Updates

The LSA Steering Team continues to plan ways to support system leaders, principals, and schools by developing resources and providing job-embedded professional learning opportunities that help build and sustain instructional leadership capacity, thereby improving achievement for all students. Learning and strategies continue to evolve, gaining in breadth, depth, and complexity as we move forward and work collaboratively with all partners to meet emerging needs.

Research Component:

Moving Theory and Research into Practice/Practice into Research
Fall Surveys: Completed surveys are an important source of information for determining needs and providing support to those in the project. We thank teachers, principals and system leaders for supporting and participating fully in this process

Planning: 2009–2010

Mark Your Calendars:
Elementary Provincial Symposium for Principal Team Leaders, SOs/ Board Coordinators:

  • Spring Symposium – Friday, May 14, 2010
  • Secondary Symposium for Pilot Secondary Schools – Thursday, May 20, 2010

Elementary Regional TLCP Session #2 for Principals, Teachers and SO/Board Coordinators
(Numbers for each district and exact location to be determined later)

  • Central: Toronto – November 10 (English and French)
  • Near North: Sudbury – December 2 (English); December 2 (French)
  • Far North: Thunder Bay – December 1 (English)
  • East: Belleville – November 26 (English); December 8 (French) - Ottawa
  • West: London – November 24 (English)

LSA resource Exploration Web Conferences:

  • English – Thursday, October 29, 10:00-11:00am; 1:00-2:00pm
  • French – Wednesday, November 18, 9:30-10:30am

Elementary Schools TLCP support Web Conferences- Burning Questions:

  • English – Monday, November 2, 9:30-11:30am; 1:30-3:30pm
    Friday, November 6, 9:30-11:30am; 1:30-3:30pm
  • French – Thursday, November 12, 1:30-3:30pm

Web Supports:
(Web conferences, web meetings, and other leading-edge technologies)

LSA Web Network Ning tab now available on the LSA website. The LSA Web Network has currently over 1000 members, with various groups and more than 100 videos as resources. The LSA Web Network is now an open network for participants in the LSA project so participants do not need to be invited to join. For more information about the LSA Web Network, contact Jen Coens at jcoens@curriculum.org.

Events:

Leading Student Achievement Symposium Symposium (Oct. 5, 09), and LSA Pilot Secondary Schools Symposium (Oct. 16, 09) were a great success. Over 300 LSA System and Principal Team Leaders were in attendance at the elementary session and 140 secondary system leaders, principals and teachers participated in the secondary session with full representation from across the province.