Educational Planning Services
Superintendent John Fiacco
This diverse department incorporates teams of individuals in the areas of Educational Planning, Division Monitoring, and Transportation Services.
Our key areas of responsibility include:
- Student accommodation
- Enrolment projections
- Capital planning
- Determine need for modular classrooms and preparation of plans for relocations
- Identification of sites for alternative and special needs programs
- Collaborate with Learning Support Innovation staff in support of new focus programs and to provide continued support to existing focus programs
- Collaborate with Learning Support Innovation staff to explore innovative and alternative educational programming (focus schools/magnet programs) in our division to ensure that we remain responsive to the needs and wants of our parents and students in regards to educational programs of choice
- School closure and reopening
- Prepare demographic reports that provide direction for future educational planning
- Develop and review school boundaries and catchment areas
- Liaison with the City of Edmonton, the province, neighboring school jurisdictions and other stakeholders in matters related to planning issues
- Develop the division's Three Year Education Plan and Annual Education Results Report
Division Monitoring Services
Division Monitoring supports student learning and administrative decision making in the following ways:
- Provide results, reports and analysis of satisfaction surveys, division 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
Student Transportation Services
Provide students in our division with transportation services in a timely, safe, and effective manner.
