Focus: Students’ connections to staff in schools, beyond the teachers, and advocates directly involved in the Indigenous learning communities.
Focus: Continue to use and deepen cultural and land-based education to centre Lil’wat and St’at’imc ways of knowing, doing and being into the daily functioning of learning at PSS.
Focus: Creating and maintaining authentic relationship-based connections with Grades 8 and 9 Indigenous students.
Focus: How can we use our Career program (dual credit) opportunities to support our Indigenous learners’ transition to post secondary or the workplace, after graduation.
Focus: Reigniting the spark for learning, where students take ownership of their own learning by engaging in passion projects.
Focus: How does place attachment (knowing place) help promote wellbeing, engagement and over all cognition?
Focus: How the collecting of our own story and the story of others will contribute the development of connections to self, place and others.
Focus: What needs to change in order for our students to feel a strong sense of belonging and connectedness to the school community?
Focus: How can the school library focus on being a responsive, welcoming, nurturing and kind space for all while enticing learning?
Focus: In what ways might Story Workshop nurture authorship and writer identity and how might the Story Studio in the Library promote literacy school wide?
Focus: To address the anxiety (shutting down) shown in students when doing mathematics.
Focus: How does KSS, as a learning community, create opportunities for equity that foster a sense of belonging for all?
Focus: Addressing diverse learner needs in literacy in intermediate classrooms
Focus: Studying and implementing Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.
Focus: Increasing storytelling and writing skills in English and Carrier languages through story workshop.
Focus: Awareness of Coast Salish culture through the diverse respectful meanings of Coast Salish art.
Focus: On teaching social and emotional skills using Play is the Way, a unique program of physically interactive games, 5 guiding concepts, and specific and empowering self-reflective language.
Focus: To help students ease their transition from middle school to high school, by providing them with opportunities to learn more about careers that might interest them.
Focus: On restorative practices with an emphasis on investigating, authenticating and appreciating our unique origins and histories.