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Education and Literacy

French Second Language Revitalization Program

2008-2009 Projects

  1. Association des orthopédagogues de langue française du Manitoba (AOLFM) : Vers l’inclusion
    The AOLFM will continue to provide professional learning (workshops, observation sessions, mentorship, etc.) to French Immersion teachers to support inclusive education. It will develop a resource-team of French language experts in Manitoba schools and create a network to allow the sharing of information and expertise.
  2. Beautiful Plains School Division: Carberry Collegiate – French Technology Project
    Carberry Collegiate will incorporate technology to enhance the Basic French curriculum at the Grades 5 to 12 levels. This project will allow students to use available software to create French stories, movies and presentations.
  3. Beautiful Plains School Division: Hazel M. Kellington School – Integration of ICT to support and Promote the Basic French Program
    Hazel M. Kellington School will create high-quality student-made French video, audio, and print resources for primary classrooms and will integrate technology into the Basic French curriculum.
  4. Beautiful Plains School Division: Neepawa Area Collegiate – Integration of I.C.T. to Support and Rejuvenate the Basic French Program
    Neepawa Area Collegiate will create high-quality student-made French video, audio, and print resources for Middle and Senior Years and will integrate technology into the Basic French curriculum. The students will present their books, plays, and resources to students at the elementary school.
  5. Border Land School Division: French Language Coordinator
    Border Land School Division will hire a full-time French Language Coordinator to provide feedback to French-language teachers, promote the French language to parents and the communities, coordinate cultural activities for students, collect relevant and useful materials, and organize PD events for French language teachers.
  6. Border Land School Division: La joie de vivre
    All French teachers in the school division will collaborate to plan trips and cultural activities, make connections with older students who act as role models, organize a French festival, provide professional learning sessions for teachers and purchase new materials to improve delivery of French.
  7. Brandon School Division: New Era School – The Manitoba French Connection
    New Era School will provide authentic experiential learning opportunities for students through field trips, develop literacy and numeracy kits for French Immersion Kindergarten students, purchase French computer programs and resources.
  8. Brandon School Division: O’Kelly School – Thematic Family Learning Bags
    O’Kelly School will produce thematic bags to enhance and enrich the language development of the French Immersion students. The bags would include games, puzzles, videos and books that encourage and promote French language use outside the classroom.
  9. Bureau de l’éducation française (BEF) : Centre pédagogique avec les TIC
    The BEF will create a learning centre with the technology necessary to provide training to teachers and consultants on the integration of ICT in the curriculum, and offer on-site learning sessions to Immersion and Basic French teachers.
  10. Bureau de l’éducation française : Français intensif (FI) – Développement professionnel
    The BEF will continue to provide professional development sessions for all teachers, administrators, and divisional consultants involved in the implementation of the Intensive French approach and its follow-up.
  11. Bureau de l’éducation française : L’expression orale en français immersion
    The BEF will ccontinue to work with the committee of twelve French Immersion teachers to participate in a new approach to correct common linguistic errors in French oral skills. Orientation and development sessions will be provided.
  12. Bureau de l’éducation française : Service d’appui aux écoles d’immersion en région rurale
    The BEF will expand the on-site consulting services to French Immersion teachers in rural Manitoba and help implement innovative teaching practices and promote new educational resources available at the Direction des ressources éducatives françaises (DREF).
  13. Bureau de l’éducation française : Testing auprès des élèves suivant le Français intensif (FI) et le Français approfondi (FA) et Promotion des approches FI et FA
    The BEF will continue to test the speaking and writing skills of students as a means to assist the school division in the implementation of Intensive French and Enhanced French.
  14. Canadian Parents for French (CPF): French for Career Options
    In partnership with the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (CUSB) and the Conseil jeunesse provincial (CJP), CPF will coordinate an interactive career-based event with speakers, workshops, and entertainment for approximately six hundred Senior High students in French Immersion and Basic French, in rural Manitoba.
