Focus: Will adding classroom libraries filled with good fit books increase the students’ love of reading and in turn, their reading levels (the focus was on 2 specific divisions)?
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Focus: On the pilot implementation of FreshGrade as an electronic method for Ongoing Communication of Student Learning (OCSL) reporting for grades 8 and 9 in order to meet the new BC Ministry Reporting Guidelines for informal communication about student learning.
Focus: How will using the program ‘Successful Learner Traits’ help us to develop a common language between colleagues and students, as well as enable us to grow a positive school culture?
Focus: Our focus was integrating First Nations learning within the Daily 5 literacy model, through the use of rich First Nations-based literature to extend fluency, vocabulary, accuracy, and comprehension.
Focus: The Circle of Courage — to help students become more resilient.
Focus: What will the impact of conferencing with students around reading/writing be on student outcomes and the teachers’ skills/knowledge of observing & noticing behaviours?
Focus: Increasing student engagement and competence with numeracy.
Focus: How to decrease student stress at Ecole Quarterway using the open hearts framework and Coast Salish wisdom towards nature therapy/Ecotherapy/ connections to the land?
Focus: How can experiential learning encourage greater understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students?
Focus: How can we increase our students’ numeracy skills and basic mathematical understandings, while providing opportunities for interventions and extensions and cross-grade interaction?
Focus: Will the completion of a guided inquiry project early in the school year enable students to apply the Spiral of Inquiry and some of the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning to complete a personal inquiry at the end of the year? The personal inquiry question will be — How does your spark connect to the world around you and make it a better place?’”
Focus: On building student’s ability to independently read and interpret non-fiction texts in order to support their learning in inquiry style Science and Social Studies units.
Focus: Finding ways to encourage various opportunities for writing among primary students.
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 investigate how creating land based art works with first nations influences foster collaboration and reflection in art classes and across the school community.