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2005-2006 The Ministry liaison noted a change of Ministers, the new appointment being Sandra Pupatello. She reported that 60 textbooks had been re-evaluated with the majority meeting a minimum of 85% of curriculum expectations for Canadian and World Studies and Mathematics. Also considered was the possibility of CSC expanding its services for French clients in the Health sector (already talks re delivery of web-based communications and training on domestic violence), and possible involvement with Federal ministries. The Executive Director reinforced the fact that the essence of CSC remains quality assurance through high standards. All CSC activities are standards-based. Curriculum Resource Services (CRS) gave a “year in review” picture that included: working with CODE to complete the third phase of the locally developed compulsory course project. More than 1,000 educators attended the professional development sessions that were offered. CRS continued its work on Math TIPS when the Ministry furthered its initiative, particularly in refinement of original resources and preparation of new materials for posting on the web (TIPS4RM). This extension of the initiative gave CRS the opportunity to include further technology/media aspects, posting video and taped presentations, as well as branding for the program. In addition, CRS had numerous major projects in the works – benchmarking Ontario curriculum by comparing it to that of a number of other jurisdictions in Canada and beyond. Science and Technology and Technical Education were undertaken during the year. CRS is providing peer review and mentoring for the Ministry writing teams who are developing descriptors for Englishlanguage proficiency of English-language learners at elementary and secondary levels. The Curriculum Foundation, in addition to projects mentioned earlier, was invited to present a proposal for developing and mentoring a resource on the Oak Ridges Moraine for Grades 9-10. . For June 2006, the Executive Director covered business development activities since April, among which were meetings with Agriteam Canada regarding a contract to assist with a curriculum review to match National Standards of Egypt with Agriteam’s policies and a meeting with Nipissing University regarding a program review of CSC. On the Human Resources side, performance reviews for management staff were conducted and CSC hosted a reunion of Public Relations (PR) interns, as well as training of two new university student interns as PR assistants. Adequate space for CSC operations had become an increasing concern and meetings with LNR Real Estate Brokers were held regarding space requirements. The Ministry liaison noted continuing changes to the Liste Trillium List (e.g., upgrade of the search engine) and to ISBNs, which as of January 1, 2007 would change to a 13 digit number from a 10 digit number. There is also work on revising Trillium submission procedures to improve accuracy of information. CRS brought the board up to date on projects outlined in its last report, most of which were entering a new stage; for example, CRS had begun to develop and mentor the resource on Oak ©2008 Curriculum Services Canada 81
2005-2006 Ridges Moraine that was in the negotiation stage at the last meeting. pdstore.com noted a promising start to 2006-07 with a net income of over $5,500 since April 1 and suggested that International Private Schools and MarkBook customers would likely remain the most important clients. Several quotes for large textbook orders to private schools in Asia and for large MarkBook orders to Ontario school boards had been given and CSC was awaiting confirmation to process these orders. Although effective May 1, 2006, the day-to-day operations of eSolutions were transferred to Keith Clark and Peter Sovran remained a special consultant to the project, providing an overview of its operations from its establishment in October 2005 to June 2006. Perhaps its most significant achievement, CSC was awarded one of two Canadian Heritage-Gateway Fund $500,000 awards for building a Cultural E-Learning Content Aggregation Service for K-Grade 12. This funding will be used by CSC and its many partners to construct an online access point “Access Culture CANADA/Access a la Culture Canadienne,” using state-of-the-art web application tools. This project has the support of the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada (CMEC). In January and February 2006, the eSolutions unit secured two new projects for the production of a video CD and a video DVD for the York Region District School Board. The final video CD in the series was scheduled for completion September 2006. Since June 2005, CSC business has continued to expand and new opportunities continue to be investigated. The possibilities in Educational Video/DVD production and distribution are, perhaps, among the most exciting signs of the future. ©2008 Curriculum Services Canada 82
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