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Message From The Superintendent ECCS Three-Year Education Plan and Annual Education Results Report
East Central Catholic Schools (ECCS) has prepared the 2019-2022 Three-Year Education Plan for distribution. This document serves two purposes. Firstly, our mission as a Catholic school division is to educate the whole child, including their spiritual development. Our spiritual year started with the Mission and Ministry Day on August 29, 2019. We also celebrated Catholic Education Sunday in all parishes on November 3, 2019.
The second purpose is to report the Annual Education Results (AERR) for 2018-2019. Overall, students in East Central Catholic Schools continued to perform well during the past year. Our brick and mortar schools had outstanding results in most categories of the Accountability Pillar Overall Summary. Indeed, if we isolate the results from the online school and home-schooling program, ECCS as Division would receive ratings of good or excellent on 14 of the 15 categories in the Accountability Pillar Overall Summary.
Unfortunately, we continue to struggle in our effort to have students in our on-line school write the Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT). Their lack of participation negatively skews the results for ECCS. We are continuing to work with the school and have made significant changes for the 2018-2019 school year in an attempt to better prepare students to do well on the PATs and diploma exams.
This on-going concern is addressed in our three-year plan and must be corrected if our AERR is going to be a more accurate reflection of the Division’s Accountability Pillar Results.
ECCS will continue a consultative process, which will engage the school and parish communities, and district wide administration. The purpose of this process is to gather feedback, which will inform the next three-year plan. When we combine the data gathered with the results of the Accountability Pillar, we will have a clear path set for the division. We look forward to the challenge of engaging all stakeholders and optimizing student learning. On behalf of East Central Catholic Schools, I also wish to thank our trustees, staff, parents and community for their invaluable contributions to improving the education of our students. Lastly, I would like to thank Glenn Nowosad for the new design, format, and accessibility of this year’s document.
Sincerely,
Charlie McCormack
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