Activity and financial report for Federal-Provincial funding for 2015-2016

under the Canada - Saskatchewan Agreement on Minority-Language Education

and Second Official-Language Instruction 2013-2014 To 2017-2018

Instructions

Please find attached the activity and financial report template for the fiscal year 2014-2015 for FRENCH AS A-SECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION.

The columns filled in purple outline the initiatives, the targets and the performance indicators of the action plan of The Canada–Saskatchewan Agreement on Minority-Language Education and Second Official-Language Instruction 2013–2014 to 2017–2018. These data cannot be changed. They are included to familiarize your organization with the agreement.

Following the action plantables (in purple)you will find the table called “Activities that support the area of intervention”. I invite you to complete this table.

Your activities must align with the initiatives of the action plan (in purple) and feed the performance indicators of the action plan.

French as-a-second-language initiatives pertain to French immersion, intensive French and core French instruction.

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Name of the organization: / Allocated funding for the linguistic objective French Second Languagefor the 2014-2015 fiscal year
Date / Signature of authorized officer:

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LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE / French Second Language (FSL)
AREA OF INTERVENTION / Student Participation
Initiative(s) / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s)
Promotion of programs
– support promotional campaigns, such as a poster contest, advertising, websites, or pamphlets, in order to increase enrolment
– promote French Second Language Education Week through a poster or multimedia contest for Immersion students
– produce informational material for parents, such as pamphlets describing new Immersion curricula
– offer information sessions for school divisions and parents to present a variety of potential French second-language programs
Support for school boards offering French second-language programs
– increase the number of Immersion and Grade 7 to 12 Intensive French and Post-Intensive French programs / Increase the proportion and number of students enrolled in Immersion from 11,767 to 12,826 – an increase of 9%
Increase the number of students enrolled in Intensive French (Grades 5 and 6) and Post-Intensive French (Grades 7 to 12) from 1,151 to 1,207 students – an increase
of 5%
Maintain the retention rate for students from Intensive French (Grades 5 and 6) to Post-Intensive French (Grades 7 to 12) at 95% / Proportion and number of students enrolled in Immersion
Number of students enrolled in Intensive French and Post-Intensive French
Student retention rate from Intensive French to Post-Intensive French
Activitiesthat support the area of intervention“Student Participation”
Activities / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s) / Actual expenditures / Implementation status (1,2 or 3)* / Explanation of variance
Legend for Implementation Status: 1 – Activity completed or proceeding as planned 2 –Activity delayed3 - Implementation compromised
* Explanation required if status is at level 2 or 3
LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE / French Second Language (FSL)
AREA OF INTERVENTION / Provision of Programs
Initiative(s) / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s)
Curriculum renewal
– renew Kindergarten to Grade 12 curricula
– purchase curricula not currently available in Saskatchewan
Inter-ministerial collaboration
– ensure that early childhood services, student services, and provincial evaluations are available in French by collaborating with other ministries such as the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social Services, and the Ministry of Justice, in keeping with the Student First approach and the Child and Youth Agenda of Saskatchewan
Development of resources
– develop curricula in support of enhanced French
– participate in the development of resources, in collaboration with teachers
– support the acquisition of resources for Intensive French and Post-Intensive French
– adapt resources for the Help Me Tell My Story initiative and support documents for the Tell Them From Me initiative for teachers, school administrators, and parents / 100% of FSL Grade 1 - 9 curricula identified by the Ministry are renewed
100% of FSL Levels 10, 20, 30 in Physical Education, Social Studies, Applied and Practical Arts and immersion curricula identified by the Ministry are renewed
100% of FSL modified Levels 11, 21 and 31 modified curricula identified by the Ministry of Education are renewed / Number of renewed curricula offered in Immersion
Activities that support the area of intervention“Provision of Programs”
Activities / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s) / Actual expenditures / Implemen-tation status (1,2 or 3)* / Explanation of variance
Legend for Implementation Status: 1 – Activity completed or proceeding as planned 2 –Activity delayed3 - Implementation compromised
* Explanation required if status is at level 2 or 3
LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE / French Second Language (FSL)
