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Custom Designed Services

Continuing Education designs programs to meet specific needs in collaboration with schools, districts, organizations, foundations and the Ontario Ministry of Education.
 

Bryan Leadership Development Initiative

Continuing Education Accreditation Program

Impact Math

Leadership Development

Secondary School Reform

Shape the Future

Taking Stock in Your Future™


Bryan Leadership Development Initiative
Funded by the Bryan Foundation, this four-year partnership between the Centre for Creative Leadership and Guilford County Schools, North Carolina, is being guided by consultative support from Continuing Education in the areas of system reform, change and leadership development.
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Continuing Education Accreditation Program
The Ontario Association of Architects has been assisted in planning and implementing a comprehensive continuing education accreditation system.  The provincial model has been adapted recently for national implementation.
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Impact Math
This professional development program, focussing on grades 7 and 8 mathematics, is helping teachers by expanding knowledge and developing necessary skills to implement the new curriculum.  The project, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education  , will influence the teaching and learning of over 10,000 teachers in Ontario.  The program included:
 
  • an intensive training for a cadre of 10 teachers from throughout the province who served as the trainers
  • “train the trainer” sessions for 600 trainers
  • development of trainer manuals and 5 teacher resource modules
  • research and evaluation of the inservice prototype and an electronic  network for follow up
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Leadership Development
The program focussed on  leadership skills for renewal strategies to deal with the politics of school change, advanced facilitation skills and models for meaningful community involvement.  Throughout the series, the importance of building a professional learning community involving staff, students and community in the reform process was stressed.
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Secondary School Reform
This four-year initiative, supported by the Ontario Ministry of Education  with impact on over 800 secondary schools, is designed to build the capacity of School Implementation Teams to put policy and curriculum reform in effect.  Initially, a 5 day intensive residential program was provided for 12 pilot schools from throughout the province to develop a planning strategy.  In the following phase, 72 French and English District Teams from throughout the province participated in 6 days of training.  These District Teams then trained 800 School Implementation Teams.  A trainer manual and large range of resource materials were developed to support the work of all teams.
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Shape the Future
OISE/UT, in partnership with CEA, is facilitating a nation-wide dialogue for the development of secondary schools for the next decade.  This project, funded by the Walter and Duncan  Gordon Foundation, has already stimulated interest in individuals, organizations and governments who want to work collaboratively to learn and share effective improvement strategies.  A national strategy for action, Shape the Future, will be developed by 2000.
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Taking Stock in Your Future™
Sponsored by the Toronto Stock Exchange, this powerful new learning experience that provides secondary school staff with unique, cutting-edge training and resources to help introduce students to the effective management of personal finance.  A three-day institute in August 2000 will focus on introducing a resource document that includes engaging activities, work sheets, assessment and evaluation strategies with work samples, web-based resources and practical, relevant data-based problems using real examples.
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