Focus: Would the students develop a deeper sense of place (relationship with the land) by having richer literature in the library focusing mainly on Indigenous ways of being?
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Focus: To explore the connection between First Peoples Principles of Learning and mathematics through hands-on experiences, and how this promotes student engagement.
Focus: We wanted to investigate First People’s Learning, expanding it to more cross-curricular areas.
Focus: Connection to place, promoting personal connections with nature, learning through careful observation, and local plants and animals that are around us.
Focus: To have our students be more connected to the environment and the Coast Salish land our school is located on.
Focus: To provide students with an experiential and holistic way of experiencing the land in which they live, learn and play.
Focus: Self-regulation and how interacting with our natural environment promotes mindfulness.
Focus: To increase students’ interest in the pond, thereby deepening their connection to place, their sense of responsibility and feelings of belonging.
Focus: To plant the seeds of understanding of the history of the land we live on and the First Peoples that came before us. (Connecting students with nature and giving them a sense of wonder)
Focus: On building connections with the Indigenous students in our school community.
Focus: How can developing a school garden as a school-wide focus, help to build connections to this place and to each other?
Focus: To explore the connections between First Peoples Principles of Learning and Growth Mindset.
Focus: To bring authentic learning experience to students, and to share our learning with our colleagues and wider school community.
Focus: Staff professional development relating to Indigenous Learning.
Focus: How do children develop a sense of place in a joyful, playful, and meaningful way?
Focus: Honouring the Land and nature through place-based and experiential learning.
Focus: For our first year we focused on the development and growth of cultural identity for our Indigenous students, in a new school that hasn’t yet had time to establish a strong sense of community and place.
Focus: On First Peoples Principles of Leaning, goal setting, story-telling and morning meetings.
Focus: Around Math Identity and self-assessment — we have worked to encourage development of student’s positive identities in Math, by exploring how students feel about themselves as Math Learners and by challenging ideas of what Math can be by introducing ideas of Indigenous perspectives to Mathematical thinking and through ongoing reflective assessment.