“I think it’s important that we’re aware of and can support the diversity of our staff and our students and our families. And as we better understand what the diversity is, we’re able to provide more targeted programming, different opportunities and adequate resources in our schools.”
“So, for instance, if we have a group of students who have all identified as English language learners and we find out that their achievement is either below our standards or above our standards, that’s what we want to dig into and find out more and then change our programming in response to it.”
“We also understand that there might be some hesitancy. This isn’t unlike the censuses that we fill out as Canadians. But there might be some families that want to sit back and watch and see how the information is used before providing that information to us so it is voluntary.”
Students from grades 5 – 12 will do the 20-minute census at school while kindergarten to grade 4 will bring it home.
Data from the census will be released late winter or early spring.
A staff census was being conducted this week.
As of Thursday, MacIver said their response rate was about 50%.
