(Confident Learners Literacy Program) really kind of put me in the right direction. I'd say it's significantly defined my classroom instruction and it's worked really well, and this is the smoothest my ELA block has been running all year. So like I said, the data is definitely driving the instruction, and it's going in the right way – it's going up!
—Natasha L, Grade 1/2/3 Teacher Frontier School Division
I can see the amount of confidence that the teachers have shown growth in. That to me is such an amazing thing because we can measure how much the students are growing, and it lines up perfectly to how much the teachers themselves have grown.
—Erica Hildebrand Literacy Support Teacher / ELA Instructional Coach
Two of the most important roles of the Elementary Principal is instructional leadership and support. The Confident Learner Program is the tool we can use as Principals to do just that. It is concise, data driven, student-centred and teacher friendly. It has allowed me to learn alongside the teachers about literacy development and improvement of instructional practice.
—Neil Debassige, Former Principal Lakeview School, M'Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island