Regular OLEP funding

Description

This video provided by the ARPDC describes their project activities.

The ARPDC consists of a collective of seven consortium offices across the province:

• Northwest Regional Learning Consortium (NRLC)
• Learning Network Educational Services (LNES)
• Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC)
• Central Alberta Regional Consortium (CARC)
• Calgary Regional Consortium (CRC)
• Southern Alberta Professional Development Consortium (SAPDC)
• Consortium provincial francophone (CPFPP) which serves the Francophone school authorities across the province and provides targeted support to the six regional offices in French Language services and professional learning support.

The individual and collective consortia work to provide professional learning opportunities for teachers, administrators and educational assistants.

Additionally, ARPDC works with parents in consultation and session support where appropriate. Each of the consortia maintain a French Language Advisory group with representation from each of the school divisions in the region. Through the work of the advisory committees and in alignment with government priorities, ARPDC works to support Francophone and French second language teachers with a specific focus on:

• improved teacher efficacy
• improved practice in the classroom in all aspects of instruction and assessment
• efforts that support the retention and sense of a community of learning

Administrative and Financial Agent

The organization that administers the project operations and its finances in collaboration with the respective partners:

College of Alberta School Superintendents (CASS)

Partners

ARPDC work with all School Divisions and Independent schools as well as with regional teacher convention boards and where appropriate regional Mental Health and/or Alberta Health committees.

Description

This video provided by MERFIP describes their project activities.

MERFIP is a collaborative group made up of nine school boards that has been in existence since 1997 that works to:

• support French immersion teachers and leaders of member divisions
• promote and enhance French as a target language
• develop and expand leadership in French Immersion programming
• collaborate and share expertise based on current research and pedagogy in second language learning
• facilitate professional learning activities in response to emerging needs
• procure and develop resources to respond to local needs
• liaise with Alberta Education and other second language learning stakeholders and support schools in the implementation of new curricula

Administrative and Financial Agent

The school division that administers the project operations and its finances in collaboration with the respective partners

Black Gold

School Division Partners

• Black Gold
• Edmonton Catholic Separate
• Edmonton
• Elk Island Catholic Separate
• Elk Island School
• Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate
• Parkland
• St. Albert
• St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic

Description

This video provided by the Grande Prairie French Language Resource Centre describes their project activities.

The Grande Prairie French Language Resource Centre’s mission is to enhance the delivery of French education in Northwestern Alberta by providing a variety of exciting services and educational materials for teachers:

• Professional Development - Conferences and Workshops
• Access to Professional Development
• Travel bursaries
• Official examination centre for the DELF, DALF and DELF for Schools
• Cultural Events Partnership with France (virtual partnerships, job-shadow opportunities, student exchanges)
• Exchanges
• An up-to-date collection of over 9000 quality support resources for French as a Second Language, French Immersion and Francophone programs. All resources are housed at the French Language Resource Centre at the Grande Prairie Public Library.

Administrative and Financial Agent

The school division that administers the project operations and its finances in collaboration with the respective partners

Peace Wapiti

School Division Partners

• Peace Wapiti
• Grande Prairie Public
• Grande Prairie Catholic
• High Prairie
• Peace River
• Holy Family Catholic Regional
• Northwest Francophone Education Region

Other Partners

• Association canadienne française de l’Alberta, Grande Prairie Chapter
• Canadian Parents for French, Grande Prairie Chapter
• Grande Prairie Regional College
• Northwest Regional Learning Consortium
• Peace Library System
• Grande Prairie Public Library

Description

This video provided by IISLE describes their project activities.

Edmonton School Division, with its IISLE, uses local and federal project funding for a wide range of purposes to support its own students, families and staff as well as those of other school divisions. IISLE supports the teaching and learning of French, both French Immersion and French as a Second Language, in Alberta and across Canada. The supports provided include:

• development of key teaching, learning and leadership resources (especially for literacy, numeracy, and quality programming) including those publicly made available through the languages section of The Resource Hub at Edmonton Public Schools
• provision of a French Resource Centre, which houses a collection of over 23,000 resources
• provision of support for teacher and leadership professional learning (institutes, conferences, online and face-to face in-services, asynchronous online learning modules, coaching, consultations, etc.) for Division and external teachers and leaders.
• provision of the DELF exam and preparation/training to hundreds of students and teachers
• support for cultural events and activities, school and student twinnings and exchanges, and other local, national and international interactions to build second language proficiency, global citizenship skills and cultural understanding
• support for program expansion, especially for French Immersion, including new teacher supports, resource support, etc.

Administrative and Financial Agent

The school division that administers the project operations and its finances in collaboration with the respective partners

Edmonton

School Division Partners

IISLE at EPSB regularly collaborates with other school divisions in Alberta through various means including:

• Alberta French Language Education Consortium (AFLEC)
• Multi-District Assessment Think Tank—collaborating school divisions for 2020-21 include:
  • Edmonton
  • Foothills
  • Horizon
  • Aspen View
  • Calgary Roman Catholic Separate
  • Wild Rose
  • Medicine Hat
  • New Horizons
  • Calgary
  • Elk Island
  • Elk Island Catholic Separate
  • Prairie Rose
  • Greater North Central Francophone Education Region
  • Battle River
  • Evergreen Catholic Separate
  • Grande Yellowhead

Other Partners

IISLE at Edmonton School Division also maintains formal ongoing partnership agreements and collaboration with organizations such as:

• Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT)
• Alliance française of Edmonton
• Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary
• Académie de Grenoble
• French Embassy in Canada

Description

This video provided by the SAFRC describes their project activities.

Accessing quality resources can be a challenge for French language teachers and the SARFRC assists to alleviate this barrier. The geographic region of their partnering school divisions spans hundreds of kilometers and the SARFRC facilitates the delivery of resources to remote locations. The SARFRC Resource Director is responsible for familiarity with materials to assist teachers in finding and supplying desired resources.

The Vera Bracken Library at the Medicine Hat College houses the French resource collection. The college is centrally located and easily accessible to teachers, students and the public requiring access to French resources. The college also has an education department and student teachers have easy access to resources at the SAFRC during their studies and beyond.

In addition to supplying a significant resource base to support French language instruction, the SAFRC supports cultural resources and provides information services.

Administrative and Financial Agent

The school division that administers the project operations and its finances in collaboration with the respective partners

Medicine Hat

Partner School Divisions

• Medicine Hat
• Medicine Hat Roman Catholic Separate
• Prairie Rose

Other Partners

• Medicine Hat College