How can we ensure that we all (students and staff) have a sense of belonging?
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Including local Indigenous elders more strongly at our school.
Will the integration of the Take a Hike Shared Practice contribute to enhancing both student engagement and overall well-being?
We wanted to determine if regularly scheduled and practiced Outdoor Education/Learning would help to foster some of these important skillsets that our students will require to be more successful in our current school system(s) and life
Can every PARENT identify two educators who are listening with curiosity and empathy, and truly believe in their children?
Focus: Journey of Syeyutsus: Reconciliation in Action through meaningful ways to develop an appreciation of Hul’q’umi’num culture while developing healthy relationships.
Focus: Growing our knowledge so that we can design (mathematical) instruction, keeping First People’s Principles of Learning in mind, to create an inclusive environment that promotes equitable access and supports the diverse needs of all students.
Focus: Exploring how collaborating on literacy instruction across grade groups can help build school community and support student learning.
Focus: How does our perception of success ultimately impact a student’s ability to achieve success?
Focus: Can the use of numeracy-based games be used as a differentiation strategy.
Focus: 1) A continuation of building belonging with Indigenous families, and 2) How do we use pedagogy and curriculum to build belonging for Indigenous students across grades to feel belonging in classrooms.
Focus: Having Elders in the school to encourage Indigenous learning, Indigenous learners, a sense of place and belonging, and attendance.
Focus: How will gamifying literacy practices enhance student abilities to engage with, and grow phonemic awareness and phonics skills?
Focus: What can we do as a school community that increases our sense of pride, enjoyment, kindness, empathy and belonging, and will this increase academic engagement?
Focus: Creating a feeling of belonging and purpose at school.
Focus: Mitigating the negative effect of trauma on a student’s success rate, while supporting them to process the event(s) and learn better ways to cope.
Focus: Learn about new tools and concepts in literacy instruction; determine how these tools and concepts are working for our primary learners.
Focus: Through the English First Peoples 10 course, foster the curiosity that builds students’ desire to learn more about Indigenous cultural perspectives and experience of identity in Canada, as well as build understanding that this knowledge is vital to their future as citizens.
Focus: Increasing reading fluency, including prosody, accuracy and speed, with our Grade 5 and 6 classes.
Focus: Creation of a GSA Club that meets weekly to create a safe space for LGBTQ2S+ people and their allies.