Presentation on School District 45's Academy, outside45.

1. P: Jeff Morales

2. P: Scott Slater

3. P: Scott Slater

4. P: Scott Slater

5. The most transformational learning is
so foundational to the learner’s
identity it just becomes who they are
and is not recognized as learning at the
time.

7. Inspiration
Implementation
Insights

8. Inspiration
What should it look like?

10. Re-Think Questions
• What is the purpose of schooling?
– How does our position in time and place affect the
purpose of schooling?

11. Re-Think Questions
• Is our school meeting the needs of learners
and the communities they are part of?

12. Change Questions
• Where does our understanding of the
purposes of education come from?

14. Sociosphere
EcosphereTechnosphere
W.L. Gardiner (1989)

16. P: Scott Slater

17. The world is in crisis; an
urgent and major shift in
attitude and increase in effort
is needed
P: Scott Slater

18. P: Chris Parslow

19. What is taught, and not
taught, teaches students
about what our culture
considers important, and
not important.
P: Jeff Morales

20. Learning environments are
not just pedagogical
decisions but reflections of
cultural values.
These values
transmit, intentionally or
not, assumptions of how
to live in the world.
P: Jeff Morales

28. Keep academic excellence.
Change the way students get there.

29. Quantifiable, identifiable, aca
demic excellence is important
P: Jeff Morales

30. P: Jeff Morales

31. P: Scott Slater

32. Community is important.

33. P: Jessica Harman

34. Implementation
What does it look like?

35. Academic Excellence by shaping learning around Big Ideas
and Enduring Understandings
P: Seanna Strubin

36. Anchor learning
to experiences
and places
P: Andrea Layzell

37. Develop and apply
critical thinking skills
P: Jeff Morales

38. BC Ministry of Education,
Environmental Learning and Experience Guide

39. Acquire outdoor skills that build leadership, grit,
and social responsibility
P: Jeff Morales

41. P:Seanna Strubin

42. OutcomeEffort

43. Have a greater understanding of who they are, both as a
learner and community member, and more awareness of their
place in their local community and the larger communities
they belong to
P: Seanna Strubin

44. P: Scott Slater

47. Develop an ethic of care for
themselves, for their fellow
humans, and the more than
human world
P: Jeff Morales

48. P: Claudia Schafer

49. Insights
What have we learned?

50. Conviction + Action = Leadership
Shared Shared
Change

51. Understanding is a big part
of conviction.

52. Risk taking receives support.

53. Helpful conditions for change:
1. Trust
– Consultation
– Hard Work
– Delivery
2. Be clear on priorities
3. Culture of Improvement