I hope this finds everyone as well as can be under these unprecedented circumstances.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt that we are all witnessing historic events unfold before us, so the number one priority is the health and well-being of you and those around you.<\/strong><\/p>\n With that in mind, this is also an opportune time to be an active witness to what is happening around us, so if you are able to, record your thoughts, observations and questions<\/strong> about what is going on as we navigate through this.\u00a0 There are many profound opportunities for us to leave an impact in the midst of so much uncertainty through our observations and records.\u00a0 Below are just some suggested ways to help organize your thoughts according to our course subject areas, but by no means are they meant to confine, constrict or limit (ANY thoughts\/questions are encouraged!) – you may organize your thoughts however you wish (a suggested way would be to categorize according to “Observations”, “Questions”, “Ideas”, etc.)!\u00a0 At some point these thoughts should be uploaded to your course portfolios, but for now just simply record your thoughts as they may occur.\u00a0 Try to cite the sources of your examples as not all your examples might be universally known.<\/p>\n LEAD10 – how have various figures shown effective leadership during this time?\u00a0 Examples could range from a personal level to local community example to government leaders (Theresa Tam, Bonnie Henry, Chrystia Freeland, Adrian Dix, etc.)<\/p>\n PEPS12 – what have been some economic concerns (individually, locally, nationally)?\u00a0 Issues?\u00a0 Possible solutions?\u00a0 how have different political systems around the world reacted to the crisis situation?\u00a0 what role does the dissemination of information play, and are there pros and cons?<\/p>\n GEO12 – what factors (physical geography, human geography) have contributed to the spread?\u00a0 what factors have mitigated?\u00a0 what factors have worsened?\u00a0 How has the physical earth been affected?\u00a0 how has the movement of people, goods, ideas been affected?\u00a0 What other natural disasters\/events have occurred?\u00a0 What are the problems with food security, and what are some possible solutions (now?\u00a0 future?)<\/p>\n SS10M –\u00a0 how has Canada responded via the different levels of government?\u00a0 what regional (provincial\/territorial) differences have you noticed?\u00a0 what are advantages\/disadvantages?<\/p>\n SS8M – how have recent events made us re-think how we do things?\u00a0 What possibilities might emerge?<\/p>\n Further updates and information will be provided; the school will be issuing formal communications via your emails so check your emails regularly; if you have questions do not hesitate to contact me.<\/p>\n Stay well,<\/p>\n PLEE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope this finds everyone as well as can be under these unprecedented circumstances.<\/p>\n There is no doubt that we are all witnessing historic events unfold before us, so the number one priority is the health and well-being of you and those around you.<\/p>\n With that in mind, this is also an opportune time to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,21,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-12","category-leadership-10","category-peps12","category-social-studies-10","category-social-studies-8m","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/ptlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}