Focus: To increase Indigenous learners’ connection to the school community and increase knowledge and understanding of Indigenous history, traditions and cultures.
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Focus: To build confidence as writers who see purpose for their writing, who are willing to take risks, and whose written output reflects the strength of their ideas and voice in their oral language.
Focus: Why do students essentially stop borrowing books for enjoyment in high school and what changes can I make at the intermediate level to improve student readership in Gr 8-12?
Focus: To increase students’ access, engagement, and output during Daily 5 literacy development through universal design for learning, to improve students’ capacity to use and integrate technology in their literacy development, and to support student reflection and improve students’ capacity to self-assess using the core competencies.
Focus: On Math instruction – to encourage independent learning, enabling increased time for one to one and small group conferencing.
Focus: On Growth Mindset because of the social/emotional benefits children will gain.
Focus: How could story workshop develop literacy skills in all early learners?
Focus: How much can we improve students’ understanding of number sense by teaching number sense in context, taking time to develop it daily, teach connections such as inverse concepts and collaborate on this across the grade levels?
Focus: Developing self-regulated learning and emotional well being through digital story telling.
Focus: On changing our classroom spaces to reduce environmental stressors for our students and to help them be calm, alert and ready to learn.
Focus: To see how Math Talks affected student confidence levels in Math.
Focus: To help my ASDT students relate math with hands on projects and have them experience first hand visual evidence of mathematical concepts.
Focus: How can we make each child’s life better?
Focus: Fostering relationships between vulnerable learners and teachers to support student engagement/connection to classroom as a place.
Focus: Inclusive social emotional learning that involves community and encourages growth mindset, critical thinking, communication and self regulation.
Focus: Around building community through an indigenous lens, with a focus on the question “Will deeper circle discussions and practices better support the delivery of aboriginal ways of being.”
Focus: To increase student engagement, through the inquiry process.
Focus: On exploring identity, strengthening community connections, and increasing knowledge of local Coast Salish First Nations’ tradition and culture through story and a house post project with an Indigenous artist from the Squamish Nation.
Focus: On engagement in learning Mathematics using various methods such as Number Talks, Clothesline Math and 3 Act Math.
Focus: To explore how we might best incorporate Maker into our practice as teacher-librarians.