Topic 5 Weekly Reflection: Blog Post #4

On February 6th, I was in a group that was lucky enough to check out Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry. I had heard about independent schools in the past, but never about one like this. In my time working in the public school system from 2023-2025 I had seen many flaws with the public school system. I truly believe public school is the most important government funded service we have in B.C., and would spend hours every day imagining a different model that better served students. PSII felt like a manifestation of all the things I had been imagining with all of the gaps filled in. When Jeff Hopkins (Co-Principal and Teacher) was speaking to us, I knew immediately that I needed to try and be connected tot his place.

The thing I found most beautiful about PSII is that their resources are open and intended to be shared. They want public schools around B.C. to begin to incorporate the strategies they demonstrate. The goal is for all schools to operate as they do, so that they don’t have to exist.

Perhaps change is not as hard to implement as I initially thought, sometimes roadblocks are people being afraid of the reaction change often receives rather than the change itself.

https://psii.ca <- Check out the website to learn more about the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry here

“PSII is often misrepresented, probably because we are so different and difficult to pigeonhole. PSII is not an alternative school or a “special ed” school, a correspondence school, or a vocational school.”