Focus: Evolving our universal meals (John Barsby Snack Cart) program to include cultural elements that reflect our learners.
Focus: Cultivating local and sacred plant knowledge through experiential learning and creating a local guidebook.
Focus: Will STEM/Coding experiences reinforce student engagement in early literacy/math skills?
Focus: To weave Indigenous culture throughout my Gr. 7 and Gr. 8 English classes to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing using several resources.
Focus: How might a district-wide school-based approach to meaningful evidence gathering and responsive instruction through an inquiry lens move learning forward for students?
Focus: The continuation of cyclical math teaching with a focus on incorporating more place-based learning and culture into our learning.
Focus: Looking at how using Indigenous perspectives and resources for math will help the students connect to math in a more positive way, as well as expand students’ understanding of where math exists in the world.
Focus: Shifting the focus of learning from content to skill development in senior maths and sciences.
Focus: Engaging students who have traditionally not participated in school activities, through rock climbing and developing core competency awareness through activity.
Focus: Through telling our own stories, we will focus on how our connections to place and land inform our individual and collective identities and stories.
Focus: How can assessment be used to promote student success and over-all well being?
Focus: To build a sense of belonging for all learners in our program.
Focus: Our committee focused on providing opportunities for students to connect to and learn from our local forest.
Focus: To explore whether interacting with audiobooks (in French) improve student attitudes towards and engagement in reading, and to create inclusive reading classrooms by providing alternative modes of reading.
Focus: Gaining a stronger understanding of the history of the local area.
Focus: The impact of purposeful, choice-based play on student self-regulation.
Focus: To help mitigate the effects of ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) in our students and increase their chances of life success.
Focus: Using play, loose parts and Story Workshop for supporting oral language and writing.
Focus: Developing a deeper and broader understanding of number sense from K-3.
Focus: Student and teacher connectedness and engagement through collaboration, exploration, inquiry and play.