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The Purpose

The Educational Review is meant to serve two complementary purposes:

accountability, permitting the Board to answer to its stakeholders for the trust they have placed in it for the education of their children, youth and adults; and

improvement, supporting the development of programs and service delivery in order to make its schools more effective places for teaching and learning.

The accountability purpose begs the question: Accountable for what? The answer, for this Educational Review, is accountability for student success and the provision of quality education to youth, adult and post-secondary students. (For details see What.)

The improvement purpose can only be served if the evaluation leads to action. As illustrated below, the Educational Review has been designed to provide stakeholders with a holistic portrait of the Board’s performance - the extent to which it is achieving results and operating in accordance with its vision and purposes - and its capacity - the structures, systems, resources and any other related elements, that enable it to perform. This portrait will be used to develop an action plan to build capacity, enhance performance and, ultimately, help students to be more successful in school and beyond.

 

1 The evaluation provides understanding of current challenges.

2 It first supports the building of the capacity of the School Board and its schools.

3 This leads to improved performance in the delivery of educational services.

4 The ultimate result is higher levels of student success.

 

This is not the first time that an evaluation has been done in the Cree School Board. It is important, therefore, to locate the Educational Review in relation to these other initiatives, both past and present. Accordingly, we will build on what has been learned from past initiatives and will incorporate the results from current initiatives, including the strategic planning exercise and the organizational review of board administration, to provide a synthesis of all these efforts, as illustrated below.

 

Want more information? Provide input? Contact us at: Edreview@cscree.qc.ca.