Publications for Teachers

• Ongoing Interest
• Publications by Year

---

Ongoing Interest

• Ready, Set, Green! Tips, Techniques and Resources from Ontario Educators
  This guide is intended to stimulate discussion of this increasingly important issue, and provide practical tools and strategies that can be put to use in boards, schools, and communities.
• English Language Learners / ESL and ELD Programs and Services: Policies and Procedures for Ontario Elementary and Secondary Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12
• Boys' Literacy
  The resources are designed to help teachers make a positive impact on the learning environment and the reading experience for all students.
• Inspire
  This online journal continually adds successful practices for teachers and principals. Thematically grouped articles will be published in hard copy three to four times a year.
• A guide for parents: How does school funding support my child's education?
  How does school funding in Ontario ensure that all students have the opportunity for a high quality education? One that helps them reach their fullest potential in school and in life?
• School Year Calendar
• Trillium List
  The Trillium List contains the titles of those textbooks approved by the Minister of Education for use in Ontario schools. The textbooks named on the Trillium List have been subjected to a rigorous evaluation in accordance with the criteria specified in Section 4 of Guidelines for Approval of Textbooks.
• Code of Conduct Ontario Schools
  The Ontario Code of Conduct sets clear provincial standards of behaviour. It specifies the mandatory consequences for student actions that do not comply with these standards.
• Ontario Provincial Report Cards
  The versions of the Ontario Provincial Report Card here are to be used for grades and systems as indicated.
• Guide to the Provincial Report Card, Grades 1-8
  The present document, Guide to the Provincial Report Card, Grades 1-8, 1998, provides information that will help teachers complete the report card and use it for reporting to parents. It also provides information to parents that will help them understand the reporting process.
• Guide to the Provincial Report Card, Grades 9-12
  This document, Guide to the Provincial Report Card, Grades 9–12, provides information that will help teachers complete the report card and use it for reporting to parents.
• Annual Education Plan, Grades 7 to 12
  Form for students to record the results of the planning activities and reviews that they conduct throughout the school year with the help of their teacher-advisers.
• Work/Education Agreement: Form #63-1970
  Form to use for students involved in a work education program.
• Highlights of Regulation 181/98: Identification and Placement of Exceptional Pupils
  The Education Act requires that school boards provide, or purchase from another board, special education programs and services for their exceptional pupils. This attachment provides information about the Identification, Placement, and Review Committee (IPRC), and sets out the procedures involved in identifying a pupil as "exceptional", deciding the pupil's placement, or appealing such decisions when the parent does not agree with the IPRC.

Back to Top

Publications by Year

• Supporting English Language Learners in Kindergarten: A practical guide for Ontario educators, 2007
  This guide is designed as a resource and tool for teachers, administrators, and other school staff as they support ELLs in achieving the overall expectations of the Kindergarten program.
• Shared Solutions - A Guide to Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Regarding Programs and Services for Students with Special Education Needs
• Ontario Statistical Neighbours: Informing Our Strategy to Improve Student Achievement (PDF, 736 KB)
  This innovative tool allows the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat to analyze school data and provide supports to schools and school boards to improve student achievement. OSN was developed in partnership with the ministry's Information Management Branch with input from other partners.
• The LNS Communiqué:
  
