Focus: If we work together to develop our collective efficacy regarding making learning visible, we will be able to build student capacity in the competencies of critical thinking and collaboration.
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Listening to students, staff and community voices on how structural and relational issues at our school continue to foster divisions and reinforce disconnection and disengagement amongst marginalized learners.
Focus: How can engaging in creating traditional Lil’Wat and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh artifacts, as a whole school, begin us on our journey of decolonization?
Focus: Rethinking staff learning and engagement using the Lil’wat Principles of Learning, as articulated by Dr. Lorna Williams.
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: Addressing student transitions across grades 7-12, as a catalyst to begin decolonizing education in our community.
Focus: The focus for this year was about the four blankets of resilience and understanding ourselves.
Focus: To find and build connections with things in our local community and with other communities.
Focus: Fostering relationships between vulnerable learners and teachers to support student engagement/connection to classroom as a place.
Focus: Around building community through an indigenous lens, with a focus on the question “Will deeper circle discussions and practices better support the delivery of aboriginal ways of being.”
Focus: How can we make reconciliation more visible at Howe Sound Secondary School?
Focus: To support students in finding connections with others and develop a deeper sense of self.
Focus: Will undertaking professional learning about reconciliation and First Nations perspectives and culture deepen staff understanding and help staff feel more confident in facilitating learning though a local indigenous lens?
Focus: On mindfully promoting kindness at our school.
Focus: Providing a space where students in grade 3-5 had the opportunity play with math/numeracy in an experiential manner and designed with an Indigenous lens.
Focus: To determine if building longboards/skateboards would contribute at-risk student attendance and engagement in the core competencies.
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: 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: Following specific protocol for daily Welcome Circles; Restitution Circles between students and inclusive family members when needed.