  15. Canadian Parents for French (CPF): French for Life
    In partnership with the Manitoba Association of Teachers of French (MATF) and l’Association manitobaine des directrices et directeurs d’écoles d’immersion (AMDI), CPF will continue to develop and distribute promotional material to outline benefits of French-language education. They will also continue to develop a website, brochures, CDs, posters, and booklets of ideas to enrich and promote French Immersion programs and Basic French courses.
  16. Canadian Parents for French: French for Parents in Rural Manitoba
    In partnership with CUSB, CPF will offer French courses to FSL parents in rural Manitoba. They will run three courses in the year with thirty-three hours of language and six hours of workshops on strategies to help their children with French.
  17. Cercle Molière: Créations jeunesse 2008-2009
    In collaboration with university students in Dramatic Arts, the Cercle Molière will create and present a series of three known fairy tales with alternative endings to Immersion students at the Kindergarten to Grade 5 levels. Also, they will research and develop a series of short stories to be presented in the classrooms.
  18. Éducatrices et éducateurs francophones du Manitoba (EFM) : Programme de jumelage
    The EFM will help school divisions implement a mentorship program in their schools for French Immersion teachers. This program pairs beginning French Immersion teachers with experienced teachers at their level and offers four days of professional development throughout the school year.
  19. Éducatrices et éducateurs francophones du Manitoba (EFM) : Programme destiné aux enseignantes et enseignants débutants
    In partnership with CUSB, EFM will help school divisions provide a professional learning program for French Immersion teachers who are in their first five years of teaching. This program offers support and training to increase teacher retention.
  20. Éducatrices et éducateurs francophones du Manitoba : Une approche manitobaine pour réussir son année scolaire
    The EFM will develop and produce a series of video clips showcasing new teaching strategies for French Immersion teachers at all grade levels. They will share these resources with all French Immersion teachers in Manitoba.
  21. Éducatrices et éducateurs francophones du Manitoba : Ralliements des élèves d’immersion en régions
    In partnership with l’Association manitobaine des directrices et directeurs d’écoles d’immersion (AMDI), the EFM will organize two gatherings of French Immersion students at the Grades 7 and 8 levels in two rural areas of Manitoba. This project aims to promote the language and culture through a variety of games, workshops and music.
  22. Evergreen School Division: The “Evergreen” Project – Renewing French Education in our Communities
    Evergreen School Division will enable a French education consultant to offer professional development to Basic French teachers, continue to promote French in the community, purchase French educational resources, counsel students in French career options, and develop partnerships with non-profit organizations and other school divisions.
  23. Festival des vidéastes du Manitoba : Tournée au Manitoba – Caravane de formation vidéo FVM
    Festival des vidéastes will continue to offer on-site training in audio-visual techniques (filming, editing) for the production of videos to French Immersion students in remote communities. Teams of students will produce approximately twenty short films and present them at the annual French Film Festival.
  24. Festival des vidéastes du Manitoba : Formation en ligne
    Festival des vidéastes will maintain online training in audio-visual techniques (filming, editing) for the production of videos to French Immersion students. Teams of students will produce short films and present them at the annual French Film Festival.
  25. Flin Flon School Division: Northern Camp Eco Challenge
    Lin Flon School Division will offer a three-day French summer camp to Grades 7 and 8 Immersion students from Kelsey and Flin Flon School Divisions. Students will participate in outdoor, academic and cultural activities. Staffing will be done by teachers and parent volunteers.
  26. Flin Flon School Division: Ruth Betts School – Basic French Literacy Program
    Ruth Betts School will provide the Basic French classes within the school with a wide variety of French age-appropriate reading resources for Grades 4 to 8 students. Teachers will integrate these resources in the current curriculum themes.
  27. Fort la Bosse School Division: F.I.R.S.T. (French Infusion for Rural School Talk)
    Fort la Bosse School Division will enable a French consultant to provide professional learning opportunities to French teachers, purchase current resources, work with teachers in their classrooms as a lead teacher, develop brochures, promote the French program in the community and organize a French instructors professional learning community.
  28. Fort la Bosse School Division: Long Live French at R.C.I.
    Reston Collegiate Institute will promote the Basic French program by planning a French Festival and giving students the opportunity to take part in French activities. The French students would serve French food to their peers and play French carnival games and music.
