ERLC Social Studies Advisory Committee Summary Reflections & Historical Scan

June 18, 2008 & modified Sept. 22, finally updated January 2011
What Happened?

01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08	08-09	09-10	10-11
			52,475.32 13,300.00	775,000.00 (45,900.00) (13,515.00) (5,850.00)	775,000.00	425,000.00	425,000.00	170,000.00	32,079.00 In deferred
				Gr. K-3	Gr. 4-7	Gr. 5, 8, 10	Gr. 6, 9, 11	Gr. 6,9, 12
		3 ERLC sessions	15 ERLC sessions	81 ERLC sessions	105 ERLC sessions, 825 district days	90 ERLC sessions, 268 district days	83 ERLC sessions, 194 district days	33 ERLC sessions, 62 district days	11 ERLC sessions planned to date,
			SO AC formed: common needs, impl. ideas, understanding of diff & sim., input into ERLC	SO Coordinator on board, PD Leadership Capacity (learning opps, funding to support them), summer workshops, development of PD resources, more sharing & broader conversations		Greater sharing of district days, new coordinator

Lessons Learned
“So What?” “What’s next?”

Flexibility is key -- Different Levels: Continue to support teachers who have
Regional team – great service already done significant implementation work AND those who
Management by ERLC v. positive are just starting/new to the province, etc.
PD Leadership Capacity dollars -- Assessment: continue to support learning about assessment
Big names (at start) for learning in social studies

-- Going deeper as we go along.
-- Work with administrators.

What’s Significant?
“Liked” :)

“Did not like” :(

social studies regional team (ECS, EPS, SAP)
access to expertise
PD resources
Flexibility to meet district needs
District-specific (e.g. cohort community)
“initiate project” plan
Collaboration/partnership
Responding to teacher needs -- Plan indicates ERLC doesn’t stop and always look forward.

Difficult to take advantage of regional team (e.g. district calendar, subs, distance issues)
tracking data (especially impact)
need more dollars to do district coaching/mentoring

*The ERLC Social Studies Advisory Committee Summary Reflections & Historical Scan shown above represents a very brief history of the entire social studies project. It was used as a process during selected advisory committee meetings to facilitate discussions around what was working well and what lessons had been learned during the implementation of the social studies curriculum.