Living

While pondering the personalized learning found at Lions Gate Christian Academy (LGCA) I thought of how we look for the unique strengths in each of our students and try to integrate opportunities for them in the classroom.

SOIL: the foundation of life in the garden, rare in our solar system, often taken for granted and a primary reason for the establishment of the B.C. Agriculture Land Reserve - to protect lands rich with life-giving soil.

Personalized learning gives students the opportunity to excel beyond even their own personal expectations.

A century ago, Maria Montessori proposed a method of learning continually supported by research in cognitive science and neuroscience as the most developmentally effective approach to learning.

WE spend so much effort and mind-share talking about Facebook that when it comes to social networking, it is certainly the current champ of social networking sites.

Brockton offers a small school environment where students learn in small class sizes and thrive in an inclusive, caring community.

A trend to shift to personalized learning in schools has caught public attention in this province. It isn't a new idea - since the '70s, educators in alternative education have embraced and implemented the concept of individualized learning.

At the risk of speaking in opposition to a newly emerging, and predictably popular, educational trend, I can tell you that Island Pacific School will not be re-engineering itself to deliver personalized learning to its students anytime soon.

MY husband and I just spent a week in Maui, and we ate of lot of fresh, sweet pineapple (though sometimes it was just the garnish on a mai tai, if the truth be told).

WHEN bad-boy chef turned author and TV host Anthony Bourdain came to Vancouver last fall he spoke about food trends and phenomena he hated. Child foodies, he said, were intolerable.