Videos

Inclusive Education: Student and Parent Voice in IEP’s Video

Parents and students are critical partners for inclusive education and in the creation of IEPs (Individual Education Plans). 

Culturally Responsive Math Video

Planning math learning through a culturally responsive lens builds on the identities of learners and their funds of knowledge. This lens for mathematics learning is linked to greater student success and equity. 

Land as Teacher: EDUC 440

Created for EDUC 440 Aboriginal Education in Canada, Rural and Remote Teacher Education program, UBC With thanks to contributors including the Indigenous Education Circle, Jesse Halton, Bonny-Lynn Donovan, Megan Read, and Denise Flick.

Language & Culture: EDUC 440

Created for EDUC 440 Aboriginal Education in Canada, Rural and Remote Teacher Education program, UBC With thanks to contributors including the Indigenous Education Circle, Jesse Halton, Bonny-Lynn Donovan, Megan Read, and Denise Flick.

Reciprocity: EDUC 440

Created for EDUC 440 Aboriginal Education in Canada, Rural and Remote Teacher Education program, UBC With thanks to contributors including the Indigenous Education Circle, Jesse Halton, Bonny-Lynn Donovan, Megan Read, and Denise Flick.

Relationships: EDUC 440

Created for EDUC 440 Aboriginal Education in Canada, Rural and Remote Teacher Education program, UBC With thanks to contributors including the Indigenous Education Circle, Jesse Halton, Bonny-Lynn Donovan, Megan Read, and Denise Flick.

Voices of Rural Education : Dionte Jelks, Canoe Creek, B.C.

From Rosie Seymour Elementary School of the Canoe Creek Band in Canoe Creek, B.C.:

Voices of Rural Education – Catlin Currie, Alexis Creek, B.C.

Also from Alexis Creek Elementary and Secondary School:

Voices of Rural Education : Shane Sliziak, Alexis Creek, B.C.

From Alexis Creek Elementary and Secondary School in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia, in the vast (…the size of Switzerland!) School District #27 (Cariboo/Chilcotin):

“What you get is one size fits all, and it doesn’t fit anybody…”

As many of the children seen above, from Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School on Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenays of British Columbia, Principal Laury McPherson here generously discusses teaching abroad, and her reasons for returning, with insights into International curriculum comparison, the development of Indigenous-inspired education, and the profound attractions of education in a rural […]

Students in Crawford Bay and Haida Gwaii discuss foods/gardens projects

This is a new series, dedicated to featuring the work, situation and commitment of exemplary rural educators. We hope you appreciate them as much as we do! From foods work/school garden projects in Haida Gwaii (at Gudangaay Tlaats’gaa Naay Secondary School in Massett) and the West Kootenays (at Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School), this video documents […]

Growing Innovation in 2016

With the support of the UBC Rix Professorship of Rural Teacher Education and the BC Ministry of Education, Growing Innovation has been able to hold a symposium in the springtime for project leaders to come together to share with each other about their projects, their inquiries and their places. The Rural Schools Symposium is a […]

Growing Innovation Rural Schools Symposium 2017

With the support of the UBC Rix Professorship of Rural Teacher Education and the BC Ministry of Education, since 2012 Growing Innovation has been able to hold a symposium in the springtime where project leaders can come together to share with each other about their projects. The Rural Schools Symposium is invariably an important experience […]

Growing Innovation Symposium 2018 – 1

The 2018 Growing Innovation Symposium saw so much generative interaction it was hard to edit its documentation. Because of this, we’ve broken it down and selected three narratives emerging from answers to the three questions we asked. First: What is most important in your experience of Growing Innovation?

Growing Innovation Symposium 2018 – 2

Next: If Growing Innovation has promise for you and for your community, how is it also important to education itself?

Growing Innovation Symposium 2018 – 3

And finally: What do people need to know about Growing Innovation?

West Kootenay Teacher Education Program

Following the plans outlined in the video below this next one (“The Next Steps for WKTEP”) it is gratifying to be able to document some of what has come to pass as the West Kootenay Teacher Education Program transforms to become even more vital in its communities, and responsive to them. This video provides a glimpse into […]

Working Together to Create Student Driven Interdisciplinary learning Desert Sands

This 2016 film tells the story of Desert Sands Community School in rural British Columbia’s Gold Trail School District. Educators and students describe and reflect on their experiences working together to create student-driven interdisciplinary learning. Inquiry-based teaching and learning, student collaboration, and the development of students’ personal and social awareness and responsibility are highlighted as […]

Imagining the Futures of Small Secondary Schools

This short film create by ubcotv highlight the annual Small Secondary Schools Think Tank hosted by UBCO in collaboration with the Rural Education Advisory Committee. The Faculty of Education is working with educators from BC’s small schools to learn and share ideas of how they can continue to evolve through innovation. Initiatives like the Small […]

The Small School Think Tank

Each year the Faculty of Education at UBC’s Okanagan Campus hosts the Small Secondary School Think Tank where educators come together for two days of collaboration, inspiration and innovation. Teams from small, primarily rural, secondary schools and school districts participate in an empathetic design process to support a case study school. In May 2018, the […]

Collaborating for Equity for Indigenous Learners in Rural Schools

This short film highlights the learning that occurred at the 6th Annual Small Secondary Schools Think Tank at UBC Okanagan in May 2019. Based on interviews with students, the case study school is working to foster a sense of belonging for their Indigenous learners. Through an empathetic design process participants, rural educators from across British […]

Lighting a Fire – Voices in First Nations Education in British Columbia

From where indigenous culture and contemporary education meet, here we present a video with voices from indigenous education from throughout British Columbia:

Place and Place Consciousness

Here we present videos important that are neither Growing Innovation-produced nor in the Voices of Rural Education series, but which we hope will be seen, discussed and shared. From the rich and diverse experience of the West Kootenay Teacher Education Program, here are two videos from 2021 on Place and Place Consciousness in education: First, (re)engaging […]