  • Summer 2007 (PDF, 102 KB)
  • Spring 2007 (PDF, 2.82 MB)
• Ontario English-French Education Glossary
• Character Development Discussion Paper (PDF, 468 KB)
  An outline of the Character Development Initiative to prepare students for their role in society as engaged, productive and responsible participants.
• Combined Grades: Strategies to Reach a Range of Learners in Kindergarten to Grade 6
  This resource document provides literacy and numeracy strategies to support teachers and administrators in the successful management of combined grades classes in kindergarten to Grade 6.
• Making it Happen (PDF, 5.06 MB)
  A report from The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat
• Schools on the Move: Lighthouse Program (PDF, 1.16 MB)
  This publication profiles the schools in the Schools on the Move: Lighthouse Program Phase 1. These are schools that have made gains in student achievement and are sharing their experiences with other schools across the province.
• Solidifying Our Leadership Alliance: Leadership Support Letter (PDF, 169 KB)
  This series supports the work of supervisory officers in their role as instructional leaders, who are helping to raise the bar and close the achievement gap for all students.
• Unlocking Potential for Learning: Effective District-Wide Strategies to Raise Student Achievement in Literacy and Numeracy
  Case studies of Ontario school boards.
• What Works? Research into Practice
  Evidence-based practices and strategies that highlight successful teaching practices, produced in partnership with the Ontario Association of Deans of Education.
• Parent Involvement (PDF, 448K)
  This report is the result of four months of work during which members had the opportunity to further the work undertaken in the winter of 2005 for the Parent Voice in Education Project (PVEP).
• Parents Reaching Out Grants (2006)
  Parents play a vital role in public education. Ontario's new Parents Reaching Out Grants are designed to encourage parents' involvement in their children's education, and support student learning.
• More Ways to Succeed in High School
  These new programs are at the heart of our Student Success initiative. They give Ontario high school students more ways to accumulate credits to graduate, while improving the quality of a high school education in this province.
• Special Education Transformation: The Report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education
  The report of the Co-Chairs with the Recommendations of the Working Table on Special Education
• Many Roots, Many Voices: Supporting English Language Learners in Every Classroom (2006)
  Many Roots, Many Voices is designed to support teachers, principals, and other education professionals at the elementary and secondary levels in working effectively with English language learners.
• Planning Entry to School – A Resource Guide (2005)
  The information in this resource guide will help school boards work with parents and community partners as they plan students' entry to school.
• Leading Education: New Supports for Principals and Vice-Principals in Ontario Publicly Funded Schools (December, 2005, v. 2)
  Part of a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table to permit wide input to the direction of education in Ontario. This paper articulates the government's comprehensive strategy to strengthen school leadership.
• Ontario Parent Involvement Policy (December, 2005, v. 2)
  Part of a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. The Ministry of Education is striving for a new relationship among the groups that make up public education in Ontario. This paper is one of several setting out proposed government policy changes to help such a partnership to thrive.
• Teacher Excellence — Unlocking Student Potential Through Continuing Professional Development (August, 2004 v. 2)
  Fifth in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. This paper is concerned with the ongoing continuing professional development of our teaching corps.
• Creating an Education Partnership Table (March 2004, v. 2)
  First in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. This is the proposal for the Partnership Table: a problem-solving forum, where participants explain underlying wants and needs behind positions and bring facts to bear that allow others to appreciate their viewpoint.
• Building the Ontario Education Advantage: Student Achievement (April, 2004)
  Second in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. The McGuinty government's vision and plans for publicly funded education.
• Revitalizing the Ontario College of Teachers (March, 2004)
  Third in a series of mini discussion papers prepared for the Education Partnership Table. Key approaches of the McGuinty government for revitalizing the Ontario College of Teachers.
• The Individual Education Plan (IEP), A Resource Guide (2004)
  This guide is intended to help teachers and others working with students with special needs to develop, implement, and monitor high-quality IEPs. A five-step process is recommended. Suggestions and examples are provided, but IEPs, by their very nature, will be individualized on the basis of the particular requirements of the student.
• Leading Math Success. Mathematical Literacy Grades 7-12: The Report of the Expert Panel on Students Success in Ontario (2004)
