Our Focus Archive
2024-2025:
How does a focus on connections help students develop a deeper sense of care and greater engagement in learning (in literacy)?
2023 - 2024: Social Emotional Learning & Literacy
How can be the use of school-wide common language be of benefit to our learners in their Social / Emotional Learning? How can our Wowk Cares language help build an even safer, inclusive and caring environment for everyone?
In addition, we will continue to build upon the importance of social emotional learning this year while directing some time and focus on academic learning for our students. We will also explore the following question:
What supports can we put in place to help all of our learners build solid foundations in literacy? How can we best address and support some of the stretches we are seeing for some of our students in their reading?
2022 - 2023:
Our current focus at Jessie Wowk is on Social / Emotional Learning. After looking at the data collected through student surveys in the 2021 - 2022 school year, we have begun to dive deeper into developing school wide common language that will support our students in learning more about the expectations for everyone in our learning community and what we can all do to help ensure that our school is a safe and welcoming environment for everyone. The following questions can help summarize what we have been exploring this year:
How can be the use of school-wide common language be of benefit to our learners in their Social / Emotional Learning and support them in reaching their true potential? What could this common language look like, sound like and feel like?