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 […]
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 […]
Original Growing Innovation Videos
The original six Growing Innovation project videos: The Connecting Generations project on Salt Spring Island This one is about Digital Heritage Connect in the West Kootenays: Here is the one about a project based at False Bay school on Lasqueti Island: From north Vancouver Island, here is the one about Collaboration Without Boundaries: About an […]
Community – Growing Innovation Video
As a kind of a road trip, this one takes up the question of community in innovative change in education:
Innovation – Growing Innovation Video
Here is our video on the theme of innovation:
Connected Classrooms Gold Trail School District – Growing Innovation
We are proud to have a new Growing Innovation Project video to share. This one is from one of our original projects, and concerns the remarkable transformations arising from a Connected Classrooms project in British Columbia’s Gold Trail School District (#74), a project that connects students, schools and communities as diverse as Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Clinton, Lytton […]
Haida Gwaii Foods Work/Outdoor Classroom Project – Growing Innovation Video
Here’s a video from 2017, and a companion to the Crawford Bay School garden video. Very grateful to be invited to document the remarkable and transformative work of the Outdoor Classroom-Foods Work project on Haida Gwaii, we worked with Daniel Schulbeck, project leader and educator extrordinaire, to document some of the subjective dimensions of the […]
Crawford Bay – Growing Innovation Video
What a school garden can do to a school, for a community, to how we think about and practice education! From beautiful Crawford Bay in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia we are privileged to be able to share some of the Crawford Bay School Garden Project, as somewhere much more than food is […]
Q’shintul Mill Bay Nature School – Growing Innovation Videos
From documentation gathered at the end of its first year, but developed into three videos in 2021, the ongoing ethical-educational venture, Q’shintul, or Mill Bay Nature School, shines forth from the beginning as an innovative project that aims to respond to history in education, here in three views. First an overview of the project in […]
