En Masse Collaborative Mural Project
We had the opportunity to witness an amazing project last week, and rather than write about it ourselves, we have asked the lead teacher on the project, Jordie Burton to share. Here is what he…
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We had the opportunity to witness an amazing project last week, and rather than write about it ourselves, we have asked the lead teacher on the project, Jordie Burton to share. Here is what he…
I wish I could +1 an image I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Ontario Association of Mathematics Educators conference in Kingston this past week. I plan on blogging in detail about my time there,…
Me and my math classmate and helper Nikolina The other day, Jamie asked whether I wanted to become a student again for a math period. All for it, I grabbed my laptop (as I was…
It’s 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and I’m Line Dancing with 200 Halton Teachers and my cell phone is still at 75% battery. Neither of these things are ever true in the middle of the afternoon…
During the April subject-specific PD Day , the Arts teachers had the opportunity to watch “Most Likely To Succeed”, which I previously wrote about here. This documentary film really resonates with Arts teachers, as it…
Today, the Shift launches the first in a series of videos that we are calling “Call to Action”! Here is how we picture it working: with each “Call to Action”, we are asking you to…
I really enjoy our April Professional Development day in Halton. It a chance for our various program areas to get together in one central site to do some sharing. This past Friday, the Business, Computers,…
A few weeks ago, six teachers at our school volunteered to become students for a day. Each of us was given our own timetable, we were banned from our regular offices, and we were expected…
Oh hey…in addition to road tripping, we’ve also been working on The Case for Community Building. How do you build community? We’d love to know!
A requirement about being part of The Shift is that we travel to other schools around the board. We do this so that we can get perspectives on the innovative things that are happening in…