Day: January 20, 2025

Choose your PLD Community Connections Activities

Please choose the connection activity that you would like to attend during PLD week. The activities will be first come first serve as some sessions have limited capacity.

Choose your activity by submitting the following form – https://forms.office.com/r/EiYq2HMiAy
The deadline for submission is Thursday, January 24th, 2025 so that we can notify our hosts.

Thanks to all our wonderful colleagues who are willing to host an activity! 🌹

PD Sharing: 12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments

I attended the InnovateEDU Conference this past weekend. One great takeaway I had from the conference was a session I attended presented by Kyle Wagner on 12 Shifts to Move from Teacher-Led to Student-Centered Environments. Here is a blog post explaining the 12 shifts that he presented on. https://www.gettingsmart.com/2024/05/21/12-shifts-to-move-from-teacher-led-to-student-centered-environments/ 

One really great resource he shared was an AI prompt he had crafted to use to help use AI as a thought partner to make our lessons make the shift he was sharing about above. I’ve add the resource below. It can also be used to support creating PD or workshops for parents. Hope you might find this useful in your practice as well! http://tinyurl.com/lessonshift 

Upcoming Sports Team opportunities

Hi student athletes,

After Lunar New Year we will have many opportunities for you to represent NIS at different sports.

Tennis – Are you currently learning/playing Tennis?

Golf – Are you currently learning/playing Golf and aged over 9?

Ultimate Frisbee – Grades 8-12 on Monday’s and Thursday’s 15:15-16:15 after the holiday.

U19 Football/soccer – Grades 9-12 on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s 16:15-17:55 after the holiday (some overlap with Basketball)

IF there is a yes for Golf or Tennis please see Mr Dutton

IF you would like to play Ultimate Frisbee or Football/Soccer please check Schoolsbuddy