In the early days of this school year, our staff explored ways to ensure that the learning regarding truth and reconciliation were not limited to

Student leaders underwent a visioning process in September to connect the three components of our community, School, Home and Community. To support these connections the

Recognizing from our previous data the need to strengthen early literacy supports, we approached this in multi-curricular manner. Utilizing story, art, dance and student leaders

As we moved into the new year, our focus on student leadership was to expand beyond the classroom and recognize the interconnections between, school, home

Literacy in Action: Update 2023 As we further our “Woodward Connects!” motto, literacy is central to our purpose of supporting our learning community members in

SEL: Regulation Spaces re-organizied as The Sunflower Room Make our areas for accessible and friendly for our students to use Continuing to add furniture and

Woodward was happy to welcome our local SEL expert, Connie Easton, to facilitate a day of inquiry and exploration of trauma-informed classrooms and social-emotional learning

Literacy in Action: Update 2023 As we further our “Woodward Connects!” motto, literacy is central to our purpose of supporting our learning community members in

2020 – 2022 – SEL Pathway Woodward is a community that cares. It is evident by the actions of all Wildcats. We often see students

2020 - 2022 – Literacy Pathway Following the scans and conversations about the academic focus of our school, literacy was seen as an area of

2020-2022 - Navigating a School Story Prior to 2019, Woodward’s school story was based in inquiry and inquiry-based learning. The roots of this focus are

Our new, 2019-2020, school year opened with a strong inquiry focus. Students from kindergarten to grade seven explored their ideas in a wide variety of

This spring Woodward Elementary welcomed our new principal, Mr. Cameron. This change provides our teachers and staff the opportunity to reflect on our inquiry practices

October, 2018: We have now created our chart in a central location where staff can record questions that have been generated in the classroom. Our

In our June Professional Development Day, staff decided we would have a common framework of questions that the entire school would use throughout the year