This collection is available to support school based administrators in The Sun West School Division. You can find links to useful websites, interesting articles, and other useful resources.
The following is the third presentation on Collective Responsibility and Consensus.
*Digital citizenship (balanced usage)
*EdTech rating & reviews
*Expert advice
*Family engagement resources
*Free monthly webinars
*Digital Passport & Digital Compass games for students
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Toolkits are available for:
*Lifelong Learning: A Social & Emotional Learning Toolkit for Educators
*Beyond Fake News: A News & Media Literacy Toolkit for Educators
*Teachers' Essential Guide to Cyberbullying Prevention
*Common Sense on E-rate and CIPA: A Toolkit for Schools and Districts
*Girls, Boys, and Media: A Gender and Digital Life Toolkit
The Comprehensive School Health (CSH) Hub is a community for individuals involved in teaching, learning, and researching CSH at the post-secondary level.
There are a wealth of K-12 resources available on this site for health. Select the Resources tab, and then select K-12 or copy and pasted this web address into your browser https://cshhub.com/resource_type/csh-resources/
Topics include:
*Healthy Eating
*Physical Activity
*Mental Health for students
*Mental Health for teachers
This amazing video will clearly explain the PeBL philosophy at Sun West School Division. The who, what, when, where, why and how of PeBL are addressed and articluated clearly for the parent and community audience. Topics include the continuum of learning, transfer of responsibility, personalized learning, the three pillars of PeBL. This resource will clearly explain everything you need to know to get started embracing PeBL at home!
This amazing video will clearly explain the PeBL philosophy at Sun West School Division. The who, what, when, where, why and how of PeBL are addressed. Topics include the continuum of learning, transfer of responsibility, personalized learning, the three pillars of PeBL. This resource will clearly explain everything you need to know to get started embracing PeBL at home or in the classroom today!
This is a resource for adminstrators or PeBL mentors to help set goals with their staff for their school. Beginning with a look into the Continuum of Learning and moving into the idea of Collective Responsibility, staff will be given a chance to decide where they see their school and where they want to go next. This workshop works best in small, safe groups. The adminstrator or PeBL mentor will compile the results of the workshops and present to the staff to demonstrate common threads and related action items to work toward their goals for their school.
Agenda, PowerPoint, personal booklet, and group booklet are attached.
This activity guide was created to use with the ASCD Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom Quick Reference Guide by Kristin Souers and Pete Hall.
The AI Family Challenge is a free, hands-on AI education program that brings families, schools, communities, and technology know-it-alls together to give everyone the chance to learn, play and create with AI.
Canada’s tipline to report the online sexual exploitation of children.
A Guide for Educators Working with Youth to Support Bystander Intervention in Transphobic and Sexual Violence
A resource to help school divisions, teachers and education professionals better understand and support students whoa re gender and/or sexually diverse. It provides teaching resources and information for administrative resources. It is also available in French.
Ready-to-teach lessons to address your changing needs in the classroom.
"Help students take ownership of their digital lives.
Common Sense digital citizenship topics include media balance, cyber-bullying, news and media literacy, online privacy, digital footprint, and communication.
All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life. Our award-winning K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum:
Addresses top concerns for schools.
Prepares students with critical 21st-century skills.
Supports educators with training and recognition.
Engages the whole community through family outreach."
Lessons are available in grade groupings for K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
Free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges around the world. The network includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings and other scholarly work.
"Introduce students in grades 6–8 to Digital Compass™ by Common Sense Education. The award-winning game is an innovative way to give students the freedom to explore how decisions made in their digital lives can affect their relationships and futures.
Through the suite of popular choose-your-own-path games, students play through the perspective of one of eight main characters, each of whom is facing a different digital citizenship dilemma. The varied story paths and multiple decision points encourage students to play repeatedly in order to explore alternative courses of action. Games are also available in Spanish."
Students will be able to:
• Find facts and gather data for conscientious decisions
• Synthesize information and evaluate options
• Assess situations in order to make informed judgments
• Reflect on decisions and determine alternative choices
• Build interpersonal empathy by role-playing and taking the perspective of others
• Develop skill-based competencies through game-based learning
• Apply learnings to real-world situations
This framework from the Government of Saskatchewan was developed by education sector partners based on feedback from public engagement sessions and an online survey. The framework will be used to help create an action plan for education in Saskatchewan from 2020 to 2030.
"This report outlines strategies to increase authentic student voice in education at the school, district, and state levels."
Establishing Norms for Meetings, PLCs, or a Classroom
Establishing norms helps set clear expectations that everyone in the class or learning community can build together and agree to.
Do you have students who struggle to prepare for exams? suffer from test anxiety? need some new tips?
This resource has everything you need to run an exam preparation and study skill "crash course". Included in this resource are a teacher powerpoint, student study guide booklet (that pairs with the powerpoint), a parent newsletter (supporting your child during exam time), and additional information on overcoming test anxiety.
This resource is from Queens University.
In this section you will learn about 20 active learning activities. Explore the Venn diagram below to find out which activities may work in small or large classes, and which ones may be appropriate for individual work.