On June 14, 2022, educators from across BC gathered on Zoom for a year-end cross district meeting full of reflection, sharing of district projects and thinking ahead to next year. We looked at our year in review: Shared some data resources as we continue to think together about how data... Continue reading

A group of educators from across the Lower Mainland joined Lauren MacLean and I at Garry Point on the morning of April 30 2022. It was pouring rain at times but that didn't deter us westcoasters. As I shared some of the story of this particular place, we invited educators... Continue reading

Teachers from across BC joined us for a cross-district meeting on Zoom on April 26 2022. Meeting on Zoom has enabled the meetings to be more accessible to educators across the province and we enjoyed having teachers from Vernon, Prince George and the Island join us. We shared updates on... Continue reading

We are bringing back our seasonal outdoors Saturday events! Join Lauren MacLean and Janice Novakowski on Saturday, April 30 from 10am-12pm at Garry Point Park in Steveston. We will meet at the south end of the main parking lot - look for a group of educators with wagon/s. Open to... Continue reading

Educators from across six districts gathered on Zoom after school on November 9 to re-connect and share a little around how each district planned to take up this professional inquiry project this year. Some districts are looking at revitalizing this project in their districts while others have a specific inquiry... Continue reading

On October 28, I set my alarm for 5:30am to be up and ready for another live online atelier experience from Reggio Children in Italy. This atelier was focused on a Mosaic of Marks, Words and Materials and we were asked to gather mark making tools and surfaces in preparation.... Continue reading

The Northwest Mathematics Conference is being held virtually this year instead of at Whistler. The BCAMT hosts this conference every three years, alternating with Washington and Oregon. Our BC Reggio-Inspired Mathematics Project is happy to be sharing some of our work together in a session called "Learning Mathematics Outdoors and... Continue reading

On June 18, I attended a virtual/digital atelier with atelieristas from Reggio Children in Reggio Emilia Italy. This atelier was titled: "The poetics of paper between geometries and transformations" which intrigued me. It was amazing be with educators from all around the world, playing with materials and ideas together. I... Continue reading

Several educators came together after school via Zoom on June 16 2021 to share and reflect on our very unique school year. Our collaborative inquiry focus this year was on story and because of the year we had we decided as a group to continue this focus next year, with... Continue reading

Educators from several districts came together after school on February 9 via Zoom to check-in and share some ideas about this year's focus area: storytelling and math. We shared our new monthly twitter post idea which is to provide a prompt to spark spatial reasoning. Follow our hashtag on Twitter... Continue reading

On November 18, several teachers representing districts participating in our project joined together after school via Zoom to debrief the BCAMT fall conference, make plans for this school year and share ideas. We also shared some resources and webinar shared by Reggio Children: We spent some time in breakout rooms... Continue reading

Our group was honoured to be invited to share some of our ideas and thinking at this year's BCAMT Fall Conference. We appreciate the support we have received from the BCAMT over the years and are happy to continue to collaborate with this BCTF Provincial Specialist Association. Our session is... Continue reading

During the summer of 2020, a small group of teachers from our project collaborated on creating two collections of lessons for ShareEdBC. ShareEdBC is a BC platform for curating and sharing vetted resources that are directly linked to the BC curriculum. Drawing upon Reggio-inspired principles and practices, we created two... Continue reading

One of the principles that has been a focus of our project together is finding ways to connect mathematics to community, culture and place. Seeing and experiencing mathematics in the word around us, mathematics as a way to understand ourselves and the world and mathematics as connected to other areas... Continue reading

Due to not being able to meet in person, we had a Zoom session with about 30 educators from eight districts join us at 3pm on May 6 via Zoom to share, reflect on the year and think ahead to next year. We shared some of the things we had... Continue reading

After having to reschedule our January meeting date due to snow, we were able to come together with teams from eight lower mainland districts on February 26 2020. Our focus this year has been experiencing mathematics in the outdoors, with each district taking on more context and interest specific projects... Continue reading

On Friday, October 25 we held our first Reggio-Inspired Mathematics Mini-Conference as part of the BCAMT Fall Conference at Guildford Park Secondary in Surrey. We began with an overview session in the gym where I shared the background to our cross-district professional inquiry project and how think about Reggio-inspired principles... Continue reading

*Note: this blog post was first drafted on February 15 2018 in response to questions and observations of how the term "provocations" was being used in local online discussions. It is finally being shared in October 2019. The initial post from February 2018... In thinking about provocations in mathematics specifically,... Continue reading

Our first issue of our BC Reggio-Inspired Mathematics Project magazine is ready for ordering. Online ordering information can be found HERE which includes a preview of a few pages of the magazine. Online price is $10, not including shipping. Blurb has discounts for orders of 10+. Please note that shipping... Continue reading

Educators from eight districts came together on May 8 2019 at Grauer Elementary in Richmond to share this year's collaborative professional inquiry projects, reflect on our work together and to think ahead to next year. We were fortunate to have the BC Association of Mathematics Teachers (BCAMT) Vice-President join us... Continue reading

Registration is available through the bcamt.ca website and you will be asked to indicate whether you will be attending sessions offered as part of the mini-conference. The current plan is to have an overview session followed by two sets of concurrent breakout sessions facilitated by BC teachers involved with our... Continue reading

Educators from across eight districts came together on October 10 for our cross-district network dinner meeting. We met at Grauer Elementary in Richmond and began in The Studio, thinking about how different art materials inspire mathematical thinking, connection-making and questions. After time with materials, we discussed some big interdisciplinary concepts... Continue reading

Hosted by BC School Districts 53 and 57, educators from across the Okanagan region came together on August 28 for a summer institute focusing on Reggio-Inspired Learning Experiences in Mathematics. We looked at the principles and practices inspired but the centres in Reggio Emilia, Italy and made connections to our... Continue reading

September meant back to school for three of us - Neil at McRoberts, Janice at the school board office and Colin beginning his second year of Kinesiology at UBC. Adam began his second co-op position at Connor, Clark and Lund Financial Group in downtown Vancouver. Adam enjoyed his co-op position and working downtown. He took the train in every morning and ate lunch out every day - so many choices downtown! He learned a lot about his field and really enjoyed the people he worked with. Adam continued to play rec hockey at UBC and also played hockey with his... Continue reading