a history of curriculum services canada

Evaluation Services continued to provide Pan-Canadian evaluations for supplementary
resources. With respect to Supplementary Learning Resources, consultation was completed on a
series of Canadian Social Studies videos being produced for children ages 7-10 in the United
States and CSC was waiting to hear from two more developers who were considering our
mentoring services. Re CRS, Curriculum Resource Services in collaboration with PLS made a
presentation to a delegation from Jordan on how to provide quality learning resources to support
their teachers in implementing curriculum.. Also CRS continues to work closely with PLS on
the Ontario Ministry Inspected private School initiative. CRS is also working with TCF on
mentoring and processing the three awards projects currently in development. A Supplementary
Resource Status chart listed evaluations/consultations that had been successfully completed for
fiscal 2003 to date (December 2003).
January
At the January 28, 2004 meeting, the Executive Director reported another busy schedule of
meetings and developments since the December meeting. These included meeting with the
Ministry’s OKNL liaison, Margaret Wilson, and OKNL researcher Dr. Tony Tilly regarding a
cross-Canada portal for Learning Objects. A meeting with the CSC Management Team was held
to discuss revising the CSC profile.
In terms of projects and initiatives, a news release was distributed for a new teacher-developed
resource on Deaf Artists. As a result of new federal privacy legislation that took effect on
January 1, 2004, CSC worked with legal counsel on a draft privacy policy for presentation to the
Board in April. CSC is now listed on the CanadaHelps website which matches potential donors
to charities. CSC also continued to search for candidates for Lynda Bell who resigned from the
Board in December.
The Director of Professional Learning Services (PLS) noted that a final decision on the OKNL
training proposal was expected in December and that a meeting with the Ministry of Training,
Colleges and Universities (MTCU) discussed services for Private Career Colleges. Discussions
are ongoing and there are plans to meet with MTCU regional inspectors.
E-learning initiatives included collaborating with the Ministry of Education on web conferences
for coop educators. Six sessions were planned (two for each of February, March and April) to be
presented by Nadine Cuccaro, project lead of the face-to-face training sessions presented through
Ministry field offices.
Many meetings and consultations were held relating to Private School Initiatives, from attending
a meeting with Toronto Field Office inspectors to clarify expectations of inspections, to
consultations on establishing a private school, and consultation advice to one private school on
their new website and to another school on course outlines.
2004
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