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Loved that one of the students discussed how teachers introduce topics and subject matter by just “throwing it in there”!  Students are focusing on community development and don’t really see how the content is being infused seemlessly.

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Students feel very safe to share their vulnerabilities in this community.  Students were shown some wise words from a sharing circle that happened last day (see picture). These wise words were around ‘what gets in the way of achieving your goals? What strategies have you used to overcome obstacles?  One big a-ha was around health and nutrition and it’s affect on their learning. Students also talked about how much they enjoy sharing circles and how this helps them to get to know each other and form connections to peers they wouldn’t normally talk to.

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Listening into the conversations, I noticed that the students felt safe as they shared their areas of strengths and where they needed to improve. Quite the feeling of community!

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Marnie Birkeland

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Really impressed by the evidence of mindset in everything I saw and heard.  Lots of evidence that students have obviously internalized this understanding and it has become part of their foundation for learning.

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Relationships - students felt safe and valued inclusion. They were encouraged to be courageous, and to be non-judgmental. There was a sense of belonging that existed throughout the community, which allowed everyone to be himself or herself. This individualism was respected by all.

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Teachers have clearly created the conditions for deeper learning to take place.  Students has an abundance of choice with respect to their learning.

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Through the students' words and conversations, I noted a strong culture of belonging and contentedness between the students and adults in the room. The students noted that this culture was important in enabling them to be contributors to their collective learning. Students often used words like "we" and "ours" to show that they learned together.

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The power of environments being created that are safe to learn and student choice related to different learning spaces was reinforced for me. I saw some students engaged in their learning task through collaboration while others were deeply engrossed in their own learning in a more solitary setting.

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The students were able to use specific, focused language to describe their learning and reflect on how it had developed over time. It was also clear that they had been working on being metacognitive around the development of communication and social competencies.