a history of curriculum services canada

2005-2006
Pdstore.com reported a net income of $20,546.22, with sales $26,000 higher than a year ago to
the same date.
Also, at the December board meeting, the resignation from the Board of Directors of John
Bernard was regretfully accepted by the President. At Mr. Bernard’s suggestion, John Kim Bell
was approached to replace Mr. Bernard. Mr. Bell accepted and attended his first board meeting
on February 10, 2006.
eSolutions provided an update for December/05-January/06
Highlights: On January 25 CSC was advised that it was one of two successful applicants for the
Gateway Fund On December 21 an Expression of Interest was submitted to the Inukshuk
Internet Inc.
Evaluation Services (ES) provided a report for this meeting, again with Trillium-related statistics
and liaison activities, April/05 to February/06. ES also provided an amended report for April 1,
2005 to March 31, 2006, which indicated that for this period 179 evaluators were trained for the
Trillium List. Since responsibility for Supplementary Evaluations was transferred to ES in
September 2005, this report was based on data from the evaluations done September 1 to
December 24 2005, which showed that 20 were completed
Professional Learning Services (PLS) and pdstore.com provided year end reports (April 1,
2005 to March 31, 2006)
For fiscal year end, pdstore.com reported net income (excluding CSC management fees) at over
$11,600, marking three years of stable sales. Overseas private schools and MarkBook users
continue to be loyal customers. Over the past five fiscal years, net sales increased by 85% and
net income by 166% - a real success story!
PLS also had a busy and successful year, with 24 web conference demonstrations, 117 web
conferences, 34 video recordings and 23 private school training and consultations contracts.
eSolutions also provided an update/overview for the period October 3, 2005-March 31, 2006,
highlights of which are included in its final report for June 2006, which will be referenced
below.
In February-April 2006, various aspects of business development were ongoing but a highlight
was a meeting with Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat representatives regarding webcasts and
web conferences for the 2006-07 fiscal year.
On April 28, 2006, the board received and discussed the CEO Succession Plan: Committee
Structure. CSC received substantial funds from the Ministry for the Lighthouse Project, the
Executive Director to meet with the Ministry to learn details of the funding.
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