As Growing Innovation continues its collective work to support innovation in rural sites of learning, project proposals are being submitted for the year ahead by the 26th of October, 2020. As new projects join...
From the Spring of 2019 to Spring 2022, Growing Innovation will be leading part of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) partnership development grant, created to “investigate when and how...
Through documenting hundreds of searching conversations among educators, students, administrators, community and family members and more, Growing Innovation is proud to share a New Pathway on Curriculum. We hope it inspires you to join...
Exploring new pathways in educational change has now taken up and documented some of the multifarious and searching conversations educators, students, administrators, community members and others have been having about Assessment. We hope you...
At UBC May 5, project leaders gathered to share strength, inquires, project developments, laughter and documentation. Don’t miss the powerful documentation that was developed at this gathering!
From the growing Growing Innovation archive or documentation conversations (numbering 300 and counting!), the first “Exploring New Pathways in Educational Change” developed the question of engagement in education. This one takes on assessment. What...
Of course 2017 brought us a wonderful student’s-view of foods work/school garden projects in Haida Gwaii (at Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay Secondary School in Massett) and the West Kootenays (at Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School)…but now...
Here’s the first new Growing Innovation video of the year! This one’s a biggie, an attempt to do justice to the richness of the Outdoor Classroom – Foods Work project led by Daniel Schulbeck...
“I just don’t like cucumbers.” Collected from among the thoughts and words of children involved in two different Growing Innovation-supported project that involve foods work, this video explores children’s responses to projects in Haida...
Some new documentation is available from voices of those involved in the wonderful West Kootenay Teacher Education Program. Please find a new video here on this site. With many thanks to those who shared...
Well, that was quite something! What a full day!! With many thanks to the many Growing Innovation-supported project leaders, we had a wonderful symposium this May. There is so much wonderful work going on...
In recent years, education in BC has seen a proliferation of initiatives that engage, support and share about innovation in education. We can learn from and support other learning partnerships benefitting from diversity of...
To premiere at the 2016 Rural Schools Symposium, Growing Innovation has produced a new video about the stunning trajectory and wonderful people of the Connected Classrooms project in the Gold Trail School District (#74). ...
The Growing Innovation Connecting Generations project in School District #64 (Gulf Islands) has been doing some wonderful video work this year. We’re very grateful that Sarah (Hook-Nilsson) has shared two new Connecting Generations...
Ruralteachers is proud to make available to educators and the public a new video series that profiles exemplary rural educators. As teacher Caitlin Currie of Alexis Creek Elementary/Junior Secondary School advises, those in rural...
This year’s Growing Innovation Rural Schools Symposium was held at UBC on May 23, 2015. A all-day affair this year, presentations by most of the new members of the Growing Innovation Project family evinced...
Attend and join many educators (from BC and other places in Canada), including Growing Innovation project leaders, who are wrestling with making formative assessment-related shifts in their praxis. From the CAfLN Conference announcement: Canadian...
IOP 2015 Conference | May 2 UBC Vancouver | Faculty of Education iop.educ.ubc.ca Teaching is demanding and complex work, made more difficult if we try to do it in isolation or without sharing and...
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The important work of Sarah Hook-Nilsson and her wonderful and committed “co-inspirators” continues in the Gulf Islands. We thank them for the timely inspiration of their recent UPDATE (.pdf opens in new window)....