REIMAGINE ACE

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RE-IMAGINE ACE

• Moving Forward

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ACE Committee Mandate

• Identify best practices related to programming
  for at-risk students
• Highlight practices related to early intervention
  and prevention for at-risk students
• Develop recommendations to ensure that students
  do not fail into ACE, but are placed there by
  design or by self-referral
• Provide recommendations related to facilities in
  support of these recommendations

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Background Process
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Process Contd
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The Recommendations Funding
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1. High Quality High Expectations

• Common attendance achievement
  policies/expectations
• Staff resource room
• Existing Funding
• Up-to-date technology plan
• Phase 1 Upgrade Sept 08 June 09
• Area for student basic skills
• New Funding 25,000
• Next Steps ACE team creates plan(s)

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2. Positive Relationships

• Maintain smaller class sizes
• Relationship building activities
• Parenting programs
• Existing Funding
• Conferencing Meeting rooms
• Funded through Facilities Plan

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3. Competency-based Programs

• Staff training
• Existing Funding (partially)
• New Funding 10,000
• Competency assessments
• Existing Funding
• Access to specialty spaces (visual arts,
  athletics, culinary etc)
• Funded through Facilities Plan
• Next steps Create staff development plan

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4. Co-Location with Partner Agencies

• Service providers located within school
• Funded through Facilities Plan
• Relationships with Service Clubs
• Supportive business relationships
• Collaboration time between agencies
• Existing funding

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5. Personalized Curriculum

• Improve direct instruction, virtual program,
  hybrid packaged program
• Partially funded through Existing Funds
• New Funding 25,000
• Next Steps Hybrid pilot software pilot(s)
• Increase program variety (trades technology,
  culinary, gym etc)
• New Funding 40,000 and funding through
  Facilities Plan
• Next Steps Develop program scheduling
  structure

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6. Experiential Education Program

• Technology trades, kitchen, art, gym, music,
  employment centre, outdoor ed etc
• Funded through Facilities Plan
• ACE school bus
• Not included
• Expand experiential education opportunities
• Existing Funding
• Next Steps develop plan(s)

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7. Self-Management Program

• Rubrics for direct teaching of social skills
• Existing funding
• Design basic life skills course
• New Funding 5000
• Next Steps Design life skills course
• Establish social skills development program
• New Funding 5000
• Next Steps Establish social skills program

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8. Leadership Support

• Professional development activities related to
  school vision and goals
• Existing Funding

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9. Career Employment Education

• Hire staff member responsible for employment
  education program
• New Funding 90,000
• Next Steps Post and fill position

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10. Early Transition to Work

• Develop early transition to work programs
• Professional development for early transition to
  work
• New Funding included in Career Employment
  Education Funding
• Next steps Develop program

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11. Comprehensive Ongoing Staff Development

• Review ACE school calendar
• Financial implications unknown
• Iteration of current calendar Existing Funding
• Competency-based training for staff
• Existing Funding
• Next steps Staff development plan

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12. New Beginnings Program

• Review New Beginnings Program
• Potential funding as part of Facilities Plan
• Next Steps Review program

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13. Increase Positive Image

• Increase positive profile of ACE
• New Funding 15,000
• Next steps Immediate

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Recommendations 14, 15 17

• 14. Abbotsford Virtual School Partnership
• 15. Expansion of Continuing Ed opportunities
• 17. Pre K-12 Behaviour Programming Review
• Existing Funding

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Recommendation 16 The Facility Plan
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16. The Facility

• Options considered
• Renovate current facility
• Renovate Bakerview Elementary
• Construct a new facility
• Provide services through existing facilities
• Staff proposes to relocate program to Bakerview
  site

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16. The Facility

• Project Timing
• Dependent on internal funding of 1,000,000
• Finalization of renovation plan
• Transition plans for staff and programs
• Construction timeline
• Estimated for Sept 2009

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Budget Summary

• Total Budget approved 300,000
• Allocated in Business Plan 215,000
• Allocation for Facility Improvement/Equipment
  85,000

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Communications Plan
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Communications Process

• Communication with
• ACE staff, students parents
• Neighbours close to Bakerview school
• Staff currently working at Bakerview site
• Community partners
• District staff
• Public
• Methods include
• Open House
• Meetings, presentations
• Website, Print materials, Community media

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Whats Next?
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Next Steps

• Implementation Timeline
• ACE Transition Teams
• Complete education plans regarding implementation
• Collaborate on plans for specialty areas of the
  facility
• Collaboration with potential partners

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Questions