Cohort 21 | Vicky Boomgaardt | Activity https://cohort21.com/members/vboomgaardt/activity/ Activity feed for Vicky Boomgaardt. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:03:18 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-CA 30 hourly 2 6ffae41daa49ccec8f9aa3481175464e Vicky Boomgaardt wrote a new post on the site Vicky Boomgaardt http://cohort21.com/vickyboomgaardt/?p=58 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:49:34 -0500 How might we de-silo our student leadership program to create more interdisciplinary connections and more meaningful experiences for our Gr 10 students?

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]]> 1ac30c5b62c635a30b01644185c2995b Vicky Boomgaardt posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/tomasjohnstone/2017/01/14/how-might-we-version-28-2/#comment-5 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 22:00:44 -0500 Thomas- I love reading about the path of your Action Plan, and how the focus moved from your Spanish students outwards to all of the students that you teach and interact with, and then to how to create meaningful content for all students. It’s a big question but one that is so important to ask. I wonder if, after honing in on a specific question,…Read more

In reply to - Tomas Johnstone wrote a new post on the site Tomas Johnstone   My Action Plan question is on the wall in my class. I look at it every day for a couple of seconds and try to think about one thing I can do that […] ]]> 44bbbe22daeb74b55822fd3fae6334f4 Vicky Boomgaardt posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/ericdaigle/2016/11/24/multidisciplinary-thinking-begins-by-looking-at-yourself/#comment-26 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:32:44 -0500 This is exciting stuff, Eric! I love the students came to their own conclusion about the ‘interdisciplinary nature’ of all courses. I’d be interested to hear more about how you guided this discovery.
Your story about the student creating a symphony based on Frankenstein is inspiring. The fact that he was able to use this work for both English…Read more

In reply to - Eric Daigle wrote a new post on the site Poet of Pedagogy   One of the most common criticisms from high-school teachers, around the topic of cross-curricular implementation, is how hard it is to schedule. […] ]]> 1ce44f864c176061b56c7c41f8399773 Vicky Boomgaardt wrote a new post on the site Vicky Boomgaardt http://cohort21.com/vickyboomgaardt/?p=50 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:41:07 -0500 “What changes can we make, what shifts can take place so that we can give our students the gift of interdisciplinary learning so that they begin to see the world as it is, messy and connected, a swirl of paint […]

]]> 18b4b6ec61df1a72905f8bf14fb93860 Vicky Boomgaardt posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/lesliemiller/2016/11/08/lets-go-exploring/#comment-9 Wed, 16 Nov 2016 02:44:06 -0500 Hey Leslie- first of all, good on you for getting not one, but 2 blog posts done already- you’re an inspiration to those of us (Ok, me) who have yet to just hit “publish”! I loved reading about your foray into 3-Act Math. I tried a couple of them last year with a small Gr 10 Foundations class and loved the questions the format helped my students…Read more

In reply to - Leslie Miller wrote a new post on the site Leslie Miller When I first joined Cohort21, we were asked to think of a slogan that we could put on a t-shirt that represented us. So ‘let’s go exploring’ was mine. I have […] ]]>