Join Instructional Coaches and Teachers for division specific support for Planning & The New Math Curriculum
Primary Division - Nov 26th @ 3:45
Junior Division - Dec 3rd @ 3:45
Intermediate Division - Dec 10 @ 3:45
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81152578806
Password: LKDSB
A series of online Sessions for Kindergarten Teams (Teachers and Early Childhood Educators).
These sessions reference the Lawson Continuum with the 'pre addition' strategies.
Join:
Heather Wark (Lakehead University)
Denise Ladd, Sally Parkinson & Alicia Schenck (LKDSB)
and LKDSB Educators from High Park, Plympton-Wyoming, King George (Chatham), P.E. McGibbon, Dresden, Riverview and McNaughton
Session 1: Subitizing for Early Learners - Tues. Nov 24 @ 3:45
Session 2: Counting for Early Learners -Tues. Dec 1 @ 3:45
Session 3: Problem Types for Early Learners - Tues. Dec 8 @ 3:45
Session 4: Early Number Screening - Tues. Dec 15 @ 3:45
All sessions will be presented online at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81152578806
Password: LKDSB
Treaties Recognition Week was introduced in 2016 to honour the importance of treaties and to educate Canadian citizens about treaty rights and treaty relationships.
This is the time that teachers and students learn about treaties and build greater understanding of the importance of treaties in Ontario, and Canada. Treaties negotiated in this country are the foundation of the relationship between governments and Indigenous peoples and also the foundation of Canada.
Treaties Recognition Week responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action to increase treaty awareness. This helps create equitable and respectful relationships, enabling a better way forward together.
We have created these videos for you to use to build your own understanding of the importance of treaties, and also to share with your students. You can use these videos to start the conversation and generate questions for inquiry.
Dallas Sinopole’s introduction:
In this video Dallas talks about the wampum beads that the belts are made of:
This video tells of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty:
*Make sure to turn the Youtube Closed Captions on in the following videos. Captions were not included in the original video.
This Video tells of the Two Row Wampum:
This Video Tells of the Treaty of Niagara:
This Video tells of the story of The Drum, and how treaties are not always recorded through wampum or pen and paper:
This video tells how the game of lacrosse is also viewed as a way to keep peace, much like a treaty:
In this video Dallas talks about how everyone living in Canada is a treaty person and has rights and responsibilities that come along with these treaties:
In this video Dallas talks about treaty rights today:
More Resources to support learning about Treaties:
Where to next?
After watching these videos and learning about The Two Row Wampum or the Dish With one Spoon Wampum, ask yourself and your students how this relates to our Traditional Territory Acknowledgement.
Revisit this blog post Making The Traditional Territory Acknowledgement More Meaningful. Use the information provided in this video to encourage your students to create a more meaningful Territory Acknowledgement that speaks of treaties, speaks of relationships with the land, speaks of the people whose traditional territory you are on and includes a commitment to these peoples and the land.
If you have any questions or have student work you’d like to share, please email me at:
gretchen.sands-gamble@lkdsb.net
Or on twitter: @msGambleLKDSB
Support for Progress Reports (Grades 1
– 8) and Initial Observations (Kindergarten) will be available via:
1) On-Demand Training Videos & Documentation (beginning Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020)
2) Live Training Sessions (Links Below)
All support
can be reviewed at https://tinyurl.com/LK2020ProgressReport
1)
On-Demand
Training Documentation & Videos:
Documentation:
LKDSB Creating Elementary Progress Report in Aspen Manual (pdf)
Principal Printing Reports in Aspen (pdf)
On-Demand Videos:
Allow Popups in Aspen (1 minute video)
Acessing Markbook for Progress Report Writing (3 minute video)
Set Control Fields: Getting to the Progress Report (2 minute video)
Entering Comments for Grades 1 to 8 (4 minute video)
Submit Grades to the Office: Posting Grades (2 minute video)
Print a Single Student Report Principal View (2 minute video)
2) Live Training
Sessions:
-
Each session will be held 3 times (with the same content) to fit flexible
schedules.
Session #1: Accessing Aspen and Comment Building
Session
#2: Creating Progress Reports (Grades 1 – 8) and
Initial Observations (Kindergarten) in Aspen
Session #3: Open
Q&A Session
Session
#4: Progress Reports for Elementary Principals
Online Training Room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84059269089
Password: LKDSB
- The online
training room will be the same for each session.
Boozhoo! Welcome back! A new school year is upon us, and while it may look different in a lot of ways, there are some things that are very familiar.
I’ve had many teachers ask how they can help their students understand why we say a Traditional Territory Acknowledgment every day in our schools.
I created a video that you can share with your students explaining why we say Traditional Territory Acknowledgments, ways to make them more meaningful and tips for writing your own.
Where to next?
Have your students look at a map of the LKDSB catchment area. They can show where they live on the map in relation to the 4 First Nations in the LKDSB catchment area.
Click on these links to learn more about the First Nations in our area.
If you want your students to write their own traditional territory acknowledgements there are a few things to remember to think about and include:
Whose traditional territory are you living on?
What are you grateful for (nature, rivers, animals etc)?
It’s good to mention the sharing of the land, because sharing was the original intent when Indigenous people signed treaties with governments
Make a commitment to the land
Make a commitment to the people whose traditional territory you are on. Do some research. What initiatives are being undertaken by the First Nation communities in your area? What can you do to offer your support to these communities?
Don’t Forget to Share!
If you or your students have work that you want to share, please share it with me! I love to see all the great things happening around our school board!
Send me an email! gretchen.sands-gamble@lkdsb.com
Or tag me on twitter: @MsGambleLKDSB
On-Demand Sessions from #LKLaunch20 (August 2020)
Getting Started with:
