Open School BC

Educators may work through on their own, or share the experience with one or more colleagues. Resources can also be used for facilitated group sessions.

• Learning to be Anti-Racist: An Introductory Course: Designed for all district and school employees to learn more about racism within the BC education system and how to create anti-racist learning environments.
• Selecting Learning Resources for the Classroom: Focused ED’s course on ways to make informed and thoughtful resource choices for your students, including selection criteria and social considerations.
• Supporting the Inclusion of Students with Complex Needs: Four courses to help build skills and understanding of what inclusion means for students with complex needs in today’s classrooms.
• What do I do? Trauma-Sensitive Strategies for Challenging Behaviours: Strategies to deal with behaviour issues, foster self-regulation, and nurture a growth mindset.
• Building Capacity in Planning for Literacy and Numeracy Instruction: Instructional examples, strategies, and planning considerations.
• Student-Centred Assessment to Support Inquiry-Based Learning: Practical strategies on student-focused assessment (with examples from kindergarten and high school).
• Building Compassionate Communities in a New Normal: Ideas and strategies to create compassionate learning environments for students.
• Continuing our Learning Journey: Indigenous Education in BC: How to include authentic Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and content in BC’s curriculum.
• BC’s Redesigned Curriculum: From Theory to Practice: Identifying connections for purposeful, accurate and efficient implementation.
• Trauma-Informed Practice: Four workshop packages supporting developing compassionate learning communities. Each package includes a presentation (with videos), facilitator’s guide, participant’s booklet, and tip sheet.

A collection of K-12 activity plans and resources to use with students.

• Saffron Threads: K-12 activity plans, timeline card game, and background info to support teachers in integrating South Asian Canadian culture, history, and heritage into their classrooms.
• Focusing on Competencies in Math: Activity plans (Grades 8-12) and videos demonstrating a competencies-based approach to secondary math. Teachers at any level or subject may find inspiration in the approach and teaching strategies used in these activities.
• Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC: Grade 5 and Grade 9 Social Studies lesson sets that acknowledge contributions of Chinese Canadians and the historical injustices they faced. The resource includes a gallery of historical photographs, archival documents and personal stories.
• Great Bear Rainforest Education and Awareness Trust: Grades 7–12 activity plans and companion resources on the geography, community, and biodiversity within the Great Bear Rainforest.
• My Seasonal Round: An integrated unit for Grade 3 Social Studies and Science. Five lessons offer an inquiry-based approach to exploring a seasonal round through the perspective of local Indigenous people.
• Extreme Environments: A cross-curricular Science and Applied, Design, Skills, and Technologies module for Grade 6.
• Shouting Whales: A marine science teaching resource for Grades 6 to 8. Explore marine soundscapes, mammals and the impacts of noise pollution through multimedia, activities and projects.
• Speaking Up, Speaking Out: A unit for English Language Arts 10 to help students find and share their unique voices to communicate issues of importance.
• BC First Nations Studies: Digital textbook developed for the Ministry of Education in 2003.