Lynn Filliter

Love this! #Gradeless No more A, B or C: Public schools in B.C. moving from letter grades to ‘proficiency scale’ globalnews.ca/news/9789843/b…

If you are teaching the oppressed how to be resilient, you should also be teaching the oppressor how to be accountable.

On #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay it's important to celebrate the diversity of Indigenous cultures, recognize our resilience, and learn about our history. We encourage everyone to show support, amplify Indigenous voices, and honour Indigenous cultures, traditions, & contributions!

Picked up some new books for the first day of Indigenous History month!

📣Friday Feature📣 When checking to see if your final evaluations incorporate principles of equitable assessment and CRRP, consider using these questions as a starting point. Go to bit.ly/FEsEACRRP to make your own copy of the chart (image #2).

Shout out to the incredible students and staff who made last night’s Black Families Council event, A Celebration of Black Excellence, so amazing. In addition to the delicious student-prepared food, the performances were outstanding! Well done @JeanAugustineSS

If you are interested in impressing a room of fifteen-year-olds, as I was able to do today, here was my secret: scratch and sniff stickers.

Equitable and inclusive assessment doesn’t lower the bar, it ELEVATES it. It’s just a shift in perspective: Offer choice ➡️ expect high-quality work Triangulate assessment ➡️ increase data validity Give re-tests ➡️ demand proficiency Equity and excellence go hand in hand.

There are 153,000 students in Peel Public Schools. At $200 per student, over $30 million will be taken from @PeelSchools and given directly to parents. Imagine what our local schools could do with over 30 million dollars!

Friends, The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (AKA, Orange Shirt Day) is not about getting an Elder into your class to discuss Residential Schools. Nor is it about getting an Indigenous Person into your class to talk about Orange Shirts and Reconciliation. This is your

They deeply understand the criteria. They talked to each other about assessment. We might need to still adjust criteria which is okay. And next time will be smoother as will the time after that. Worth it 💯

It took a long time. It wasn’t smooth or efficient. But they worked hard and got there in the end and pointed out where one category was not being evaluated sufficiently and adjusted the criteria themselves. And they all agreed making an assignment was harder than they expected.

Today my destreamed Gr10 Eng class co-constructed their first assignment with me and I wanted to capture the experience including what I learned as the teacher.