The success of each individual student is critically important to all of us here at the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board.  The Ministry of Education’s Student Success Strategy is about “reaching every student”, by providing expanded options for students in Grade 7-12 and providing the necessary supports and interventions to ensure that students are successful.  This strategy is built within the Board on four pillars of student success - literacy skills, numeracy skills, pathways and further developing a culture of community and caring within our schools.

Below are some examples and links of what we are doing here in KPDSB to support student success.

Pathways - More Ways to Succeed in High School

• Specialist High Skills Major Programs
• Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
• Passport to Prosperity
• MyBlueprintPlanner for Student and Parents
• Expanded course offerings in many schools (aboriginal education, outdoor education, student leadership programming)
• Good Job

Expanded Alternative Education

• Day School Alternative Education (Connections)
• Parents at Secondary Schools (PASS) Program
• Urban Aboriginal Program
• Outreach and specialized student programming
• E-Learning

A Community of Culture and Caring

• Capturing and responding to student voice
• Tell Them from Me student surveys
• Student Voice Projects
• Aboriginal Voices Project
• Student Leadership Programs and Supports
• School Support Teams
•  Principal/Vice-Principal, guidance counselor, student success teacher and teachers supporting struggling students
• Ongoing support and assistance for all students
• School Transition – Elementary to Secondary - Transition activities and supports for students moving to secondary school