Myrtle Philip Community School

Our current data persuasively shows that our students are meeting learning expectations in Reading, Writing and Numeracy. We are also demonstrating that relative to other schools in the province, students feel safer, are kinder to each other, and are making healthy life choices. 

 

As a staff, we feel strongly connected to the language in our District Pathways (our Strategic Plan).  While we look for growth in all aspects of our competency based education, we have identified an increasing focus and attention toward how we can develop the capacity for our students to embrace challenges. 

 

In The Global Search for Education: Education and Jobs (2013), Tony Wagner discusses "the ability to initiate, discern, collaborate, persevere and solve problems creatively will be the qualities most in demand in the future." Wagner prescribes that we need to “coach students for skill and will in addition to teaching content." With this end in mind, we have targeted cultivating perseverance (students who embrace challenges and see them out) as our school learning goal. We believe that we can only cultivate perseverance and determinations by building an environment/school culture where all students feel safe, respected, encouraged to take risks and try new things, and are intrinsically invested in their learning. Further, we believe that students are intrinsically invested in authentic learning environments, where they see the purpose and reasoning for each learning intention, and are willing to enter into a framework for success. It is our belief that working in this area will enable more students to move from meeting expectations to exceeding expectations in reading, writing and numeracy.

 

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