Every year we engage with stakeholders and analyze student data to set priorities for the school year. Cumulatively, this work informs our School Development Plan (SDP).  

As a system, we are going through a change in how we structure and report on our school development goals. As a result, we have been gifted an opportunity to further build on our work from the previous years with the possibility to continue the goal for a fourth year. Our School Development Plan is comprised of a literacy, mathematics and well-being for learning goals. Our goals for 2023-24 are: 

• Literacy goal (Fourth year): Student achievement in pre-writing and writing to develop, organize and express information and ideas will improve in English Language Arts. 
• Well-Being for Learning goal (Fourth year): The percentage of students who feel they are respected by other students and treated well by other students will increase. 
• Mathematics goal (Third year): Student achievement in number sense within a problem-solving context will improve in mathematics. 

Last year we saw an improvement in our September to June report card data for writing and math data, which is exciting. In math, we also continued to see student’s confidence and ability to make connections improve. For well-being, students shared that they are proud to be a part of the school community and that, for the most part, they have close friends that they can trust and feel safe with. However, we did see a noticeable decline in the number of students feeling respected and treated well at Ron Southern. Our next steps for this school year are as follows: 

• to focus students on understanding, applying and explaining the mathematical concepts that underpin the procedural skills they perform in math.  
• to continue to develop student’s ability to communicate their needs in a way that also acknowledges the needs of others 

For this year, as a school, we identified key instructional strategies that will assist us in achieving these goals. More in-depth information and analysis of our school data and SDP goal can be found on our School Improvement Results Report (SIRR) and SDP report on our school website under the “Our School” tab. You can also directly access this report by clicking herehere. 

To our Buddhist families, we would like to wish you a Happy Buddha Purnima and to our Jewish families, we would like to wish you a Happy Chanukah.