  This handbook is one of the two documents prepared by our panels for use in English and French-language schools across the province of Ontario. These reports emphasize instructional and assessment strategies that will benefit all students. For struggling students, the use of these strategies is more than desirable: it is necessary.
• Literacy for Learning: The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario (2004)
  This report sets out a framework for ensuring that students in Grades 4 to 6 in all publicly funded schools in Ontario receive the strategic instruction and support they need to develop as fully literate readers, writers, talkers, and thinkers.
• Making Ontario Schools Healthier Places to Learn (2004)
  When children are exposed to less healthy choices at school, they do not compensate by choosing more healthy choices when away from school. Our schools need to help children learn how to make the best nutritional choices and form good eating habits now to carry them through their lives.
• Me Read? No, Way! A practical guide to improvingboys' literacy skills (2004)
  This guide focuses on boys' literacy. Based on an international review of effective practices, the guide is intended to stimulate discussion of this important issue among educators in Ontario and to provide practical and effective strategies that teachers across the province can put to use in the classroom, both immediately and over the longer term.
• Guide to Locally Developed Courses, Grades 9 to 12 - Development and approval procedures (2004)
  The present document provides information to assist school boards in preparing their submissions to the ministry for approval of locally developed courses in Grades 9 to 12.
• The Ontario Curriculum – Grades 1–12: Achievement Charts (Draft) (2004)
  This document contains a draft achievement chart for each of the elementary school subject areas (except for social studies, history, and geography, which is already published) and for most of the secondary school disciplines in the Ontario curriculum.
• Supporting Student Success in Literacy - Grades 7-12 - Effective Practices of Ontario School Boards (2004)
  This booklet informs teachers and board staff about successful literacy strategies currently in use in Grade 7–12 classrooms and in district school boards across the province.
• Early Math Strategy - The Report of the Expert Panel on Early Math in Ontario (2003)
  The practitioners and researchers on the panel assessed the current research-based knowledge of effective mathematics instruction and identified key components of an effective mathematics program and strategies for successful program implementation.
• Early Reading Strategy - The Report of the Expert Panel on Early Reading in Ontario (2003)
  The purpose of this report is to draw practical conclusions from the evidence and put them in the hands of Ontario educators so that teachers can make a difference where it matters most – in the classroom.
• Pathways for success – Samples timetables for supporting students at risk (2003)
  This resource document is intended to assist school boards, principals, and teachers in developing programs to meet the needs of students in their schools who may be at risk of not completing the requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). It provides specific suggestions for the development of program models that are consistent with ministry policy and that would be appropriate for a variety of students who may be having difficulty meeting diploma requirements.
• Preparing Students for the OSSLT: Best Practices from Ontario School Boards (2003)
  This booklet is designed to assist schools and boards in developing and delivering programs that will effectively prepare secondary school students for the literacy test.
• Think Literacy Success Grades 7 – 12: The Report of the Expert Panel on Students at Risk in Ontario (2003)
  The report is a call-to-action and a framework for embedding high literacy standards and effective literacy practices across the curriculum, from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It reflects current research from Canada and abroad, supported by the extensive experience of educators across Ontario.
• Early Reading: A Guide to Setting Targets for Student Achievement (2001)
• Common Assessment in the Literacy and Basic Skills Program (2000)
• Cooperative Education and Other Forms of Experiential Learning - Policies and Procedures for Ontario Secondary Schools (2000)
• Individual Education Plans: Standards for Development, Program Planning, and Implementation (2000)
• Ontario Student Record (OSR) Guideline (2000)
• School Improvement Planning - A Handbook for Principals, Teachers, and School Councils: Education Improvement Commission (2000)
• Choices into Action: Guidance and Career Education Program Policy (1999)
• Ontario Secondary Schools, Grades 9 to 12: Program and Diploma Requirements (1999)
• Values, Influences, and Peers - Resource Guide, Revised Edition (1996)
• Planning for Independence (1990)
• Special Education Monographs - No. 4: Students With Autism (1990)
• Native Languages: A Support Document for The Teaching of Native Languages (1989)
• Special Education Monographs - No. 3: Exceptional Pupils with Mild Intellectual Handicaps in Secondary Schools (1986)

Back to Top