SD#71 Comox Valley

How do we increase success for our Indigenous Learners?

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?

Focus: Learning courage through establishing relationships, and bringing into the classroom, members from L’arche Comox Valley.

Focus: How can we improve the life of every child?

Focus: Two French Immersion Kindergarten classes will combine with our district Aboriginal K / 1 program to share Aboriginal culture and language through oral story-telling and puppets, and traditional drumming – focusing on the local FN language of our valley.

Focus: On the following First Peoples Principle of Learning — learning is holistic, reflective, experiential, and relational (specifically focusing on connectedness, reciprocal relationships, and sense of place). Further, our focus area was inquiry-based learning, exploring the interconnectedness of science and mathematics, and the holistic nature of learning — we looked to the First Peoples Principles of Learning, BC curriculum, and core competencies to inform and guide the learning (students engaged in inquiries that were connected to place, story, cultural practices, and perspectives relevant to local First Peoples communities, the local community, and other cultures).