  29. Fort la Bosse School Division: Oak Lake Community School – French for All
    Fort la Bosse School Division will enable a French language specialist to implement differentiated instruction techniques and infuse technology in the Basic French program at Oak Lake Community School. The specialist will co-teach with the classroom teachers and provide professional learning sessions. Students will use technology to converse with other students in French communities.
  30. Freeze Frame: Le festival international de film pour enfants – Freeze Frame en tournée
    Freeze Frame will offer two week-long series of workshops to French Immersion students and teachers in remote rural schools, at the Grades 4 to 12 levels. Teams of students will produce short videos and participate in a mini Film Festival.
  31. Garden Valley School Division: Southwood School – French Start
    Southwood School will implement the Basic French course at the Grade 4 level: release two teachers for in-servicing in Basic French, purchase visual, audio, and textual materials, and conduct a special French cultural event in the school.
  32. Hanover School Division: The Revitalization of Basic French in a Community of Learners
    Hanover School Division will enable a project coordinator to purchase French teaching resources, organize and promote French cultural activities division-wide, offer professional development for Basic French teachers on innovative teaching methods, provide opportunities for students to showcase French in the community and form connections with other schools in Manitoba.
  33. Interlake School Division: Brant-Argyle School – Piloting Conversational French Classes
    Interlake School Division will enable a full-time French specialist to pilot Basic French and Exposure French from Kindergarten to Grade 8 at Brant-Argyle School. This specialist will also establish a French Learning Resources Centre for the school division and promote the program through their website, classroom visits, and professional learning opportunities for French teachers.
  34. Interlake School Division: Festival du « Teulon »
    Teulon Elementary School will organize a festive week to expose students to French culture through a variety of activities such as songs, games, dances, cooking, and art.
  35. Kelsey School Division: Northern Camp Éco-Défi!
    In collaboration with Flin Flon School Division, Kelsey School Division will offer a three-day French summer camp to Grades 7 and 8 Immersion students. They will participate in outdoor, academic and cultural activities. Staffing will be done by teachers and parent volunteers.
  36. Kelsey School Division: Margaret Barbour Collegiate – Kelsey French Language Resource Centre
    Margaret Barbour Collegiate will create a permanent French Language Resource Centre for the entire school division. Through the ITV labs, teachers could access professional learning opportunities or meet with colleagues in other parts of the province, and students can research projects in French and have a drop-in centre for activities such as French movie nights.
  37. Lord Selkirk School Division: Cases of Culture (Bacs culturels)
    Lord Selkirk School Division will compile ensembles of contemporary French cultural expression and create three thematic cases (culture, sports, and cinema) to circulate through the three French Immersion schools in the Lord Selkirk School Division. The cases would contain a variety of media materials including CDs, DVDs, books, magazines, and games.
  38. Lord Selkirk School Division: École Selkirk Junior High – La culture canadienne française : On s’amuse en français
    École Selkirk Junior High will purchase DVDs, CDs, books, and accessories to help promote French culture in the school. Basic French and French Immersion students would participate in lunch-hour activities such as games and skits to improve their French oral skills and help prepare them for a trip to Quebec.
  39. Lord Selkirk School Division: Les problèmes mondiaux (A School-initiated Course at École Selkirk Junior High )
    École Selkirk Junior High will purchase French multi-media resources on world issues to help implement a half-credit World Issues course in French entitled “Les problèmes mondiaux”.
  40. Lord Selkirk School Division: Celebrating 20 Years of Successful French Immersion Programming in LSSD
    In a collaborative effort, the three schools in the community that offer the French Immersion program, will showcase the talent of their students in a setting that celebrates the commitment they and their parents have made to the French Immersion program in LSSD.
  41. Louis Riel School Division: Bien branché
    Louis Riel School Division will research and evaluate French websites that have links to the French Immersion curriculum. It will prepare a database of each valuable website with a description and its value and place it on the divisional website. It will also share this information with DREF and other school divisions.
