Workforce Planning Framework

Create a workforce planning framework focused on recruitment/retention of school staff in rural and northern communities and increasing French, Indigenous and Indigenous-language educators.

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The Commitment

To create a workforce planning framework focused on recruitment and retention of school staff in rural and northern communities, and on increasing the number of French, Indigenous, and Indigenous-language educators.

This body of work aims to create a provincial comprehensive, long-term recruitment, and retention strategy to address the shortage of teachers in these areas.

What This Means for Manitobans

The project is initially focusing on French language teachers and will

• increase capacity for Manitoba to fully implement the Français Program and French Immersion Program
• ensure Manitoba meets its constitutional obligation to provide equitable access for the Français Program and French Immersion Program
• increase course selection for high school students in immersion programs
• increase Manitoba’s internal capacity to address teacher shortages
• deepen the pool of qualified candidates for the Français Program and French Immersion Program
• increase the rate of student retention in immersion, and therefore increase the bilingualism rate

Next Steps

• A second draft of a French language teacher recruitment and retention strategy document in fall 2022
• A second round of consultation with key French language education sector partners in fall 2022
• The development of an implementation and evaluation plan in winter 2023 regarding the French language teacher strategy
• Final draft of French language teacher recruitment and retention strategy document in winter 2023
• Begin scoping and consultation regarding rural, northern, Indigenous and Indigenous-language teachers in spring 2023

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