Focusing on improvement: Rosedale’s 2022-2023 school year practice and policy updates

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Focusing on improvement: Rosedale’s 2022-2023 school year practice and policy updates

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In accordance with the Ontario Ministry of Education and first-hand feedback from students, teachers, and partner school administrators, we are strengthening our policies and practices to: Improve teacher, staff, and student user experiences, transparency, accountability, and learning; increase the value of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) earned at Rosedale Global High School, with an emphasis on quality and efficiency to streamline processes; and, inspire further innovation and growth within our global high school community. For the coming academic year, we are focusing on these three areas:

  1. Creating opportunities for student and partner school accountability and ownership;
  2. Improving academic evaluation, consistency, quality, and efficiency; and,
  3. Enhancing our monitoring and reporting system.

Focus area #1: Creating opportunities for student and partner school accountability and ownership

The student learning experience and individualized pathways are key to Rosedale and our partner schools’ purpose. This year, we are introducing new policies to reduce student burdens, and launching new tools that boost efficiency and cohesion in our submission and grading processes. These updates and new tools are focused on improving student learning outcomes and encouraging authentic learning experiences.

As a member of the International Center of Academic Integrity, we are dedicated to our responsibility for upholding the standards of academic integrity with increased resources for students and staff, opportunities for student accountability, and the appointment of an Academic Integrity Officer in each of our partner schools. Encouraging schools to take ownership of academic integrity policies and opening communication within our community will build confidence in all aspects of Rosedale’s transformative Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) curriculum in the 2022-2023 school year. We are also launching an enhanced Guidance Counsellor Training Program with live one-on-one guidance counsellor meetings to better prepare counsellors and administrators for real-world practices.   

Within this focus area we are:

  1. Promoting and ensuring academic honesty compliance through improved academic integrity systems; and,
  2. Enhancing our Learning Management System tools to allow for better school management for administrators.

Focus area #2: Improving academic evaluation, consistency, quality, and efficiency

Rosedale’s transformative OSSD curriculum prioritizes authentic learning experiences focused on delivering transformative education to more students around the world. Critical to this process is the consistency, quality and efficiency of our evaluations processes. We believe the best way to achieve effective evaluations for our students is to focus on increased support for classroom teachers and grading teachers; implementing moderation training, and increasing classroom teacher professional development sessions. All of our grading teachers will be given improved and detailed guidelines for all Rosedale courses that will support inter-grader reliability. Increased check-ins will open communication between our graders and Rosedale management to improve the quality and consistency of all evaluations.  

Within this focus area we are:

  • Implementing moderation sessions for our grading teachers to ensure improved inter-grader consistency;
  • Creating targeted professional development sessions for classroom teachers;
  • reducing the overall number of formatives to increase content-based feedback on summatives and targeted formatives; and,
  • Enhancing tools on the Learning Management System (ie. Video Upload and Learning Skills Upload tools) to improve the stakeholder user experience and efficiency on the platform.

Focus area #3: Enhancing our monitoring and reporting system

In order to ensure the successful implementation of our new and updated 2022-2023 policies and practices, we are focusing on enhancing our monitoring and reporting systems. Our unique delivery model puts an emphasis on collaboration with our partner school teachers and administrators whose direct involvement with student experiences provide invaluable insights. Increased practices focused on assessment and feedback from those at the frontline will produce more data that we will use to develop and enhance the student learning experience in the next year and the extended future.
  • Introducing a common contact point for all OSSD program delivery queries, allowing for better transparency with stakeholder issues, leading to opportunities for proactive improvement;
  • Increasing student feedback collection through reflections and learning logs found within each course; and,
  • Creating new reports on different education metrics leading to more thorough understandings of the performance of Rosedale and partner school students, and allowing for greater data analysis to create solutions for improved student success.