AREA OF INTERVENTION / Student Performance
Initiative(s) / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s)
Training to improve student performance
– offer an annual training symposium for Intensive French and Post-Intensive French teachers, focussing on teaching strategies for student success
– train evaluators to evaluate student performance in Intensive French and Post-Intensive French
– offer workshops on the development of transdisciplinary competencies, such as literacy and numeracy, to improve student achievement
Evaluation
– have the oral and written performance of Intensive French and Post-Intensive French students evaluated by the Assessment Unit of the Ministry of Education
– develop tools to support provincial evaluations such as the evaluation of Grade 3 reading levels / Maintain the proportion of students who attain the desired level (Level 14 – BL) in Intensive French at 98%
Maintain the proportion of students who obtain their Grade 12 diploma with bilingual mention at 92%
Increase the reading level of Grade 3 students not reading at grade level by 20%
Maintain the proportion of students who obtain their Grade 12 diploma with Core French credits at 96% / Attainment rate of students in Intensive French
Success rate in Immersion (students who have obtained their Grade 12 diploma with bilingual mention)
Attainment rate in reading
Success rate in Core French (students who have passed the Core French course up to Grade 12)
Activities that support the area of intervention “Student Performance”
Activities / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s) / Actual expenditures / Implementation status (1,2 or 3)* / Explanation of variance
Legend for Implementation Status: 1 – Activity completed or proceeding as planned 2 –Activity delayed3 - Implementation compromised
* Explanation required if status is at level 2 or 3
LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE / French Second Language (FSL)
AREA OF INTERVENTION / Enriched school environments
Initiative(s) / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s)
Community-building projects
– ensure that students have access to language and cultural activities, such as the oratorical contest, summer and weekend camps, cultural and artistic performances, Francofièvre and mini-Francofièvre, career fairs, Rendez-vous Fransaskois.
Official languages support
– ensure access to Odyssey Program bursaries and language assistants
– oversee the provincial coordination of selection, training and logistics for Odyssey Program monitors and bursaries
Exchanges
– provide the opportunity for students to participate in the Sask-Quebec exchange through funding to school divisions / Increase the number of language group exchanges from 11 students in 2012-2013 to 15 students
Maintain the number of enrichment and learning initiatives at 15 / Number of exchanges between language groups
Number of learning enrichment initiatives
Activitiesthat support the area of intervention “Enriched school environments”
Activities / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s) / Actual expenditures / Implementation status (1,2 or 3)* / Explanation of variance
Legend for Implementation Status: 1 – Activity completed or proceeding as planned 2 –Activity delayed3 - Implementation compromised
* Explanation required if status is at level 2 or 3
LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVE / French Second Language (FSL)
AREA OF INTERVENTION / Support for educational staff and research
Initiative(s) / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s)
Training
– offer implementation workshops on how to adapt and use renewed curricula, feedback sessions, and curriculum validation
– provide access to bursaries for upgrading courses
– offer workshops and mentoring to support school boards in the provision of a complete Kindergarten to Grade 12 program
– support partnerships between school boards with French second-language programs and Fransaskois organizations such as the Conseil culturel fransaskois and the ACF
Support materials
– working with teachers, promote the development of support materials associated with renewed curricula
– develop multi-media material such as CDs, DVDs, and guides related to renewed curricula
Partnerships with universities
– work with various French second-language research partners such as the Bac en éducation at the University of Regina / Maintain the ratio between the number of professional development activities and number of renewed curricula at 1:1. A professional development opportunity will be provided for each renewed curriculum
Number of published reports on French second-language instruction / Ratio between professional development activities and number of renewed curricula
3 reports on French second-language instruction are published by 2017-2018
Activitiesthat support the area of intervention “Support for educational staff and research”
Activities / Performance Target(s) / Performance indicator(s) / Actual expenditures / Implementation status (1,2 or 3)* / Explanation of variance
Legend for Implementation Status: 1 – Activity completed or proceeding as planned 2 –Activity delayed3 - Implementation compromised
* Explanation required if status is at level 2 or 3

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