We decided to dive into the Fresh Grade Connect digital portfolio platform as we wanted to learn more about it and potentially adopt it in our own classrooms. We are pretty satisfied with what we came away with and we… Continue Reading →
This week’s guest speaker was Rich McCue, he helped us understand how coding is used and what coding looks like in the classroom. I can see how fun coding is for students to understand computers. During this past year, I… Continue Reading →
Here are my thought why tiny living is important to us… Community- I think the idea that we have to have our own house or own property is very isolating (this has been proven over the last year during lockdown)…. Continue Reading →
This week’s guest speaker, Heidi James, spoke about Minecraft and how she uses it in the classroom. This is a part of education that I feel the most disconnected from, so I have a lot to learn. Heidi painted a… Continue Reading →
This week our guest speaker and volunteer from BCEDAccess, Chantelle, spoke about the diversity of needs in the classroom and the assistive technologies worth considering as teachers. Having access to different apps and technologies can create a more inclusive classroom… Continue Reading →
This past week Trevor Mackenzie, inquiry-based learning guru, re-inspired me to keep on this teaching path. Navigating a program that is all about connection during an isolating time has been interesting, but the energy Trevor has sparked my curiosity in… Continue Reading →
Over the reading break, we added a few key features to our property, water and gravel driveway. It sounds small but the coordination of an electrician, plumber, excavator operator and gravel truck driver was a big learning curve. Here are… Continue Reading →
This week’s guest was Jeff Hopkins, Founder and Principal Educator of PSII, who chatted with us about inquiry-based learning. During his conversation, I slowly began to understand more about the inquiry process and the role a teacher can play in… Continue Reading →
Research, reading articles, listening to podcasts and diving into this inquiry has made me realized I want to spend more time connecting with people and listening to their stories of building and tiny living but that is tricky to do… Continue Reading →
Our speaker this week was Jesse Miller, he opened my mind to the importance of social media in education and the consequences if not used properly. Understanding the risks of privacy when using social media I am now more aware… Continue Reading →