  42. Louis Riel School Division: Glenwood School – French Revitalization
    Glenwood School will purchase instructional resources and offer in-service opportunities for Basic French teachers. It will provide French cultural activities and field trips for Basic French students.
  43. Louis Riel School Division: Grades 8 and 9 Follow-up to “Le français intensif
    Louis Riel School Division will provide specific follow-up instruction to students who have completed the Grade 6 Intensive French. It will purchase the necessary resources for four classes and provide French cultural activities.
  44. Louis Riel School Division: Multi-média en français de base
    Louis Riel School Division will purchase French cultural resources such as music, DVDs and CDs, and create French cultural kits for Basic French teachers in the school division. It will prepare a teacher’s guide for each kit and help organize cultural activities in each school.
  45. Louis Riel School Division: Poste-BAC en FL2
    In partnership with other school divisions and CUSB, Louis Riel School Division will create a cohort of teachers to participate in on-site Post-Bac courses.
  46. Manitoba Association of Teachers of French (MATF): CASLT Chez Vous
    MATF will organize a full-day symposium in conjunction with the CASLT symposium in March 2009. It will focus on the following topics: language competencies, second language learning, and assessment in Basic French.
  47. Manitoba Association of Teachers of French: Learning Something New Each Day
    MATF will create an interactive yearly calendar for the Basic French teachers at the Grades 4 to 8 levels. The focus of the calendar will be on Manitoba and will be designed to be used on a daily basis in the classroom as an oral activity.
  48. Manitoba Association of Teachers of French: Made in Manitoba for Teachers of Basic French
    MATF will provide workshops for Basic French teachers to explore and exchange best practice ideas and create concrete specific materials that are linked to the curriculum. It will create an idea bank linked to the MATF website.
  49. The Manitoba Federation of Independent Schools (MFIS)
    MFIS will enable new special initiatives: attend workshops and seminars and add or upgrade instructional resources for the expansion and teaching of French as an additional language at independent schools.
  50. Mountain View School Division: Smith-Jackson School – Basic French Professional Learning Project
    Smith-Jackson School will provide a two-day Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) workshop for all the Basic French teachers in the school and purchase the necessary materials to incorporate the AIM from Kindergarten to Grade 6.
  51. Park West School Division: Revitalizing French in Park West School Division
    Through the support of a French language consultant, Park West School Division will implement the Early French Start in two elementary schools, provide professional learning sessions for the Basic French teachers, and purchase new resources.
  52. Park West School Division: Hamiota Collegiate – Voyage en Europe 2009
    Hamiota Collegiate will provide the opportunity for Basic French students in Grades 11 and 12 to participate in a trip to Europe and create a DVD of their trip to promote French in the school and in the community.
  53. Pembina Trails School Division: Cohorte au CUSB
    In partnership with other school divisions and CUSB, Pembina Trails School Division will create a cohort of teachers to participate in on-site Post-Bac courses.
  54. Pembina Trails School Division: Français de base – AIM M à 6
    Pembina Trails School Division will expand the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) in three elementary schools by purchasing the necessary teaching resources for Grades 4 to 6 Basic French teachers.
  55. Pembina Trails School Division: Français de base – transition de la 8e à la 9e année
    Pembina Trails School Division will provide to Grade 8 and 9 Basic French students the “Tell Me More” online French language courses and integrate ICT in the Basic French courses.
  56. Pembina Trails School Division: La culture de la radio scolaire
    Pembina Trails School Division will establish French school radio programming in nine schools by purchasing the necessary music CDs and offering the training for teachers and students in the management and delivery of a radio program.
  57. Pembina Trails School Division: Littératie – une trousse pour la maternelle
    Pembina Trails School Division will develop French literacy kits to be given to parents of new kindergarten students in the division. These kits will contain French language material created by teachers (CDs of songs and rhymes, games with letters and numbers, activities, lists of books, and websites, etc.)
  58. Pembina Trails School Division: Matériel d’appui – podcast
    Pembina Trails School Division will provide to students and parents renewed audio and video literacy resources on the divisional website using podcast.
