Waves of Gratitude
What would you do if you were asked to nurture a shared culture of innovation within the Halton District School Board? Where would you start? Where would the journey take you?There are many challenges in…
World Creativity and Innovation Day
Did you know that this Saturday is World Creativity and Innovation Day? Halton wants to celebrate this day on Friday, April 20th. Look around your building for examples of innovative teaching practices, students showing…
Answers from High Tech High
We were sent to High Tech High and the Deeper Learning Conference with questions, and we brought back a heap of answers.You can read our on the ground impression here after Day 1, Day 2…
Growing into Innovation
Tony Churchill is a Principal at Harrison Public School. He is working with staff at his school on promoting a growth mindset in students through design thinking challenges. He is our very first contributor to…
Feeling Impressed at High Tech High
HTH Daily Schedule, complete with some flex time On our last day at the Deeper Learning conference, we took the time to soak in and appreciate High Tech High itself: the school, the students and…
Diving Deep
Day two of deeper learning had participants tackling the true essence of the name of this conference: diving deep into learning. The sessions today were not one or two hour sessions, rather a deep dive…
Deeper Learning Is…
That’s the prompt we were asked to think about during day one of the 2018 Deeper Learning Conference. We were expecting to learn about Project Based Learning and High Tech High when we signed up…
Wonder Walks
This semester, interested teachers in Halton were able to apply for funding for projects that explored Innovation. That is, projects that will improve a Process, Product or Understanding. All in all, 49 applications were received…
Questions for High Tech High
Over the past year, many Halton teachers have been given the opportunity to watch the documentary Most Likely to Succeed. Some of us watched it at evening screenings at various schools. Some schools screened the…
“We really don’t have a plan”
“We really don’t have a plan”. That is the spirit of risk taking and experimentation that Sylvonna Brennan and Andrea De Mendonca took when launching into the unknown and piloting “Engology”, an integrated Grade 11…