The Sa-Hali September Pro-D Day!

What an amazing day with our faculty here at Sa-Hali today.  Over the course of the day we:

• Worked with QR codes in our staff scavenger hunt
• Utilized literacy strategies in our activities such as Save the Last Word and Multiple-Perspectives Carousel (see links in our "Engagement Strategies that We Are Modeling"
• Designed a visual aide to guide us in terms of our vision of attributes that we want for our graduates.
• Demonstrated divergent thinking and respectful relationships in each of our discussions 
• Worked with Bloom's Taxonomy to begin to examine the tasks that we use in our classes to require the behaviours that we want from our students and from ourselves.

• Created a video archive of our day.
• Had a great day working TOGETHER!

Setting the Stage For Collaboration

This week, we will be having a whole group collaboration session.  During this meeting we will:

• determine our prior knowledge and some of our beliefs around effective collaboration
• understand the vision for collaboration, along with the tangible products we will produce by the end of this school year

• discuss SOLE (self-organized learning environments) in the context of collaboration and through the lens of the tasks that we need to complete
• prioritize the groups that we would like to work within to accomplish these tasks as well as things that are germane/interesting to each of us over the course of the year.

Should be an action packed 45 minutes, and the surveys that we will be filling out are located in the "Staff Workspace" section to the left!

Welcome to the Sandbox!

The Sa-Hali "Educational Sandbox" is a place where we can go to create, design, share, implement, assess, and reflect upon all things educational at SSS!  The long term vision for this space is to create a repository of activities and reflections for our staff that we can use in our classrooms to make our jobs easier each day.

Feel free to make comments and add your own 'bits of sand' to truly make this space "our sandbox".