Year End Activities

Beat the clock

Will Gourley
May 31, 2019
General, Year End Activities
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Tick tock teachers, can you beat the clock? The month of May is on the books, and with fewer than 20 instructional days for us in the classroom remaining in June, every minute is valuable. So, I’ll try to be brief. Where is your time being apportioned to this June? Concerts, bbqs, play days, graduations, […]

End Of Year Reflections

Arianna Lambert
June 30, 2018
Celebrating Success, Year End Activities
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EEEK!!! Where has the time gone? I meant to post this earlier in the month to get the conversation going and to perhaps find new or different ways of reflecting both for myself and students but began writing and switched to report cards, June Reviews or OSR sign-offs. Every June or maybe even earlier, I […]

Puzzling Together the Pieces

Laura Bottrell
June 30, 2017
Celebrating Success, Year End Activities
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As the school year comes to an end, it’s important to keep our students engaged and active in meaningful activities. Aside from all of the celebrations and partying, we took some time at our school to get our students reflecting and connecting on their year as a whole. My current school is a very small, […]

The (W)rap

Will Gourley
June 28, 2017
Celebrating Success, General, Inspiring Teachers, Making a Difference Through Education, Occasional Teachers, Professional Learning and Growth, self reflection, Year End Activities
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The following is proof why I will never quit my day job for a career in entertainment. Sung to the tune of Rapper’s Delight with apologies to the Sugar Hill Gang. Rap It’s June again and the heat is on, School is buzzin’, students’ll soon be gone. What’s that you say? No not yet. You forgot to […]

Mov(i)e Time

Will Gourley
June 27, 2017
Constant Learning, Financial Literacy, General, Inquiry, Learning in a Real Life Context, Year End Activities
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It’s the last school week of June. Things are still happening at the speed of learning, of course. Final assessments are in the books and reports are printed. Students are buzzing, bristling, and bursting with energy like they’ve been equipped with new solar panels from TESLA to absorb the energy of sunny days. By this month’s end my school will have […]

On track

Will Gourley
May 31, 2017
Assessment, Celebrating Success, General, Modern Learning, Report Cards, Year End Activities
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A couple of years ago,  I shared a post titled Not feeling it today. It was a response to the highs and lows experienced in my life as an educator.  The post’s banner image captured a lighthearted take on our profession in a simple sentence. It read, “Students: If you ever want to know what a teacher’s […]

All gone

Will Gourley
July 1, 2016
Celebrating Success, General, Professional Learning and Growth, Year End Activities
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Desks emptied, stacked and put aside. Check. Dormant superfluous paper recycled with extreme prejudice. Check. Walls filled with student work, learning goals, art, and inspirational messages now returned to vanilla coloured vacant voids in waiting. Check. Boxes packed and piled in preparation for transport to my new pending portable location (second in 4 years). Cool. As […]

Start strong. Finish stronger

Will Gourley
July 1, 2016
Celebrating Success, Challenging Topics, General, Inspiring Teachers, Making a Difference Through Education, self reflection, Year End Activities
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I write this post as a tribute and thank you to all educators who breathe inspiration into the lives of their students and into one another from September’s strong start to June’s stronger finish. This post is the completion of a promise after a response reminiscent of a rant  written to address comments in the media about educators. In the spirit […]

Revise, Refine, Reimagine

Tisha Nelson
June 17, 2016
Constant Learning, General, self reflection, Year End Activities
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Although sometimes I would rather have a balanced-calendar school year, where summers were shortened and more frequent breaks are embedded throughout the academic year, the two months off that a 10-month school year calendar is still a welcomed experience. The structured close of what often is an intense year of teaching and learning, affords us […]

Spring cleaning

Will Gourley
April 27, 2016
Field Trips, General, Learning in a Real Life Context, Outdoor Learning, Year End Activities
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Aaaaah, fresh air! It’s like the earth turned on an air purifier and sun lamp to awaken us from our annual hibernation. There is excitement all around and almost everyone at my school seems to have a bounce in their steps. This is probably because we are not getting weighed down by clunky boots, toques, scarves, mittens, snow pants, and parkas. Spring has […]

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