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Follow-up to Book Club – Safe As Houses
What targeted actions did we take to address our school’s learning focus? We held another Book Club for intermediate students – Safe As Houses by Eric Walters. We are trying to expose our students to other genres of books (most of our students read fiction), increase the number of students who are talking about books…
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Another Book Club Success – Safe As Houses
An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is: In the Spring, we held another book club in an effort to see if we could address some of the learning intentions outlined in the Fall when we read “Freak The Mighty”. We wanted to: Increase our number of participants Provide student…
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Connecting With Literacy and our Assistant Superintendent
As we continue our work on Literacy at Dixon, we are focusing on making connections with what we are reading. We are also always working on making positive connections with others. Our Assistant Superintendent, Mrs. Braunwyn Thompson came to share her connections with the book read to our Grade 6/7 French Immersion students in Mme…
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No More Independent Reading Without Support
At one of our recent professional development sessions, Mr. Murray presented staff with the research and strategies presented by Debbie Miller, in her book No More Independent Reading Without Support. In her book, she stresses the need, especially now, for children to have structured time with eyes on text (reading). In many classrooms, reading instruction…
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How do students suggest we move forward?
After sharing the data from the Student Learning Surveys (seen in graphs) with intermediate students, we asked them for their suggestions on how to help the community at Dixon. Students brainstormed, wrote essays and presented their ideas. Those ideas were put into a Word Cloud (feature image).
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Filling One Bucket at a Time
Action Post School Focus: At Dixon, we are embarking on creating and improving positive relationships between each other. What targeted actions are being taken? What gap or problem does this action aim to address? Why was this particular action chosen? Based on quantitative and qualitative data, how effectively has this action addressed the identified gap…