Schedule
See the embedded schedule below or click here to open the schedule in Google Drive. Please be aware that the sessions may change around leading up to the day.
Session Map
Session Descriptions |
Please Note: The session descriptions are in no particular order.
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Formative Assessment Strategies | Tiffany Austin
This session will explore the various forms of formative assessment and its impact on student learning. We will be discussing the purpose of formative assessment as a means to inform the next steps for student learning. What is formative assessment? How do we know if students know and understand the content? What are some practical formative assessment tools that can easily be incorporated into daily lessons? How can we develop and encourage student self-reflection and peer coaching in a meaningful way?
Exploring Digital Leadership | Susan Spellman Cann
This session will explore all the reasons you love what you do and what it takes to be a digital leader in schools today. We will explore presence, purpose, and passion . A few questions we will explore are: What makes a great leader ? Is Is there anything that makes a great leader online? What makes you love to come to work every day? What could you do today to demonstrate your leadership? What ed tech tools can you use that will help you demonstrate leadership in your schools? What is happening in your schools that demonstrates student led leadership ? How can you start today to make a difference on line that will impact what you do in schools?
Using Design Thinking for Instructional Design | Erin Quinn
Design Thinking and the Design Process is something that many of the world's most innovative companies use, but how does this apply in the world of education? This session will focus on how Design Thinking can be used to design tasks that put the needs of your learners first.
Engaging Students in Math | Catherine Gould
How do I deepen understanding and engagement of students in Math? How can I support my students in becoming more successful with self-assessment in Math?
Building Resiliency in our Learners | Erin Luong
Overview topics:
What are common sources of challenge or stress that you have noticed for your students lately?
What are some strategies you have used to assist them in managing their stress?
What are effective strategies for promoting emotional regulation among learners?
What are the best resources that you know when it comes to mental health?
Redefining Tasks with Apps | Karen Pegler
iPads and their available apps have been in our schools for over 5 years, but how are we leveraging these devices? Are we using them to do the same thing? Or are we using them to empower students and to redefine teaching and learning. Let's discuss some popular apps and share how they can be used to not just do the same old thing digitally, but to engage students in thinking collaboratively and creatively.
Meaningful Assessment and Feedback | Angela Rutschke
We will be discussing the most effective strategies for providing meaningful feedback and assessments for students.
Nurturing Inquiry in the Classroom | Gregory Belostotski
In this session, participants will be asked to discuss the question: "What does inquiry look like?" within their disciplines, divisions, and consider "inquiry" as a unifying, cross-curricular skill. During the second half of the session, the participants will be invited to discuss the teacher role in supporting student inquiry:
Coding in the Classroom | Scott Blenkhorne
There has been much talk lately in the media around coding and it's importance in the 21st Century. How does one get started? Is there a natural progression? What would coding look like in an Elementary school vs. High School? Let's discuss how coding can live outside of the computer science class and live within each of the disciplines.
Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives in the Classroom | Marlies Sargent
This session will focus on the question of How can we Enhance Teacher Efficacy in Mindfully Including Aboriginal Perspectives? Come to learn what strategies your colleagues have used and deepen your understandings around the aboriginal perspectives and how they can be honoured in your classroom.
Exploring Outdoor Education | Paul Kelba
Guiding questions for this session include: How can I start up a successful outdoor education program? How do I engage students in outdoor education who have no previous experience with the outdoors? How can transform our classes so they are more "hands-on", "brains-on", and "on foot"?
Personalized, Differentiated and Individualized Education | Tom Currie
Personalized, Differentiated, Individualized: Aren't they all the same? Where do we find examples of Authentic Personalized Learning (for the learning and/or by the learning)?
Daily Physical Activity | HPEC
The goal of Daily Physical Activity (DPA) is to increase students' physical activity levels. DPA is based on the belief that healthy students are better able to learn and that school communities provide supportive environments for students to develop positive habits needed for a healthy, active lifestyle. (Alberta Education)
Mindfulness In The Classroom | Michelle Kollee
What does mindfulness look like in the classroom?
What strategies and resources are out there to implement mindfulness with students?
Documenting the Learning Process | Lorraine Kinsmen
This session will explore ideas and strategies for documenting student and/or teacher learning on the school landscape. Opportunities exist to reflect on various documenting strategies/media, using documenting as formative assessment, documenting as part of developing portfolios with students, documenting in Iris, tracking the growth of creativity, innovation, ideation and/or design throughout the school - among myriad other ideas. How do we capture what we know when knowing is not stationary?
