Open School BC

Professional learning resources

Educators may work through on their own, or share the experience with one or more colleagues. Resources can also be used for facilitated group sessions.

Learning to be Anti-Racist: An Introductory Course: Designed for all district and school employees to learn more about racism within the BC education system and how to create anti-racist learning environments.
Selecting Learning Resources for the Classroom: Focused ED’s course on ways to make informed and thoughtful resource choices for your students, including selection criteria and social considerations.
Supporting the Inclusion of Students with Complex Needs: Four courses to help build skills and understanding of what inclusion means for students with complex needs in today’s classrooms.
What do I do? Trauma-Sensitive Strategies for Challenging Behaviours: Strategies to deal with behaviour issues, foster self-regulation, and nurture a growth mindset.
Building Capacity in Planning for Literacy and Numeracy Instruction: Instructional examples, strategies, and planning considerations.
Student-Centred Assessment to Support Inquiry-Based Learning: Practical strategies on student-focused assessment (with examples from kindergarten and high school).
Building Compassionate Communities in a New Normal: Ideas and strategies to create compassionate learning environments for students.
Continuing our Learning Journey: Indigenous Education in BC: How to include authentic Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and content in BC’s curriculum.
BC’s Redesigned Curriculum: From Theory to Practice: Identifying connections for purposeful, accurate and efficient implementation.
Trauma-Informed Practice: Four workshop packages supporting developing compassionate learning communities. Each package includes a presentation (with videos), facilitator’s guide, participant’s booklet, and tip sheet.

Teaching resources

A collection of K-12 activity plans and resources to use with students.

Saffron Threads: K-12 activity plans, timeline card game, and background info to support teachers in integrating South Asian Canadian culture, history, and heritage into their classrooms.
Focusing on Competencies in Math: Activity plans (Grades 8-12) and videos demonstrating a competencies-based approach to secondary math. Teachers at any level or subject may find inspiration in the approach and teaching strategies used in these activities.
Bamboo Shoots: Chinese Canadian Legacies in BC: Grade 5 and Grade 9 Social Studies lesson sets that acknowledge contributions of Chinese Canadians and the historical injustices they faced. The resource includes a gallery of historical photographs, archival documents and personal stories.
Great Bear Rainforest Education and Awareness Trust: Grades 7–12 activity plans and companion resources on the geography, community, and biodiversity within the Great Bear Rainforest.
My Seasonal Round: An integrated unit for Grade 3 Social Studies and Science. Five lessons offer an inquiry-based approach to exploring a seasonal round through the perspective of local Indigenous people.
Extreme Environments: A cross-curricular Science and Applied, Design, Skills, and Technologies module for Grade 6.
Shouting Whales: A marine science teaching resource for Grades 6 to 8. Explore marine soundscapes, mammals and the impacts of noise pollution through multimedia, activities and projects.
Speaking Up, Speaking Out: A unit for English Language Arts 10 to help students find and share their unique voices to communicate issues of importance.
BC First Nations Studies: Digital textbook developed for the Ministry of Education in 2003.

Resources for educators

Professional learning resources

Teaching resources