Focus: The connection between mathematics and learning from the land.
Focus: To engage my students in a project to educate and inform our community about climate change through the use of a long bike ride, theatre performance, and some social activism.
Focus: Exploring how educators can move students of colour from simply sharing their voices, towards exercising meaningful agency and leadership in ways that strengthen their sense of school belonging.
Focus: How are we facilitating student confidence, sense of belonging, leadership, voice, and positive personal identity at CHSS?
Focus: Could creating art inspired by diverse styles, including Indigenous art, serve as a meaningful way for our most vulnerable students—and their families—to feel more connected to our school communities?
Focus: Does having intentional, shared, place-based experiences and intentional audiences have a positive impact on students’ engagement in, and quality of, writing.
Focus: Building connection to story, land and each other through outdoor story walks, story workshop, and tools to increase communication between all students.
Focus: Using local animals as symbols to represent the qualities of learners, focused on the core competencies, to have students gain self-awareness of who they are as learners and focus on their strengths.
Focus: To support student self-regulation, identity, and language learning by creating a safe, culturally grounded classroom where learning is guided through Nadut’en language, oral assessment, and land-based experiences.
My focus was to include more indigenous teachings in my practice to help build a sense of connection to our greater community.
Focus: Developing self-regulation and independence in a classroom that values and responds to learner diversity.
Focus: Using hands-on Indigenous learning opportunities to increase student engagement in numeracy.
Focus: Growing our community’s connection with the land, learning about local Indigenous plants, planting local Indigenous plants to attract pollinators (re-wilding) and making our courtyard spaces more useful.
Focus: Self-regulation through outdoor learning.
Focus: To improve the bridge between conceptual understanding and long-term retention.
Focus: Deepening our learning to support ourselves and our learners with self-regulation strategies, so that they can take greater ownership of their learning while building trust and confidence in themselves.
Focus: Integrating literacy instruction that weaves together STEAM themes, Indigenous knowledge, and DE&I literature to help reduce the number of learners in the “Emerging” category in reading and writing.
Focus: Deepening our understanding of mathematical reasoning and how to best support students in developing strong number sense, resilience and strategies for persevering through problem solving.
Focus: Deepening relationship with land through interconnected learning experiences.