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.
Focus: To use a supported cohort model to increase the transitions rate by providing a greater sense of belonging and connection.
Focus: To build social, emotional and cultural connections for priority students in Grade 6 to foster a sense of belonging and community within the school.
Focus: Cross curricular learning that centers Indigenous land based pedagogy.
Focus: On building students’ understanding of Indigenous worldviews, specifically related to the role of oral language in traditional Indigenous ways of learning.
Focus: To connect students socially and build community, while developing literacy skills through story workshop and writers workshop.
Focus: To see if Indigenous hand drumming would improve student engagement with learning multiplication.
Focus: Our focus was to encourage students of all reading levels and backgrounds to read authentic texts with diverse perspectives.
Focus: How can we make school a more hospitable place for Indigenous (and all) students?
Focus: How can we link children’s play to the curriculum and discover how to communicate these links to a variety of members in our school community.
Focus: Investigating the gaps that could be filled in order for teachers to increase time spent on land-based, experiential learning activities for their students.
Focus: How do we support the building of a common language across the grades that will help students’ development as mathematicians?
Focus: With a focus on Social Emotional Learning, how can we help our students feel connected and supported during a global pandemic through the 4 R’s of the Longhouse?
Focus: How can we improve literacy and literacy engagement for Grade 8s and 9s?