Focus: How can we further develop students’ sense of social awareness and responsibility (core competency) through the science curriculum?
Focus: To weave Indigenous culture throughout my semester classes to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, using a variety of literacy resources.
Focus: To continue to grow our knowledge of mathematical instruction (year 3), focusing in on how we can teach/assess the curricular competencies with the intention of deepening our students’ understanding of number sense and making our instruction accessible for all learners.
Focus: The primary teachers were interested in looking at early reading intervention and differentiation of skills practice.
Focus: How can you improve spelling with intermediate students that is transferable to their writing?
Focus: We wrote personalized land acknowledgements so that each student and staff member had a better understanding of the purpose behind the land acknowledgement.
Focus: Building and maintaining stronger and joyful teaching teams in our Middle Years wing.
Focus: Cultivating curiosity and wonder through outdoor learning.
Focus: How can children use oral language during story workshop to incorporate Aboriginal Ways of Knowing?
Focus: Improving student attendance, engagement and academic success through a comprehensive, twice daily, free school meal program.
Focus: As a District Team we wanted to understand what created a risk free environment for adults – what supports needed to be in place and what circumstances needed to be realized in order for adults to move learning into place?
Focus: We focused on helping students develop transferable skills between science subject areas, in particular: laboratory write-ups and methodologies.
Focus: Engaging students through competency based learning while covering the content.
Focus: How can we utilize our beautiful outdoor spaces to help deepen our relationships to place and to each other, and as a result become more richly connected to and appreciative of all aspects of our community.
Focus: We built our capacity to be better prepared/educated to deal with issues surrounding students’ mental health and wellness while at school.
Focus: Incorporating core subjects and Indigenous learning meaningfully into outdoor education, to create investment in the community.
Focus: Ultimately our focus emerged as determining the needs of Priority Students, developing a plan for addressing these student needs, and ensuring that our team had a systematic plan to help all of our students by attempting to reduce and eliminate barriers and provide more culturally inclusive events.
Focus: Build relationships with students who are vulnerable.
Focus: Our focus was to assist students in finding a deeper connection to what they were learning in school, while building relationships with their peers, Indigenous Transition Coach, and their future Careers Coordinator at their upcoming high school.
Focus: To develop competency-based learning pathways for skills that can be used across disciplines to support school-wide AVID and literacy goals.