Social Responsibility and the Junior Program
North Surrey Secondary is in its 2nd year in a new structure designed to deliver curriculum to its grade 8 and 9 students in different and unique ways. Dubbed “the Jr. Program,” this new department...
View ArticleNetworks of Inquiry and Innovation... A place to be a Blue Fish!
“The challenge of creating greater quality and equity for all learners requires that we bring a networked mindset to our work. The challenges are too great for any one teacher, school or district to...
View ArticleNorth Surrey's Junior Program: Foundations
At North Surrey Secondary we have developed what is dubbed the Junior Program. Its aim is to provide students a smooth social and academic transition from grade 7 into grade 8 and on into grade 9....
View ArticleLiterature Circles: Our Journey to "Grand Conversations"
This past year teachers in the Jr. Program continued to inquire into how to better engage students in literature circles in more strategic ways. For me, in the past, I had students reading a set...
View ArticleReflections on AERA 2012
I was fortunate enough to attend the AERA Conference in Vancouver this year and now it’s over and I have had time to digest all the sessions, I can say I feel even more fortunate to work in BC, than I...
View ArticleThe Best Thing I Did This Year
I spent the day with other Surrey School District (#sd36learn) educators at a session with George Couros (@gcouros). The challenge to us as teachers was this: if we are going to expect kids to do it,...
View ArticleStarting a New Chapter and Reflections on the past 4.
Today marks the end of my time at my current school. When I started here my daughter wasn't 3 months old. Three weeks ago she turned 4. Time flies. Well as some already know, in the fall I will be...
View Article10 Steps: Students Taking Responsibility for their Report Card Marks.
"We must constantly remind ourselves that the ultimate purpose of evaluation is to have students become self evaluating. If students graduate from our schools still dependent upon others to tell them...
View ArticleMindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness
How ready students are to learn is as important as what they learn. The concept of Mindfulness and its relationship to teaching is new to me. I was recommended Deborah Schoeberlein's book Mindful...
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