Education Day

The third day of the community engagement workshop in Poplar Hill was dedicated to education. Participants identified who was present and who was absent in the education sector, with the aim of ensuring that those who were away are invited to review and comment on the workshop results.

Present
Absent
Jim Suggashie – Band councillor

Teachers

Anna Owen – Mental health trainee
The Education board
Barbara Strang – Community health representative
Parents
Anita Strang – Computer technician
Chief and Council

Salina Strang – CAP youth worker

Student rep.
Howard Comber – Education director
Elders
Teresa Wassaykeesic – Health Director
Social services
Ruth Wassaykeesi – Pre natal nutrition - educator
Brian Beaton (K-Net) provided a brief summary of the SMART and the progress made to date on the implementation of the SMART Project

Cards

Once again, participant expressed their expectations on cards.

Participants brainstormed on what contributes to a Quality education in Poplar Hill.

The diagram allows everyone to "spray" their ideas on to paper describing:

  • the vision or results that the education workers are working towards (large bubbles),
  • the programs they are involved with (in green),
  • the desired programs (in orange),
  • the existing use of technology (in red),
  • the desired use of technology (in blue), and
  • what to measure to show that the visions or goals were being reached, or that the programmes were moving ahead (yellow sticky papers)


At the end, this was the results…

Table of Results, Programs / resources, and indicators for Quality education in Poplar Hill

The table below is a summary made from the diagram. Many program outcomes contribute to more than one result.

Results

Programs / resources

Indicators

Better Infrastructure

Satellite dishes (T, P, SS)

News, news updates, weather

 

Airport (T, P, SS, TR) (

Air ambulance

Night travel

Better service

 

Winter road (SS, TR, W)

Lower prices of goods

 

Roads (T)

Safety, awareness, supplies

 

Fire hydrants (T) (TR, SS)

Emergency fire team

 

Running water. (T, P)

Cleaner and healthier lifestyle

 

Store (P, PCI, PC, T, SS) (W, OL)

Community based shopping mall

 

Day care (TR, SS, T, P, W, VC)

Community workforce 70%

 

Teacherage (P, T, PC, PCI, SS)

Teacher retention

Community education programs

Ontario curriculum (P, T, PCI, W, TR) (VC, OL, TR)

More graduates

 

Radio station (P, T, SS, TR)

Communication, news

 

Canoe trip (T, TR)

Survival skills

 

CHR (P, PCI, T, TR, VC, OL, SS)

Health living lifestyle

 

Distance education (P, T, W, SS, OL)

Complete high school diploma

 

Wawatay (T, P) (PC, PCI)

News

 

Driver education

Responsible and safe drivers

 

Adult education (VC, OL, PC, PCI)

Post secondary degrees

 

Health family training (SS, TR, T, P, OL)

Parenting skill

Family involvement

Traditional teaching

Family gathering (P, T) (PCI, OL, VC, SS)

 
 

Feasts (P, T, W, SS)

Learn to cook wild meet and traditional food

 

Camping (T) (TR)

More traditional skills

 

Language (P, T, SS, PC) (PCI, PC, VC, W)

Keep language

 

Elder support (P, T) (VC, SS)

More visual involvement

 

First language (P, T, VC, TR)

Language is not lost

English remains second language

 

Non school settings (T, TR, P, VC)

Site established for teaching

 

Traditional gathering & dancing (P, T, TR, SS, W, PCI)

More gatherings

More culture

 

Cultural documentation (PC, PCI, T, P, VC, OL)

 

Bigger and better school

School bus (T)

Other services

 

Land (T)

Bigger space for school

 

Play ground (T)

Could hear the kids play

 

Existing building (P, PCI, PC, TR, T, OL, W) (VC, SS)

Photograph

 

Community centre (TR, P, T) (VC, PC, PCI)

More equipment

 

Library (P, PCI, PC, OL, TR, VC)

Children have more reading material

 

Science lab (P, PCI, PC, T, VC, SS, OL, TR)

 
 

Bigger school bus (TR, T, P)

Bigger school bus passing by

 

Grade 9 and 10 (TR, T, VC, PC, PCI, SS)

 
 

Computer lab (P, PCI, PC, T, VC, SS, OL, TR)

More computer training

 

More space (SS, OL, T)

More classrooms

 

Resources (W, PC, PCI, VC, OL, SS, P, T)

Lots of funding, more resources

Trained school staff

Breakfast program (P, T, SS) (PCI)

Healthy food

 

Vitamin & brushing teeth (SS, T) (PCI)

Better hygiene

 

K 5,6,7,8 (TR, SS, P, T, W, OL, PC, PCI)

Steady student population willing to learn

 

Work experience (T, W, PC, P) (TR, SS, T)

Better program delivery

Less cost to train or upgrade

 

Board & principal training (T, P, TR, SS)

Longer work service and better locally trained LEA/principals

 

More graduates

Pride in the community

Local trained people good models

Goals are reachable

 

Guidance councillor (TR, PCI, PC, SS)

Staff has been hired

 

Funds (T, P, VC, PCI, TR, SS, W)

Better education and teacherage program, and longer staff retention

 

Community support (P, SS, OL, PCI)

More people get involved

 

Training and upgrading

Better trained and longer on Board working using their experience

Impossible

   

Legend: video-conferencing (VC), personal computers with Internet (PCI); training (TR), service support (SS); On-line services including list serves, chat, discussion forum (OL); websites (W); (P) phone, (PC) personal computer, and new technology (T)