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Grad Rates Improve in the Gulf Islands

Grad Rates Improve in the Gulf Islands

The Six-Year Completion Rate for BC residents, often referred to as the “grad rate”, increased and approached the BC average in June 2019. The percentage of Gulf Islands School District students graduating in six years from their grade 8 to 12 program jumped from 74.2% for the previous year to 82.7%, the 4th largest increase in the province. The results were confirmed by BC’s Ministry of Education in December 2019. "Focused work by teachers and staff have contributed to this accomplishment,” stated Scott Benwell, Gulf Islands’ Superintendent of Schools. "This is one important indicator of the work we do as a public school system to ensure students have equitable and meaningful options for success when they graduate. Achieving results and improvement like this takes effort from all and it is heartening to see that more of our students walked the stage with dignity, purpose, and options. While this is a positive gain, we know that our continued work on behalf of students wi…
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  • Doug Livingston
  • - January 20, 2020
The Link Between Student Success & Well-being… and the Role Assessment Plays

The Link Between Student Success & Well-being… and the Role Assessment Plays

Student wellbeing provides an important foundation for student success, and student success provides an important foundation for student wellbeing. Wellbeing is about good nutrition, having friends, and connecting with adults and mentors.  For our students, it’s also about experiencing success at school.  Students that feel they are experiencing success at school are more likely to have a sense of positive wellbeing. For thirty years, BC schools have been guided by the idea of The Educated Citizen as described by the Sullivan Royal Commission on Education (1988).  “A quality education system assists in the development of human potential and improves the well-being of each individual person in British Columbia society.”  The development of the whole child incorporates academic, social and emotional aspects, and reflects the core competencies of BC’s transformed curriculum:  skills in communications and thinking, and personal and social responsibility. In the 2017-18 sch…
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  • Doug Livingston
  • - October 16, 2019

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