Learning and Self-Assessment: Hoops or Authenticity?
by Greg Gerber, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ I’d like to ask you a question. After you read it in the next paragraph, would you take a moment to pause and consider your...
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Combatting Implementation Fatigue
by Darren Spyksma, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ I think it might be time for school staff to play a board game during the next staff meeting. Not just any board game...
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Assessment Is Central to Learning
by Greg Gerber, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ Among educators, there is very little argument about whether or not engaging in assessment is a required dimension in the...
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Should Teachers Be Developing Their Core Competencies?
by Darren Spyksma, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ For Christian educators, competency development as a focus for the BC Ed Plan is one the most exciting and significant...
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Engage Your Planning with Core Competency as the Starting Point
by Greg Gerber, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ This is an exciting time to be involved in education. During the last few hundred years, schooling has been characterized...
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Are Questions the New Template?
by Darren Spyksma, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ Teachers have been required to fit all learning experiences into the same boxes and the same structures for many years....
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Discover, Embrace, and Echo
processing curriculum design by Greg Gerber, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ The start of the school year brought with it a renewed sense of urgency for schools to begin,...
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Why, How … then What
by Darren Spyksma, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ Over the next two years, all SCSBC schools will need to begin to adjust their programming to meet the new BC Edplan.¹ In...
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Owning Learning
by Darren Spyksma, SCSBC Director of Learning ◊ One element that sets image bearers apart from the rest of God’s creation is the gift of choice.1 In a bit of a...
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