Woodlawn School is an environment where education and culture empowers our students to grow into caring, connected and contributing global citizens.
Woodlawn School
411 Henry Street,
Steinbach, Manitoba R5G 0R1
Website: woodlawn.hsd.ca
Learning Coach
mmartens@hsd.ca
“Well, that was a fail.” Kristen Falk and I both looked at each other and spoke these words at the end of November. We’d just spent an afternoon exploring African artifacts, photos and videos of various African countries and cultural expressions. After the exploration, we gathered her grade 2s in a circle and listened to…
“Let’s take our students outside twice a month, minimum. Let’s document what we’re doing when we go outside.” During our deeper learning team meeting in October, the grade 2 teachers at NES (Kate Hawgood, Bonnie Anderson, Courtney Savary and Sheila Krahn) wanted to explore how to use their new outdoor learning environments while learning about…
Drama is magic with any class, any grade, maybe even any curriculum! I haven’t tried it in a math class … yet! I am a new convert to drama pedagogy. You might have classified me as a “hater” … maybe that’s a bit strong. I sure didn’t want to participate in drama anything! Too vulnerable. …
Land-based learning is pedagogy. What does this even mean? Land-based learning is pedagogy? In a Western worldview, we use the land to provide food, adventure, and as a means to make a living. In Indigenous ways of knowing and being, I am learning that the land is used and understood much differently; land is text…
About 30% of students in grade 3, in Hanover School Division, meet grade level expectations in the area of Algebraic Reasoning according to the Provincial Grade 3 Assessment results. For the last two years, grade 1 -3 teachers across HSD have been inquiring into why this might be and what we, collectively, can do to…