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 Boris Radyo , Director of Educational Planning and Administrative Services
This diverse department incorporates teams of individuals in the
areas of Educational Planning, District Monitoring, Community Relations Services 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 four key areas of responsibilty
include:
| Educational Planning |
Transportation |
Provide leadership in educational and strategic
planning for the district, assistance in the implementation
of these plans, and the monitoring of results achieved.
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Provide students in our district with transportation services
in a timely, safe, and effective manner.
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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
- Assist in the directing of Edulink
- 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
EPAS now provides 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
"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
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