Skip to content
LEARN's Open Creative Space

LEARN's Open Creative Space

Menu

  • Professional Learning
    • Open Creative Space Days @ LEARN
    • Thematic Workshops
    • OCS Capsules
      • OCS Capsules 2020-21
  • Our Blog
  • Design Challenges
  • STEAM Challenges
    • Math Challenges
    • Water Challenges
    • STEAM Choice Boards
    • Pre-School Outdoor Education
    • STEAM Projects
      • e-Textiles
      • Low-Tech Engineering
      • Programming
      • Video Production
      • Circuitry
      • Microcontrollers – Makey Makey and Arduino
      • 3D Printing
  • Microcontrollers & Blocks
    • Raspberry Pi
      • Hardware & Software 101
      • Getting Started
      • Challenges
      • Cheat Sheets
      • Resources & Support
  • Micro:bit
  • Resources
    • Maker Resources
    • Our Suppliers and Partners
  • Literature
    • LEARN’s Library
    • Picture Books
    • Scholarly Articles

staff meeting

Foundation Session • John Adams Elementary • September 2019

LEARN joined John Adams for a morning session on fostering the maker mindset in our diverse students. This is a wonderful staff, full of life and excitement. We read a book, had a collective brainstorm on what is a makerspace

Chris Colley September 27, 2019 makerspaces, staff meeting, STEAM Challenges No Comments Read more

Twin Oaks Elementary • Maker Mindset 2019

LEARN started off the new school year at SWLSB’s Twin Oaks Elementary, building a collaborative vision for the schools’ creative space. With the staff, we brainstormed on what makes a successful space for students through our “Circuit” city activity, where

Chris Colley August 30, 2019 makerspaces, staff meeting, visioning 2 Comments Read more

North Star Academy Foundation Session

LEARN worked with the wonderful teachers at North Star Academy on developing a more open mindset in their classrooms. It was a fun filled morning of making, discussing and problem solving.

Chris Colley April 11, 2018 Community, staff meeting No Comments Read more

Maker Mindset @ John Paul 1 HS – 2017

LEARN visited John Paul 1 to support them in implementing a makerspace in their high school. Great conversation started in their early maker journey. We lead a collective brainstorm on what learning, making and engagement looked and felt like in

Chris Colley September 26, 2017 Community, EMSB, staff meeting, visioning 1 Comment Read more

Grenville Elementary Foundation Maker Mindset Workshop

On the final August Ped Day before school, LEARN visited Grenville Elementary of SWLSB to explore integrating making into their school culture. The morning was filled with excitement, questions, some concerns but lots of making and fruitful discussion. Grenville has a

Chris Colley August 31, 2017 staff meeting, visioning 1 Comment Read more

Foundation Workshop @ Merton Elementary

LEARN is starting off the year with a bang! We had the great pleasure of working with the teachers of English Montreal school board on fostering a maker mindset. Wonderful ideas were generated and some pretty awesome artbots were imagined

Chris Colley August 31, 2017 staff meeting, visioning No Comments Read more

Morin Heights Foundation Workshop

Chris Colley May 10, 2017 staff meeting, STEAM Challenges No Comments Read more

Teacher Foundation – Maker Mindset workshop

The LEARN team visited Edgewater elementary to introduce the maker mindset to fellow teachers and staff. We presented the open mindset, reading Iggy Peck, Architect and doing a full staff brainstorm on learning and making. The teachers create a representation of

Chris Colley April 19, 2017 makerspaces, staff meeting, visioning No Comments Read more

Pierre Elliot Trudeau Elementary – Teacher Planning Session

PETES is in full STEAM mode… LEARN lead a teacher planning session that focused on strategies for integrating the growth mindset into the classroom. We had some great sharing and collaboration – the big focus is changing the vocabulary used

Chris Colley September 20, 2016 staff meeting, visioning No Comments Read more

Riverview Elementary School Ped Day 2016

Our second day of collaborating with teachers in 2016-2017 brought us to Riverview School of Lester B. Pearson School Board in Verdun, Quebec. Teachers were full of ideas on how to make school more engaging for their students. Connect the head

Chris Colley September 6, 2016December 8, 2016 Presentation, staff meeting, visioning No Comments Read more
  • « Previous

Recent Posts

  • What if your students could create anything they imagined with code?
  • Fun back-to-school Micro:bit projects
  • Field Guide – Observation Sheet
  • Five Senses Nature Scavenger Hunt
  • 101 Ways to PLAY Outdoors

Archives

Our Tweets

Tweets by LEARN_Ped

Copyright © 2023 LEARN's Open Creative Space. All rights reserved. Theme Spacious by ThemeGrill. Powered by: WordPress.