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Yukon Learning Networks

• Doing What Matters Most

Empowering and Engaging Stories Team 2:

Chris Stacey, Cyndi O’Rourke, Alethea Wallace, Ryan West

Did you know . . .

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We acknowledge, recognize and respect that we live, work and learn within the 14 traditional territories of Yukon First Nations

Yukon Learning Networks: An Introduction

• Yukon Learning Networks are Territorially-based
• Teachers from any school are welcome to join
• Participating educators collaborate and share case studies with

colleagues through regional meetings

• We support teachers who also establish school-based Networks

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Yukon Learning Networks: Why, How, What

Why?

• To improve outcomes for students

How?

• By immersing in collaborative inquiry with the learner at the centre of our

practice

What?

• 3 full-day face-to-face sessions a year
• 2 half-day online meetings a year
• Continuous online collaboration e.g. LMS (Moodle) ‘course’ structure
• Celebration and sharing of our learning > https://tinyurl.com/ykedinquiries

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Yukon Learning Networks: Themes

• Each year, several themes emerge from our scan of needs among
• ur schools
• Themes for 2018-19 were:
• Standards-Based Learning and Grading
• K-3 Place-Based Learning
• Building a Literacy and Numeracy Growth Mindset
• Applied Design, Skills and Technologies

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In this session . . .

. . . we share three rural inquiry projects:

• 1. Developing a Standards-Based Mindset – Cyndi O’Rourke
• 2. Sampling Student Performance – Alethea Wallace
• 3. Education and Reconciliation in Rural Yukon – Ryan West

Please tell us what you think, what you learn, what our next steps could be!

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Haines Junction

Cynthia O’Rourke @CyndiOFork

I teach grade 6-12 French, Social Studies, Foods and Careers at St. Elias Community School in Dakwäkäda Haines Junction, Yukon Territory. I gratefully acknowledge that I work and live on the Traditional Territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nation.

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Developing a Standards- Based Grading Mindset

• New mindset needed for SBGR
• Project-based learning as starting point

My Reflection

➝ Big change in my mindset through PBL ➝ Continue to use Backwards Design ideas

in planning

➝ Determining cognitive complexity of

standards for different grade levels

➝ Collaborating with others to develop

assessments to be used by everyone

➝ More comfortable, more confidence

Brian Lewthwaite guideline

“Have well-defined and consistent expectations for student performance” Culturally responsive teaching for Yukon First Nations citizens https://www.pedagogyofconse quence.com/

Step 1: Choosing Learning Standards

➝ Course Grid (see next slide) ➝ Selecting appropriate learning

standards for project idea

➝ Ensure repetition of learning

standards but that all learning standards are covered

Source: SD #73 Kamloops/Thompson and also posted on lss.yukonschools.ca

➢ Create assessments based on selected learning

standards

➢ Reuse previous assessments with selected learning

standards

➢ Check for cognitive complexity ➢ Ensure clarity and student-friendly language

Step 2: Building Assessments

Transition headline

Let’s start with the first set of slides

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➢ Create project plan ➢ Design a personalized Google Slide presentation for

the class to introduce the project

➢ Students can access the document anywhere and

anytime if they are connected to the internet

➢ Easy to refer back to while working to check

progress

Step 3: Design Google Slides

Step 4: Reflecting

➝ “Sandra Herbst”-ing it

with students

➝ Conferencing with

students

➝ Reflecting when assessing

to check complexity and efficacy

➝ Comparing marks on

projects as a check

➝ Adapting assessments

NYM AE ME EE Ab Wonder Project 9 3 2 Exam Project 1 10 3 PD Project 3 2 7 3

Comparing Projects

“Activities are just activities unless there is a direct link between the activity and the intended learning; that’s what turns a task into a target.” –Tom Schimmer Shäw níthan

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Sampling Student Performance

Alethea Wallace

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Education and Reconciliation in Rural Yukon

Ryan West

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In this session . . .

We have described how Yukon Education uses a collaborative model to support the inquiry process. We shared three rural inquiry projects:

• Developing a Standards-Based Mindset
• Sampling Student Performance
• Education and Reconciliation in Rural Yukon

We’d love to hear what you think, what you learned, what our next steps could be!

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