School Credit Champion

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A dramatic shift of attitude and performance while taking an alternate route to high school education.

The Curiosity Factor

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Recognizing and building upon students’ inherent curiosity was a key to bringing students of all abilities and levels of classroom success, to being positive participants in this grade 7 class in Bangladesh.

Finding our career or life path

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Transition or moving on. The process started when I was 18 right out of high school. Having a certain amount of talent to compete at the World Cup level. In travelling I felt that someone had turned a light on.

Wedlidi Speck: Change the questions, Change our path

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ConversationWorks’ Community School Interivew at Royal Oak Middle School Themes Finding our story Reframing our experience Changing our path Solving problems Knowing our history Building connections Wedlidi Speck is a member of the Namgis First Nation of the Kwakwaka’wakw cultural

Elizabeth May: Global Middle school interview 2013

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Candid, respectful responses to great questions from grade 7 classes.. An environmental activist since her teens, Elizabeth May left her position as Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada to run successfully for leader of the Green Party of

Teaching elementary school: best job in the world

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An elementary music teacher talks about why she especially loves teaching grade 5 boys. She sees her efforts helping them to become mighty.

Community School Interviews documentary

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8 minute story behind this unique community school project

Terrence: Surprises and Benefits of UBC student engineering project

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UBC student talks about surprises and benefits of working on this multi year project to build a formula one race car.

Chief Frank Nelson: power of story for the artist

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importance of being articulate about the culture and stories of our people. To view all three clips

JoAnn Dionne: A spark of hope for democracy

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My first book, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China—a memoir of my time teaching elementary school in Guangzhou—survived the fallout from two publisher bankruptcies and finally appeared in 2008 via Dundurn in Toronto. Little Emperors was shortlisted