Nancy Archer

She/her. Vice Principal at Mount Douglas Secondary, Victoria BC. Doctoral Student. Inquiry, assessment, curriculum, resource developer, mentor.

[Impact @ImpactWales]

Teach for Learning. To embed learning deeply in the memory you have to engage deeply with it. Learning IS thinking.

Check out 5 ways of making sure your pupils are thinking 💭 & learning!

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

52 students writing the Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge today at @sd61mtdoug Mount Douglas Secondary including a few guests from other schools - everyone is welcome to participate! #STEMisForEveryone https://t.co/1RM7Gvk9ha

[Marzano Resources @MarzanoResource]

Depth of Knowledge charts for a variety of subjects by @sjunkins! #engchat #litchat #edchat #mathchat #teaching

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

@SaanichPolice Thank you for the work you do. Hoping for a safe outcome for your members and the @vicpdcanada officers. Thankful for you and all our first responders.

[Impact @ImpactWales]

Are you at risk of teacher burnout, are your staff?

How easy do you find it to say 'no' to additional demands at work?

If teachers are not ok, how can we expect learning to happen?

[Impact @ImpactWales]

NEW - Curriculum Design & the research knowledge that sits just below the surface.

CfW is built on 3 key ideas:

💡 Appropriate challenge
💡 Coherence
💡 Progress

This is what the research tells us these 3 ideas & how your curriculum can support them.

[Impact @ImpactWales]

4 steps to changing the culture of a school.

✅️ articulate your vision
✅️ over communicate
✅️ practise

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Grade 9 Challenge students show off their Science knowledge this afternoon by launching rockets - combining Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy! The students also applied Engineering Design Processes in refining their work. I got to launch one! #STEM #Rockets #sd61learn @sd61mtdoug

[The Reading League Illinois @ReadingLeagueIL]

How does the Science of Reading differ from Balanced Literacy?

https://t.co/SkZMjJgbcN

Credit for this chart goes to R.I.S.E Arkansas: https://t.co/UpytIP5HMO

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Teenagers are amazing. Two Mount Doug students honoured at BC Legislature for the 2022 B.C. Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards.
https://t.co/lo5gOo9ymN
#antiracism #multiculturalism #bcpoli #sd61earn #sd61 #mountdoug

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Deeper learning is better learning. #education #students https://t.co/MZV1FaDgql

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Critical thinking skills, like all other skills, are teachable. https://t.co/04tYF90vQX

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Strategies for supporting development in Executive Functioning https://t.co/9tSwE6qq4N

[Jo Chrona @luudisk]

Thinking about the relationship between the new BC Indigenous-focussed graduation requirement & the assumption that some folks continue to have about Indigenous-focussed courses being "less than" or not as important as other grad course requirements. https://t.co/g1ZUdlfHdU

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🧵My translation of the analysis of the current situation in Russia by an active FSB analyst. Buckle up for a long thread and definitely please share far & wide. The full text is over 2000 words. This is a highly insightful look behind the curtain - covers many subjects.

[John Horgan @jjhorgan]

I was asked a few times about a so-called “trucker convoy” - here’s my response 👇

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

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[David @schaalfan]

Today a woman with developmental disabilities came into the library, and said she was lost. She didn't know her address, but her phone number was in her pocket on a piece of paper with Elmo on it. She kept saying, "The library is a safe place."

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Ukraine agrees to talks with Russia https://t.co/d59X5zP97v

[Nancy Archer @nancyannarcher]

Harry Potter and the prisoners of vocabulary instruction: Acquiring academic language at Hogwarts: https://t.co/yond3dOiwh
Harry Potter novels contain 85% of all words on the Academic Word List, thought to include the most important word families needed for school success