Collaboration and Communication
The key to our successful start up was communication and collaboration. A team of educators attended the Imaginative Education Symposium in July. After the workshop, the team arranged a secondary meeting with the rest of the team. Our school decided to roll LiD out over the course of three years starting with Kindergarten and Grade 1 and then adding Grade 2 and 3 the following year and then Grades 4 through 6. We decided to start slow to give ourselves time to build a solid foundation.
LiD starts with a ceremony where topics are assigned to students. There are currently just over 90 topics in the LiD Start Up Kit. Topics are selected based on a specific criteria. More topics can be added as long as they meet the criteria. Before the Topic Ceremony or LiD Launch (as we called it), we prepared students and parents in a few ways so that everyone understood the new program.
LiD starts with a ceremony where topics are assigned to students. There are currently just over 90 topics in the LiD Start Up Kit. Topics are selected based on a specific criteria. More topics can be added as long as they meet the criteria. Before the Topic Ceremony or LiD Launch (as we called it), we prepared students and parents in a few ways so that everyone understood the new program.
Click on any of the images below for resources that we used for our LiD Launch and to support LiD in our classrooms.