper is concerned with the ongoing continuing professional development of our teaching corps.
- Creating an Education Partnership Table (March 2004, v. 2)
First in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. This is the proposal for the Partnership Table: a problem-solving forum, where participants explain underlying wants and needs behind positions and bring facts to bear that allow others to appreciate their viewpoint.
- Building the Ontario Education Advantage: Student Achievement (April, 2004)
Second in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. The McGuinty governments vision and plans for publicly funded education.
- Revitalizing the Ontario College of Teachers (March, 2004)
Third in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. Key approaches of the McGuinty government for revitalizing the Ontario College of Teachers.
- Aménagement linguistique: A Policy for Ontario's French-Language Schools and Francophone Community (2004)
The policy presented in this document concerns French-language schools, the young people attending them, and their parents. Its intention is to help the province's French-language educational institutions and settings optimize the transmission of the French language and culture among young people, to help them reach their full potential in school and society, and to breathe new life into the francophone community.
- Building the Ontario Education Advantage: Student Achievement (2004)
Second in a series of mini-discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table to permit wide input to the direction of education in Ontario.
- Creating an Education Partnership Table (2004)
First in a series of mini-discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table to permit wide input into the direction of education in Ontario.
- French-Language Education Strategy Task Force (2004) (PDF, 503 KB)
This report includes an analysis of the factors that cause difficulties for French-language education. It also suggests measures to be taken to remedy the problem areas occurring under present funding for French-language education.
- Revitalizing the Ontario College of Teachers (2004)
Third in a series of mini-discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table to permit wide input to the direction of education in Ontario.
- Teaching and Learning Mathematics: The Report of the Expert Panel on Mathematics in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario (2004)
The Expert Panel on Mathematics in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario was established by the Ministry of Education to examine, synthesize, and outline the research to date on teaching mathematics to students in the junior grades (Grades 4–6). Panel members included teachers, consultants, principals, researchers, and professors.
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