Documenting Grade 8 #HWDSBVoices – Supporting Transitions to Grade 9
A documentation of the Student Voice Forum (“What’s Your Grade 9 Voice?”) in support of Grade 8 students transition to Ancaster High in @HWDSB and Grade 9 in the coming year. [View the story "What's...
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Creating Gatestone’s Child Theme
Tomorrow is our Grade 8 Student Voice Forum at Gatestone Elementary school in support of their transition to Saltfleet Secondary in the coming year. The principal of Gatestone, Bill Torrens, has been...
View ArticleGr. 3-6 Students Express Their #HWDSBvoices at the 2013 Junior Empowerment...
Documenting the dynamic day of learning and student empowerment at the 2013 HWDSB Junior Empowerment Conference! [View the story "Gr. 3-6 Students Express their #HWDSBvoices at Junior Empowerment 2013"...
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Student Voice Forum 2.0 – Their Voice, Their Way #HWDSBvoices
This past October (18th, 19th, and 25th), we held the second annual Director’s Student Voice Forum in @HWDSB. As last year, the forums were held one per cluster, on three different days, with...
View ArticleThe Student Voice Forum Experience
I am often asked what the student voice forums look like, sound like, and feel like. It is a dynamic experience that emulates an instrumented blended learning environment en masse. What this model...
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Re-designing the Director’s Student Voice Forum Blog
If you’be been following my journey you’ll know that I have been the lead on some pretty amazing student engagement initiatives in @HWDSB – one of which being the Director’s Student Voice Forum...
View Article2013 Annual Report for the HWDSB Director’s Student Voice Forum
I have written numerous times in this space about the Director’s Student Voice Forum, it’s creation and evolution, and it’s design to engage students their way. Every year WordPress puts forth a report...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Space Jam?
In one of my last posts about re-designing the Director’s Student Voice Forum blog theme this year I referred to it as my “Space Jam”. In fact, ever since I watched the video “A Pep Talk from Kid...
View ArticleOur Student Voice Made a Difference
A student from Sir Robert Borden Junior High School (Dartmouth, NS) describes how their Student Leadership Team transformed the school’s decision-making process. Check out “Our Student Voice Made a...
View ArticleWhat Our Students Said – 3rd Annual Student Voice Forum #HWDSBvoices #HWDSB
Our students in HWDSB had lots to share with us this past February (2014). I am in the midst of writing a post documenting our 3rd annual journey but, for now, let’s look at an overview of what our...
View ArticleStudent-Led Conferences (Parent-Teacher Interviews): Empowerment and...
Student-Led Conferences: Empowerment and Ownership It sounds like a cliché, but Wildwood teachers all say the same thing: “Start small.” When the school piloted the idea of student-led conferences five...
View ArticleDocumenting Grade 8 #HWDSBVoices – Supporting Transitions to Grade 9
A documentation of the Student Voice Forum (“What’s Your Grade 9 Voice?”) in support of Grade 8 students transition to Ancaster High in @HWDSB and Grade 9 in the coming year. [View the story “What’s...
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