Focus: What happens when you use P.E. games to teach basic physical literacy skills such as jumping, throwing, hand-eye-coordination, and moving efficiently?
Focus: How creating lessons and activities for Math 8, Science 8 and Socials Studies 8 students that are differentiated and inclusive, help ensure success for all students at their individual ability levels?
Focus: To combine two early literacy screeners to administer with our K-2 students in order to have a tool to identify specific early emergent foundation skills (phonemic and phonological awareness – as identified in the revised curriculum) in order to use the data to identify students that need early instruction, in order for all students to become successful readers by the end of grade 3.
Focus: To develop core competencies through e-portfolio reflections.
Focus: We both used Fresh Grade and hoped for more parental involvement and more awareness of work quality by the students when reporting to parents.
Focus: On growth mindset improve our students abilities in math?
Focus: ‘The Seven Sacred Teachings’ with specific inquiry into ‘The Sacred Teaching of Love’.
Focus: Developing students’ ownership of learning.
Focus: Will student created art, books and videos about the land, people and culture of Squamish increase students ability to share, connect and build cultural understanding?
Focus: On helping our students transition to school, building trust with our families and attempted to make positive connections with students and families.
Focus: Making connections between learning outside the classroom and inside the classroom, connecting to areas of strength and interest to foster engagement in a variety of pursuits, including academic.
Focus: In what ways can authentic assessment be used as a tool to increase learner engagement, and in what ways can this path be guided by the Lil’wat Principle of Cwelep?
Focus: Learning about the impact of Growth Mindset through drawing or carving with a Squamish Nation lens.
Focus: To increase our students’ sense of belonging and/or community.
Focus: Finding ways to encourage various opportunities for writing among primary students.
Focus: How do ELL students feel about learning English and what they need to be successful in middle school?
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?