“A-B-C, It’s easy as 1-2-3”… It’s funny when you see a story from a different perspective. Being able to see students through the eyes of someone else is truly a gift each day and are teaching we’re focused on achievement assessment emotional well-being so many layers to learning these days. While you navigate this complicated and complex terrain each day with each student we find ourselves seeing them for who we think they are. What an interruption comes her way it’s a gift to refocus and see our students in a different light. This week we have the gift of telling our Haysboro story through dance hip-hop to be precise. Working with an Artist in Residence has been a gift – allowing us as teachers to step back and work alongside students as they learn new skills (or show off ones they already know). This is a medium that while familiar to some is new and complicated for others. Our instructor has taught us things like “the snake and shrug”, “ arm wave", "the robot" ... ways to move our body to tell her story in a different way. It’s fascinating to watch the students moved the story of music and start to be able to create their own interpretations. Students who we might normally think would embrace these opportunities are sometimes shy and nervous to be so open with their movement, while other students we might have normally thought would shy away from such opportunities find a place to shine! Is it the instructor? Is it a change of scenery? Is it the music? Whatever it is it’s inspiring, invigorating, and insightful. With only two days under their belt are students are already moving to the beat and enjoying creativity in ways that I bet they didn’t even know they could! A way of expression a way of release a way of telling their story. We can’t wait to see their final productions and have a chance to see the story told in a new and movement filled way. The movement stories are creating class by class, song by song will definitely be something to celebrate and add to the ‘Story of Us’ as a school this year! “You went to school to learn, Things you never, never knew before…” (Words of wisdom from The Jackson 5) Learning comes in many forms!
I wonder… how will you seize the opportunity to look at the world a bit differently and perhaps interact in a way that you might not have before? |
AuthorI am a Calgary Board of Education Principal, proud to be leading learning. I am driven by curiosity and believe that each day welcomes new learning. I am passionate about intellectual engagement and task design and I treasure "wonder-filled" moments with students. Archives
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