By Chrissy MacQuarrie, Elk Island Public Schools All too often, people have the attitude that our youngest students aren’t capable of using the latest technology in meaningful, curriculum-significant ways. I have a group of 8 year old kids that challenge that misconception! Earlier this year, I was given the opportunity to create a proposal to potentially…
By Deb Nelson and Debbie Quick, Elk Island Catholic Schools “…is to enable all students to discover, develop and apply competencies across subject and discipline areas for learning, work and life” (Ministerial Order, 2013). In the fall we had an opportunity to attend the Project Based Learning Workshop presented by the Buck Institute for Education…
By Diane Webb – F.R. Haythorne, Elk Island Public Schools I attended the Buck Institute’s Project Based Learning training, as offered by ERLC in November, and was thoroughly inspired by what I learned. Here is an account of my first PBL project in my grade seven social studies classroom, and my intentions for our next project.…
Over 20 schools, 600+ teachers, 19 sessions of full day professional learning, 3 partners = one giant collaborative effort. January 31st, 2014 Fort McMurray Catholic Schools, Fort McMurray Public Schools, and the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium ( ERLC) joined together in a day of professional learning called “Engage: ALL Means ALL”. Patricia Nameth is the…
By Corrie Ziegler, ERLC Implementation Support Coordinator “Simon Breakspear is on a mission to radically change how the world learns” and on February 6, 2014, I had the opportunity to see that mission in action! I attended an Alberta Teachers Association sponsored event called “Building a Mindful Culture of Innovation for the Digital Age”. At that session Simon…
Grand Yellowhead Public School Division has accessed many services and supports from ERLC. Jody Beck, Learning Services Supervisor Inclusive Education, Literacy & ECS, believes the opportunities to access strategic catalyst events and the ongoing collaboration with ERLC and the staff in Grand Yellowhead have been valuable and directly impact the learning supports for all students across the District.…
By Patti Christensen, Principal, Windsor Park School I attended the ERLC session called Curriculum Redesign: Are we Ready? I very much enjoyed this session and the insightful discussion and comments made by our group. I learned that there are seven shifts that need to be understood when looking at curriculum redesign and that teachers, principals…
by Louise Osland, Implementation Support Facilitator – Leadership, ERLC I recently had the opportunity to spend two days with Garfield Gini-Newman at an ERLC Strategic Professional Learning session and as a result feel more confident in understanding what the essential elements of Critical Thinking are . Inspiring Education and most recently the Ministerial Order for…
By Sandy Axmann – GYPSD#77 On November 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2013, myself, and 3 others from our school division attended the Project Based Learning workshop that Kali Kurdy hosted from the Buck Institute. It was very worthwhile as it allowed us to peek into the window of how Curriculum Re-Design may take hold within…
Jill Melnyk, Facilitator of Learning Services, Parkland School Division In the spring of 2012, I completed a professional learning series offered through the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) and facilitated by the Galileo Educational Network. This workshop was intended for early childhood leaders to become facilitators for an early learning series that would be implemented…