Kids anxious to play on the playground and in the trees, tennis players, Green Party candidates, birders, book club members, dogs and their owners, people out for a bike ride and fans of Tatlow Park came together to celebrate the role of the neighbourhood park in learning and celebrating outdoor possibilities. This event was fundedContinue reading “A Celebration of Outdoor Learning at Tatlow Park”
Category Archives: Playground
City Life in a Temperate Rainforest
This blog post is intended for families in the school community to help get students prepared for the rainy season. I understand that in the far north, the Inuit people have many words for snow and ice. Each word indicates an overt or sometimes subtle difference in the snow and ice. It could reflect theContinue reading “City Life in a Temperate Rainforest”
Another School Playground – DONE!
I arrived at one Vancouver school as administrator and was surprised that there was only one large climbing web for all of the students. The old wooden playground had already deteriorated and been removed long ago. The provincial government allowed applications from casino funds to be directed towards building school playgrounds. The Parent AdvisoryContinue reading “Another School Playground – DONE!”
Wild About Vancouver
Wild About Vancouver is a celebration of the outdoors being held from April 18-25, 2018. Activities are planned by individuals, schools, sports organizations and community groups and centres. All activities planned during the week are free to participants. The goal for the week is to generate lots of energy, ideas and momentum for participation in outdoorContinue reading “Wild About Vancouver”
Peaceful Playgrounds
The goal is for kids to develop the skills to problem solve and the confidence that they can. Adults are involved in the process to ensure that name calling and bullying do not become an accepted norm.
UBC Students Support Outdoor Learning in Schools
I met Hartley Banack’s Faculty of Education (EDCP323) class outside the Botanical Gardens at UBC. The class is a diversified group with some students completing Bachelor of Education requirements and some practicing educators working towards a diploma in Outdoor Education. Several Vancouver schools are actively engaged in working with teachers and their Community SchoolsContinue reading “UBC Students Support Outdoor Learning in Schools”
The Faces of Truth and Reconciliation
Learning our own history and the racism and miscarriages of basic human rights and justice is important. The United States has long grappled with the existence of slavery in its past and the tumultuous path of moving forward. Canada as a country has needed to step off its moral high ground and reframe our understandingContinue reading “The Faces of Truth and Reconciliation “
“It Takes An Entire Village to Raise a Child”
This has long been a favorite quote of mine that is beautifully depicted by George E. Miller II in my office. In my early years as an underemployed teacher, I worked in an out-of-school care centre in the basement of a school in Vancouver. This is where I first learned the importance of community in theContinue reading ““It Takes An Entire Village to Raise a Child””
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