Wild About Vancouver (WAV) Outdoor Education Festival is a free public outdoor education festival offering practical ways to get children (and adults) outdoors more regularly. WAV is open to the public and aims to unite and create long-term sustainable outdoor experiential learning networks for organizations, schools, youth programs, and the broader citizenry of Vancouver. WAV isContinue reading “Tidal WAV Returns”
Category Archives: learning intentions
Welcome to Our School
We are proud of our school and happy to welcome visitors into the conversation about learning. As a member of the VSB, I would like to acknowledge that we live, work and play on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh) andsḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Coast Salish peoples. We are delighted to be ableContinue reading “Welcome to Our School”
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Transforming our Relationships
I believe in Aboriginal Enhancement agreements. For some, they represent a token of political correctness which can be limited to lip service. For others they focus our attention on something that matters not only in terms of facilitating basic human rights, but developing a culture of kindness and respect that we as Canadians have builtContinue reading “Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Transforming our Relationships”
Fascination with the Brain
Walking along Jericho Beach as a little girl, this piece of wood screamed “brain” to me. This was long before the fascination with the brain had extended beyond neuroscientists and doctors, to psychologists, to educators, to anyone aging and fearing cognitive decline. The brain held secrets that were not readily apparent to the naked eye.Continue reading “Fascination with the Brain”
Blogging for Thinking…The next step
Virginia and I are continuing our inquiry project with our students, two groups of students in district gifted programs. This is the Kidpost entry given to our students to allow us to be very specific about the learning intentions of our blogging project. Blogging for Thinking Technology is a tool just like a pencil orContinue reading “Blogging for Thinking…The next step”
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