June Monthly Objectives

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To support you with the myBlueprint implementation process, you will find two newsletter drafts (one for K-6 and one for 7–12) that can be shared with your colleagues and/or school teams for June with a focus on the Year-in-Review.

Looking for our top implementation ideas for the month of June?

Scroll down to the bottom of today’s blog post to learn more!

K-6 Newsletter (or K-8)

Title: End of Year Review

CONGRATULATIONS! You made it. Your students made it.

The end of the school year is just around the corner — and what a great opportunity for your students to reflect on how resilient and adaptable they have been this year with the constant changes in learning environments and society.

One useful exercise for students to complete is to revisit the goals they had set in September and throughout the school year. During the review, we can also encourage our students to celebrate their unplanned successes. Having said that, there will inevitably be some goals that students did not achieve. Rather than viewing these as failures, we should encourage students to see incomplete goals as an opportunity for growth.

This year-end self-reflection is of course also beneficial for educators. You had likely set goals for yourself and your class at the beginning of the school year. Now is the perfect time to celebrate your accomplishments and identify opportunities for growth and development for next year.

Here are some tips to support a Growth Mindset using All About Me Portfolio:

1. Create a Teacher Tag for Highlight Reel (or #ExitInterview) so that students can select and tag their 5 favourite memories and achievements from the year
2. Have students write an About Me journal for what they want their next teacher to know about them (e.g., My skills, My interests, My fears, My expectations, a concern, a wish for next school year, etc.)
3. Have students add a journal entry to reflect on their favourite memory from this school year
4. Have students review all previous S.M.A.R.T. Goals and reflect on how they achieved their goal OR how they refined their goal/action plan and why
5. Add Achievements to their portfolio from the School Pathway, including a reflection on how they accomplished that feat and what they are most proud of
6. BONUS: Use your Student View to add a journal to share one way you’ve displayed resilience this school year (and we sure know there’s more than one!)

Here are a few valuable resources that can help support students in these tasks while using All About Me:

• Reflections
• Adding Media and Journals

For portfolio examples for different grade levels, be sure to check out our All About Me Resources page! Quick tip: Type the word Exemplar Portfolio in the search field to locate the examples quickly.

7–12 Newsletter

Title: End of Year Review

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection ~ Paulo Freire

You made it! Your students made it! Kudos to all of you.

The end of the school year is just around the corner — what a great opportunity for your students to reflect on how resilient and adaptable they have been this year with the constant changes in learning environments and society.

One useful exercise for students to complete is to revisit the goals they had set in September and throughout the school year. As students reached their goals, they may have recognised the value of hard work, inspiring them to set new targets and develop a growth mindset. During our review, we can also encourage our students to celebrate their unplanned successes. There will inevitably be some goals that students did not achieve. Rather than viewing these as failures, encourage students to see incomplete goals as an opportunity for growth. Invite students to reflect on internal and external challenges they encountered when working towards goals this school year and identify strategies they can use to hit goal targets next school year.

This year-end self-reflection is of course also beneficial for educators. You had likely set goals for yourself and your class at the beginning of the school year. Now is the perfect time to celebrate your accomplishments and identify opportunities for growth and development for next year.

Want to learn more about how to support a Growth Mindset in the Education Planner?

1. Create a Teacher Tag for Highlight Reel (or #ExitInterview) so that students can select and tag their 5 favourite memories and achievements from the year in a Portfolio
2. Invite students to create an Exit Portfolio to review their accomplishments and work, reflect on their growth, and provide closure on the school year
3. Have students add a journal entry in a Portfolio to share one thing they are most proud of accomplishing this school year or write a letter of advice to share something they learned with a student entering that grade next year
4. Have students review all previous S.M.A.R.T. Goals and reflect on how they achieved their goal OR how they refined their goal/action plan and why
5. Have students create a Transition Portfolio to document and reflect on the steps that they have taken to ensure a smooth transition from elementary/middle to high school or high school to post-secondary; have them use the Present Feature to share with a trusted adult
6. Invite graduating students to complete the Preparing for Post-Secondary Activity (5 things to do before you leave high school & 5 things to do the summer before you head out to post-secondary) and Portfolio Checklist
7. Invite students to keep track of their volunteer and extra-curricular experiences by adding them to their Resume

• Extension Activity: Invite students to start documenting their academic, extracurricular, and work experiences in a “Scholarship Portfolio” (Here is a Scholarship Portfolio Checklist to help your students get started!)
• Bonus! Check out S1E5 from the Cultivated Culture — Land Your Dream Job podcast where our friend Austin Belcak discusses students Preparing for Post-Secondary Checklistbeing Adaptable. Connect it to classroom instruction with the Teacher Guide and Student Handouts

myBlueprint Implementation Ideas for June

1. Are you maintaining your current role and leadership for the myBlueprint portfolio next school year? If not, do you know who is taking your place? Please take 2 minutes to fill out this form so that we can ensure that the hard work you put into Student Success continues into next year and beyond!
2. Plan myBlueprint Training dates for the Fall (email your myBlueprint Contact with potential dates)
3. Encourage grade 12’s to update their email in myBlueprint to a personal email address so they can maintain access after they graduate
4. Upload and share resources/links on summer work and volunteering in your community through the Student Resources section on your district-level account

Want to learn more? Email support@myBlueprint.ca, sign up for a drop-in webinar or watch our bite-sized video tutorials.