Weeks 1-3
This daily practice was introduced to support well-being, community, and professional sustainability.
What is Daily Intentional Self-Care (DISC)?
A planning approach that begins with the end learning goals in mind.
What is backward design?
An approach that creates calm, predictable, and supportive classrooms.
What is trauma-informed practice?
A framework that designs learning with multiple ways to engage and express understanding.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
A basic human need required for learning to take place.
What is belonging?
An activity used to establish classroom norms by discussing what learning looks like, sounds like, and feels like.
What is a community alliance / Looks Like–Sounds Like–Feels Like activity?
Assessment used during learning to guide instruction and provide feedback.
What is assessment FOR learning?
Barbara Coloroso’s management style that balances firmness and flexibility.
What is the Backbone teacher?
Instruction that adapts content, process, or product to meet diverse learner needs.
What is Differentiated Instruction (DI)?
A theory explaining how unmet needs affect behaviour and readiness to learn.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
This mindset shift moves teachers away from defensiveness and control toward curiosity and compassion.
What is moving from the ego-self to the higher self?
Assessment that supports student reflection and metacognition.
What is assessment AS learning?
A behaviour model that uses escalating responses rather than punishment.
What is the Bumping Model?
Unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that influence decision-making.
What is implicit bias?
The ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions in oneself and others.
What is emotional intelligence?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This six-part lesson design model includes a mental set, objectives, input/modeling, practice, checks for understanding, and closure.
What is the Madeline Hunter lesson design model?
The Ministry of Education document guiding assessment, evaluation, and reporting.
What is Growing Success?
A communication style that is clear, respectful, and firm.
What is assertive communication?
A cooperative learning principle that ensures all students contribute.
What is individual accountability?
Practices that ensure students feel safe, valued, and connected in the classroom.
What is intentional community building?
These curriculum expectations describe broad learning goals for a grade or subject.
What are overall expectations?
A final task that evaluates multiple expectations through meaningful application.
What is a culminating task?
A classroom rule emphasizing respect for learning time.
What is “No one has the right to interrupt the learning of others”?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This pedagogy centers students’ lived experiences and treats culture as an asset.
What is Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogy (CRRP)?
The central message of the text about learning environments.
What is learning happens best when hearts and minds are both engaged?