  59. Pembina Trails School Division: Whyte Ridge Elementary School – Vive le français à l’école
    Whyte Ridge Whyte Ridge Elementary School will establish a French multi-media collection housed within the school library consisting of books, videos, music CDs, and interactive CDs. It will also develop French language/literacy packages that students can borrow.
  60. Prairie Rose School Division: Carman Collegiate – Multi-Media French Language Learning Centre
    Carmen Collegiate will establish a multi-media French Language Learning Centre to provide rich language learning opportunities for Grades 7 to 12 Basic French students. The interactive centre will contain French music, cultural themes, and French language resources.
  61. Prairie Rose School Division: École Saint-Eustache – Awareness and Promotion of French Immersion in the Local Community
    École Saint-Eustache will create a greater awareness of the French Immersion program in the community through advertisements such as promotional DVDs, information pamphlets, and posters.
  62. Prairie Rose School Division: Elm Creek School – 101 Reasons to Take French
    Elm Creek School will create a five-minute promotional video showing reasons to take French courses and reasons to stay in these courses. The video will showcase students and activities from Elm Creek School as well as from other schools in the division.
  63. Prairie Rose School Division: Miami School – Implementation of a New Basic French Program
    Miami School will implement the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) by using “Histoire en Action” in the Grades 3 to 8 Basic French classes. It will purchase the necessary material and provide training for teachers.
  64. Prairie Rose School Division: Prairie Rose School Division French Revitalization Project
    Prairie Rose School Division will create an interim full-time divisional French language coordinator position. The person will be responsible for coordinating a language committee, research and communicate to schools the opportunities and resources available, provide consultation to French teachers, and develop French resource kits.
  65. Prairie Rose School Division: St. Paul’s Collegiate – Coordination of PRSD MY Immersion Programming
    Prairie Rose School Division will provide opportunities for French Immersion staff from École St. Eustache and St. Paul’s Collegiate to meet for professional learning sessions involving: student transition planning, a mentoring program, student recruitment, student retention, best practice consistency and evaluation.
  66. Prairie Spirit School Division: Glenboro School – Continued Implementation of a New Basic French Program
    Glenboro School will continue to implement the Accelerated Integrative Method (AIM) by using "Histoires en action" in the Grades 4 to 7 Basic French classes.
  67. Prairie Spirit School Division: Somerset School – Acti-vie Français
    Somerset School will provide opportunities for the French Immersion students to participate in French cultural activities throughout the school year.
  68. Prairie Spirit School Division: Somerset School – CPE (Communauté professionnelle d’enseignants)
    Somerset School will create a professional learning community of French teachers within the school to organize cultural activities, integrate literacy with ICT, manage a radio scolaire, and act as liaison with other divisional French teachers.
  69. Prairie Spirit School Division: Somerset School – Littératie ici!
    Somerset School will continue to enhance and encourage the spirit of French programming in the school by developing and implementing a literacy program, providing professional learning opportunities and informing community members of cultural and school activities in both official languages.
  70. Radio communautaire Envol 91 FM (CKXL) : Ateliers journalistiques pour les écoles d’immersion
    Radio communautaire Envol 91 FM will continue to offer to French Immersion students at the Grades 8 to 12 levels, journalistic camps, workshops and activities that allow the participants to learn journalistic techniques and report on events, in the form of articles in La Liberté or radio chronicles broadcasted on Envol 91 FM.
  71. Radio communautaire Envol 91 FM (CKXL) : Exploration pratique de la radiodiffusion pour les écoles d’immersion
    Radio communautaire Envol 91 FM will continue to offer to French Immersion students at the Grades 8 to 12 levels, radio programming workshops consisting of two components: 1) the use of technical equipment, development and improvement of radio programs in schools, 2) development of a broadcasting schedule for school radio programming; provide space and equipment for the production of radio programs to be aired on the community radio station CKXL.
  72. Red River Valley School Division: Rosenort School – AIM Program
    Rosenort School will implement the Accelerated Integrative Method (AIM) for students in Grades 4 to 8 levels. It will purchase the necessary material and provide professional learning sessions for three Basic French teachers.
