(Today’s Blog- is written by Tina Bye, youthLEADarts Mentoring Team Member) ~~~Mr. B- How We Love Thee…~~~ Mr. Justin Borsato is a phenomenal teacher. I am sure his students would agree with me. I know we, on the LEAD team, sure think so. Roy went so far as today to declare him “the best teacher …
(Shelley MacDonald, a youthLEADarts mentor, is the author of this blog.- Stand-by for blogs from some of our other youthLEADarts team this week!) Today we began our week 2 journey with youthLEADarts Britannia. The students were excited and ready to work with our theatre artist and Quebec youthLEADarts mentor Tina! She had them up on …
The session started with the usual check-in word for “how are you feeling”. As the week has unfolded, the hoods have come off, the seated positions in chairs are more elevated, the eyes are brighter and the checking words have become more and more energized (I never knew how many synonyms there are for that …
Things are really hitting their stride! An entire classroom of young teens first period in the morning, and not one check-in word about being tired. They were 100% ready to work! Deirdre gave them inspiration based on some examples she had, and on the images/ symbols we learned yesterday with Candice from the medicine wheel. …
Candice Hall Howcroft started her session with a smudging and a gratitude prayer. Her very empowering workshop had the students answering questions and feverishly writing notes to remember everything she said. She introduced the 7 Sacred Teachings which are common across many Indigenous Peoples: HUMILITY Think of others before yourself. Humility is to live your …
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We got started with a check-in word from each student. The words were by and large positive for a group of teenagers in first period. We played a warm-up game called emotional greetings. It started with having to be neutral and make eye contact without facial expression. Then the students created improvised dialogues based on …
Elder Amanda White, Knowledge Keeper of the Vancouver School Board took center stage. She told her story and set the tone for the 2 weeks of the youthLEADarts workshop. It was inspirational and hard to listen to narrative that matched benchmarks in her life against the Canadian Government’s Indian Act. Here are some of words …
We got to meet the people of Mr’s B’s classroom today! Shelley and Lori started with a refresher on LEAD values. What was amazing is that they remembered almost all the LEAD values of LISTEN, EMPATHIZE, ACT, and Drive. They called out EMPATHIZE most enthusiastically. That has been my experience too- that though it is …