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Raegan Sawka and Penny Hasell
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2008-02-18 09:17
Penny Hasell, a grade 4/5 teacher at Roosevelt Park Community School in Prince Rupert and graduate of the Masters in Education program linked with LUCID, talks with fellow graduate and colleague Raegan Sawka about her exprience in the LUCID Project. She tells us of her successes in her classroom and also some of the struggles as she forges her way into teaching in a culturally-inclusive, imaginative way. (Dec. 2007)
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Mark Fettes
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2008-02-15 14:52
Weaving, fishing, carving, drumming, eco-tourism – these are not the first activities that come to mind when we think about learning mathematics. Yet perhaps we should, according to Kanwal Neel, a well-known BC mathematics educator who recently completed a study of numeracy practices in the communities of Haida Gwaii as a central component of his PhD thesis. (Dec. 2007)
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Tannis Calder
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2008-02-18 09:50
The third Issue of LUCID Insights is now available for download! Contents include updates from each of the districts as well as upcoming events.
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Kym Stewart
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2008-02-18 09:51
Kym Stewart visits Masset: After months of planning and preparation, my media-education research finally began at Tahayghen Elementary school in Masset, Haida Gwaii. I decided that I would continue with the work on ‘advertising’ that I had begun in a Burnaby elementary classroom. As I gathered my materials on Sunday night, I was both excited and anxious to bring the lessons that I had developed to new students. While I felt comfortable teaching these very-familiar advertising lessons, I was extremely uncomfortable with their lack of Haida content as well as my role, as a non-Haida, in the development and implementation of culturally inclusive materials.
LUCID is proud to announce its second newsletter. Please dowload a copy to learn more about what is happening in the classrooms and districts within the LUCID Project.
We are excited to announce A Brief Guide to LUCID. The guide was first developed for the BC Learning in Action Showcase in December 2006
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Christine Hearn
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2008-02-18 13:01
A $1 million five-year grant to Fettes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) ... will allow Fettes and his team to work with the Sto:lo, Haida, and Tsimshian communities and with school districts in Chilliwack, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Prince Rupert to see how the concepts of imaginative learning developed at SFU can help schools engage all children in learning. Only 42 percent of 18-year-old B.C. aboriginal students complete high school compared to 79 percent of other students. Fettes wants to address that problem. (Nov. 2004)
LUCID is proud to announce its first Newsletter. Please dowload a copy to find out what is happening in the LUCID Project. Details about the 2006 summer conference and current LUCID teacher activities are just two of the items that fill its pages.
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Tannis Calder
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2008-02-18 10:01
Last Monday I had a wonderful opportunity to speak with some students in Chilliwack at Bernard Elementary who were eager to share their story about what they saw as an unusual experience last year in their grade five classroom. They were the students of Grace Jones, a teacher who has been a part of the LUCID project since it’s inception in 2003. I was eager to see how culturally-inclusive imaginative development was being put into practice.
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Mark Fettes
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2008-02-18 10:04
An innovative pilot high school program and a focus on connecting with land and community are helping LUCID reach more students and teachers in Haida Gwaii (School District 50).
On July 8-10 teachers, leaders, researchers and supporters of the LUCID research project from all districts were able to reconnect at a quaint cannery in Port Edwards. This conference marked the midterm point of the LUCID project and provided an opportunity to share ideas and inspiration that would carry us towards additional imaginative, cultural inclusion practices for our students. Like many of our meetings together, this conference created another opportunity to support risk taking in the classroom as we seek to continue the questioning of the normative practices and to engage the students in a deeper manner. Click on "more" to read a Reflection of the conference by a visiting scholar, Dr. Thomas W. Neilsen
