NAN - FNSSP Partners Meeting - January 6 & 7, 2009

First Nations Student Success Program Partners Meeting in Sioux Lookout at the Windigo First Nations Council Offices

NAN-FNSSP Team Meeting - February 5

Please click on the link to view the recorded meeting. MEETING

NAN-FNSSP Team Meeting - February 25

Please click on the link to view recorded meeting. MEETING

KERC Working Group on Performance Measures - March 9-10

KERC Working Group on Performance Measures for the First Nation Student Success Plan:

Tuesday & Wednesday, March 9 & 10 starting at 9 a.m.
Lamplighter Motel (meeting room downstairs)

The purpose of this meeting to:

• start to develop the indicators of success for FNSSP
• develop a work plan for the group in addressing performance measurement.

Click here to go into the discussion forum about this meeting

INAC FNSSP Recipients' Meeting - March 17-18

FIRST NATION STUDENT SUCCESS PROGRAM RECIPIENTS’ MEETING
March 17-18, 2010
Lisgar/Massey Room, Minto Suite Hotel, Ottawa

Bentley Cheechoo (NAN Governance Secretariat Director) and Brian Beaton (KO-KNET Coordinator) are attended INAC's FNSSP Program Recipients meeting in Ottawa on March 17 & 18, 2010.

The meeting brought together Round 1 (2009-2010) FNSSP Program recipients to share best practices and lessons learned.

Click here for a copy of the AGENDA (.doc)

Click here for a copy of the PARTICIPANT LIST (.xls)

KNET Reading in First Nations Workshop

Working with the University of Toronto and Keewaytinook Okimakanak, with funding from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the online READING IN FIRST NATIONS WORKSHOP is being held on Monday March 29, 2010 from 8:30-3:30pm CDT.

Click here for a copy of the workshop poster

Click here to enter the Discussion Forum about this workshop

The main theme of the event is "Reading in First Nations: Infrastructure, Access and Imagination". The aim is to explore the realities, barriers and challenges to reading in First Nations communities particularly in remote and isolated areas of Northern Ontario.

The meeting will be a hybrid of physical and virtual presence (through audio, videoconferencing and webcast) with four host sites confirmed to date: one in Sioux Lookout (KNET office), one in Keewaywin (e-center), one in Thunder Bay (KORI office), and one in Toronto (Design Exchange). Other interested sites are invited to join this workshop and individuals are invited to participate online in the webcast that can be accessed from http://meeting.knet.ca.

The day will include keynote speeches (including acclaimed author Drew Hayden Taylor, roundtable discussions, as well as demos of various initiatives aimed at supporting reading in First Nations (including the on-demand book service; DIY scanners, e-readers, libraries' initiatives, etc.).

For more information about the event, feel free to contact me (nadia.caidi@utoronto.ca) or Margaret Lam (margaret.lam@gmail.com).

Best regards.

Nadia Caidi

Associate Professor
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
416 978 4664

FNSSP Community Liason Meeting & Updates

We had our weekly meeting with the FNSSP partnering communities, KERC & KNet Services.
We wanted to identify and discuss where each partnering community is at in terms of their work with the Dadavan system for their school.
Miigwetch to those that came to join us through video conference and through the Breeze platform. Thank you for sharing your update and concerns with everyone. Sounds like everyone is coming a long great! I do encourage you to start posting your updates and concerns in a discussion forum just so we can all support you by sharing ideas.

NAN FNSSP Administration Meeting - April 13, 2010

Representatives from the different partner organizations involved with the NAN-FNSSP initiative met by videoconferencing to provide updates, discuss future plans and get the final 2009-2010 reports completed for the April 15 deadline.

Click here to see the meeting archive

KERC Summer Institutes August 2010

August 24, 25 & 26th, 2010

Sioux Lookout, ON

NAN, KERC and KNET presented their FNSSP Updates to the 3 Kwayaciiwin Summer Institutes: District Principals, Literacy & Numeracy (Teachers), Anihshiniimowin (Native Language Teachers). 

