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New Teacher Mentoring Project ‘on pause’ pending Ministry of Education funding

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New Teacher Mentoring Project ‘on pause’ pending Ministry of Education funding Over the last five years, the New Teacher Mentoring Project (NTMP) has implemented mentorship projects in support of teachers new to the profession, new to role, and new to your community.  This has been fruitful work that has spawned the growth of sustainable responsive mentorship in 40 districts/locals across British Columbia. The project and website updates will be ‘on […]

Building Bridges: Collaborative Inquiry at UBCO and SD 23

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“How can we do this better?  How can we grow this?” are the questions that Dr. Leyton Schnellert asks himself at the end of each year when he thinks about how to design more meaningful learning opportunities for teacher-candidates at UBC Okanagan.  Recently the answer was to create a collaborative inquiry group that focused on the the opportunities presented with the implementation of BC’s “renewed” curriculum.  The group met once […]

Reflecting on UBC Roundtable “Powering Up Practicum”

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    Strengthening Our Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Engaging Teacher Candidates and School Advisors in ReconciliACTION Projects in the Classroom – Dr. Jan Hare, Melanie Nelson and Christabel Shaler   Dr. Jan Hare described the genesis and process of this powerful and sustainable process for supporting teacher candidates and their school advisors in implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing in classrooms. She described how the process started as face-to-face meetings […]