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The Enhancing Equity Task Force will present their recommendations, based on the work they have done (which has included many community meetings, focus groups, surveys, as well as analysis on equity research) for the last year to the Board at the December meeting. These recommendations are not finalized, people still have the ability to respond via a survey until November 20, however in their present form, they are high level and could not be operationalized as they stand now. Based on that, my belief is that trustees will receive the report and send it back to staff for recommendations on how they could be implemented and what the effects would be. At that point trustees would be in a better position to decide on how the results of this work could move forward. This would come in January through a Board committee, where the public can delegate on those recommendations. After that it would go to the full Board in early February for a final vote.
I anticipate that staff will come back and say some recommendations cannot be implemented as they stand now and will likely provide suggestions on how the equity goals could be met in another way. They would also present additional context that the task force would not have had access to as that group was focussed on big ideas and not the 'nuts and bolts' of implementing their recommendations. Trustees are obviously concerned with both.
Classes for students with gifted exceptionalities are special education programs. There is no intention to discontinue congregated classes, if the student needs cannot be met in a regular classroom. This is for students with all exceptionalities. However, there are situations where students with exceptionalities are shunted out of classrooms, for whatever reasons, when with some differentiated learning, they could remain in a regular class and that is one of the issues the task force is trying to address. The Board recognizes that students have different needs and in order to help them achieve, we need to have a variety of options.
A link to the draft report is here:
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Community/How-to-Get-Involved/Enhancing-Equity-Task-Force/Enhancing-Equity-Task-Force-Recommendations
Students, staff, parents and community members have the opportunity to responded directly to the Task Force, until November 20. I would urge you to make your concerns known to them directly so that your concerns may be reflected in the final report.
https://surveys.tdsb.on.ca/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=542812&newtest=Y
As well, I am not sure you saw the article in the Star, with the Director's interview, but it may address some of your concerns as well.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/23/goal-of-equity-report-is-high-expectations-all-students-being-served-says-tdsbs-john-malloy.html
Again, thank you for contacting us.
Regards,
Robin Pilkey
Chair更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
The Enhancing Equity Task Force will present their recommendations, based on the work they have done (which has included many community meetings, focus groups, surveys, as well as analysis on equity research) for the last year to the Board at the December meeting. These recommendations are not finalized, people still have the ability to respond via a survey until November 20, however in their present form, they are high level and could not be operationalized as they stand now. Based on that, my belief is that trustees will receive the report and send it back to staff for recommendations on how they could be implemented and what the effects would be. At that point trustees would be in a better position to decide on how the results of this work could move forward. This would come in January through a Board committee, where the public can delegate on those recommendations. After that it would go to the full Board in early February for a final vote.
I anticipate that staff will come back and say some recommendations cannot be implemented as they stand now and will likely provide suggestions on how the equity goals could be met in another way. They would also present additional context that the task force would not have had access to as that group was focussed on big ideas and not the 'nuts and bolts' of implementing their recommendations. Trustees are obviously concerned with both.
Classes for students with gifted exceptionalities are special education programs. There is no intention to discontinue congregated classes, if the student needs cannot be met in a regular classroom. This is for students with all exceptionalities. However, there are situations where students with exceptionalities are shunted out of classrooms, for whatever reasons, when with some differentiated learning, they could remain in a regular class and that is one of the issues the task force is trying to address. The Board recognizes that students have different needs and in order to help them achieve, we need to have a variety of options.
A link to the draft report is here:
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Community/How-to-Get-Involved/Enhancing-Equity-Task-Force/Enhancing-Equity-Task-Force-Recommendations
Students, staff, parents and community members have the opportunity to responded directly to the Task Force, until November 20. I would urge you to make your concerns known to them directly so that your concerns may be reflected in the final report.
https://surveys.tdsb.on.ca/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=542812&newtest=Y
As well, I am not sure you saw the article in the Star, with the Director's interview, but it may address some of your concerns as well.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/23/goal-of-equity-report-is-high-expectations-all-students-being-served-says-tdsbs-john-malloy.html
Again, thank you for contacting us.
Regards,
Robin Pilkey
Chair更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net