How can we meet the social and emotional needs of our students and their families while transitioning to kindergarten?
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Self Regulation – Communication (and meeting the needs of introverted learners).
Leveraging different tools to increase student agency in their learning program.
On self regulation, specifically the core competency critical thinking.
To develop and implement math routines which help students to acquire the skills for mathematics and to develop a mindset of growth, inquiry, and collaboration.
Focus: Building a thinking classroom in math by keeping students engaged and thinking, prioritizing core competencies of collaboration and perseverance, and communicating the purpose behind math learning that values thinking rather than mimicking and memorization.
Focus: To connect students socially and build community, while developing literacy skills through story workshop and writers workshop.
Focus: To address the anxiety (shutting down) shown in students when doing mathematics.
Focus: What strategies in improving SEL and self-regulation skills in students will lead to improved literacy and numeracy skills in students K-9?
Focus: Empower the students to advocate for a better play space at our school.
Focus: How do we use the move into a new building to improve inclusion?
Focus: Developing a system/network for encouraging and supporting teachers who are working with complex learners.
Focus: Gr. 8 students’ writing skills in note making and using their own words, as well as teacher candidates’ skills in providing written feedback to learners, applying a proficiency scale and analyzing the development of one specific formative assessment.
Focus: On connectedness, reciprocal relationships and sense of place.
Focus: On the First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).
Focus: How can we make each child’s life better?
Focus: How might the use of structured, learner centered conversations with parents, teachers and students, through celebration of learning events, improve how we all communicate about and understand student learning and contribute to a positive school culture?