Focus: How could story workshop develop literacy skills in all early learners?
Focus: How much can we improve students’ understanding of number sense by teaching number sense in context, taking time to develop it daily, teach connections such as inverse concepts and collaborate on this across the grade levels?
Focus: On changing our classroom spaces to reduce environmental stressors for our students and to help them be calm, alert and ready to learn.
Focus: To increase student engagement, through the inquiry process.
Focus: How does place-based learning support the development of personal awareness and responsibility?
Focus: On student strengths by being responsive and teaching specific/key reading strategies to develop proficient readers.
Focus: To create confident engaged writers by taking them into nature and utilizing nature and story workshop.
Focus: To use inquiry-based learning for curricular areas (i.e., social studies, science, ADST) so that students can explore topics that they find interesting.
Focus: Explicitly teaching core competencies and growth mindset language in the structure of student inquiry.
Focus: Engaging students in critical thinking and problem-solving through inquiry-based learning in Social Studies.
Focus: Incorporating design thinking into core academics using design challenges in order to increase student flow.
Focus: How do we create independent learners with the use of core competencies and hands on learning?
Focus: Incorporating ecological knowledge into multiple classes and school culture to improve student’s eco-literacy.