Learning Matters – June Edition

It’s Here! The latest edition of Learning Matters has just been released. The theme for this edition continues with the HSD Deeper Learning Plan , and focuses on Leveraging Digital – Using Technology to Produce Investigators and Producers of Knowledge. Also included in this edition are stories from our schools – Connected Classrooms, Learning Partnerships, and Emoji Week.    Download digital version (PDF) .… Read More

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HSD Offers 5-5-5 Careers Summer Camp

ÅÝܽÊÓƵ is pleased to offer a five-day summer camp to interested 5th (soon to be 6th) graders. The cost of the camp is $50. Students will have the unique opportunity to spend each day learning about a different occupation while participating in hands-on activities such as welding, baking, cooking, hairstyling and carpentry! …LEARN MORE >

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HSD Festival of the Arts

The HSD Festival of the Arts was created four years ago as a way to bring our schools together and celebrate student creative learning in dance, drama, music and visual arts. The 2016 festival will take place June 1-4 at Clearspring Mall in Steinbach.  Browse through art displays from across the division. Opening night program… Read More

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School Community Engagements

Beginning on April 28, 2016, The ÅÝܽÊÓƵ will facilitate a division-wide community engagement through the online group insight platform, Thoughtexchange. HSD invites parents/guardians to take part in this unique and exciting opportunity to share their thoughts, regarding the school their child attends. This engagement will enable parents/guardians to share their thoughts as a… Read More

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Deeper Learning in the Southwood Makerspace

Over the course of the school year, the Southwood Deeper Learning team has launched a Makerspace for the school. Fundamentally, this place is an opportunity for deeper learning for our students. The students come to the Makerspace ready to rise to a challenge. Their responses to the challenge cross the curriculum. A makerspace challenge involves a process that includes questioning, designing, perfecting, sharing, and reflecting. During this process, you would expect to see the students displaying the important characteristics of Our Kid.

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Learning Matters Explores Inquiry Learning

I wonder about how I learn things as a fifty-something year-old adult. Do I only choose to learn when presented with a problem? Do I choose to learn for fun? For curiosity? For my job? What provokes me to learn? I’ve been thinking about this lately and I can come up with all kinds of provocations for my learning… READ MORE>

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HSD Professional Learning Centre

The Professional Learning Centre (PLC) serves as an educational resource to all ÅÝܽÊÓƵ teachers. Home to the division’s robust and diverse team of learning coaches, the coaches are a group of master teachers.  As such, their work involves building connections with other teachers throughout the division, helping them create the best environments possible… Read More

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