An excited team of students led by Lucerne school teachers Signy Frederickson and Scott Kipkie have returned after competingin a Robo Games tournament in Nelson. Integrating math and science, the students built small robots using Arduino kits, Arduino software, along with computer coding and electronics skills to build and strategize their robots for the obstacle course,robot soccer, the special trick competition, and more. Something different this year was the fact that teams did not have to travel for weekly sessions. The learning materials were posted online, and Brad Pommen from the Nelson Tech Club travelled to eachschool participating in the competition.
Curriculum Support Planning Day
Jan Unwin, Superintendent of Graduation and Transitions, and Maureen Dockendorf, Superintendent of Early Years, along with SD10 and school leaders were excited about the day they spent working alongside each other. Teachers examined the new curriculum in a range of ways, planned and explored project-based learning and thematic ways to integrate curricular areas, duginto the scope and sequence of current vs the renewed curriculum in order to better understand any changes that have been made, and also, to collaboratively plan units and lessons.
Harvard Ph.D student, to visit SD 10 on March 7 and 8
Amelia Peterson, Harvard Ph.D student will be visiting SD 10 to check out innovative practices and pedagogy in the district. She will join the Collaborating to Engage All Learners (C2EAL) team, along with Dr. Leyton Schnellert, the C2EAL team of 11 teachers from across the district, and the superintendent. They will meet at Edgewood School for a Learning Round in Biz Tupper andAnita Vibe’s Grade 3-7 class. Peterson will also join the district leadership team and work with the district Educational Transformation Committee.
Nakusp Secondary examines new ways to organize learning
A team of seven from NSS recently journeyed to four schools in the Okanagan and Shuswap with the goal of researching diverseways to be better organized for student learning. Each of the secondary schools visited face declining enrollment and have come up with a range of solutions to continue to offer choices and options for their students. Some of the ideas observed were more cross-curricular learning, enhanced choices for students, and more self-directed learning using the Facilitated Learning Centre.These ideas were observed as potential directions for transformation at NSS. School principal Natasha Miles presented the team’s findings to NSS’s PAC meeting. The next steps are to involve parents and students in conversations and possibly future school visits.
The next Education Partnership Committee meeting takes place on March 8 at 6 p.m.
The next School Board meeting takes place on March 8 at 7 p.m.