Focus: How will gamifying literacy practices enhance student abilities to engage with, and grow phonemic awareness and phonics skills?
Focus: What can we do as a school community that increases our sense of pride, enjoyment, kindness, empathy and belonging, and will this increase academic engagement?
Focus: Building a thinking classroom in math by keeping students engaged and thinking, prioritizing core competencies of collaboration and perseverance, and communicating the purpose behind math learning that values thinking rather than mimicking and memorization.
Focus: This inquiry investigates the merits of using cross-grade storytelling projects to help students make gains in many areas of the curriculum.
Focus: To enhance student engagement through the Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies Curriculum.
Focus: Utilizing Indigenous literature written by Indigenous authors with my Gr. 8 English students, as they work with different graphic novels.
Focus: To have our incoming from elementary school grade 6’s gain a greater sense of community.
Focus: Exploring connections to place through Indigenous Storywork.
Focus: How can engaging in creating traditional Lil’Wat and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh artifacts, as a whole school, begin us on our journey of decolonization?
Focus: To use Story Workshop strategies and the haahuupaa philosophy (teaching with kindness/Indigenous way of knowing) to inspire joy and confidence in writing.
Focus: To strengthen our connections through experience of place: the forest, river and sea.
Focus: Creating a feeling of belonging and purpose at school.
Focus: Centered on the second principle of the First Peoples Principles of Learning, where learning is holistic, reflexive, experiential and relational.
Focus: Facilitating successful transitions for students from Grade 8 into Grade 9.
Focus: For the students to make connections and build relationships with the adults in their school, in order to foster academic success.
Focus: Mitigating the negative effect of trauma on a student’s success rate, while supporting them to process the event(s) and learn better ways to cope.
Focus: Learn about new tools and concepts in literacy instruction; determine how these tools and concepts are working for our primary learners.
Focus: To use vertical surfaces as a tool to increase student participation, motivation and efficiency during math class.
Focus: Connecting Aboriginal understandings and oral storytelling practices through experiential, applied design, skills & technology practices, based upon the use of our nature classroom, the land, nature or placed-based learning.
Focus: Rethinking staff learning and engagement using the Lil’wat Principles of Learning, as articulated by Dr. Lorna Williams.