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Prepare students earlier for the Literacy test, 1st test around end of September to early October.
74% pass
ed in 2015-2016

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We need to encourage our students to read more in school and at home

High number of ELL students may have affected our results

How does a standardized literacy test in grade 10 fit within the context of 21st century learning?

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We are losing academic students to regional, private, and Catholic programs.

Perhaps language of the text is not inclusive to our commun

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These students would be the students who were  affected by the job actions in the spring of their grade 9 year
We've doubled our ELL population
Females do better on average across prov. school and board--we have more boys
Could we allow students in grade 9 to take OSSLT prep in COY?

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55% of our first time students have a first language learned at home that is not English compared to the Province at 24%
Our male population is 58% as opposed to the provinces of 51% (girls outperform males)

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- Gender discrepancy in achievement
- Arbitrary ELL designations --> Cultural competency and references as a disadvantage during standardized testing
- Strike affected Grade 9 student learning and affected subsequent year scores
- Only 62% of students pass both Grade 6 EQAO and OSSLT - indicates a weak foundation in literacy

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Shss 7% lower than board and province

Increase and decline consistent with math eqao results

79% of students taking academic, 16% taking applied, 4% taking locally developed

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ARTS - Student Status ELL vs Student Questionnaire

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ARTS - Student Status ELL vs Student Questionnaire

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Students identified as ELL in school is 31% versus on the student questionnaire English learned as a first language 55% said that they learned another language other than English at home as a first language.

While our ELL numbers have gone up 16% since 2011, perhaps our ELL designation is still a stigma in community.

Is our ELL designation data a true reflection of the community?

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Pass score dropped by 10% for males, 6% for females since last year

19% did not pass grade 6 or grade 10, how do we support these students

Grades dropping faster in the school then in board and province

More ELL male students then other schools.

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79% of academic students wrote the OSSLT, yet only 74% of students were success

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79% of academic students wrote the OSSLT, yet only 74% of students were success

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over all girls perform better on the literacy test than boys
we are still below board average
boys out numbered girls at our schools as a result  is that why Sandalwood's numbers are lowered?
we had 31 %  ELL students last year which could have had  a possible effect on our results
Maybe the EQAO test should be delivered in 21 century learning formats
ie instead of writing a news report students will record a video clip