Focus: How do children develop a sense of place in a joyful, playful, and meaningful way?
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Focus: Physical movement during math activity time will help reduce math anxiety and increase mathematical mindset, growth mindset, and numeracy skill retention.
Focus: To create a reading program based on UDL, with positive impact on the level of joy in reading as well as student progress.
Focus: Honouring the Land and nature through place-based and experiential learning.
Focus: Student ownership of learning/growth mindset and assessment for learning practices.
Focus: To continue to develop our grade 9 ELL transitions, from our middle school to high school campuses.
Focus: How can we bridge the explicit teaching SEL/Self-Reg strategies and regular ‘academic’ learning? Is assessment for learning/feedback techniques the bridge?
Focus: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and developing academic perseverance and risk-taking.
Focus: Enhancing assessment for learning practices, in order to increase student ownership of learning.
Focus: How does our history (past experiences, culture, family) impact our sense of identity, and specifically that of Indigenous peoples?
Focus: How do I create meaningful fitness testing in P.E. classes?
Focus: Can emerging technologies such as VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality) and 360 photography succeed in improving student engagement, foster deeper learning, and broaden students’ perspectives of the world? Can they be effectively used in Yukon classrooms (technical & logistics)?
Focus: Understanding Salmon Survival Through Gamification.
Ecole Glenmore, Ecole Dr. Knox Middle, Anne McClymont Elementary, Ecole Belgo SD#23 Central Okanagan
Focus: Both in our own setting and getting out of our own settings, what do we see in innovative learning environments that is making a difference for students’ learning.
Focus: Increase student enjoyment of fruits and vegetables through continued involvement with the BC School Fruit & Vegetable Program and grow indoor herb and micro-greens via the use of Sun Blaster lights.
Focus: We created a Buddy System between Elementary and Middle School students, to build social connection and motivation for learning.
Focus: To increase student engagement in existing online learning opportunities (specifically English 10-12) through the development of a gamified framework.
Focus: To create a thinking classroom using strategies inspired by Peter Liljedal.
Focus: On the First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
Focus: To see if by increasing awareness and skill development of Physical Literacy throughout our District, would it increase all students’ physical activity levels?