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Inspire

The Journal of Literacy and Numeracy for Ontario

Last Updated: June 29, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Leadership: An Essential Element in Effective Schools

For almost six years now, Ontario's school system has gone through significant changes, stimulated in large part by research conducted in the main on effective schools. One of the proposals of the movement towards effective schools is to put in place professional learning communities (PLC) that will enable teachers to meet on a regular basis to share strategies to ensure that every student achieves success. Read more

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Last Updated: June 29, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Director of Education as Leader

Literacy and numeracy are the cornerstones of all learning. Educators have known for a long time that high competencies in reading, writing, oral communication and mathematics are essential for student success. Recent studies have geared educators to focus their approaches and practice on high-yield strategies that ensure student success in literacy and numeracy. Read more

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Last Updated: June 29, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Our Pathway Journey

George Webster School is an Inner City Model School in Toronto with approximately 450 students from Kindergarten to Grade Five. Within our walls, more than 30 different languages are spoken. Although 60 per cent of our students were born in Canada, English is the home language in only 38 per cent of our students' homes. Read more

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Last Updated: June 29, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Promoting Young Women's Voices in Schools and Communities

Are you interested in promoting and fostering gender equity and critical thinking within your school community? Establishing a girls' leadership group is an excellent way to achieve these goals. Read more

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Last Updated: June 29, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Developing Principal Instructional Leadership: Enhancing the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Classrooms

Our effort to enhance student achievement in schools was premised on the well-established belief that principal instructional leadership is second only to teacher influence on student learning. We support this critical belief at Northeastern Catholic DSB, and we recognized early the primary importance of strengthening our principals as instructional leaders in order to maximize student learning. Read more

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Last Updated: June 2, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

'This Classroom Has No Walls' – Global Connectivity for High Student Engagement
Certainly the landscape of teacher learning has been transformed through Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs). Teachers are more engaged in diverse networks of professional learning and dialogue than at any time in history. Yet, do we apply this same principle to our students? Read more (PDF, 220 KB)

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Last Updated: April 6, 2009

New Leader: Practical strategies for student achievement

Use of Data Walls Leads to Improved Teaching, Learning and Achievement
With the implementation of EQAO and the province-wide push to collect data to foster improved student learning and public accountability, teachers and school administrators have had to become well-versed in using data. Fortunately, we have also learned to use data to drive instruction. Read more (PDF, 1.04 MB)

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Inspire: The Journal of Literacy and Numeracy for Ontario, is published by The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Education.