Focus: How do ELL students feel about learning English and what they need to be successful in middle school?
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Focus: By providing our struggling readers with good fit, high interest books, we wanted to see if it would help them to become more engaged and thus improve their reading outcomes.
Focus: Through flexible literacy programs in the classroom and more collaboration between colleagues, how can we increase students’ literacy achievement and engagement?
Focus: To have students and staff understand and use a common language to assess personal learning and to address learning needs.
Focus: In what ways will an Indigenous community garden and focus on Indigenous plants increase understanding of Aboriginal Ways of Knowing for both students and staff?
Focus: Using an Aboriginal lens and Outdoor Education how can we have our students develop self-regulation tools, a greater understanding of First Nations Cultures, and a respect for nature, themselves, and others?
Focus: To investigate how creating land based art works with first nations influences foster collaboration and reflection in art classes and across the school community.
Focus: Mathematical Mindsets (Growth Mindset in Mathematics).
Focus: Increasing our school-wide emphasis on recognizing and celebrating Witsuwiten culture will increase Aboriginal students’ feelings of pride, acceptance and belonging which are necessary components of academic success.
Focus: How can we improve the life of every child?
Focus: Following specific protocol for daily Welcome Circles; Restitution Circles between students and inclusive family members when needed.
Focus: Infusing place-based learning, First Peoples Principles of Learning, and Aboriginal perspectives in personalized inquiry based learning.
Focus: What will be the impacts of a school wide heritage project on student development of positive personal and cultural identity?
Focus: To see if students are learning more about First Peoples of Canada through the incorporation of Aboriginal Liaisons and Halq’emeylem Teachers.
Focus: In what ways will deliberate and planned activities in the classroom, on the land, and in community shape students’ sense of identity and influence their metacognition of transferable skills and strengths?
Focus: How can connecting to place enhance our learning experiences?
Focus: To integrate the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning, primarily through the lens of Witsuwit’en culture, to develop community and a sense of belonging.
Focus: In what way will creating a safe learning environment in which students are able to learn deeply through self-determination and self-regulation impact learning?
Focus: Developing and maintaining relationships in our learning community is essential to our ability to support learners in a place-based environment to develop literacy, numeracy and social skills.