Overview

This eLeadership Guide is designed to support school authorities as they implement a new provincial curriculum. Through authentic stories of practice, research participants will hear directly from system leaders who are actively engaging with the curriculum in their local contexts.

Through embedded stories of practice, several school authorities share practical examples of planning, instruction, assessment, and leadership that align with the intent of the new curriculum. Included in these stories are the successes, challenges, and lessons learned, offering actionable insights that school authorities can adapt to their own implementation journeys.

This guide will build a shared understanding of effective curriculum implementation, celebrate collaboration across jurisdictions, and support school authorities in translating provincial direction into meaningful classroom- and system-level practice.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

• analyze authentic examples of curriculum implementation in planning, instruction, assessment, and leadership from diverse local contexts.
• apply practical strategies and lessons learned from system leaders to support effective curriculum implementation within their own school authorities.
• identify common challenges in and successful approaches to curriculum change and use these insights to inform decision-making and improvement efforts.
• strengthen leadership practices that support coherent, system-wide implementation of the new curriculum.
• collaborate with peers across jurisdictions, contributing to a shared understanding and collective capacity for curriculum implementation.
• translate provincial direction into meaningful, context-responsive actions that support teaching, learning, and assessment.

Source: This graphic is adapted from the Continuous Improvement Cycle in the Alberta Education Funding Manual for School Authorities 2022/23 School Year.