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It’s About

Learning

SPRING 2024 ISSUE

P WA

Passion Wonder Awe | Celebrating the People of TDChristian

2024 ISSUE PWA 3

Passion

4 // Celebrating Year One of Our OSSC

and Life Skills Program

5 // Logos @ TDChristian

7 // Baking Away

8 // Being Anne

9 // Our Experience at Living Rock

10 // Lighting the Way

11 // Ascension’s Album “Voice to Heaven”

Wonder

12 // Art Going Viral

14 // Airwaves in Room 9

14 // The Learning Commons

According to Students

15 // What’s Under the Spiral Staircase?

16 // Stories in the Sediment

Awe

17 // Evidence for the Existence of God

18 // 3-2-1 Improv!

18 // Learning Takes Time

19 // The Most Beautiful Identity

20 // I Appreciate You

21 // Playing and Learning

22 // Upcoming Events

23 // School Snippets

READY FOR WHAT?

ANYTHING.

LEARN MORE AT REDEEMER.CA

A DEGREE YOU

CAN BELIEVE IN

EDITOR / PRINCIPAL

William Groot

PRODUCTION / ADVANCEMENT

Leanne Fernhout

COMMUNICATIONS

Victoria Veenstra

DESIGNER

Devon J Andrew Design Inc.

COPY EDITOR

Debbie Sawczak

IN THIS ISSUE

IT’S ABOUT LEARNING

TDChristian is about “learning for service in the light of God’s

Word”; in this issue, we share ways students learn.

Jacob de Kleer (front cover) built his table as his main STEM

project. His teacher, Kevin Godber, describes Jacob’s learning

journey as “unique”: Jacob dragged a log out of the forest, cut

a slab, and watched it expand before planing it ﬂat, epoxying

it, and ﬁnishing it at school. For legs, Jacob found and adapted

plans from the internet, and constructed and painted them

himself, as a self-taught welder, at home and at a friend’s. He

assembled the pieces at school. Notice the legs are adjustable!

It’s one example of how, through intentional relationship-

building (including student choice and voice), our teachers

endeavour to provide each student with a path to authentic

learning. Appropriate learning spaces, useful resources, and

personal connections and interactions supplement eﬀective

instruction, support, and feedback.

EDITOR / PRINCIPAL

William Groot

PWA

COVER PHOTO CREDIT: Joel Sjaarda, Photography Teacher

Taken in our STEM Space

CONTACT

TDChristian High School

377 Woodbridge Avenue

Woodbridge, ON L4L 2V7

info@tdchristian.ca

Letter from

the Editor

Working in the Learning Commons

MONUMENTAL

material supply

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