Tag: welcoming environments

• In support of Libraries for Academic Success & Equity

  

  Libraries are essential in building academic success and equity in our schools and learning environments. This is very easy when staff and students come from similar backgrounds and share similar languages, experiences and expectations. But what about the ‘others’? The one’s who do not share similar experiences, expectations, languages, and backgrounds? First, what does it […]

  Deborah McCallum

  February 7, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education, Library

  academic success, assimilation, citizenship, curriculum, dominant culture, dominant power structures, Equity, Flexible spaces, Historic injustices, Instructional Strategies, Learning, Librarianship, Library, makerspaces, Privilege and oppression, Resource acquisition, Teacher-Librarian, teaching, welcoming environments

• Socially Transforming the Classroom

  

  What does it mean to be normal? How can we tell if new and innovative tasks and pedagogies are truly authentic – or just considered authentic because it fits into our privileged views of what normal is? Innovation. New Pedagogies. Digital literacies. 21st Century Learning Skills. How do we make sure we are not just […]

  Deborah McCallum

  January 23, 2016

  Big Ideas in Education

  Big Ideas in Education, classism, culturally relevant teaching, culture, Curriculum Change, digital literacy, education, Equity, heterosexualism, innovation, knowledge, Learning, new pedagogies for deep learning, Normal, oppression, Power, Privilege, racism, reflections on inequity, sexism, teaching, welcoming environments

• 5 Considerations for Welcoming Environments in our Schools

  Fostering welcoming environments in education is essential for improving learning and engagement. Schools can help acknowledge students by representing their cultural diversity. This can be done by embedding cultural symbols, and practices into our buildings, classrooms, and online environments that serve to help make students and parents feel welcome and important. However, it is a […]

  Deborah McCallum

  March 31, 2013

  Aboriginal, Best Practices, Big Ideas in Education, Character, Communication, Community, Culture & Caring, Welcoming Environments

  21st Century skills, Big Ideas in Education, Communication, culture, edtech, education, Educational Contexts, FNMI, FNMIed, knowledge, Learning, student engagement, Student learning, students, welcoming environments