In Coquitlam we have created 5 focus groups to begin "playing" with the new revised curriculum. There are groups for Communicating Student Learning, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and French. Each group includes teachers with their administrators and they will meet 6 times this year (with release time) to explore the new curriculum and ways of working with it in their classrooms. The Communicating Student Learning group will be examining one curricular area as well but using it as the lens for ways to communicate this both to the students and their families. These will include documentation (videos, photos, learning stories, student work, etc.) 3 way conferences, templates and more. We are hoping to scale this up next year to a district level.
Currently each team has approximately 10 to 12 members from 4 schools.

We are also working on a new model of inclusive practice that puts the teacher at the core. (aka less pull out). Support teachers are providing more in class support through team teaching models. We are also using our LIF funding to provide professional development series to support this work with Faye Brownlie, Leyton Schnellert and Miriam Miller. We have also hired 2 district LIF learning support teachers that go into schools to help them with their school LIF plans. We are also conducting visits to each school to discuss where they are at and what support they would like from our department this coming school year.