Intellectual Development

Our students will learn key academic skills - like reading, writing and math - to encompass the knowledge and processes associated with intellectual development. As learners and meaning-makers, students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. 

Goals

  • Improve core competencies so students can achieve career/life goals. ​
  • Improve graduation rates.
Students using loose parts. During Story Workshop, students use loose parts to create and share original stories—strengthening oral language, creativity, and early writing foundations.
Students in at a table reading with an adult. Targeted small-group instruction supports English language learners in developing vocabulary, comprehension, and reading confidence.
Students making patterns with coloured tiles Hands-on learning with manipulatives helps students visualize number relationships, build reasoning skills, and strengthen foundational numeracy concepts.
Young children reading with high school kids. Building a culture of reading—students read weekly with their Bakerview big buddies, fostering fluency, confidence, and a love of books through shared literacy experiences.
Student outside making patterns with nature. Exploring math in authentic contexts—students discover and create patterns in nature, deepening their understanding of mathematical relationships and connection to place.
Two students playing a math game. Students building number sense through hands-on math games.
Two students playing a math game.
Student choosing books from a book cart. Students select “just right” books to support daily home reading.