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AEP in Manitoba: Extending Genuine Learning and Social Experiences for All School Communities, Final Consultation Summary (
258 KB)
The standards provide school divisions with a framework to use in developing a local policy for appropriate educational programming.
AEP in Manitoba: Formal Dispute Resolution Process
This document provides information about the formal dispute resolution process in Manitoba.
Best Practices in School-based Suicide Prevention 2014 ( 548 KB)
This guide is intended to provide a framework to help school administrators and their partners develop comprehensive planning for suicide prevention.
Bridging to Adulthood: A Protocol for Transitioning Students with Exceptional Needs from School to Community
This protocol is intended for transition planning partners, including: Manitoba Child and Family Services, Child and Family Services Authorities and Agencies, Manitoba Health, regional health authorities programs and services, Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, and educators in Manitoba.
Companion Guide for the Information Sharing Protocol under the Youth Criminal Justice Act ( 60 KB)
Manitoba Justice, Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth and stakeholders including police services, school trustees and senior school administrators jointly developed this protocol. The protocol provides guidelines for the disclosure of information to schools and how schools must protect and deal with this information about young persons who have been dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, or the Young Offenders Act. A copy of the protocol is available to all staff in each respective system.
Education and Child and Family Services Protocol for Children and Youth in Care ( 1.39 MB)
This protocol will improve information sharing, promote effective communication, and strengthen joint planning among educators, school-based teams, child and family services workers, family members and students. Further, the protocol promotes consistency of practice across Manitoba.
Educational Assistants in Manitoba
This document provides educators, school administrators, and school division administrators with a resource to support the work of educational assistants in Manitoba schools.
Educators' Resource Guide: Supporting Students Who Are Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing
This guide provides information to support educational programming and help ensure successful school experiences for students who are Deaf and/or hard of hearing (D/HH).
Information Sharing Protocol Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act ( 95 KB)
This protocol was developed jointly by Manitoba Justice, Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth and stakeholder groups including police services, school trustees and senior school administrators. It provides guidelines for the disclosure of information about young persons who have been dealt with under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, or the Young Offenders Act, and includes how schools must protect and deal with this information.
Listening and Speaking: First Steps into Literacy: A Support Document for Kindergarten Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists
The purpose of this document is to help
Kindergarten teachers and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) enhance the oral language of all Kindergarten children within the playful literacy learning work and talk of the Kindergarten classroom.
Manitoba Sourcebook for School Guidance and Counselling Services: A Comprehensive and Developmental Approach
The purpose of this document is to support school counsellors in Manitoba schools. Specific information related to scope of activities, areas of service delivery, comprehensive and developmental guidance-related learning outcomes, and curriculum connections is provided, reflecting the breadth and depth of guidance and counselling in today’s schools.
Pandemic Learning Forum Summary: What We Heard
The Pandemic Learning Forum was held in the fall of 2022 to reflect on learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic and engage in dialogue in response to these learnings. The forum brought together officials from the department of Education and Early Childhood Learning, school division, superintendents, and educator teams from across Manitoba to share what they learned and how they responded during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting innovative education supports and programming.
Protocol for Early Childhood Transition to School for Children with Additional Support Needs ( 464 KB)
This protocol replaces the previous document, Guidelines for Early Childhood Transition to School for Children with Special Needs (2002), and incorporates feedback from families, service providers and other stakeholders in transition planning for children with additional support needs.
Reporting of Child Protection and Child Abuse ( 652 KB)
This handbook was developed to help service providers and all people working with children to recognize and report suspected child abuse.
Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive Enhancing Proactive Supports to Minimize the Use of Suspension
This document is intended to expand upon both the legislation and regulation where suspension is determined to be the appropriate disciplinary consequence when a student’s unacceptable conduct or disruptive behaviour is found to be injurious to the school environment and/or deemed an imminent safety risk to students and staff.
Safe and Caring Schools: A Policy Directive Enhancing Proactive Supports to Minimize the Use of Seclusion
This document provides guidelines for school divisions in the development of policies and procedures on the use of seclusion as a safety response when a student poses an immediate risk of serious physical harm to self or others.