  73. Red River Valley School Division: St. Malo School – Radio scolaire
    St. Malo School will establish a school radio station. This project will include the purchase and installation of the necessary equipment, the training for students in the management and delivery of a radio program. Also it will establish partnerships with Radio Canada, CKXL, CUSB, and CJP.
  74. River East Transcona School Division: Cases of Culture (Bacs culturels)
    River East Transcona School Division will continue to develop new cultural kits and maintain existing ones with contemporary French youth-oriented cultural expression. It will circulate the kits through the schools to support language learning in the French Immersion program.
  75. River East Transcona School Division: Divisional Cohort – Post Bac in Teaching French as a Second Language
    In partnership with other school divisions and CUSB, River East Transcona School Division will create a cohort of teachers to participate in on-site Post-Bac courses.
  76. River East Transcona School Division: Partnership in French Courses for Basic French Teachers and Perfectionnement du français for French Immersion Teachers
    In partnership with Seven Oaks School Division and CUSB, River East Transcona School Division will continue to provide French language courses for Basic French and French Immersion teachers in both school divisions.
  77. River East Transcona School Division: Munroe Junior High – All Students Achieving Potential (ASAP)/Le succès est assuré
    Munroe Junior High will provide students in the Late French Immersion programme with enhanced academic support and oral engagement in a differentiated instructional model. Through a partnership with CUSB, teacher candidates will partner with the classroom teacher to provide small group interaction, learning activities and cultural and linguistic enrichment.
  78. Seine River School Division: Basic French – Developing Teacher Personal and Professional Capacity
    Seine River School Division will develop a professional learning program for the Basic French teachers to enhance their French speaking and writing abilities as well as their professional pedagogical abilities. It will also enhance the resources and materials that teachers and students use in the Basic French program.
  79. Seine River School Division: École Sainte-Anne Immersion – La production et la compréhension française orale
    École Sainte-Anne Immersion will promote and help improve French oral competencies for French Immersion students at the Kindergarten to Grade 8 levels by organizing French cultural activities, developing thematic bags, and providing professional learning sessions for teachers.
  80. Seine River School Division: Radio scolaire CSNC
    Collège Saint-Norbert Collegiate will maintain a school radio station by providing the training for students in the management and delivery of a radio program and also by establishing partnerships with Radio Canada, CKXL, CUSB, and CJP.
  81. Seine River School Division: Ralliement des élèves d’immersion
    Seine River School Division will organize a gathering of all Grade 7 and 8 French Immersion students, from the five elementary schools in the division. Senior High students enrolled in the Leadership program will help organize and deliver the activities for the gathering.
  82. Seven Oaks School Division: Le français, ça s’intègre
    Seven Oaks School Division will create multi-media kits, containing tools and resources to help teachers integrate Basic French in other subject areas, at the Kindergarten to Grade 8 levels.
  83. Seven Oaks School Division: Le jour de l’immersion
    Seven Oaks School Division will create organize a one-day gathering of all French Immersion students at the elementary level in the division. French Immersion Senior High students will help organize and deliver the activities for the gathering.
  84. Seven Oaks School Division: Mise à jour des Bacs culturels
    Seven Oaks School Division will maintain thematic cultural kits to be shared amongst elementary and secondary schools in the division. These kits will contain French language material (CDs, DVDs, magazines, books) on diverse aspects of francophone culture.
  85. Seven Oaks School Division: West Kildonan Collegiate – Reel French
    West Kildonan Collegiate will organize a French overnight camp where students will have the opportunity to create a video. With the help of francophone animators from Freeze Frame, they will write the script, create the props, film and edit the video. The video will then be presented to other schools in the division and to parents.
  86. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: Cohort – CUSB
    In partnership with other school divisions and CUSB, St, James-Assiniboia School Division will create a cohort of teachers to participate in on-site Post-Bac courses.
  87. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: French Arts Education (Kindergarten to Grade 5)
    St. James-Assiniboia School Division will hire bilingual artists to collaborate with French Immersion and Basic French teachers to enhance delivery of core curriculum through the Arts. They will plan a sequence of lessons based on specific outcomes and plan extension activities that reflect multiple intelligences.
