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ontario• The strategy Destination Réussite, volet amélioration des écoles[destination success, school improvement component],designed to maximize the chances for success of every studentfrom Grade 7 to Grade 12, made it possible to help 34 secondaryschools to implement, with their students, strategies of retention,teaching, and follow-up in order to increase the rate of academicsuccess and diploma attainment. The total number of graduatesfrom Ontario’s French-language schools increased from 4,509 in2005–06 to 4,979 in 2007–08.• SOS DEVOIRS, a service for helping students from Grade 1 toGrade 12 with their homework in all subjects of the Ontariocurriculum, offered its services to some 108,823 francophonestudents. The number of calls for on-line files climbed to 10,712,065, an increase of 66 per cent compared to the previous year.• Through recruitment efforts, Ontario’s French-languagecommunity colleges and bilingual universities increased thenumber of French-language students registered from 15,398in 2004–05 to 16,733 in 2008–09.HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTSIN SECOND-LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONOntario’s achievements in second-language instruction, between2005–06 and 2008–09, included the following outcomes supportedby federal–provincial funding arrangements:• In order to improve classroom support and student achievement,Ontario supported the hiring of French-as-a-second-language (FSL)consultants as well as literacy coaches and special assignmentteachers in most school boards. These FSL specialists areresponsible for providing support to classroom teachers; acquiringand purchasing literacy, oral language, and technology resources;and coordinating and/or delivering teacher training activities.• In 2008–09, 93 per cent of English-language school boardsprovided professional development opportunities to FSL teachers,including training on balanced literacy programs, effective literacyor differentiated instructional strategies, mentoring programs,demonstration classrooms, and on-line professional learningcommunities.42Pan-Canadian Report on Official Languages in Education 2005–06 to 2008–09 HIGHLIGHTS