Focus: To develop competency-based learning pathways for skills that can be used across disciplines to support school-wide AVID and literacy goals.
Focus: How will making our learning visible in math, with a focus on the critical concepts, improve both teaching practice and learner success?
Focus: Are learners feeling like they are safe to explore & build on their understanding; does the school’s practices allow for that, do we allow time for that?
Focus: Our primary focus was to continue working with our grade 8s from last year as well as connecting with our current grade 8s, while adapting our plans due to the limitations of Covid protocols.
Focus: Continuing to teach math cyclically focusing on depth of knowledge and understanding while incorporating more place-based learning and culture into math.
Focus: Our focus was to explore how loose parts and the Story Workshop framework could support oral language and literacy development with our K-3 learners.
Focus: Investigating what impact access to audiobooks and/or eBooks could have on the engagement and interest in reading for “reluctant readers”.
Focus: Increasing student voice and strengthening relationships between and among learners.
Focus: To see how our students are coping when returning from lockdown due to COVID.
Focus: In what way will providing intentional daily learning opportunities on Snuneymuxw cultural understandings and ways of knowing, increase our students’ sense of belonging and impact their success?
Focus: How can the structure of Story Workshop help our students view themselves as active creators of their own stories?
Focus: In what way(s) will building a district network deepen/expand/grow/impact the use of the POL as a lens through which we plan our lessons/teach, and how will this network allow teachers to feel more comfortable with including Indigenous ways of knowing in the classroom?
Focus: Implementing Universal Design for Learning into the classroom to help create a more inclusive environment for all learners.
Focus: Indigenizing School Culture and Curriculum.
Focus: Increase students’ literacy outcomes with structured literacy at Tiers 1, 2, and 3.
Focus: Our inquiry is ongoing, but due to the pandemic restrictions and protocols in the K-12 education system, this year was an exchange of ideas and focus on how to move forward, rather than hosting of the transitions feast.
Focus: Using “Powerful Writing Structures” as a foundation for providing structure, guidance and creative ideas for the writing programs in Grades 2 and 3.
Focus: Foundational Math Skills, Number Sense, Hands-on Learning and Mathematical Language/Vocabulary.
Focus: We wanted to bridge the transition from elementary to secondary school for Indigenous learners.
Focus: Students design and create short recipe booklets based on Canada’s new Food Guide, then select and prepare a recipe.