  88. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: French Arts Education (Grade 6 to Grade 12)
    St. James-Assiniboia School Division will continue to hire bilingual artists to collaborate with French Immersion and Basic French teachers and enhance delivery of core curriculum through the Arts. They will plan a sequence of lessons based on specific outcomes and plan extension activities that reflect multiple intelligences.
  89. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: French Immersion Literacy Kits
    St. James-Assiniboia School Division will continue to develop French literacy kits to be given to parents of new kindergarten students in the division. These kits will contain French language material created by teachers (CDs of songs and rhymes, games with letters and numbers, activities, lists of books and websites, etc.).
  90. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: Le Français approfondi / Enhanced French in Grade 7
    St. James-Assiniboia School Division will implement the Intensive French Program Follow-up at the Grade 7 level in the school division and offer teacher training and new resources to start the new class.
  91. St. James-Assiniboia School Division: The Renewal and Revitalization of Basic French and French Immersion
    St. James-Assiniboia School Division will offer two-day professional development sessions to three groups of Basic French and French Immersion teachers (Kindergarten to Grade 6, Grade 7 to Grade 9 and Grade 10 to Grade 12). It will also offer monthly workshops where participants will renew teaching methods and examine new educational material.
  92. Southwest Horizon School Division: Souris School – Implementation of a New Basic French Method at the Grades 3 and 4 levels
    Souris School will implement the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) at the Grades 3 and 4 levels by purchasing the necessary resources and using “Histoire en Action”.
  93. Sunrise School Division: À SCI, ça n’arrête pas de bouger!
    Springfield Collegiate Institute will bring more cultural events into the school, expose students to a wide variety of French material including reading material, music, and movies. Cultural activities will also be provided outside the school.
  94. Sunrise School Division: AIM – Basic French Teacher
    Training and Kits Sunrise School Division will continue to enable Basic French teachers to be in-serviced in the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM). It will also allow a mentor with experience in AIM to train the other Basic French teachers in the division.
  95. Sunrise School Division: Dugald School – Service d’appui aux enseignants
    Sunrise School Division will enable an instructional coach to provide training to French Immersion teachers in the division. This specialist will demonstrate model lessons, help teachers plan and prepare lessons, and develop units and themes.
  96. Sunrise School Division: École Beauséjour Early Years – Learning Through the Arts
    Sunrise School Division will expand the Learning Through the Arts (LTTA) program in eight French Immersion classrooms. It will allow for three six-week LTTA units in the fall, winter, and spring with a total of nine artist visits per class. Included will be professional learning sessions and teacher planning time with the artists.
  97. Sunrise School Division: Powerview School – Talent Development Immersion Enrichment Project
    Sunrise School Division will implement a Talent Development Enrichment program for Immersion students at Powerview School. It will enable an Immersion Educational Assistant to plan French activities for students and organize professional learning sessions for teachers throughout the year.
  98. Swan Valley School Division: French EXTRA Extension Program
    In collaboration with Brandon University personnel, Swan Valley School Division will continue to offer the French EXTRA (Excellent Travail en Revision d’Apprentissage) workshops to further enrich the language ability of the Basic French teachers in the division.
  99. Winnipeg School Division: Basic French for Teachers
    In partnership with CUSB, Winnipeg School Division will continue to provide French language courses for Basic French teachers. A strong emphasis will be on vocabulary at the appropriate grade level and on teaching approaches and tools used in Basic French classes.
  100. Winnipeg School Division: CUSB Cohort
    In partnership with other school divisions and CUSB, Winnipeg School Division will create a cohort of teachers to participate in on-site Post-Bac courses.
  101. Winnipeg School Division: Jeunes Bédéastes
    Winnipeg School Division will provide the opportunity for all Grades 3 and 4 Immersion students and their teachers to participate in a cartoon creation workshop. They will implement elements of the new expressive arts curriculum as they create their own cartoons. They will then publish or share their creations using ICT.

French Second Language Revitalization Program