LEARN News | May 2023 – It’s Exam Prep Time

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MAY 2023 View this email in your browser CEO MESSAGE OF THE MONTH LET’S LEARN PROVINCIAL RESOURCE TEAM Wellness Innovation Lab Teachers, CDAs, school board representatives, and partners in mental health from across the province joined the PRT at LEARN on Friday, April 14th, 2023, to hear about and experience the Wellness Innovation Lab. This dynamic design thinking experience prioritizes the voice of youth (15-29), teachers, and community partners so that they can develop local strategies that address mental wellness needs in their schools and their own communities. Participant feedback was overwhelmingly positive! They had the opportunity to listen to each other and share great ideas to improve school climate, discovered creative ways to get youth to open up through different games and SEL techniques, and are excited to host a Lab in many of their own schools! Want to learn more about the Wellness Innovation Lab or to book it in your school/centre? Contact Bobbie Variantzas at bvariantzas@learnquebec.ca. TO LEARN MORE, REGISTER HERE CDAs – Effecting Change in their Communities! You have heard about CLCs, but do you know what a Community Development Agent (CDA) does? Read this article by Daniela Scoppa and hear from three Community Development Agents who are effecting change in their communities. Simone Viger (LBPSB), Ed Sweeney (CQSB), and Michael Sitruk (RSB), share how they build and foster mutually beneficial partnerships that support community vitality and student success. As Simone says, “… a CLC school can add to a child’s sense of belonging,” and “When everyone brings their strengths to the table, unexpected benefits come from collaboration.” LEARN MORE ABOUT CDAs Quebec Youth Slam Do you have secondary students that write and perform Spoken Word Poetry? The Quebec Youth Slam hosted by LEARN is taking place on Friday, May 19, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm Via Zoom Contact bloomer@learnquebec.ca for more information. STILL TIME TO REGISTER EXAM PREP RESOURCES Just in Time for End of Year Review Here’s a great resource if you want to find out more about the requirements of the MEQ compulsory exams. For each subject listed on the exam preparation page, you will find an information video hosted by a subject specialist, an exam checklist, and many resources to help you prepare for end-of-year assessments. GET READY FOR YOUR EXAMS CLASSMARKER Time to Practice! Another awesome tool to prepare for the upcoming end-of-the-year evaluations is ClassMarker. For students in Secondary, we provide self-tests for select courses. Write and rewrite these assessments multiple times. Feedback is instant. Sec. 3 Math Math CST 4 Physics Science and the Environment Science and Technology IMPORTANT! Depending on your school board, you will find instructions to sign in at the top of the ClassMarker page. TEST YOUR SKILLS BY LOGGING IN LEARN TUTORING Promoting Student Success Across the Province Thank you for making this year such a success. Registration is now closed. For current students, LEARN Tutoring is here to help you until June 8. See you in the fall! WHAT LEARN TUTORING IS BLOG Bias in AI – Implications for Classroom Use “We wondered how bias shows up in the field of education and how the use of artificial intelligence results in prejudice and changes the landscape for already vulnerable learners. Through examples from the field, we found that there is much work to be done.” KEEP READING PODCAST ShiftED Podcast #19 in Conversation with Dwayne Matthews At this year’s installation of the LCEEQ provincial conference, we enjoyed listening to Chief Innovation Evangelist and Future of Education Strategist Dwyane Matthews. His talk was so compelling and timely, where he asked a poignant yet simple question, “Are we preparing students for 2019 or 2030? ” Many recent points of inflection have been propelling these questions, be it; the pandemic, new reaches with A.I., and our quickly changing job market, climate change is forcing us to ask this question more and more. Do our students in our classes today have the capacity to adapt to a vastly unknown future? Do our students have the skills to navigate a fluidly changing landscape? In this podcast, we explore these ideas; it’s fascinating, to say the least! Enjoy. CHECK OUT THE PODCAST Making the Case for Youth Mental Health and Art Education Research shows what Teaching Artists understand through experience: Art Education is key to improving Youth Mental Health. According to researcher and artist Catherine Heinemeyer, creative subjects in schools promote “…dialogue, self-expression, playfulness, exploration, development of personal initiative, and just plain chatting, between young people and caring adults”, enabling “young people to understand the world around them and thrive despite adversity” (The Conversation). CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL ARTICLE Next Issue: JUNE 2023 LET’S  STAY CONNECTED Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved. LEARN 4190, rue Garand, Suite 201 Laval, QC  H7L 5Z6

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