{"id":2451,"date":"2016-11-11T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2016-11-11T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:24:11","slug":"2016-canadian-innovators-in-education-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/2016-canadian-innovators-in-education-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Rockridge and Gleneagles Ch\u2019axay teacher-librarian Ms. Michelle Davis who, along with Rockridge teachers Ms. Lisa Hetman and Ms. Parnaz Kashani have been selected as the third-place prizewinners in the 2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Awards<\/a>, sponsored by the Canadian Educators Association and Reader\u2019s Digest Magazine. These awards recognize innovative teaching practices in Canadian Schools. In addition to Rockridge staff, teachers from Caulfeild, Eagle Harbour and Gleneagles Ch\u2019axay Elementary Schools participated in this collaboration.
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Ms. Davis and Ms. Hetman accept Canadian Innovators in Education Award.<\/p>\n

Ms. Davis, Ms. Hetman, and Ms. Kashani have been recognized for their work in creating makerspaces in the Rockridge Learning Commons (the\u00a021st Century version of the school library). Ms. Davis and her fellow teacher-librarian, Ms. Lilian Trousdell, have created this \u201clibrary plus\u201d model for Rockridge Secondary, which includes makerspaces. In Ms. Davis\u2019 blog, “Makerspaces: What are they<\/a>?”,\u00a0 she quotes Laura Fleming,\u00a0author of Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School <\/em>with the following:<\/p>\n

“To define a school\u2019s makerspace by its purpose in the simplest of terms, it is a place where young people have the opportunity to explore their own interests; learn to use tools and materials, both physical and virtual; and develop creative projects.\u2019 Fleming, 2015 p. 5\u201d<\/p>\n

Rockridge\u2019s makerspace resources to date include a 3-D printer, a green screen for filming, and a lego-wall. The lego wall has been particularly popular with students and classes.\u00a0 Recently, a Communications 12 class used the lego wall for an assignment called \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?\u201d\u00a0 Students interviewed a relative about a memorable experience in their lifetime and then created a visual representation of the story on the lego wall.\u00a0 Ms. Trousdell and Ms. Davis are now looking forward to adding resources to implement both robotics and sewing makerspaces over the course of the school year.<\/p>\n

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Lego wall with visual representations of “What’s Your Story?” by students in Communications 12.<\/p>\n

To read more about the\u00a0innovative teaching practices\u00a0profiled in the November Reader\u2019s Digest magazine, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Rockridge and Gleneagles Ch\u2019axay teacher-librarian Ms. Michelle Davis who, along with Rockridge teachers Ms. Lisa Hetman and Ms. Parnaz Kashani have been selected as the third-place prizewinners in the 2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Awards<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}