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a focus for their districts, and had communicated this through their public websites.
Ontario DSBs are drawing on Fullan’s “6 Cs”, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (ATC21S), or a combination of these frameworks to determine a local focus for
21st century competencies.
Since 2011, Ontario’s seventy-two district school boards, provincial schools, and school authority boards, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and the Council of Ontario Directors of Education, have been investigating the impact of innovations in technology-enabled teaching and learning models on students’ engagement, achievement, well-being, and development of 21st century higher-order competencies. This work provides important, Ontario-based research evidence to inform future policy work in defining and measuring 21st century competencies.
Ontario’s twelve French-language school boards, in partnership with the ministry, have developed a digital resource (accessible through the province’s Virtual Learning Environment) that includes a literature review of education systems in Canada and abroad (primarily in French-speaking jurisdictions) that have adopted 21st century competencies and approaches to teaching and learning. This resource is part of a larger package of supports requested by the French-language boards to assist them in moving forward with innovative, technology-enabled pedagogical approaches.