Focus: To work on the scope and sequence for successful transitions of students in AVID from grades 9 to 12, continue to align AVID Centre curriculum standards with BC curricular competencies and Aboriginal world views, and build on that synergy of literacy strategies with AVID strategies to a school wide literacy plan to prepare students for a successful transition to college, careers and life.
Focus: Connecting students to local flora and investigating Aboriginal uses of the flora.
Focus: Considering the influence an involved and engaged parent/guardian can have on the success rate of a student, how can we create a strong sense of belonging for our families?
Focus: To explore the connections between First Peoples Principles of Learning and Growth Mindset.
Focus: To define, measure and document what was going on for our students in the general area of “behaviour.”
Focus: Incorporating more opportunities for students to experience Indigenous knowledge.
Focus: How students might be growing in their connection to land.
Focus: On connectedness, reciprocal relationships and sense of place.
Focus: We focused on enhancing communication skills and confidence, in communicating students’ thinking in math.
Focus: Creating a garden where students and staff can learn about Indigenous plants, Aboriginal sustainable practices, and local Hul’qui’mi’num language and understanding.
Focus: Creation of podcast episodes centred around critical thinking and communication, to build social awareness and responsibility.
Focus: To bring authentic learning experience to students, and to share our learning with our colleagues and wider school community.
Focus: Cultivating a school-wide culture of thinking, and increasing student initiative/ownership of learning.
Focus: How will having consistent, collaborative, and intentional expectations accelerate students development in literacy?
Focus: Building number sense, using clear learning targets and daily number routines.
Focus: Staff professional development relating to Indigenous Learning.
Focus: To increase students’ math fluency and opportunity for meaningful practice and real-world applications, as well as to improve students’ ability to communicate math strategies according to their flexibility and efficiency.
Focus: How transforming math lessons or units to an experience, or experiences, could lead students to conceptual understanding.