Within this focus area we are:

These focus areas reflect our commitment to process improvement and partner school support. As a global education partner, Rosedale supports each school’s unique development mandate and ensures they are equipped with resources, training, and best practices that are both digitally intelligent and operationally efficient—ultimately empowering teachers and learners.
Learn More about our Transfotmative Approach to Learning

A partnership between PAREF Southcrest School and Rosedale International Education reinforces a commitment to transformative education, diversity and global citizenship, with the Ontario Secondary School Diploma at the core.

Rosedale International Education and PAREF Southcrest School have signed a partnership to offer the Rosedale Global High School Program to PAREF Southcrest students in the Philippines. PAREF Southcrest School is our first Rosedale Global High School partner school in the Philippines, and we are proud to work with them alongside PAREF (Parents for Education Foundation) Education Group. PAREF Southcrest School is one of sixteen schools within the PAREF Education Group, a non-profit aimed at providing holistic education by combining high academic standards and character formation and has graduated more than 8,000 students in its four-decade-long history. 

“This partnership reflects our ongoing commitment to connecting learners with real-world application and innovation in a forward-thinking, rigorous, and collaborative education environment. We’re proud to support PAREF Southcrest School with our differentiated learning solution that offers choice in how students learn, develop competencies, and demonstrate their achievements, and look forward to seeing these students realize their full potential,” says Michelle Cui, Founder and CEO of Rosedale International Education. 

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Cebu, Philippines, in late 2022 with the program beginning in September 2023 and the first cohort eligible for graduation in June 2024. Upon successful completion at this Rosedale Global High School partner school, students will be granted a dual diploma, including a Philippines High School Diploma and Canadian Ontario Secondary School Diploma, allowing graduates the flexibility to apply to higher education institutions around the world. Together, we will expand access to world-renowned Canadian education that empowers students through asset-based learning to design their future and reach their full potential. 

Rosedale International Education operates Rosedale Global High School, and all Rosedale Global High School students across our 17-country partner school network attend the annual Global Student Success Forum, which connects them to more than 35 Global Top 100 Universities at our Elite University Student Recruitment Fair, providing opportunities to meet one-to-one with university admissions and recruitment staff, attend student workshops and Q&A sessions, and become well-prepared for the transition from high school to higher education. 

“Given the drive of PAREF Southcrest to offer our students a world-class education, and become global citizens, we are honored to be the first school in the Philippines to partner with Rosedale Global High School and offer the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Giving our students the option to have an international diploma like the OSSD, which is recognized by the top universities in the world gives them the chance to have better future career opportunities in any part of the globe, to broaden their perspectives and world views, to create linkages and interact with different cultures, and have a massive international alumni network. This partnership shows a lot of promise in making young people all over the world work together as a catalyst for change and for making the world better,” says Emylou C. Visaya, Executive Director, PAREF Southcrest School. 

Daniel Moran, Chairman of PAREF Education Group says “Academic excellence is a key pillar in the PAREF mission. I would like to congratulate PAREF Southcrest leadership for this wonderful initiative of offering a Canadian international curriculum in the Philippines which can benefit our students and facilitate their academic success. This partnership of PAREF with Rosedale Global High School in offering a dual PAREF-OSSD diploma will help improve our academic standards by making them truly world-class, and provide opportunities for our PAREF students and faculty. Exposing PAREF to the global network of OSSD will be very motivational and bring confidence to our students and teachers. We hope to contribute to this international-global tie-up with the OSSD network and we look forward to a very successful partnership with Rosedale Global High School.”

Rosedale International Education delivers school learning solutions in K-12 transformative global education. With a robust infrastructure with an advanced digital learning platform, world-renowned curriculum and differentiated instructional resources, and comprehensive academic integrity and quality assurance services, all international partner schools are equipped to offer a modern and global high school program that implements a systematic Transformative Approach to Learning that supports key areas of learning for the twenty-first century: Transformative competency development; real-world application and innovation; global citizenship education; differentiated instruction and diverse evaluation; and the creation of a personalized learning path. Our well-structured education solutions interconnect with the support our international partner schools require to implement transformative, global education.

Learn more about our educational approach and explore our School Profile, which includes data on the global leading universities who offered admission to Rosedale Global High School students in 2022.

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