Safe and Caring Schools: A Whole-School Approach to Planning for Safety and Belonging
This support document is based on current research and evidence-based practice in planning for and sustaining positive, healthy, and safe schools.
Services for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
The information in this guide will help Manitoba families and schools support students who are blind or visually impaired from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
Standards for Appropriate Educational Programming in Manitoba
This document outlines standards and provides policy direction to define appropriate educational programming for Manitoba students.
Student-Specific Planning: A Handbook for Developing and Implementing Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
This practical resource provides student support teams with a foundational student-specific planning process to address the wide range of exceptional learning needs of students throughout their school careers.
Supporting Inclusion - Modification and Individualized Programming in Manitoba Schools ( 782 KB)
This support document provides information for classroom teachers, resource teachers, school principals, and school division administrators to use in supporting the appropriate educational programming of students with intellectual deficits/intellectual developmental disorders in inclusive schools in Manitoba.
Supporting Inclusive Schools: A Handbook for Developing and Implementing Programming for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This support document is a planning and programming resource for school teams who support students with ASD.
Supporting Inclusive Schools: A Handbook for Resource Teachers in Manitoba Schools
This support document is for resource teachers and other educators working in an inclusive school environment to address the diverse needs of all students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It is not a policy document.
Supporting Inclusive Schools: Addressing the Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities
This resource is intended to support educators as they work with students with learning disabilities within inclusive classrooms and schools.
Supporting Inclusive Schools: Educational Assessment: Considerations for Students Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired (BVI)
This support document explains the impact of blindness, low vision, and/or cortical visual impairment on student learning and the considerations for adaptations that are necessary when assessing students who are blind or visually impaired.
Supporting Inclusive Schools: School based Planning and Reporting – A Framework for Developing and Implementing Annual School Plans and Reports
This document provides a framework for educators working with planning teams, creating school plans, and reporting to the Department, division/district, and community.
Supporting Students who are Deafblind: A Handbook for Teachers
This handbook contains an overview of services offered by the Consultants for Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Consultants for Blind and Visually Impaired for students with significant loss in both hearing and vision in Manitoba schools.
Task Force on Special Needs Funding: Report for the Minister of Education and Advanced Learning ( 212 KB) November 2015
The Task Force on Special Needs Funding was established by the Minister of Education and Advanced Learning to explore potential changes, improvements, and/or alternative models for funding.
Towards Inclusion:
From Challenges to Possibilities – Planning for Behaviour
This planning resource for student service administrators, principals resource teachers, school counsellors, clinicians, classroom teachers and community professionals to assist schools in developing proactive and reactive approaches to behaviour.
Towards Inclusion:
Supporting Positive Behaviour in Manitoba Classrooms
This document provides information for schools on universal approaches, proactive interventions and strategies, and evidence-based practices when working with students who present challenging behaviours.
When Words are not Enough: Precursors to Threat – An Early Warning System for School Counsellors
This booklet was designed for trained school counsellors as an early warning system that may increase early intervention to prevent, delay, or de-escalate behaviour that is threatening.
Working
Together: A Guide to Positive Problem Solving for Schools, Families,
and Communities
The purpose of this guide is to give parents, educators, and community members information to take part in the co-operative, creative problem-solving process of informal dispute resolution.
Working Together:
A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs in School
This document provides information for parents of children with special needs and describes some of the services and activities that might be used to meet student needs at school.
Working Together: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs in School [Brochure] ( 796 KB)
This brochure provides a brief overview of the information available in the handbook Working Together: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs in School.
Working Together: A Parent's Guide to Formal Dispute Resolution
This guide outlines the formal review process, describes the issues that qualify for a formal review, and poses questions to consider when deciding whether a formal review might be appropriate to your situation.
Working Together: A Parent's Guide to Transition from School Community
This guide, intended for parents, guardians, foster parents and caregivers, provides information to assist families in participating in transition planning.
Wraparound Protocol for Children and Youth with Severe to Profound Emotional and Behavioural Disorders (1.46 MB)
This protocol is intended for service providers as well as caregivers and natural community supports who may be involved in building a collaborative care plan for children and youth experiencing severe to profound emotional and behavioural challenges.
