This resource examines:
*Setting the stage for inquiry
*150 Years' relationship
*Research
*Resources

This resource examines:

*Learning and relationship with the land
*What were Indian residential schools?
*The Indian residential school experience
*The healing journey
*Resources

Residential schools were boarding schools for Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) children and youth, financed by the federal government but staffed and run by several Christian religious institutions.  Children were separated from their families and communities, sometimes by force, and lived in and attended classes at the schools for most of the year. Often, the residential schools were located far from the students’ home communities. The schools were in existence for well over 100 years, and successive generations of children and families from the same communities endured this experience.
Understandably, the impacts were severe. This history was hidden for many years, until Survivors of the system were able to find the strength and courage to tell their stories.  This lead to one of the largest class action lawsuits in Canada’s history. Though it will take time and commitment to heal the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canada, the reconciliation process has begun.

The Resiliency Thought Bubbles project provides an opportunity for students to
demonstrate their knowledge of Microsoft Word. The assignment requires students to
use critical thinking and creativity in writing their own original idea that demonstrates
both Fixed Mindset and Resiliency. Students were shown a series of videos that
demonstrate the meaning of Resiliency then challenged to use critical thinking when
they wrote their own examples. Finally, I selected one student example from each of my
six PAA Multimedia classes and created a bulletin board display; the display includes a
Brain illustration that was a collaborative and creative endeavor between a grade ten
student and a grade twelve student.

This awesome science video explores what the Earth's resources are and how we use them.

*learn about Sora - the student reading app

*learn about Sora with live and on demand training experts

*curated lists for recommended reading

*curriculum support & assets

*increase student engagement - features collections for current events, featured collections and more.

*maximizes your digital collection - including reserving and bundling content, accessibility features, public library connect

Quick & easy at home projects curated for kids 2 and up. Look for a parent toolkit, activities for each age group from ages 2-4 to 12+, STEAM Activities, Daily DIY: Tinker with Time.

Resources for Rethinking. provides immediate access to more than 1200 quality classroom resources.

Developed by Learning for a Sustainable Future, R4R.ca connects teachers to lesson plans, books, videos and other materials that explore the environmental, social and economic dimensions of important issues and events unfolding in our world today. R4R resources have been reviewed by experienced classroom teachers and matched to relevant curriculum outcomes for each province and territory. Use the search engine to find resources and read the reviews. Most of these materials can be downloaded immediately.

To begin: Select your province on the right side of the screen. Add any other filters you wish to explore to narrow your search and have fun exploring the amazing resources!

When tragic events happen, it can be difficult for educators, administrators, and parents to know how to help children understand and cope. How adults manage their own reactions, as well as how they help students deal with their questions and feelings, are important factors in providing children with the support and guidance they will need. Below are some useful, informative, and thoughtful resources for adults to help children through traumatic situations. Some of these resources are relevant to parents as well as educators.

Following the included links, and after viewing all of the sites, choose 3 of the artists and their works above to answer the following questions:
 A brief description of the artist and his life: date of birth and death, where he lived (what country was he from), his occupation (job), the subject (what he was painting/sculpting) of his artwork
 When the artwork was created
 Describe what the piece of artwork looks like: include colors, textures, medium (what was used to create it: type of paint, sculpture, photograph…)
 Write the quote from beneath each picture
 Do you like the artwork? Why or why not?
 What does the artwork make you think about? What does it make you feel?

"The Responsive Teaching, Practice & Assessment in Early Learning Programs document has been created in response to a need expressed by educators for supporting and responding to the varying needs of children in early learning programs. This document is intended to:
• unify a variety of early learning documents available in Saskatchewan;
• provide a process to identify and respond to the diverse needs of children ages 3-6 in early learning programs;
• enhance assessment literacy of educators and how assessment evidence can be used to inform practices and programming;
• identify responsive supports and examples of targeted and/or small group supports;
• help educators create an inventory of community-based supports and services for children and heir families; and,
• provide support and clarification for administrators with respect to indicators of quality and how to support educators." (p.2)
From the Government of Saskatchewan at saskatchewan.ca

In which John Green returns to teaching World History! This week, we'll be talking about the idea of civilization, some of the traditional hallmarks of so-called civilization, and why some people would choose to live outside the civilization model. It turns out, not everyone who lives outside of what we traditionally think of as a "civilized" social order is necessarily a barbarian! To defuse any tension you may be feeling, I'll just tell you now, the Mongols are back. You'll learn about Zomia, swidden agriculture, and even a little about anarchy!

