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Continuing committee
Committee Members
- Chair/président(e)
Samantha-Jo Caetano
Bingrui (Cindy) Sun
Angelo Canty
Ex officio
Alison Gibbs
Hew Gough
Ahmed Almaskut
Katherine Davies
Léo Belzile
Ex officio
Terms of Reference
Establishment


The Census @ School Committee was established at the June 2012 Executive Meeting as an ad-hoc committee. By motion of the Board, it was made a Continuing Committee in October, 2012.

Composition


Chair: Appointed by the incoming President, and becomes ex officio member of the Public Relations Committee

Membership: The Electronic Services Manager, the President of the Statistical Education Section or his or her designate, and at least three other members appointed by the incoming SSC President.

Terms and Duties


General Objective of the Committee:

To oversee the operation of Census at School Canada; to support and encourage its use in Canadian schools; and to use Census at School to promote and develop statistical literacy in school-aged children.

Specific Objectives:

  • Manage the day-to-day operations of Census at School including responding to e-mails, cleaning and summarizing the database at year end, updating the website, and sending the data each year to the international database.
  • Plan and implement a communication and promotion strategy for Census at School, targeting teachers, school administrators, educational consultants, representatives from provincial Ministries of Education, etc.
  • Identify and organize local champions in all regions of the country to promote and assist with Census at School in their local schools.
  • Prepare support materials for in-class volunteers.
  • Prepare promotion material for local champions.
  • Plan and implement improvements and additions to the Census at School website and learning resources.
  • Identify and organize professional development opportunities for teachers.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance the role of statistics in the school curriculum and promote the use of Census at School as a curriculum resource.
  • Identify and involve some key teachers in Census at School, as members of an advisory group or as presenters of workshops for other teachers.
  • In conjunction with the Statistical Education Section, identify opportunities to use Census at School as a springboard for other statistical education initiatives, such as developing “Experiments at School”, increasing the use of statistics in science fair projects, increasing the visibility of the international statistical literacy poster competition and developing statistical teaching resources.
  • Interact with the international Census at School community.