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Saskatchewan is Canada's sunniest province, averaging from 2,000 to 2,500 hours of sunshine annually.

Community members play a key role in helping the Department of Learning deliver its mandate. Ensuring that the learning system has a meaningful and lasting impact requires the contributions of many community members including, students, families, communities, teachers, administrators, school community councils, board of education, public library staff and boards, and people involved in early learning and child care. Programs and services offered by the Learning sector provide opportunities for our children, youth and adult citizens to fulfill their learning potential and contribute to strong and stable Saskatchewan communities.

Following principles of fair assessment practice, the Assessment for Learning and System Information and Accountability unit monitors and reports on curriculum implementation, student learning and the K-12 school environment in which they occur. These activities are undertaken with a view to improve programs and professional practice and inform policy and decision making for the good and equitable education of all Saskatchewan students.

Saskatchewan Learning's Caring and Respectful Schools Initiative provides the conceptual framework for strengthening schools as caring, respectful and safe learning environments where all children and youth have the right to an education free from all forms of bullying and violence.

The Community Access Program is a federal-provincial initiative administered by Industry Canada that provides funding to designated sites and organizations, including schools and public libraries, enabling them to offer free public access to computers and the internet while helping users to obtain the skills to use them effectively.
Technology Supported Learning: exciting new learning opportunities and exciting new alternatives for students. As the 2007-2008 school year begins, we look forward to a year of achievements and innovation. In our evolution from print to online courses, we embrace the diverse possibilities that technology provides to enhance learner outcomes while remaining grounded in the fundamental principles of effective teaching and learning.
A Comprehensive School Health approach features a sharing of responsibility among the school, the home and the community. Learning is committed to helping Saskatchewan youth, parents and teachers extend their knowledge base and decision-making skills related to drug use and abuse.
Early Childhood Intervention Programs (ECIPs) utilize a strength-based approach to deliver family-focused, home- and centre-based services to families of children who are developmentally delayed or who are at risk for developmental delay. 

The Early Learning and Child Care Branch provides policy and program direction, financial, professional and evaluation supports and community partnerships related to early childhood development, licensed child care, KidsFirst and PreKindergarten programs and services.

The French Education Branch provides French language educational services for Francophone, French Immersion and Core French programmes in Saskatchewan schools.

Multilingual Services of the Saskatchewan Provincial Library provides books and materials in world languages to community members through public libraries. Contact your nearest library branch for more information.

Saskatchewan libraries, coordinated by Provincial Library, cooperatively purchase province-wide access to dozens of online information databases. All libraries in the public, post-secondary education, school and special library sectors are entitled to access these databases.

The Provincial Library is entrusted, through The Public Libraries Act, 1996, to coordinate the province-wide public library system. It fulfils this role by developing province-wide library policies, maintaining an electronic library information network, co-ordinating resource sharing activities, and providing cost-effective centralized services.

Saskatchewan Learning is committed to helping Saskatchewan youth, parents and teachers extend their knowledge base and decision-making skills related to respect for diversity.

Online access to all public library collections in Saskatchewan is provided by the Provincial Library in collaboration with ten participating public libraries.

The province-wide Ask Us! service will email your question to the librarian best suited to provide your information, from one of the public library systems. Your answer will be supplied in 48 hours or less. This virtual reference service is a cooperative project between the ten public library systems in Saskatchewan and the Provincial Library.
School Community Councils across the province provide a province-wide mechanism for parents, community members, school staffs and students to be actively involved in local initiatives that positively impact student learning and success, including school-level learning improvement plans and career development initiatives.
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SchoolPlus is a province-wide initiative led by Saskatchewan Learning and the provincial education system that promotes learning success and well-being for every child and young person.  It envisions a province where every school is actively improving student outcomes through the delivery of a strong learning program and serving as a centre for social, health and other services for children and their families.


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