In a collaborative endeavor to enhance educational practices across multiple school boards, key initiatives focus on embracing change and reinforcing its importance. Teacher agency is a central theme, with an emphasis on providing resources, strategies, and professional knowledge to improve teaching practices.
The reciprocal relationship between math & inquiry and literacy and inquiry
The notion of teachers pushing thinking forward through questioning
Assessment is intertwined with instruction and learning
Thunder Bay
Literacy
Creating a collaborative environment to develop inquiry based learning in our classes to develop inquiry skills
Brininging Inquiry into Secondary, breaking the silos.
RRDSB Embrace change. Reinforce the importance of change.
SNCDSB
It is all about creating relationships and a culture of learning.
Northwest Catholic DSB
Consider coherence and alignment when facilitating this professional knowledge within our professional learning plans
Agency involves not only new professional knowledge but demonstration of change in practice for teachers.
Teacher agency - resources, strategies, and new learning to share with board teams from the SAO role.
Coterminous adolescent literacy data shared collaboratively between boards - feeder schools will receive data for the first time. This improves teacher agency and board collaboration and builds regional capacity.
Facilitating Math Professional Learning was exceptional, introduction to math technology resources, cluster of information rather than grade-level/development approaches that we included.
Thinking about how we honour our own learning journey as we collaborate with a group.
Main topic
SGDSB
Formative Assessment is Essential to drive instruction
Develop Teacher Content Knowledge
Build Structures and provide resources that foster ownership of learning
