SD8 Strategic Plan
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Starting point
SD8 is renewing its strategic plan. The plan will set the mission, vision, goals and priorities for the Board of Education and staff for the next five years from 2024 through 2029. Engage with us by sharing your ideas in our Ideas section, voting for ideas you like, or if you prefer, completing the Survey.
Our engagement process reflects SD8's mandate for public education as outlined in the Statement of Education Policy Order, the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning Policy, and the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. You can find out more about our mandate from the Province as well as important information about how students are learning and teachers are teaching now, in our Project Documents and Important Links sections on this page.
The strategic plan will serve as a road map to ensure all partners in K-12 education work together so that all learners are enabled to develop their individual potential and acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be successful.
Engaging with our partners - Upcoming Community Engagement Sessions
In addition to inviting you to engage here - SD8 is holding 6 in-person community engagement sessions and 1 live, public webinar. Check out Key Dates on this project page.
In each phase of the engagement, SD8 will keep partners informed, listen to and acknowledge concerns and aspirations, and provide feedback on how partner input influenced the strategic plan.
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The District’s role is to ensure that students have the ability to think and learn, foster a lifelong appreciation of learning, a curiosity about the world and the capacity for creative thought and expressions.
How could SD8 foster this?
Submit your ideas. You can include photos in your submissions if you wish. You can post as many ideas as you like and/or contribute by voting on other people's ideas.
Please indicate which partner group you are member of (KLTF, Indigenous partner, LKB, DPAC, teacher, student, school leader, community member, parent, support staff, etc.) and which family of schools you belong to (Creston, Salmo, Nelson, Kaslo, Crawford Bay, Slocan Valley). This is completely optional but will help us understand the level of participation from partner groups and from our families of schools.
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7 days ago
Engage students outside of the classroom: community, outdoor learning fieldtrips.
Streamline forms (once a year) currently required for fieldtrips. Teachers should be teaching, not filling out so many forms for each trip.
4 days ago
After reading input from some others, I would have to agree that Creston youth would greatly benefit from a middle school.
1 day ago
Graduation Rates Misleading
The district has been relying on grad rates as an indicator of student success, yet many are graduating without basic math, reading, and writing skills. Promoting students from grade to grade without ensuring the skills have been acquired is damaging to their futures. There needs to be district-wide skills testing to determine how schools are REALLY doing . Then supports need to be put in place to help struggling students get the skills they need. The FSAs have become too political and the numeracy and literacy assessments are pretty poorly designed. Since the provincial data is problematic, why can't we generate our own? Let's do the right thing for our students.
4 days ago
EAs are needed in the schools. MSSS has 3 EAs for the entire school with over 50 students with special needs, some of which need one on one
EAs are needed!
3 days ago
address ventilation, modify school processes, model mask-wearing and prioritize the mitigation of infectious transmission to keep kids safe.
safety is everything
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The District’s role is to ensure that students develop a sense of self-worth and personal initiative, that they value and honour diversity, as well the significance of physical well-being, and are leaving school prepared for their future.
How could SD8 support this?
Submit your ideas. You can include photos in your submissions if you wish. You can post as many ideas as you like and/or contribute by voting on other people's ideas.
Please indicate which partner group you are member of (KLTF, Indigenous partner, LKB, DPAC, teacher, student, school leader, community member, parent, support staff, etc.) and which family of schools you belong to (Creston, Salmo, Nelson, Kaslo, Crawford Bay, Slocan Valley). This is completely optional but will help us understand the level of participation from partner groups and from our families of schools.
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5 days ago
teach the 4 directions of the Medicine Wheel *(Mental, Emotional, Physical, Spiritual)
Community member
11 days ago
Enable more self-directed learning to occur. I would love to see more opportunities to celebrate personal initiatives.
10 days ago
Recycling
Teach kids how to put the proper paper into a paper recycling bin. It's not that hard. No paper recycling in SD8 is a big fail.
6 days ago
DRAMA Classes & THEATRE!
20 days ago
Investing MUCH more money into technology. Hiring more IT staff.
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The District’s role is to support success for Indigenous students and further Reconciliation.
How could SD8 demonstrate support for Indigenous student success and foster Reconciliation?
Submit your ideas. You can include photos in your submissions if you wish. You can post as many ideas as you like and/or contribute by voting on other people's ideas.
Please indicate which partner group you are member of (KLTF, Indigenous partner, LKB, DPAC, teacher, student, school leader, community member, parent, support staff, etc.) and which family of schools you belong to (Creston, Salmo, Nelson, Kaslo, Crawford Bay, Slocan Valley). This is completely optional but will help us understand the level of participation from partner groups and from our families of schools.
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20 days ago
I feel like SD8 is doing a great job at this now.
11 days ago
How can you talk about reconciliation when you are excluding Autonomous Sinixt?
3 days ago
avoid repeating colonial violence: mitigate infectious disease transmission to keep schools accessible even for the most vulnerable students
infectious disease transmission is colonial violence
5 days ago
teach the medicine wheel to all students (Mental, emotional, physical, spiritual)
community member
7 days ago
Lead by example. Less hierarchy in Sd8 would be a start.
Create opportunities for administrators to learn from teachers how needs in their schools could be met. This would require open, authentic communication.
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The District must ensure that it is operationally sound and fiscally responsible while ensuring excellence for all students.
How could SD8 ensure this?
Submit your ideas. You can include photos in your submissions if you wish. You can post as many ideas as you like and/or contribute by voting on other people's ideas.
Please indicate which partner group you are member of (KLTF, Indigenous partner, LKB, DPAC, teacher, student, school leader, community member, parent, support staff, etc.) and which family of schools you belong to (Creston, Salmo, Nelson, Kaslo, Crawford Bay, Slocan Valley). This is completely optional but will help us understand the level of participation from partner groups and from our families of schools.
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11 days ago
Analyze all decisions using the lens of "impacts on student learning".
The district budget process can be daunting but clarity is added by keeping student learning at the centre.
20 days ago
Stick to the basics
20 days ago
IT is the heart of the District, without IT all services are down these days. I think a better investment can be made toward IT support
5 days ago
lengthen four day on 3 day off schedule to allow adequate time for self-care and family while reducing operational needs.
Lengthen 4-day Schedule
13 days ago
Less management more staff to actually carry out the plans. So much management doing so much planning that doing never seems to happen.
Who's Listening
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School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake)
Phone 2503526681 Email board.education@sd8.bc.ca
Videos
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A video version of our Strategic Plan Public Engagement presentation, with audio. This outlines the purpose of our engagement process and reviews important student learning information.