Mentor Leaders

Teaching Here: Delta School District 37

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From the Outside Looking in: Observations about Mentor Learning in Delta School District #37 Recently Suzi Gould (@SuziGould2) and Rebecca Sweeney (@BeccaSweeney) from CORE Education in New Zealand visited BC to share the development of their game-like inquiry tool, Catalyst, with BC educators.   During their time in BC they attended a mentor learning session in the Delta School District.  They participated in the learning and discussion and uncovered many […]

2016 Mentorship Summer Insititute

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  “The presentations were amazing . . . the conversation that happened around each activity was simply the best as it made me feel challenged and reflective.” (Participant Feedback)   The third Mentorship Institute was held at UBC in early July.  This year’s Institute, titled Leading Together: Sustaining Mentorship, Strengthening Teaching, brought together 80 educators to continue building a provincial network of leaders in service of teachers new to the […]

A first year kindergarten teacher speaks about what new teachers need from their colleagues

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Mahima Lamba is a first year kindergarten teacher from Delta who took on the bold challenge to address 800 teacher delegates at the 2016 AGM to speak on behalf of the new generation of BC  teachers.  Mahima describes how beginning teachers value and represent the diversities of students we teach in contemporary classrooms, and powerfully addresses the ‘entitlement’ often used to label her generation.  She articulates the quality of help […]