An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is: 

As part of our ongoing work around Graduation Numeracy Assessment (GNA) and Graduation Literacy Assessment (GLA), we engaged staff in cross-curricular conversations to explore how all departments can support student success. Through collaborative discussions at Ed Fac and in department teams, we identified key areas of need—particularly students’ abilities to decode complex texts, respond to a variety of question types, and build fluency with keyboarding.  

As a next step, departments are developing concrete, shared strategies that can be embedded across subject areas. This includes using practice questions in multiple contexts, integrating text decoding strategies into everyday instruction, and co-creating adaptable lesson resources that can be implemented school wide. This work reflects a shift toward a more collective and coordinated approach, ensuring that responsibility for GNA/GLA preparation is shared across disciplines rather than isolated within Math and English classrooms. 

This action supports our school’s learning focus in the following ways: 

-  Promotes a collective approach to student success: All subject areas are contributing to the development of literacy and numeracy skills, reinforcing that these competencies extend beyond single disciplines.  

-  Builds transferable skills: By embedding decoding, comprehension, and problem-solving strategies across courses, students gain repeated opportunities to practice essential skills in varied contexts.  

-  Increases consistency for learners: Shared strategies and common language across classrooms help students better understand expectations and apply their skills more confidently.  

-  Targets key student needs: Focusing on decoding, interpreting questions, and keyboarding directly addresses barriers identified through staff discussion and assessment data.  

-  Strengthens instructional collaboration: Department-based commitments to specific actions encourage ongoing dialogue, shared resources, and collective responsibility for improving outcomes.