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 * St. Clare Elementary School **

Calgary (Alberta) Canada
Teacher Name: Krista Schnick Grades: 3-6 email: krista.schnick@learn.cssd.ab.ca ||  ||<  || I am a 'Diverse Learning Teacher' in my 16th year of my career. I am blessed this year to be able to teach in the school but not be tied to one particular classroom. This provides me with the opportunity to get to know all the students in our building and to work on specialized projects. I had the honour of leading a team of amazing students last year in the GVC 2016 competition to win the Gold Award for their website titled, 'Gender Equality' and the previous year we received the Bronze Award. I am excited to participate once again and am looking forward to facilitating this experience for my multi-level age group. ||  ||< **Team Profile** Our team this year will consist of approximately 20-25 students from grades 3-6. We have access to a computer lab and a class set of chrome books with reliable internet access. The students who have applied to work in this contest have a keen interest in technology or writing. All of our students have google accounts. || We are open to discussing a range of topics, but would like to keep in mind the GVC theme of 'Embracing our Differences'. One idea I has to do with Canada celebrating its 150th birthday this past July. A beautiful way to honour our country would be to recognize our Indigenous people and their culture somewhere in our website. Canada has a very scarred history with our First Nations, Inuit and Metis people; so in creating a website we can lend to the reconciliation process by learning about our own culture. It would be fun to learn about the history and relationships of other countries and their Indigenous populations as well. Or another idea is to look at new refugees to our countries and how they fit in; our schools have very diverse student populations now. 60% of our students do not speak English as their first language. ||  ||< **Club Work Times** Our club will be meeting formally for 60 minutes in a six-day schedule. The students will also have opportunities to work on this project in their free time class time, during open learning commons (lab) time, or at home. ||
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