STEVESTON ROOM | 2:15 – 3:15
NOIIE Numeracy & Literacy Project (BC, Canada)
Experiential Numeracy Learning, AFL and Pedagogical Documentation: How Indigenous place-based numeracy explorations and pedagogical documentation foster the embodiment of number, developing that deep sense and understanding of number in learners.
Presenters: Heidi Jungwirth & Alison Walkley (SD 72)
Sparking & Sustaining A Passion for Learning: Strengthening literacy and numeracy through place-based and playful learning.
Presenter: Debbie Koehn (SD 91)
Indigenous Story Mats in the Mathematics Classroom: Using Indigenous story mats and Indigenous storytelling in math to increase student engagement, while strengthening contextual and conceptual understanding of math concepts.
Presenters: Jess Kyle, Allison Hotti & Cheryl Corrick (SD 36)
Persistence & Strategic Literacy Interventions Show Promise In the Face of Challenges: The ‘little school that could’; making inroads with Indigenous learners’ literacy through targeted assessments and game-based interventions.
Presenters: Karie Evans (SD 91)
BRIDGEPORT ROOM | 2:15 – 3:15
Ties to Place: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being, Spirals of Inquiry and Student Success (Hawaii, USA)
We will provide a space for sharing one’s place and personal understandings of learning, being, and knowing that grow from that locale and experience. We invite participants to apply their understanding of their place to spirals of inquiry. Using reflections of one’s place, we will guide a conversation on how indigeneity plays a role in student success.
Presenters: Rebbecca Sweeney, Pua Kaʻai & Hawaii NOIIE team
Students, teachers and school leaders learn together and side by side – how do the students benefit? (Sweden)
Experiences from our schools show the value of learning together on different levels in the school system. Teachers creating the best learning situations for their students is a process that provides school leaders with data about what professional learning has to take place to facilitate the best possible school environment for all learners.
Presenters: Lillemor Rehnberg, Ingela Netz & Sweden NOIIE team
GULF OF GEORGIA ROOM | 2:15 – 3:15
Connecting with Students and Families Beyond the School Walls (BC, Canada)
Our school is exploring innovative ways to go out into the communities we serve. This has ignited and strengthened family-school engagement and created transformational experiences for staff. What happens when we listen to families in the spaces where they feel safe? How do we consistently create these opportunities?
Presenters: Naryn Searcy (SD 53)
School Leadership as Community Stewardship (BC, Canada)
As an administration team, we see our primary purpose as one of community stewardship. Working together we believe that all schools, despite their history and social/economic status, can and should always strive to be high performing. We will be sharing our stories and strategies along the journey so far.
Presenters: John Mann & Niels Nielsen (SD 37)
LULU ISLAND ROOM | 2:15 – 3:15
Co-creating Possibilities in the Early Years (BC, Canada)
Two BC inquiry teams will share a look into how they are co-creating learning in the Early Years with the perspective from a school district and the perspective from a classroom; both highlighting the importance of reflecting upon being responsive in their community’s context and the story of children.
Presenters: Aimee Blow (SD 68) & Kirsten Deasey (SD 46)
School Connectedness (Wales)
We have been using the Spiral of Inquiry to help us think critically about how the organizational and pedagogical features of our school influence a sense of belonging and connectedness. Research suggests that our wellbeing is affected by the quality of our relationships and our affiliation to our school community (Markham and Aveyard, 2003; Rowe and Stewart, 2011). This is especially important in our setting, providing education and care for students who have experienced significant trauma and exclusion. This Spiral has brought teachers and students together to create new understandings of our work and the changes needed for greater school connectedness.
Presenters: Shan Jones, Sophie Powell, Kevin Farrow & Abigail Roberts