FNSSP Partners Meeting - Sept 2010

FNSSP Conference in TBay, Dec 2010

Education Directors, Principals, Community Liaison Workers and Teachers

FNSSP Conference

December 1, 2 & 3

Prince Arthur Hotel, Thunder Bay

For more information, contact:

Ron Marano, NAN, 807-625-4925, rmarano@nan.on.ca

Margaret Angeconeb, KERC, 807-737-7373, mangeconeb@kerc.ca

Willow Fiddler, K-Net, 877-737-5638, ext. 1259, willowfiddler@knet.ca

Dobi-Dawn Frenette's Presentation at KERC Summer Institutes 2011

The FNSSP has three interrelated components: school success plans, student
learning assessments and performance measurement

There are four FNSSP projects in NAN. NAN partners, Sandy Lake, Matawa and
Mushkegowuk

This FNSSP project serves 4437 students in 27 schools

We have six main organization partners focusing on implementation: KERC,
KNET, NNEC, K.O., Shibogama, NAN. In addition to this we have the support
of IFNA and Windigo as well

In year one we received: $3 million 27 dollars

In year two we received: $ 4.5 million

In year three we were informed that we would only receive $4.25 million, a
decrease from the previous year

INAC (AANDC) has not confirmed that our year three budget will be $5.0
million

We have submitted a proposal for $6 million, but are still waiting to hear
back

The FNSSP does not employ a regional/per capita based model to determine
funding. Each proposal is judged independently and on its own merits.
Funding levels are determined by the strength, feasibility and cost
effectiveness of the approved submissions. While there is no fixed minimum
or maximum amount of funding per applicant, amounts are determined taking
into account factors such as the number of schools and students
participating, geographic location (isolation), and total funding
available.

Performance Indicators

Performance measurement identifies indicators to measure success and
progress towards the goals of literacy, numeracy, student retention and
other goals as identified in the school success plan.

Performance indicators will meet the following criteria:

·         Be result-oriented.

·         Include at a minimum the core indicators below.

·         Be comparable to those used in the provincial system.

·         Be capable of monitoring student progress against a standard for
literacy, numeracy and student retention.

·         Be cost-efficient (the costs to collect the information will be
justifiable relative to the usefulness of the data).

Recipients may develop and track a variety of indicators. However, at a
minimum, performance measurement will include the initial set of core
indicators listed below. These core indicators may evolve or change over
the course of the Program based on consultation with Program recipients
and ongoing research into best practices and comparison with provincial
outcomes.

1. Monthly Attendance Rate:

·         Monthly attendance rate = the number of days attended by the
student divided by the total number of teaching days in a month multiplied
by 100.

2. Graduation Rate:

·         Graduation rate = the number of students who graduate in June
divided by (the number of students registered in September minus the
number of students whose reason for leaving was transfer to another
school, serious long-term illness or death) multiplied by 100 for each
graduating year (e.g. grades 6, 8, 12, 11 in Quebec, etc).

3. Retention rate:

·         Calculated annually for each grade from K-4 to grade 12 (grade
11 in Quebec)

·         Drop-out rate = number of students attending school in June
divided by (the number of students registered in September minus the
number of students whose reason for leaving was transfer to another
school, serious long-term illness or death) multiplied by 100.

4. Literacy:

·         Annual literacy test results for applicable provincial
standardized tests compared with results in previous years (number of
students who met/did not meet provincial or grade level standards; number
of eligible students in grade level by gender; and number of eligible
students in grade level who took the test by gender).

5. Numeracy:

·         Annual numeracy test results for applicable provincial
standardized tests compared with results in previous years (number of
students who met/did not meet provincial or grade level standards; number
of eligible students in grade level by gender; and number of eligible
students in grade level who took the test by gender).