Multi-modal learning at Imagine High - 2023 06 21

 

Transformative education is happening today at Imagine High (Imagine High Integrated Arts and Technology Secondary School, Chilliwack, BC). 

Since the beginning of the 2022 - 2023 school year there has been a groundbreaking collaboration for enriched, empowered and enhanced learning at the school. Administrators, teachers and students have been collaborating with knowledge keepers of the Stó:lō Nation, the Artist Response Team (Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright) and a stream restoration initiative led by S.A.Y. Lands (Skowkale, Aitchelitz, and Yakweakwioose First Nations).

The students are having an unprecedented opportunity to learn about Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology Science and Music as active collaborators in their learning. They are writing songs, learning language, restoring a stream, and preparing to perform what they have learned and created for family and community.

This initiative is not only providing the community at Imagine High to experience new dimensions of learning and building vital relationships for taking action to reduce human-caused climate change, it is also providing connectivity to the wider community that supports the school, including parents and families, Indigenous leadership, community leadership, educational leadership and recycling leadership.

It is very exciting to see this initiative culminating today in a school performance of the songs the students have written, the language they have learned, and the hard work they have done to restore a local stream.