Focus: Developing our understanding of Coast Salish Design Elements, and through this, extending our connection to the land on which our school community resides.
Focus: Increasing literacy skills for intermediate-aged Indigenous learners who were two or more years below grade level.
Focus: Using science fiction to teach concepts and improve scientific literacy.
Focus: Helping students, particularly Indigenous students, improve their reading skills and identity as a reader.
Focus: We hoped that playful learning experiences, based on core competency learning and understanding, would help motivate and engage our students and move them beyond an ‘indifferent attitude’ and improve mindsets, and academic achievement in literacy and numeracy.
Focus: Relationships and connections on multiple levels and in many directions.
Focus: We hoped that a playful approach for learning would help all our students, but particularly our Indigenous students adopt a more positive mindset and move students from an expressed indifference in learning to engaged learning.
Focus: 1) A continuation of building belonging with Indigenous families, and 2) How do we use pedagogy and curriculum to build belonging for Indigenous students across grades to feel belonging in classrooms.
Focus: To help Intermediate students reach grade level accuracy in reading through “explicit and systematic” instruction.
Focus: Adding visual representations of Indigenous culture at our school, so that our school environment can better support Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
Focus: Developing a deeper and broader understanding of number sense, from K-6, with a focus on improving numeracy outcomes for Indigenous learners.
Focus: To use the MathUp up curriculum and manipulatives to engage below grade level learners in our Math 8 classes
Focus: Having Elders in the school to encourage Indigenous learning, Indigenous learners, a sense of place and belonging, and attendance.
Focus: To learn about Indigenous plants and help with work around our school garden.
Focus: How will gamifying literacy practices enhance student abilities to engage with, and grow phonemic awareness and phonics skills?
Focus: What can we do as a school community that increases our sense of pride, enjoyment, kindness, empathy and belonging, and will this increase academic engagement?
Focus: Building a thinking classroom in math by keeping students engaged and thinking, prioritizing core competencies of collaboration and perseverance, and communicating the purpose behind math learning that values thinking rather than mimicking and memorization.
Focus: This inquiry investigates the merits of using cross-grade storytelling projects to help students make gains in many areas of the curriculum.
Focus: To enhance student engagement through the Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies Curriculum.