Prairie Valley School Division, Regina, SK

Prairie Valley School Division believes in:
1. A culture that focuses on maximizing student engagement, student learning and student achievement through:
Maximizing engaged learning time
Tying all activities to curriculum
Engaging all students
An educationally-sound calendar structure
Promoting a culture of learning
2. Maximizing student contact time with regularly assigned staff by:
Improving and monitoring student attendance
Focusing awareness of interruptions to instructional time and time utilization
3. Valuing learning opportunities for students both inside and outside of the classroom and school by:
Providing extra-curricular learning opportunities that do not jeopardize engaged student learning time
50 minutes at noon and opportunities for organized noon-hour programming
Activities linked to learning objectives/outcomes accessible to all students
4. Honouring the diversity of individual schools and communities within the unifying framework of a culture of learning with:
An equitable calendar for all schools and communities
Calendar flexibility at a local level to meet individual school needs
Accountability by all levels of staff for calendar structure
implementation
5. A culture of learning for all to maximize the quality of teaching and learning by:
Providing access to relevant, quality professional development opportunities
Up to 5 percent of the contract time for professional development
6. Continuous blocks of instructional days are critical to effective teaching and learning by:
Protecting the continuity of instruction for all students
Limiting any set of consecutive non-instructional days to groups of no more than three, wherever possible

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