Goal #1: Communication through

Partnerships

The School Planning Process: Part 2:

Planning and Implementation

Strategies
Universal: For all Students:

Monthly orientation session for all DL students

Monthly DL newsletters for parents
Use Faceboook, Twitter,Remind App
Welcome message from Moodle to students and parents
Frequent Moodle messages, emails, and School Connects:
Improved use of DL Website and Moodle homepage for information
Improving report card comments: focus on curricular progress and ways
to success
Increased email, phone, and text communication between all partner
groups
Regular visits from full time DL teachers to meet students at their home
school DL Centre
DL Centre increased flexible hours of operation
Continued development of the NVDLS e-Campus two evenings a week
Course introductory videos created by teachers
Increased used of discussion forums in courses
DL Admin to meet with mainstream admin and counsellors on a regular
basis to share information and updates about DL

Strategies
Universal: For All Students:

Targeted: For Some Students:

Communication by DL Academic Advisor and Counsellor with

LAC/Choices teachers, counsellors, students and parents: IEP goals and
adaptations for DL
Prior Learning credit communicated and given to students who need it
DL teacher visits to Choices classrooms to work with targeted students
YEW bring Choices students to main DL Centre to work with DL teacher

Communication with community partners re: adaptations to support SEL

concerns
Provision of support in an alternate setting: home visits and off-site
meetings to address intensive academic adaptations and for test
invigilation
Bi-weekly counselling and academic support meetings scheduled with DL
Counsellor and DL Academic Advisor
Increased opportunities for face to face support through the DL Paperbased Adult Grad program

NVDLS Moodle site offline for the first 4 days of school in September for
course and curriculum upgrades
Staff collaboration and staff Pro-D Days to focus on using UBD and the
NVSD curriculum planner to create units to align with the new curriculum
Re-align current courses to match the Big Ideas, Curricular
Competencies, Content, Core Competences and First Peoples Principles in
the new curriculum
Incorporate more inquiry projects, authentic performance tasks and
choice into each course
Use instructional techniques that include audio, visual and written lessons
and assignments to make the curriculum more interesting and assessable
for all types of learners
Focus on understanding and transfer within all curricular areas
Continued use of technology to support engaging learning environments:
e.g. ShowMe, Captivate, Powtoons, Haiku deck, Glogster, etc.
Continued attendance at the yearly provincial DL Conference to provide
opportunities for teachers to support their work with the new curriculum
in the online environment

Targeted: For Some Students

Intensive: For a Few Students:

Goal #2: Curriculum Development

Creation of the new Careers curriculum courses for DL to replace Planning

10 and Transition Planning 12
Inclusion of the mental wellness curricular components in PE 10
Curricular adaptations for students with designations and IEPs to support
their learning needs

Intensive: For a Few Students

Intensive curricular adaptations for students with complex learning and

SEL needs, created in consultation with ccounsellors, case managers,
students and parents
Reduction of course requirements, and the use of a variety of instructional
and assessment techniques, if necessary, to address the big ideas and
curricular competencies at an adapted or modified level