Bonnie Campbell

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Bonnie Campbell

• Nomination
• Prime Ministers Awards of Excellence

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• Students research using a variety of print and
  digital resources, such as on-line writing
  guides, to edit for credit and to create
  personalized editing checklists for their own
  writing.

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• The pre-production, shooting, and
  post-production phases of filmmaking foster both
  independent and teamwork skills, while also
  integrating technology and developing the
  literacy skills of all students.

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• Assignments are
• clearly reviewed
• and students are
• given instructions
• on paper and on-line.

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• Small group work allows students to build on
  their own ideas before taking them to the class
  at large for consideration.

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• Students love Film Club
• special events, such as
• Movie Marathons and field
• trips with other school film
• clubs.
• In this photo, students enjoy the Halloween
  Dinner and a Movie Party, checking out
• Hitchcocks classic, The Birds, with a
  pizza party during intermission.

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• Ms. Campbell has been
• running school film clubs since
• 1997. In this photo, students from
• her first film club take a break
• during their movie marathon.
• Film clubs open up the potential
• for engagement in the arts,
• develop media savvy and other
• literacy skills, and foster
• friendships among diverse students.
• It is a non-competitive co-curricular

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• As a Future Pathways
• teacher, Ms. Campbell had
• to find job placements for
• her co-op students. Ms.
• Campbell developed new
• contacts for over 56 of her
• students, and these
• contacts were then used by
• the school in subsequent
• years.
• In this photo, a budding musician
• is surrounded by guitars at one of
• these new partnerships, Music
• City.

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• Ms. Campbells
• classroom is filled
• with posters
• personally collected
• and arranged by
• Ms. Campbell to
• develop students
• viewing literacy skills,
• as well as to make
• the space more
• pleasant.

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• Celebrating the last day of school with
  a beach- themed party for homeroom.

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• Sawasdee!
• Cheerful Thai students greet their teachers
  as they get ready for a field trip. Ms.
  Campbells first teaching job was as a volunteer
  teacher in beautiful rural Thailand. She remains
  friends with many of the people she met there.

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• Celebrating culture
• Ms. Campbells
• Japanese students
• learn traditional
• Newfoundland dance
• on a sunny Saturday
• afternoon.
• Many of these
• students became
• friends with Ms.
• Campbells Canadian
• students.

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• When a Sean Lahey sought assistance in
  forging a career as a writer, he contacted his
  former English teacher, Ms. Campbell. She helped
  him to make contacts within the Newfoundland arts
  community and provided him with her own feedback,
  as well as that of two retired English teachers.
• Here, the group enjoys lunch to celebrate
  his first public poetry reading.

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• Ms. Campbell is a firm believer in
  volunteering for co-curricular activities. Among
  the clubs she has sponsored are student councils,
  film clubs, drama clubs, speech clubs, English as
  an Additional Language groups, and debating
  teams.
• Some of the students in these groups have
  gone on to local, national and international
  recognition, as was the case with John Whelan,
  pictured here.

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• To learn more about filmmaking and to develop
  contacts with the local filmmaking community, Ms.
  Campbell joined the Board of Directors of the
  St. Johns Independent Womens Film Festival.
• Here, board members share a few laughs at the
  end of another exciting and successful festival.

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• As a pilot teacher for the Department of
  Educations revised English Language Arts
  curriculum, Ms. Campbell was called upon to
  deliver professional development to her
  colleagues from the school district.
• Here, an English Language Arts coordinator
  from another district, Anne Manning, commends Ms.
  Campbell for her presentation and notes that she
  plans to share Ms. Campbells ideas with her
  districts teachers.

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• Ms. Campbell is a founding member of the
  Framed Media Camp, sponsored by the St. Johns
  Independent Womens Festival.
• A script contest, followed by student
  collaboration with film industry professionals
  means an intense week for the participants who
  attend the camp for free. Their work is then
  screened on closing night at the festival each
  year.
• The camp has proven so successful that a
  second camp has been added to allow as many
  participants as possible to enjoy the camp.