Step With Us
Our Path to Here...
Invitations and Inspirations that helped to create our story...
April 8, 2022
The CBE presented our video as an example of The Body To Do section of the Indigenous Holistic Framework at the Land Based Learning Series on April 8th. Check out our video as we look back and reflect upon our learning experiences and how connecting to the land frames and directs our perspectives as learners and teachers.
CBE Holistic Lifelong Framework
Showcases
Eric Harvie's Journey
April 14, 2021
Nicole Brugman, an Ecologist for the City of Calgary, spoke to the Grade 3/4 classes on Wednesday about the 12 Mile Coulee project.
There may be some opportunities for connection between EHS and the CoC around trail repair, tree planting, and other education. What opportunities could we get connected with?
Thank you to Danica Derksen who worked as a Student Teacher for Mrs. Zwack for initiating this discussion and partnership!
Connections...
We are connecting with the City of Calgary to participate in the
Twelve Mile Coulee Restoration Project
March 15, 2021
Exploring Twelve Mile Coulee Through the Eyes of Children
We would like to thank Parks Foundation for this opportunity! Whenever possible---We take our learning outside! ---In every season! We call it ‘Coulee School’ and document our learnings on school-based Coulee School websites we create with students. We will be working to set up some pop-up information/art installations that include QR codes and would invite anyone walking in the Coulee to find out more about the plants, wildlife and physical structures of the Coulee that we have been studying. Our work includes exploring Indigenous histories, stories and perspectives of the Coulee that we investigate with our Elder too!
Taking Our Learning Outdoors - We Learn from the LAND
October 9, 2020
We met as a staff to revisit our ideas and create the idea of our Schoolwide INQUIRY! As a staff, we took a walk to the coulee and collected digital artifacts of nature that
Breathe.. Reach... Touch... EMBRACE
IMG_8116.movCoulee School...
Our Essential Idea is
We Walk this PATH Together...
September 25, 2020
We met as a staff to design, brainstorm, generate and create inquiry questions through many lenses. We are working on shifting and raising our awareness towards many perspectives to deepen our relation and experience with the land.
Planning for Inquiry - The Launch of Coulee School
March 12, 2020
We planned a common walk to the coulee. Our vision was to have all students of our school have the opportunity to walk the same path to the coulee and we would document our experience. The plan was in place but then the pandemic hit and we had to put our journey on hold.
"The Wolf Way..."
November 15, 2019
Our Elder Sa' koko'too and Stephanie Bartlett, a Doctoral Research Student from Werklund School of Education met with our staff at the coulee. A time for story and to just "be" with the land. This is how we create a common experience.
A Walk
to the
Coulee
Meetings
November 5, 2019
As our journey continues to develop our relationship with the land, we have planned some intentional experiences with our Elder, Sa' koko'too. We learned some words from the Blackfoot language the encompass the feel of coulee school,
And so the adventure begins...