Focus: Supporting self-regulation (emotional regulation and engagement) through place-based learning with a particular emphasis on reciprocity.
Focus: Exploring how incorporating Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing into repeated outdoor and nature-based learning experiences will support Indigenous and non-Indigenous literacy learning and foster student connections to place.
Focus: We wanted to explore and learn how to authentically infuse Indigenous perspectives through the math and art curriculum, and incorporate First Peoples worldviews and perspectives to make connections to mathematical concepts amongst grade 2 and 3 students.
Focus: Developing social-emotional well-being by increasing sense of belonging/school connectedness for disconnected students.
Focus: To investigate the efficacy of using functional literacy (cookbooks) to improve reading fluency for struggling learners.
Focus: Building Connection through Social-Emotional Learning with a PBIS Framework
Focus: How can we meet diverse learning needs in two grade 5 / 6 classrooms through co-teaching, co-planning, and co-creating?
Focus: To improve Indigenous learner success and create safe learning environments.
Focus: Evolving our universal meals (John Barsby Snack Cart) program to include cultural elements that reflect our learners.
Focus: Cultivating local and sacred plant knowledge through experiential learning and creating a local guidebook.
Focus: Will STEM/Coding experiences reinforce student engagement in early literacy/math skills?
Focus: To weave Indigenous culture throughout my Gr. 7 and Gr. 8 English classes to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing using several resources.
Focus: How might a district-wide school-based approach to meaningful evidence gathering and responsive instruction through an inquiry lens move learning forward for students?
Focus: The continuation of cyclical math teaching with a focus on incorporating more place-based learning and culture into our learning.
Focus: Looking at how using Indigenous perspectives and resources for math will help the students connect to math in a more positive way, as well as expand students’ understanding of where math exists in the world.
Focus: Shifting the focus of learning from content to skill development in senior maths and sciences.
Focus: Engaging students who have traditionally not participated in school activities, through rock climbing and developing core competency awareness through activity.
Focus: Through telling our own stories, we will focus on how our connections to place and land inform our individual and collective identities and stories.
Focus: How can assessment be used to promote student success and over-all well being?
Focus: To build a sense of belonging for all learners in our program.