Videos & Discussion Guides Available.

The Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH) worked with The Students Commission of Canada to develop a set of videos and resources on preventing youth substance use harms using a positive youth development approach. The multi-media assets consisted of three videos: one for youth in Grades 6 to 8, one for youth in Grades 9 to 12, and one for adult allies and educators. Disseminating and integrating the latest evidence and initiatives on the prevention and reduction of substance-related harms in youth, each of the videos was developed in English and in French, with subtitles; companion resources include a discussion guide and a resources list.

"The Rethinking Learning Toolkit includes resources that can help you, your school, district, or organization transform teaching and learning for learners of all ages. You can use this toolkit to:

*help you understand the language around personalized learning and agency.
*understand the different approaches for teaching and learning.
*understand Universal Design for Learning as the foundation to create learner-centered environments.
*design Learner Profiles and Personal Learning Backpacks.
*have the research and resources to support your journey to learner agency.
*use different graphics and content to move from compliance to learner agency.
*help close the skills gap by empowering learners to acquire the skills needed for their future."
*join an online community with loads of features and resources.

The following is a one hour webinar was developed to support schools and teachers with the return to school and learnining in the fall of 2020.  The webinar addresses:           Connection, Routine & Community            Assessment - Identifying Gaps, Readiness & Diagnostic Assessments            Your Toolbox - Weapons of Mass Instruction to Accelerate Learning             You've Got This! (Mindset)The supporting PPT is provided.A link to the main PD for the Return to Learn is included. 

How do we design the most efficient machines and processes? Today we’ll try to figure that out as we discuss heat & work, reversibility & irreversibility, and how to use efficiency to measure a system.

Reverso is a website offering a host of free communication technologies. It makes use of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an approach to machine translation through artificial neural networks. Its services range from translation, spelling and grammar checks to dictionaries, context checkers, and more.

With support available for most of the popular languages like German, Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese, and more, it currently serves around 60 million active users on the web. Apart from the online translation tools, you can also install its browser extension. Reverso is also available as an app for Android, iPhone, Mac, and Windows platforms.

This one page poster is a great Revised Bloom's Taxonomy visual for students and teachers.

This workbook is designed to assist First Nations language advocates, educators and communities to develop a clear vision for language education, fully understand their current language situation and resources, and exit with a comprehensive plan for achieving their vision.

Topics include background information for language planning, understanding how new language speakers are created, language education planning steps, engaging parents, teacher training and education, curriculum building, funding and more.

Available as a free pdf.

Rewordify.com helps with reading comprehension and vocabulary development by simplifying English to a lower reading level. It lets you reword a sentence or reword a paragraph. It will simplify English by reducing text complexity. It's a dictionary alternative that will improve comprehension and teach vocabulary. It's an important part of reading instruction and vocabulary instruction for ESL students, people with reading disabilities, people with a learning disability, or anyone who wants to improve reading skill.

Rewordify.com simplifies difficult English. Enter hard sentences (or whole chapters) into the yellow box at the top of the page. (You can also enter a web site URL.) Click Rewordify text and you'll instantly see an easier version, for fast understanding. The reworded words are highlighted— click them to hear and learn the original harder word. You can change how the highlighting works to match the way you learn!

Rewordify.com can display simplified versions of web pages. Our state-of-the-art web filtering technology blocks millions of inappropriate sites and questionable language, to protect kids online and keep them reading only what they should be reading.