Community Garden, Community Service
*originally posted on the Greenwood College School website on May 22, 2014. Over the past year, students in Grade...
Author: lesmcbeth
Choose Your Own Adventure: Student Designed Curriculum
Last week, my grade 12 students presented their final "deliverables" created in their "Choose Your Own Adventure" (CYOA) unit...
Design Thinking in the Classroom
* This article was originally posted on the Greenwood College School blog, PersonalizedLearning.ca In a recent New York Times...
Success=Innovation
"The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and...
The Great Green Roof Debate
At the start of the third term, I was approached by a colleague seeking to collaborate on a new...
Keeping it Real: Regent Park Revitalization
As mentioned in my previous post, engaging students through social action has always been one of my goals. This...
Keeping It Real: The Green Line Competition
One of my priorities as an educator is to connect students to the real world while also making...
Choose Your Own Adventure
At the end of my second year of teaching, I met with my instructional leader and the coordinator of...
Flipping Civics
One of my goals for my third year as a teacher has been to develop the Civics course into...
“I love trees”
I love the way that somethings just happen naturally. This year, my Green Industries class seemed to grow organically...
NYC: Practice what you teach
Last weekend, as "superstorm" Sandy was zeroing in on New York City, I was in NYC on a field...
Radical Education Research Collective
For the past two years, I have been a member of a group known as the Radical Education Research...
Interactive Lectures: Learning Cycles
After teaching the same lesson on the Elements of Democracy last year, this year I updated the lesson based...
Student Vote: Democracy in Action
Once again this year, I had the good fortune of having an election take place during my Civics course....
Checklists for Success
While in teacher's college, I had an instructor who swore by checklists. In all assignments for that course, we...
The Farm Project
As part of the projects-bases focus of the Grade 11 Green Industries course, I designed a project that would...
Engaging Students Through Social Action
As Coordinator of Service Learning, it is always my goal to engage students in the wider community, helping them...
Farm Research Report: Choices
To supplement their skill building and learning around local farming, students completed a research paper on types of farming...
Authentic Experience: Ontario Student Budget Consultation
For several years, Greenwood has been participating in experiential education initiatives with the non-profit organizations Student Vote and CIVIX....
Listen Right! and Thoughts on Front Loading Content
Before the break, I tried using one of the strategies that Don shared with us in our Y2G PD...
Keeping Up: Twitter and P.D.
I use twitter to keep up on trends in education, learn from the experiences of other teachers, network with...
Embodied Learning: Mock Parliament
In Civics class, students create a mock parliament. Electing a leader (whom they deemed "Swaggerus Maximus"), an official opposition,...
What Do Old Materials & New Bags Have in Common?
* This article was originally published on the Design Trust for Public Space blog, "I Heart Public Space" in June,...
Public Space/Private Money
* This article was originally posted on the Design Trust for Public Space blog, "I Heart Public Space" in March...
All in a Day’s Commute: The Garment District Dance
* This article was originally posted on the Design Trust for Public Space blog, "I Heart Public Space" in February,...