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?
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 integrate the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning, primarily through the lens of Witsuwit’en culture, to develop community and a sense of belonging.
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