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This time of the year is typically when most staffing decisions and changes begin to take place within the Calgary Board of Education.  Each year great efforts are made to complete staffing by the end of June; however this is not always possible.  There are several rounds of postings that our Human Resources department goes through: The first one involves teacher's returning from leaves or who were declared surplus from their current assignments and are placed into identified vacant positions. Round two includes the remaining open positions which are then opened up for current continuous teachers for about two weeks. By late June, any remaining teachers, including those on temporary contracts, are able to apply for still unfilled vacancies.  This process is open to all teachers and means that we are not always able to get a staff list out to our community before the end of June.

We are in the process of creating class configurations for next year.  A great deal of time, effort and consideration is put into assignment of students to classes and we hope to tentatively complete our configurations and class lists shortly.  These class configurations will be finalized during the first week of September when we know for sure who has moved away and who has moved into our attendance area during the summer.  We will be adjusting our class configurations to fit these new students during the first week students are back in September.

Teachers who have been with your child this year meet with specialists and administration to discuss which students fit most appropriately in each classroom next year in order to provide the best learning environments.  The most important factors in making these decisions all relate to creating an optimal learning community.  These factors include:

• Creation of educationally equal learning environments
• Maintaining a balance of academic needs in each class
• Creating a balance of academic and social leadership in each class
• Attempting gender balance
• Providing flexibility to accommodate changes in student numbers
• Consideration of work habits, friendships, personality traits

Through this collaborative process we provide each student with a classroom placement that will be equitable and supportive for the upcoming year.  If you feel that there are additional pieces of information that our teams need to know about your child in order to create these class groupings, please send a note to the office.  As we do not know at this time who all our classroom teachers will be for next year, or which grade each will be teaching, please do not request a particular teacher by name.  The information that is most helpful for us to have should be related to the above factors.  Your child's grade placement for next year will be indicated in the June report card.

Mr. Layden​