Urban Wildwoods: Teen Area

This promising practice highlights the Urban Wildwoods: Teen Area initiative by Shambhala School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Outdoor Wellness

This promising practice highlights the Outdoor Wellness initiative created by Mt. Stewart Consolidated School in Mount Stewart, PEI. The initiative was created to provide students with more opportunities to improve the quality of their outdoor experiences at school.

Juniper Land Base

This promising practice highlights the Juniper Land Base project, created by Juniper School in Northern Manitoba. Juniper Land Base introduces and restores traditional Indigenous teachings through Truth and Reconciliation.

Middle Level Rise and Shine and K to 8 Kindness Club

This promising practice highlights two initiatives in a Kindergarten to grade 8 school: a unique start to the school day and a kindness club. Many of the students’ parents travel the city to work from this rural area and get home late each day.

HOPE Wheel

This promising practice highlights the HOPE Wheel project. The project is designed to apply a cultural approach toward student, staff, and family needs and is based on the ancient wisdom of the medicine wheel.

Implementing Mental Health Literacy: Model, Scaffold, Coach

This promising practice highlights a district-wide pilot project to support British Columbia’s redesigned Physical and Health Education curriculum. Many teachers felt ill-equipped to properly teach the new Mental Health Literacy (MHL) due to lack of knowledge and evidence-based resources.

Cochrane Healing Arts Time (CHAT) Program

This promising practice highlights a program titled CHAT that encourages students to creatively explore their feelings through art. There are many educational benefits of using the healing arts to facilitate learning.

Peer Support Volunteers Program

This promising practice highlights how students in grades 8 - 11 are chosen by their peers to be peer support volunteers.

Free Store Program

This promising practice highlights a Free Store program where a school has teamed up with several local partners to provide a safe and effective place for families in the community to access food, clothing, and hygiene products.

Pod C.A.R.E – Character and Confidence, Attitudes, Relationships, and Empathy Program

This promising practice highlights the Pod C.A.R.E. Program - a mental health and wellbeing initiative that arose out of a need to build connections and trusting relationships with students.