Secteur - Services à la communauté anglophone (SSCA) - MELS

Whereas the regular and recurring activities of the Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) serve the entire school system in Québec, the mandate of the Sector for Services to the English-Speaking Community (SSCA) is to promote and support the implementation of Ministry policies and orientations in English schools, in collaboration with other sectors of the Ministry. The SSCA also initiates projects enabling schools in the English sector to maintain the quality of their educational services. >> Learn more...

LEARN provides support for two key SSCA-MELS initiatives, the Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning (GOAL) and New Approaches, New Solutions (NANS), a school improvement initiative.

• GOAL - The Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning is viewed by many as the final, integrating piece of the reform of the curriculum for schools and centres. It supports the lifelong learning philosophy that career-life planning is a long-term personal commitment that must be inculcated early in a child's life and reinforced in adults through relevant, experiential and reflective activities that link the individual's development of self-knowledge and self-direction to the community in which he/she lives.

• School Improvement in Québec - This web site is designed to be a kind of online think tank for school improvement. All of the information documents, models and reports that appear on this site have been developed by active participants in the success process at the school, board and ministerial levels.

The Implementation Design Committee (IDC), a collaborative venture with the Secteur - Services à la communauté anglophone of the MELS, is composed of the ten Directors of Instructional or Educational Services of the English-language boards and a representative of the Educational Services of the Littoral School Board, two private schools representatives, one school principal representative, two representatives from the Association of Administrators of English Schools of Québec, one representative from LEARN, three teacher representatives, four members of the SCA as well as one project coordinator.

Produced and operated by the Implementation Design Committee, the School Reform site is a collection of Tools, Resources and Examples to provide support for school reform in Québec. >> Learn more...

The CLCs initiative is aimed at supporting the development of a diverse group of CLCs that will serve as ‘hubs’ for English-language education and community development in their respective communities, as well as offer models for future practice. >> Learn more...