The Ministry of Education released on December 1, 2011  the new OS 2011 document  that replaces the 1999 OSS document. It sets out the requirements that govern policies and programs of all elementary and secondary schools in Ontario. This includes all adult credit granting schools. The document has a section on adult education, summer school and evening credit courses on pages 83 through 85.

CESBA is pleased to attach the OS 2011 document for your attention

Attachments:

ONSchools.pdf	[Ontario Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12, Policy and Program Requirements (OS) 2011]	3263 Kb
Ontario Schools French	[ ]	1846 Kb

Spring Colloquium 2012 – Celebrating Community

On April 25 through 27, 2012, the Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators (CESBA), under the direction of the CESBA Executive Director, Brenda King, hosted a colloquium on the theme: Celebrating Community. The one day pre-colloquium and two day main colloquium inaugurated an annually-based conference cycle focusing on adult, alternative and continuing education. It was held at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Colloquium Planning Committee convened between October 2011 and April 2012. It included Committee Chair Anne McGee, Vice Chair Michele Reid and members Laura Patterson, Courtney Brown, John Quinlan and Elizabeth Rodford. The group worked for the most part through tele-conferences and email. CESBA is proud to acknowledge the huge amount of voluntary work by the organisers and others.

The April 25th pre-colloquium brought together just under two hundred school board administrators, to explore components of the management and coordination of English and French second language training , literacy and basic skills programming and adult  and continuing education secondary school improvement research. The day’s events and delegate participation was subsidized by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, the Ontario Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities and the Ontario Ministry of Education respectively. Reports from these sessions are available under the Committee pages of this website.

The April 26^th and 27^th main colloquium brought together two hundred and forty school board administrators and educators to exchange ideas and mobilize knowledge in regard to A&CE programs and their communities. As Brenda King, noted in her introduction to the colloquium, the event represented an important opportunity to affirm and develop identity, quality, value and meaning in adult, alternative and continuing education programming.  The colloquium aimed to explore the issues surrounding community including those of cultural or ethnic community, regional or geographic community, social or economic community or the community of adult, alternative and continuing education itself. The participants at the event identified themselves as a community of learners.

Those reports made available by facilitators from the twenty-one colloquium sessions can be found posted on the Spring 2012 Colloquium page of this website. The opening keynote address on Thursday April 26, 2012 was presented by Dr. Deep Saini, Principal of the University of Toronto Mississauga campus and the Vice Principal of University of Toronto. The text from his address is posted below.

Friday, April 27, 2012’s closing keynote was presented by the Deputy Minister of Education, George Zegarac. Deputy Minister Zegarac commended CESBA and its membership on their work with adult, alternative and continuing education learners.

The CESBA Board of Directors convened their Annual General Meeting on Thursday, April 26 following the colloquium plenary reporting session. The AGM documentation is available on the website Board of Directors page. The AGM was chaired by Board President Hanne Nielsen.

The CESBA Fall conference is scheduled for December 6 and 7, 2012 with the pre-conference on December 5, 2012. Information on this event will be available by September 2012.

Attachments:

Immigration, Education and Nationbulding

[Immigration, Education and Nationbuilding; The Colloquium Keynote Address by Dr. Deep Saini on April 26, 2012]

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OALCF COLLABORATION - AN OVERVIEW

Collaboration is clearly one of the key operational concepts of the new millennium.  The literature on collaborative processes and behaviours is extensive but I must admit that it was not until very recently that I had given much thought to the incredible value to be gained from involvement in collaborative activity. My experience as a member of the Executive Directors’ Committee to advise the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities on the development of the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework has been, for me, a seminal experience.