Percolating Thoughts

Category: Principal’s Corner


A continuous reflective and collaborative journey . . .

As a school principal, I have the best job in the world supporting and inspiring educators to be the best they can be in making a significant difference to the lives of our children. “What you do not want done to…

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Personalizing Professional Learning

Professional Learning at NRP is an on-going, every day process.  Working as part of a learning community, sharing a professional office, and collaborative planning creates a structure for dialogue and reflection, helps support learner needs and helps staff remain open…

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The Peace Pod at NRP

Many who visit Norma Rose Point School are intrigued with our Peace Pod.  To preamble, our entire school is based on a Learning Community concept (otherwise referred to as pods).  Each pod (K, 1/2. 3/ 4/5, 6, 7/8) made up…

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Collaboration Back to the Basics

http://bcpvpa.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Dec16AdminfoFazioWeb.pdf  

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A New School Year: Moments that Matter

Every year I begin the opening day staff meeting with a message.  This year, it was especially difficult for me to decide on a message.  I had so many ideas I didn’t know where to begin so I thought about…

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An Italian Narrative: First You Get Married, Then You Go Out

As published in Adminfo Click to access April16AdminfoFazioWeb.pdf First you get married, Then you go out: Rosa Fazio, a Vancouver principal reflects on her childhood in Italy and Canada and how assimilation and family and expectations helped to shape her…

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NRPS Launch — Learners at the Centre

(Reposting) Norma Rose Point School (NRPS), a new and innovative learning environment, opened September 2014 to service the students within the University of British Columbia area.  NRPS is  two schools in one — K5 and Middle (6-8) — each has…

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