Kristy Kilpatrick

Year: 2010-2011 – Province: British Columbia

Certificate of Achievement Recipient

Lansdowne Middle School
765 Lansdowne Road
Victoria BC V8P 1A7

Principal: Ken Andrews
School Tel.: 250-598-3336
School Fax: 250-598-2945
School Email: lansdowne@sd61.bc.ca
School Website: www.sd61.bc.ca/school/lansdowne/

Subjects and grades taught: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and ESL for grade 6

Teaching Approach

Bone Comics, you’re no competition for this literacy-teaching superhero! Lansdowne Middle School’s Kristy Kilpatrick shows students how to love reading. She gets excited about coming to class every day and her students have caught the bug. They’re inspired to learn alongside her and from each other. Ms. Kilpatrick is constantly challenging herself, finding new projects and generally just loving school.

Outstanding Achievements

• Ms. Kilpatrick leads the school’s Network of Performance Based Schools team, a group of teachers dedicated to implementing ways to improve student literacy. Under her guidance, the team developed a renewed focus to incorporate digital technology in their practice. The team has doubled in size and initiatives like digital storytelling, blogs, wikis, moodles, googledocs are becoming common practices. Check out Ms. Kilpatrick’s own blog, which she uses to communicate better with students and their parents: www.advisory63.blogspot.com
• Ms. Kilpatrick is always on the lookout for potential partnerships with community groups. Her most recent project partners with the community group, Greenspots, which is dedicated to “urban wild culture”. Together with students, they are transforming part of the school-grounds into a native plant garden that students will take care of for years to come.
• Ms. Kilpatrick also got her students involved with the Community School Interviews Society, through which they invent and pose high-level questions for community leaders.

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