Consistent with past years, funding recoveries are expanded to include full-time equivalent student (FTEs) outside of the audit sample where the auditors identify a clear link between audit findings in their sample and those FTEs outside the sample. The procedures the auditors are using this school year can be found on the 2025–26 Compliance Audit …
With the start of the 2025–26 school year, the Ministry of Education and Child Care has worked with community organizations and education partners to develop supporting elaborations for the expanded learning standard requiring CPR and AED learning in the Physical and Health Education (PHE) 10 curriculum. While not mandated, these elaborations support teachers by providing …
The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC) has released a new, bilingual, online teaching resource that may be useful for Social Studies 10 teachers as they prepare to implement the new learning standard about the Holocaust. Fragments in Focus: A History of the Holocaust features over 160 original items from the VHEC collection that once belonged …
A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document is now available in both English and French to provide school districts with additional guidance on evidence-based early literacy screening and early literacy screening tools, as well as considerations for how school districts should use their professional learning grants to best support mandatory screening, professional learning and capacity building. …
As part of the British Columbia School Superintendents Association’s Summer Leadership Gathering in Whistler, Safer Schools Together and the Ministry of Education and Child Care will be hosting a special session focused on creating safer school communities. This interactive session will explore effective, trauma-informed practices for responding to threat-related behaviors and critical incidents in schools—an …
The Framework for Enhancing Student Learning’s procurement process, Request for Ministry Service Arrangement for Consulting Services (RMSA), is open on BC Bid for retired or retiring sector leaders including superintendents, assistant superintendents, secretary-treasurers, and directors. An intake process will occur in the coming weeks for potential contracting opportunities for this fall/winter. If you would like to be …
Make a Future has launched the Internationally Educated Teachers website to support the recruitment of international teachers wanting to work in British Columbia. Funded by the Ministry of Education and Child Care as part of the K–12 Workforce Plan and developed in collaboration with experts in teacher certification and immigration, this site offers clear guidance …
Please join us June 26 at 3:10 pm PT for the Analytics Engagement and Information Sharing Session of the 2024/25 school year for an overview of the Framework for Enhancing Student Learning. See the poster for more information and the registration link. Please contact EDUC.ReportingUnit@gov.bc.ca if you have any questions. The recording for this session …
Finalized K-4 English Language Arts (ELA) and Math Foundational Learning Progressions are now available for teachers to use to help students develop the key foundational skills in the curriculum. The grade-specific descriptors describe what proficiency in foundational reading, writing, oral language and math skills should look like at the end of the school year from …
The Framework for Enhancing Student Learning’s procurement process, Request for Ministry Service Arrangement for Consulting Services (RMSA), is open on BC Bid for retired or retiring sector leaders, including those from roles such as superintendent, assistant superintendent, secretary-treasurer and director. An intake process will occur in July. To be considered in this intake, please submit applications before …
