Sparking Students’ Curiosity in the Wild
By Erin Mutch | August 8, 2018
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7:36 am

Wind-swept, bug-bitten and sun-kissed we returned to Nym Lake by retracing our steps from our first day into Quetico Park back through the well-travelled Batchewaung portage. On the return trip, rather than looking sheepishly at the ground when decisions were...
Viva La Revolution! With Special Thanks to Jo Boaler
By Alison Boehme | May 16, 2018
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12:46 pm

“Viva la revolution.”
A statement written by Jo Boaler as she signed an article I had written for the Fields Institute in Toronto about incorporating low floor, high ceiling tasks into my Grade 5 classroom. Viva la revolution... the words circled around...
Growing Understanding – An Important Part of Transforming Learning
By Beate Planche | April 18, 2018
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1:28 pm

As the Ontario Ministry of Education report on Phase One - 21st Century Competencies (Winter, 2016 Edition) reinforced, cognitive competencies such as critical thinking, analysis and problem solving are important but no longer touted as the only prominent...
Part 1: The Power of Mathematics Learning Trajectories in Early Learning and Primary Classrooms
By Edward Schroeter | March 2, 2018
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12:50 pm

I vividly recall one fateful Professional Activity Day at the end of June 2016 when the Vice-Principal of my K to 8 elementary school turned to her kindergarten and grade 1 to 3 teachers and pointed out research that shows children’s preschool mathematics...
Who Makes the Biggest Impact?
By Mark Chubb | March 6, 2017
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1:16 pm

Who Makes the Biggest Impact?
A few years ago I had the opportunity to listen to Damian Cooper (expert on assessment and evaluation here in Ontario) give a talk at OAME. He shared an analogy with us that I found particularly interesting. He talked about...
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