184 Days of Learning

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184 Days of Learning

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Day 159: Miranda, Student (Wabamun)

May 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Early Years

Produce passport Wabamun School has been doing produce passports. What we do is every Friday we have a Fit Friday when we dance then we have a new fruit. The whole school participates in the dancing and we have so much fun. The fruits and vegetables are delicious!!! The teachers and students enjoy this day. [...]

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Day 158: Leanne Schram-White, Teacher (Duffield School)

May 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Parkland Staff

At the end of 2012 school year, I was given the opportunity to take a leadership role and be Duffield School’s Healthy School Facilitator. I decided to embark on this journey and see where the path would take our school. One of the first tasks was to build a team that would collaborate, lead and [...]

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Day 156: Andrew Woloshyn, Teacher (Graminia)

May 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Early Years, Parkland Staff

With the world of education is ever changing and new and innovative ideas coming up through the pipeline every day, it is more important now than ever before to work with teaching colleagues to develop the best lessons, tasks, and assessments possible.  Collaboration is not only beneficial for teachers, but for our students as well. [...]

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Day 155: Ali Verhey, Teacher (Millgrove School)

May 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Early Years, Parkland Staff

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Joe Shlabotnik Grade 3KV at Millgrove School have been working on their global citizenship skills through KIVA. What is KIVA, you ask? KIVA is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. KIVA manages a worldwide network of [...]

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Day 154: Linda Trippel, Teacher (Forest Green School)

May 14th, 2013 · 6 Comments · Early Years, Parkland Staff

At the beginning of this school year, I was given the opportunity to join a Professional Learning Community of my choice.  I decided to join my colleagues at Forest Green and Stony Plain Central in “The Daily 5” PLC. For those unfamiliar, “The Daily 5” is a structure that helps to develop the daily habits [...]

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Day 153: Chloe, Student (Blueberry School)

May 13th, 2013 · 4 Comments · Middle Years

Jr. Achievement Program at Blueberry School Hi, my name is Chloe. I am in grade six at Blueberry School. We had an opportunity to participate in this amazing program called Jr. Achievement; it’s where Randy Rosen, a very successful business owner that gave his time to help us,  came to our school and taught us [...]

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Day 152: Paul Huedepohl, Teacher (Woodhaven Middle School)

May 10th, 2013 · No Comments · Parkland Staff

In April, Woodhaven Middle School began a new program that allowed me to have a new cadre of grade 7-9 students come to Industrial Arts for 14 classes. The group included students that had taken five years of Industrial Arts previously; as well, it included students that hadn’t taken one class with me. My challenge [...]

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Day 151: Serenity, Student (Muir Lake School)

May 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Middle Years

At Muir Lake School, we believe that everything has a time. A time for laughing, a time for learning, and a time for being creative. Students are always awarded with opportunities to express our ideas and views in a clever and innovative way, and that’s one of my favorite things about our school. The staff [...]

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Day 150: Laura Robert, Teacher (GCMS)

May 8th, 2013 · No Comments · Parkland Staff

We Care at Greystone At the start of the year students were given the opportunity to apply for a place on a student driven leadership club called the “We Care Team.” Students from every grade level responded to the call, and submitted an application letter to be considered. Students were then chosen based on these [...]

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Day 149: Jayna Butler, Teacher (Woodhaven School)

May 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Parkland Staff

What a weekend! I recently had the opportunity to take a group of my Drama students to the Zone II One Act Play festival, held at Horizon Stage. It was such a positive experience for both my cast and myself, (Thanks to the tireless efforts of Festival Hosts Kevin Tokarsky and Mathew Ma, and the [...]

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