Focus: On building connections with the Indigenous students in our school community.
Focus: Increasing engagement and connections, specifically in our Grade 10 population.
Focus: How can developing a school garden as a school-wide focus, help to build connections to this place and to each other?
Focus: On improving number sense from Kindergarten to grade 6, by reinvigorating the use of manipulatives to solidify the concrete understanding of number at all levels of Math learning.
Focus: How can we meaningfully integrate learning in our natural and local environment throughout the year, while embedding Indigenous ways of knowing and doing?
Focus: On student connectedness or lack thereof, and their success in school and mental health and wellness – both the positive or negative correlations between feeling connected and supported at school, or not feeling connected and supported at school.
Focus: “True Grit!” — Teaching our students about how to have “Grit.”
Focus: To draw awareness to Successful Learner Traits through children’s literature, to support core competencies and create a school-wide culture and language around the Successful Learner Traits.
Focus: On developing increased teacher attention to supporting student voice in writing.
Focus: To work on the scope and sequence for successful transitions of students in AVID from grades 9 to 12, continue to align AVID Centre curriculum standards with BC curricular competencies and Aboriginal world views, and build on that synergy of literacy strategies with AVID strategies to a school wide literacy plan to prepare students for a successful transition to college, careers and life.
Focus: Connecting students to local flora and investigating Aboriginal uses of the flora.
Focus: Considering the influence an involved and engaged parent/guardian can have on the success rate of a student, how can we create a strong sense of belonging for our families?
Focus: To explore the connections between First Peoples Principles of Learning and Growth Mindset.
Focus: To define, measure and document what was going on for our students in the general area of “behaviour.”
Focus: Incorporating more opportunities for students to experience Indigenous knowledge.
Focus: How students might be growing in their connection to land.
Focus: On connectedness, reciprocal relationships and sense of place.
Focus: We focused on enhancing communication skills and confidence, in communicating students’ thinking in math.
Focus: Creating a garden where students and staff can learn about Indigenous plants, Aboriginal sustainable practices, and local Hul’qui’mi’num language and understanding.
Focus: Creation of podcast episodes centred around critical thinking and communication, to build social awareness and responsibility.