"There’s no doubt that mothers and other caregivers are important figures in our lives. They teach us, guide us, influence us, and cheer us on. Note that not all of us have mothers in the traditional sense and may turn to other family members or loved ones for advice, support, or encouragement. So, this Mother’s Day, let us celebrate not only the women who gave birth to us but also the amazing role models who have enriched our lives."

Items available to download:
*Resource intro
*Lesson 1 - Africaville
*Lesson 2 Brother
*Lesson 3 - Eye to Eye
*Lesson 4 - Made it
"The main purpose of this resource is to help educators and students explore Canadian hip-hop music and its role as a tool for promoting and advocating for social justice. The songs selected to support the lessons developed for this resource all have identifiable social justice themes. As such, social justice education must be at the center of a learning that takes place in the classroom through the use of this resource."

Do your students know their rights?

In this lesson students learn about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, making ethical decisions, and appropriate ways to respond.

This fits nicely into work with diversity, rights and responsibilities.

A guidebook to use while facilitating the Collaborative Learning Center with your team. The guidebook is a template that includes strategies for the three phases of the framework.

"Here's a sketch video about self-assessment and peer assessment. It includes an explanation of specific strategies you might use."

This video connects PBL, assessment, feedback and metacognition and how it can play a role in your classroom and help develop empowered learners!

Enough is Enough is a powerful 30-minute performance tailored to Saskatchewan Ministry of Education learning outcomes in Social Studies, Music, and English Language Arts for grades 9-12.

*A full teacher's guide is available to download.

Zoey Roy’s explains that:

Enough is Enough unravels what we think we know about Indigenous people in the context of Canada and rebuild a collective understanding of how we can learn from Indigenous knowledge and spirituality to make our home in Canada better for everyone. Inspired by my own pursuit of self-love, healing, and joy. The following lessons are steppingstones – a pathway for engaging the whole human self in learning and growing. Along my journey, I learned, you can’t think your way out of a broken heart. I want people to know that they are enough, to feel that they are enough, and to know that all people, animals, plants, minerals, and emotions all have a place in this world just like you. They are all enough too. Our journey is not theirs, so our judgements have no place in their journey. I want this unit to inspire compassion, will, solidarity and love.

This resource was developed in Westcliffe School (Jennifer Loken with contributions from the rest of the staff) and is an excellent scope and sequence of the different writing expectations for each grade level.

Final projects can help students summarize and review content from the entire semester. Plus, they can create fantastic products with what they've learned!

Projects let students take what they’ve learned, put it all together and show off a little of their own creativity and personality.

Options include:
1. Create a website
2. Create a screencast video
3. Make a single multimedia webpage
4. Connect with a cause
5. Create an infographic
6. Create a series of podcasts
7. Do a genius hour-style project
8. Create an annotated collection
9. Tell it as a story
10. Make an explainer video

1 in 5 Canadians Experience Mental Illness in Any Given Year. We All Know Someone.
And yet, one of the biggest issues in our health care system – and society at large – is that mental health is not taken as seriously, and treated as urgently, as physical health. But when you hear the stories, and see the impact mental illness has on the lives of so many around us, it's hard to stand idly by. Together, we can and must change the way mental health is treated not just in Canada, but around the world. We invite you all to join the movement. Watch the videos. Share the content. Donate now.

#MentalHealthIsHealth

Supporting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Youth to make Positive Changes in
their Communities: A Guide for Educators and Youth Program Facilitators

Students will learn ‘through’ the development and implementation of their action projects, rather
than ‘about’ action.

Action projects develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are central to many youth
programs. Action projects:
• develop communication skills
• foster critical thinking skills
• promote leadership skills
• help young people to identify things that are important to them and support them to think
through the process required to make positive change
• offer opportunities for young people to experience meaningful success
• offer youth an opportunity to learn about and understand FNMI spiritual teachings, including
the teaching that all living beings have a Spirit

Just released!
This new practice guide provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading intervention to meet the needs of their students in grades 4-9.
The 4 recommendations outlined in the guide included:
(1) multisyllabic word reading
(2) fluency building
(3) comp-building practices &
(4) stretch text.

Access the guide here: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/29

Webinar on New WWC (What Works Clearinghouse) Practice Guide
Apr 13, 2022 09:00 AM
Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Register at
https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/29?fbclid=IwAR0U_Gvg2b

A Provincial Resource for Teachers and Leaders of Mathematics in Saskatchewan.

CONTENTS

Establishing a Mathematically Rich and Safe Environment
This section contains the following subsections:
Learning and Classroom Environment
Nurturing Positive Relationships
Physical Environment
Fostering a Mathematically Rich Classroom
Math Tools and Resources
Math Manipulatives
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Connection to Establishing a Rich and Safe Environment
Supporting Families; and
Supporting Indigenous Families
Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Cultural Affirmation and School Climate
Shared Decision-Making
Curriculum Actualization
Lifelong Learning
Elder Protocol
Tobacco Offering
Theresa’s Story: Benefits of Interacting with Elders and Knowledge Keepers

Practising Holistic Assessment
This section contains the following subsections:
Assessment OF, AS, and FOR Learning
Using the Triangulation of Data
Spaced Practice
Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) Math Data Collection
Math Screeners
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Connection to Practising Holistic Assessment
Culturally Valid Assessment

Responding with Effective Instructional Practices
This section contains the following subsections:
Curriculum Connections
Learning Stages and Scope Sequence
Instructional Approaches
Pedagogical Models in a Mathematics Context
Mathematicians Workshop
Vocabulary and the Language of Math
Differentiation and Responsive Pedagogy;
Intervention
Tiered Intervention in Math
The Role of Technology; and
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Connection to Responding with Effective Instructional Practices

Developing Number Sense
Instructional Approaches in Number Sense, (along with resources and support for elementary, middle and high school mathematics); including
Comparing
Composing and Decomposing
Estimating
Visualizing
Representing
Other Instructional Approaches
Indigenous Ways of Knowing Connection to Developing Number Sense.

Integrating Relevant Research
This section contains the following subsections:
Works Cited
Bibliography
Additional research for your consideration

Slow Reveal Graph (#slowrevealgraph) is an instructional routine that promotes sensemaking about data. This highly engaging routine uses scaffolded visuals and discourse to help students (in K-12 and beyond) make sense of data. As more and more of the graph is revealed, students refine their interpretation and construct meaning, often in surprising ways. This routine increases access for students without sacrificing rigor or engagement.

You will find all types of graphs for all ages of learners from elementary to high school.

Here are the steps:
- It starts with a graph that has been stripped of context: its numbers, its labels, its title.
- The teacher facilitates a discussion around what students notice and wonder. (The slides give discussion suggestions)
- Then another slide is revealed.
- Students identify what information is new.
- Then another slide is revealed.
- Again, students identify what information is new (the title) and discuss how this changes their understanding of the graph.
- As more slides are added, more insight into this data representation is revealed.

The introductory page for the graph also offers more information about the context for this graph, other content connections, and paired texts for students to explore.

An overview of how our brains learn to read and the connection to morphology. This resource contains a short webinar outlining the background of morphology and strategies for the classroom.

A quick introduction to the metacognition cycle and how it wraps around the learning our students do. (At Sun West - for more information on metacognition reach out to your PeBL Mentor or a Learning Consultant.)