Rural Teachers video documentation is a vital part of the work of supporting innovation in rural education in B.C. The growing archive shared here consists of videos co-developed in Growing Innovation projects, thematic videos about emerging significance among diverse Growing Innovation projects, videos about place and place consciousness, supportive learning communities, Small Schools Think Tanks, from a compelling series called “Voices of Rural Education,” documentation of the encounter of First Nations and mainstream schooling in contemporary rural education, three series on ‘Pathways’ in rural education, Growing Innovation gatherings and symposia video documentation, the West Kootenay teacher education program and more!
We hope you may be inspired to develop your own digital storywork, as a way to inquire about your own collaborative work in education, and to speak to those who may follow us in this important work.
December 2, 2022
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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 […]
December 2, 2022
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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 […]
March 31, 2023
| Videos, Voices of Rural Education Videos
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):
March 31, 2023
| Videos, Voices of Rural Education Videos
From Rosie Seymour Elementary School of the Canoe Creek Band in Canoe Creek, B.C.:
March 31, 2023
| Videos, Voices of Rural Education Videos
Also from Alexis Creek Elementary and Secondary School:
December 2, 2022
| Small Schools Think Tank Videos, Videos
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 […]
March 31, 2023
| Videos, Voices of Rural Education Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Indigenous Education, Other Rural Teachers Videos, Rural Teachers Videos, Teach, Uncategorized, Videos
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.
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
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.
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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.
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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.
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
June 5, 2021
| Growing Innovation Videos, 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 […]
June 4, 2024
| Numeracy, Other Rural Teachers Videos, Place, Place-based, Teach, Uncategorized, Videos
Taking math outside and making connections to place are important ways to make math learning relevant and engaging for learners.
December 2, 2022
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
November 13, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, 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 […]
December 2, 2022
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
From where indigenous culture and contemporary education meet, here we present a video with voices from indigenous education from throughout British Columbia:
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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.
April 20, 2023
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Videos
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.
November 13, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
Here is our video on the theme of innovation:
June 4, 2024
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Rural Teachers Videos, Supportive Learning Communities, Teach
Parents and students are critical partners for inclusive education and in the creation of IEPs (Individual Education Plans).
June 4, 2024
| Other Rural Teachers Videos, Rural Teachers Videos, Supportive Learning Communities, Teach, Videos
Disability justice disrupts colonial visions of exclusion and ableism and nurtures a more inclusive education system for all.
December 2, 2022
| Small Schools Think Tank Videos, Videos
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 […]
November 5, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
March 31, 2023
| Gatherings and Symposia Videos, Videos
And finally: What do people need to know about Growing Innovation?
March 31, 2023
| Gatherings and Symposia Videos, Videos
Next: If Growing Innovation has promise for you and for your community, how is it also important to education itself?
March 31, 2023
| Gatherings and Symposia Videos, Videos
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?
March 31, 2023
| Gatherings and Symposia Videos, Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Uncategorized, Videos
March 31, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
June 4, 2024
| Numeracy, Other Rural Teachers Videos, Teach, Videos
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.
November 5, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
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 […]
April 20, 2023
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
November 5, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
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 […]
November 13, 2022
| Growing Innovation Videos, Videos
As a kind of a road trip, this one takes up the question of community in innovative change in education:
December 2, 2022
| Small Schools Think Tank Videos, Videos
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 […]
March 31, 2023
| Videos, Voices of Rural Education Videos
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 […]
