Focus: How early intervention of phonological skills can impact students’ story-telling skills and risk-taking in group work, using familiar nursery rhymes and stories as a foundation.
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Focus: Increasing awareness of positive aspects of Indigenous culture to our whole school.
Focus: Fertilizing Roots: Reconnecting with Indigenous Heritage.
Focus: Through the English First Peoples 10 course, foster the curiosity that builds students’ desire to learn more about Indigenous cultural perspectives and experience of identity in Canada, as well as build understanding that this knowledge is vital to their future as citizens.
Focus: Supporting Elementary Educators to continue instructing from an Indigenous pedagogical frame in thoughtful, respectful and responsible ways.
Focus: To support our community in caring for salmon like family and developing reciprocal and respectful relationships with Mother Earth.
Focus: Will students become more engaged learners when they are able to demonstrate their competencies in a wider variety of ways when using a digital portfolio?
Focus: Increasing reading fluency, including prosody, accuracy and speed, with our Grade 5 and 6 classes.
Focus: To apply numeracy skills, creative/critical thinking, and problem solving through the experience of carving a Secwepemc Cottonwood dugout canoe to see if we can increase student motivation, sense of belonging and engagement with numeracy.
Focus: Bridging the gap between home, families and the school; building positive relationships and connections.
Focus: Creation of a GSA Club that meets weekly to create a safe space for LGBTQ2S+ people and their allies.
Focus: To improve students’ sense of belonging by “leveling the playing field” with experiences provided to all students.
Focus: How do we connect students from Nakusp Secondary School and Lucerne Elementary/Secondary School through a Track and Field Meet.
Focus: We wanted to see if talking circle was an effective strategy to increase psychological safety in the classroom, so that students could more easily engage in learning.
Focus: Supporting change in the school system and at the community level so that Indigenous and other equity-seeking learners can transition from unsafe experiences/environments at school to safe experiences/environments at school.
Focus: How can independent reading and story studios be combined to increase student accountability around just right texts, as well as formative assessment?
Focus: This year we had cross-curricular lessons on harvesting cedar, which allowed multi-grades and multi-classes to have more land-based learning, Indigenous pedagogy and understanding, which included community Elders.