a history of curriculum services canada

XV. 2005
On June 18, 2004, CSC members gathered at the annual meeting to review the projects and
accomplishments of the past year.
The Executive Director was pleased to report that, on the subject of fundraising, 100% of donors
gave permission for their names to be published as donors to CSC. Also, two proposals were
developed, one for the Ford Foundation to create an online library of early childhood resources,
the other for Rogers Cable to support TCF Grants for Teachers which are downloadable.
During the year, many avenues toward achieving greater self-sufficiency were explored in
meetings that discussed ideas ranging from a possible Continuous School Improvement Project,
to possible partnership opportunities through Aboriginal funding sources, and possible
partnership with TVO. Letters were sent to over 500 independent publishers to promote CSC’s
Supplementary Evaluation Services and new business was slowly coming in. Regarding a
leCLE/OCC partnership, meetings were held to draft an agreement.
In terms of policy, a meeting was held with Jeff Holmes, OTF Executive Assistant, on the
relationship between CSC and the federations. CSC continues to lobby for textbook funding by
EDU. On the human resources front, CSC received HRDC funding to support a summer student
to work with the Executive Director as Public Relations Assistant from May to August.
The Director, Professional Learning Services, reported on Ontario Public School Initiatives and
Ontario Private School Initiatives. The former included a meeting concerning the British
Columbia Critical Thinking Initiative and potential for training; also, in E-learning initiatives,
CSC hosted web conferences for Co-op educators. In the area of private school initiatives,
meetings were held with the Ministry’s Private School Inspections staff to discuss a new level of
in-depth services for overseas schools and recruitment of overseas educational staff commenced.
Also, three new consultants had been added to the professional learning team.
A highlight of the Curriculum Foundation (TCF) statistics was that 37,318 resources were
downloaded from 13 launched Teacher Developed Resources (as of June 4, 2004), an increase of
over 7,000 since the last board report.
As of the meeting date, the Ontario Curriculum Centre had completed benchmarking Ontario
Curriculum in the disciplines of Mathematics, Business Studies, and Guidance and Career
Education. OCC was also working with the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE)
on a project that will result in the development of locally developed courses for Grades 9 and 10
English, Mathematics and Science. The project includes course profiles for these disciplines.
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