Educational Planning and Administrative Services

Boris Radyo, Assistant Superintendent

This diverse department incorporates teams of individuals in the areas of Educational Planning, District Monitoring, and Transportation Services. Our common mission is to "provide services and support that enable people to perform their duties in a Christ-centred learning environment." Educational Planning and Administrative Services is required to be future-oriented: we need to anticipate and respond to the impact of societal changes and trends for our students, staff and community. We are indeed bound to assist the district to forge new paths that will ensure current and future success for the students of Edmonton Catholic Schools. Our key areas of responsibilty include:

District Monitoring Services which supports student learning and administrative decision making in the following ways:

• Provide results, reports and in some cases analysis of satisfaction surveys, district exams, standardized tests, AISI exams and projects, provincial achievement tests, diploma exams, and regression analysis
• Provide expertise in assessment of research proposals
• Provide FOIP request responses within or under a 30 day time limit

Specific areas of responsibility include:

• Continue to ensure that "service" is the key of what the department offers to students, staff, parents, and our broader community
• Collaborate with district stakeholders to develop and implement the district's strategic education plan
• Be proactive in dealing with issues management
• Conduct a district wide review of our school enrolments, and from this data, examine the impact of small schools on such things as programming, staffing, financial viability, transportation, utilization, and capital construction
• Evaluate the Transition Plan for school/program closure
• Continue to look at innovative and alternative educational programming (focus schools/magnet programs) in our district to ensure that we remain responsive to the needs and wants of our parents and students in regards to educational programs of choice
• Support new focus programs and provide continued support to existing focus programs
• Facilitate the plan to identify potential excess spaces
• Determine and review school program placement in collaboration with other district departments
• Develop and review school boundaries and catchment areas
• Prepare demographics that provide direction for future educational planning
• Collaborate with Facilities Services in the preparation of the district capital plan
• Identify facility needs and prepare plans for relocation of programs
• Determine need for portables and prepare plan for relocations
• Develop the district's Three Year Education Plan and Annual Education Results Report
• Provide leadership to the area of Student Transportation Services
• Provide leadership for the use of MAPNET and MAPNET Web in the delivery of transportation services
• Provide leadership services in the area of MAPNET in the redistricting for future educational planning
• Liaise with Educational and Administrative Technology Services with respect to information gathering and reporting
• Continue to promote a positive profile of Edmonton Catholic Schools in our educational and faith community
• Continue to develop effective and appropriate working relationships with various agencies and groups
• Liaise with School Operations Services principals on school related issues

"It is difficult to balance optimism and realism; intuition and planning; faith and fact. But that is what it takes to be effective as a navigating leader."
John Maxwell