Focus: On building connections among the school community members and increasing our understanding of local Indigenous traditional practices by creating a whole school Coast Salish style legacy weaving project.
Focus: How will a cyclical based math approach, focusing on “Big Ideas”, in addition to the focus on developing a growth mindset have an impact on student achievement in numeracy as measured by the BC Performance Standards, District Math Assessment, and school-wide assessments?
Focus: For each student to challenge themselves individually with less fear.
Focus: Two French Immersion Kindergarten classes will combine with our district Aboriginal K / 1 program to share Aboriginal culture and language through oral story-telling and puppets, and traditional drumming – focusing on the local FN language of our valley.
Focus: Creating a safe and inclusive playground.
Focus: On the following First Peoples Principle of Learning — learning is holistic, reflective, experiential, and relational (specifically focusing on connectedness, reciprocal relationships, and sense of place). Further, our focus area was inquiry-based learning, exploring the interconnectedness of science and mathematics, and the holistic nature of learning — we looked to the First Peoples Principles of Learning, BC curriculum, and core competencies to inform and guide the learning (students engaged in inquiries that were connected to place, story, cultural practices, and perspectives relevant to local First Peoples communities, the local community, and other cultures).
Focus: What can we do to improve student support, connections and engagement with our ELL students?
Focus: We investigated how we could move from more traditional libraries to a Library Learning Commons model in an effort to better support today’s students.
Focus: How can we include aboriginal ways of knowing into how we approach self-regulation with our young learners?
Focus: Will a combination of digital, text based, journal, geographical map or other media source styles of research be more meaningful than just digital web based research in a Secondary Foods class?
Focus: On self-regulation and exploration of implementing programs (or versions thereof) into classes. We are interested to see if direct teaching of regulation translates into better student achievement.
Focus: Our staff and students collaborated on the creation of a blanket which documented our journey towards reconciliation.
Focus: Using focused literacy instruction to increase students’ ability to take different perspectives and increase their social-emotional intelligence.
Focus: Teaching students the skills of self regulated learning, focused on creating a flexible learning environment which would impact student engagement and success.
Focus: Supporting struggling writers through involvement in formative assessment.