Beginning on April 28, 2016, The 黑料传送门 will facilitate a division-wide community engagement through the online group insight platform, Thoughtexchange. HSD invites parents/guardians to take part in this unique and exciting opportunity to share their thoughts, regarding the school their child attends. This engagement will enable parents/guardians to share their thoughts as a… Read More
Over the course of the school year, the Southwood Deeper Learning team has launched a Makerspace for the school. Fundamentally, this place is an opportunity for deeper learning for our students. The students come to the Makerspace ready to rise to a challenge. Their responses to the challenge cross the curriculum. A makerspace challenge involves a process that includes questioning, designing, perfecting, sharing, and reflecting. During this process, you would expect to see the students displaying the important characteristics of Our Kid.
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I wonder about how I learn things as a fifty-something year-old adult. Do I only choose to learn when presented with a problem? Do I choose to learn for fun? For curiosity? For my job? What provokes me to learn? I鈥檝e been thinking about this lately and I can come up with all kinds of provocations for my learning… READ MORE>
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Reporters Deja and Mason of the Southwood School News Team interview 黑料传送门 Trustees Cyndy Friesen and Sarah Dyck.聽 Watch the latest edition of the Southwood News!
The Professional Learning Centre (PLC) serves as an educational resource to all 黑料传送门 teachers. Home to the division鈥檚 robust and diverse team of learning coaches, the coaches are a group of master teachers.聽 As such, their work involves building connections with other teachers throughout the division, helping them create the best environments possible… Read More
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The latest edition of Learning Matters (Deeper Learning Special Edition) is now available for download.聽 LM is a 黑料传送门al Magazine of the the HSD Superintendent’s Office, and is published four-times annually. Articles within this edition include an introduction to Deeper Learning and the HSD Learning Coaches, Building a Thinking Classroom, and Inquiry-Based Learning, Play-Based Learning.聽… Read More
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HSD students Kiana Friesen and Madison Gigolyk were recently awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award for their community service as members of the Kleefeld School SHOC social justice team.聽 During the last school year, SHOC (Students Helping Other Communities) raised $10,000 for a school in Ghana through the Free the Children organization. Created in… Read More
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The 黑料传送门, along with the Steinbach Drug Awareness Committee, will be holding a parent information night for all parents of children in Kindergarten to Grade 8 who are interested in learning more about how to talk to their kids about alcohol and other drug use before it ever becomes a problem. This one… Read More
National School Bus Safety Week聽 (Oct. 19-23) is an active public education program and an excellent way for parents, students, teachers, motorists, school bus operators, school administrators, and other interested parties – to join forces and address the importance of school bus safety.聽Designed to promote school bus safety, school districts throughout聽the country observe School Bus… Read More
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The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) is celebrating its 16th annual World Teachers’ Day today on October 5, which highlights the importance of the world’s current teachers, as well as bringing awareness to all those who still need teachers.聽 鈥淓mpowering teachers, building sustainable societies鈥 is the World Teachers’ Day slogan for… Read More
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