What is the Purpose of School?
Should schools focus on preparing students for real life or for University? Wait...aren't those the same thing? As I...
Category: Personalization and Differentiation
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...
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...
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...
Student Vote: Democracy in Action
Once again this year, I had the good fortune of having an election take place during my Civics course....
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...
Embodied Learning: Mock Parliament
In Civics class, students create a mock parliament. Electing a leader (whom they deemed "Swaggerus Maximus"), an official opposition,...