Classmate Team

10/17/2026

Your next field trip could be the beginning of something bigger…

What if your students didn’t just visit a place like the Vancouver Aquarium, but became documentary filmmakers investigating the world around them?

That’s exactly the kind of learning experience we’re exploring at this year’s myPITA Fall Conference!

Field trips can be incredible opportunities for inquiry, creativity, and authentic learning. But the real magic happens when we connect those experiences to meaningful classroom projects.
Join our very own Jen for “Purposeful Field Trips: Designing Learning Beyond the Classroom.”

Jen will share a real Grade 6 documentary filmmaking project at the Vancouver Aquarium, including how it came together and what made it work. You’ll also get a chance to exchange ideas with other teachers and think about how you could take a similar approach with your own students.

And you’ll leave with a framework to help you plan your next learning adventure!

📅 Friday, October 23 | Session C
💻 Online! No permission slips or school buses required. 😂
🎟️ Register at mypita.ca (link in bio!)

What’s a field trip you’ve taken with your students that turned into something more than you expected? We’d love to hear about it!

10/17/2026

Transform student engagement with the power of role-playing!

Role-playing games aren’t just about dragons, wizards, and rolling dice. They’re also powerful tools for collaborative storytelling, student engagement, creativity, and critical thinking.

Imagine your students becoming characters, making decisions, exploring different perspectives, and shaping stories together.

Sounds like an adventure worth exploring, right?

At the 2026 myPITA Fall Conference, our very own Dylan is leading “Role Playing Games as Storytelling” a hands-on workshop where teachers will discover how to bring tabletop role-playing games into their classrooms.

No gaming experience required. Wizard costume optional. 🧙‍♂️

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
📍 Session B | In Person
🎟️ Register at mypita.ca (link in bio!)

Teachers: Have you ever tried tabletop role-playing games with your students? We’d love to hear about it!

10/17/2026

10/17/2026

Transform student engagement with the power of role-playing!

Role-playing games aren’t just about dragons, wizards, and rolling dice. They’re also powerful tools for collaborative storytelling, student engagement, creativity, and critical thinking.

Imagine your students becoming characters, making decisions, exploring different perspectives, and shaping stories together.

Sounds like an adventure worth exploring, right?
At the 2026 myPITA Fall Conference, our very own Dylan is leading Role Playing Games as Storytelling, a hands-on workshop where teachers will discover how to bring tabletop role-playing games into their classrooms.

No gaming experience required. Wizard costume optional. 🧙‍♂️

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
📍 Session B | In Person
🎟️ Register at mypita.ca (link in bio!)

Teachers: Have you ever tried tabletop role-playing games with your students? We’d love to hear about it!

10/17/2026

Transform student engagement with the power of role-playing!

role-playing games aren’t just about dragons, wizards, and rolling dice. They’re also powerful tools for collaborative storytelling, student engagement, creativity, and critical thinking.

Imagine your students becoming characters, making decisions, exploring different perspectives, and shaping stories together.

Sounds like an adventure worth exploring, right?

At the 2026 myPITA Fall Conference, our very own Dylan is leading Role Playing Games as Storytelling, a hands-on workshop where teachers will discover how to bring role-playing into their classrooms.

No gaming experience necessary. Wizard costume optional. 🧙‍♂️

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
📍 Session B | In Person
🎟️ Register at mypita.ca (link in bio!)

Teachers: Have you ever tried tabletop role-playing games with your students? We’d love to hear about it!

10/12/2026

We’re heading to myPITA 2026! 🎉

Classmate is excited to present two workshops at this year’s Fall Conference!

🎲 Role Playing Games as Storytelling (Session B · In Person)

Explore how tabletop role-playing games can spark creativity, collaboration, and student voice through shared storytelling. No gaming experience required!

🐠 Purposeful Field Trips: Designing Learning Beyond the Classroom (Session C · Online)

Discover ways to connect field trips with curriculum, inquiry, and meaningful student projects that extend learning beyond the visit.

Whether you’re interested in bringing storytelling into your classroom or making the most of learning beyond school walls, we’d love to have you join us!

🔗 Register through myPITA.

10/07/2026

🍎 Teaching is complex work. It’s human work.

As technology continues to change what’s possible in the classroom, we’re reminded that great teaching has never just been about delivering information.

Good teaching is about relationships, curiosity, and encouragement. Good teachers know when to push, when to listen, and when to change the plan entirely.

Tools will change, but great teachers will keep making the difference. ❤️

To all the educators we’re lucky enough to learn with, create with, and (occasionally troubleshoot your tech) with: thank you!

Happy World Teachers’ Day! 🌎🍎

Teachers: what’s one part of your job that you don’t think technology could ever replace?

08/20/2026

Finding information online is easy.
Knowing whether that information deserves your trust is a completely different skill.
In this episode of Imagine This, Dylan sits down with Ken Boyd from CIVIX to explore how we can help students become stronger, more intentional online researchers.
They dig into lateral reading, fact-checking, click restraint, and why students need practical strategies for questioning what they find online instead of simply consuming what appears in front of them.
Because better research isn’t just about finding an answer. It’s about knowing what to do with it.
🎧 Listen to Episode 9 now on Apple, Spotify or where you get your podcasts.
🔗 Link in Bio or at classmate.team/imaginethis

08/17/2026

🐧 What if the aquarium wasn’t a field trip… but field work?

For these Grade 6 learners, a day at the Vancouver Aquarium came with a job: documentary filmmaker. 🎥🪼

Before heading out, they studied real animal documentaries, learned how filmmakers use wide shots, close-ups, pans, tilts, tracking shots, and sound, then built their own shot lists.

At the aquarium, something shifted. They weren’t just looking at exhibits anymore. They were observing, questioning, framing, listening, and making decisions with purpose.

The footage is captured. Now comes the edit—and a little help from an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. 👀

Read Vol. 105: Aquarium Documentarians – Part 1 at classmate.team/chronicles