Testimonials

Amber Hester was very positive in her responses and made you feel heard and comfortable. There was never a wrong comment as she was able to spin it to allow you to feel that you had a valid thought. Was made to feel comfortable even doing activities outside your comfort zone.

Oski Pasikoniwew Kamik School has had the privilege of working with Jigsaw Learning. They have provided us with support such as Numeracy Specialist, Kathy Charchun, who helps our school with purchasing the right resources and materials that align with our numeracy programming, supports teachers administer numeracy assessments and with their numeracy programming. Our numeracy programming begins with helping students develop reasoning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in their number sense. This work takes our students places in which they are able to comprehend concepts quicker with confidence and fluency. This gives our students ability to move into other math curriculum concepts with ease. Kathy helps us build a strong foundation in math for our students.

I have worked with Kurtis Hewson and Jigsaw Learning with two different schools spanning K-12 and alternative education. He has done an excellent job differentiating guidance for the creation of a school/program specific Collaborative Response and the delivery of professional learning. Kurtis is an excellent facilitator providing engaging and relevant learning activities for educators. Jigsaw Learning has been very helpful to both of the admin teams with which I have worked in responding to our requests as well as helping us anticipate next steps and future needs. Their work continues to be practical, user friendly, professionally empowering, research based and continually evolving.

Collaborative Response gave our school the focus and framework needed to change the culture around how we identify and support all of our students. Providing meaningful and strategic tiered systems of supports, along with an emphasis on relationships, totally changed the game for our collaborative teams. This philosophical shift from the 'Me' to 'We' in the work we do has empowered all staff to initiate more student-centered conversations and consistently highlight celebrations. Collaborative Response was pivotal in this important work!

A great framework for school level planning! The Collaborative Response framework has guided our school division to have deep and meaningful conversations around school level data. The conversations have led to action oriented planning and the implementation of supports for all students. Having a Collaborative Response approach has positively impacted our schools for the better. Like many, we too feel all students deserve to be successful and by adopting the Collaborative Response framework, we will see it become a reality.