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Category Archives: Professionals


La francisation (éducation francophone)


(in french only) Alberta Education reconnait que le développement langagier constitue la pierre angulaire de l’apprentissage.

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Making More Time for Learning


The Friendly Forest Day Care reviewed the way children were spending time with an eye on reducing the non-learning time.

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Effective Teaching: Mathematics


Math is more than numbers. It’s about structuring, modeling and essentially, interpreting the world through a mathematical lens.

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Assessment: Red-Yellow-Green Light Model


Assessment criteria collaboratively designed with students is meaningful and helps guide learning and self-regulation.

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An Indoor Playground


Using materials found in the school gym, students had to plan and then create their own playground

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Yoga Studio


When teachers at a preschool asked their students what they want their classroom to look like, a yoga studio stood out.

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Designing Rubrics


What is a rubric? An assessment tool that clearly marks a student’s performance.

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Friendly Forest Preschool


At our preschool we make sure children have many opportunities for multi-sensory play. There is sand, water, and loads of clay, paint, glue and glitter to choose from.

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Effective Teaching


Effective teaching is about grasping a student’s initial understanding of a subject, then providing plenty of opportunity for them to build on & challenge their thinking.

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Designing the Environment


Classroom materials and learning tasks – this is a child’s educational environment, and it sets the stage for a lifetime of growth.

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