79.024 - Doing Whatever It Takes: Supporting Educators Response to TRC Calls to Action Through Developmental Evaluation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Collective and concerted effort that move us forward to reconciliation and a better society will be the focus positioning evaluators as change agents by becoming more relevant to communities, practitioners, and policy makers who believe in democratic principles and the public schools that should sustain those principles. Four Directions Graduation Coach Approach adapted first in Ontario by Keewatin Patricia District School Board provides intensive supports to Indigenous learners and their families with the goal of seeing each learner through to graduation towards their own chosen pathways. We examine how a growing circle of caring adults including graduation coaches, educators, administrators, families, communities, and service providers are co-creating and transforming the ecology that support our Indigenous learners’ well-being and achievement.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Division H - Section 2: Program Evaluation in Schools

Chair

• Megan Borner, Ontario Ministry of Education

Papers

• "Doing Whatever It Takes" to Transform the Indigenous Learners' Experiences in Public Schools - Scott Urquhart

• Listening to Communities and Seeing the Gifts Each Child Carries - Lynnita-JO Guillet, Ontario Ministry of Education

• Importance of the Four Directions Grad-Coach Approach: Its Genius and the Epitome of Co-Creation - Sean Michael Lessard, University of Alberta

• Learning as We Go/Developmental Evaluation to Democratize Evidence - Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Ontario Ministry of Education