Implementing Drama to Compliment the Core Curriculum | Laura Tennisco
How can I integrate drama as a teaching and learning method? How can my students use drama to represent their understanding in the core subject areas?
Second Language Learning Strategies | Dr. Sylvie Roy
Dr. Sylvie Roy will engage in discussion with educators involved in second language learning (bilingual, immersion, ESL, French, other languages). New and experienced teachers are welcome to come discuss ideas for best practice in second language learning.
Supporting LGBTQ Learners | Pam Krause and Diana Wark
This session will help participants build a more inclusive classroom for LGBTQ students. We will discuss theGovernment of Alberta LGBTQ Guidelines and how schools can make changes to ensure they are providing a safe space within the school community.
How do we Improve Student Confidence and Engage Junior High Learners in Literacy | Karly Baxter and Ryan Bliss
We plan to discuss improvements in literacy, particularly through the use of technology.
Acknowledging our Traditional Lands | Laureen Lailey and Stephanie Leech
This year the Board of Trustees began the practice of starting public Board meetings with a verbal acknowledgement of the land and its first people. CBE schools and service units are now acknowledging the land where we gather at the beginning and end of each school year, and during significant celebrations, such as a graduation. The acknowledgement shows respect for people, their contributions and their ways of knowing, which are reflected through the stories and songs that have lived on this land for thousands of years. We are all treaty people. This session will help build our collective capacity to understand and pay respect to the land acknowledgment across the system to support safe, welcoming, caring and respectful environments for all.
This session will explore the various forms of formative assessment and its impact on student learning. We will be discussing the purpose of formative assessment as a means to inform the next steps for student learning. What is formative assessment? How do we know if students know and understand the content? What are some practical formative assessment tools that can easily be incorporated into daily lessons? How can we develop and encourage student self-reflection and peer coaching in a meaningful way?
Exploring Digital Leadership | Susan Spellman Cann
This session will explore all the reasons you love what you do and what it takes to be a digital leader in schools today. We will explore presence, purpose, and passion . A few questions we will explore are: What makes a great leader ? Is Is there anything that makes a great leader online? What makes you love to come to work every day? What could you do today to demonstrate your leadership? What ed tech tools can you use that will help you demonstrate leadership in your schools? What is happening in your schools that demonstrates student led leadership ? How can you start today to make a difference on line that will impact what you do in schools?
Using Design Thinking for Instructional Design | Erin Quinn
Design Thinking and the Design Process is something that many of the world's most innovative companies use, but how does this apply in the world of education? This session will focus on how Design Thinking can be used to design tasks that put the needs of your learners first.
Engaging Students in Math | Catherine Gould
How do I deepen understanding and engagement of students in Math? How can I support my students in becoming more successful with self-assessment in Math?
Building Resiliency in our Learners | Erin Luong
Overview topics:
- Resiliency: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties www.oxfordictionaries.com
- Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/
- Grit: the determination to keep going even when things become difficult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)
What are common sources of challenge or stress that you have noticed for your students lately?
What are some strategies you have used to assist them in managing their stress?
What are effective strategies for promoting emotional regulation among learners?
What are the best resources that you know when it comes to mental health?
Redefining Tasks with Apps | Karen Pegler
iPads and their available apps have been in our schools for over 5 years, but how are we leveraging these devices? Are we using them to do the same thing? Or are we using them to empower students and to redefine teaching and learning. Let's discuss some popular apps and share how they can be used to not just do the same old thing digitally, but to engage students in thinking collaboratively and creatively.
Meaningful Assessment and Feedback | Angela Rutschke
We will be discussing the most effective strategies for providing meaningful feedback and assessments for students.
- What types of feedback is most meaningful for students? Why?
- How do you make time for student conferences and reassessment?
Nurturing Inquiry in the Classroom | Gregory Belostotski
In this session, participants will be asked to discuss the question: "What does inquiry look like?" within their disciplines, divisions, and consider "inquiry" as a unifying, cross-curricular skill. During the second half of the session, the participants will be invited to discuss the teacher role in supporting student inquiry:
- What does a teacher do before, during, and after students are asked to inquire into a topic?
Coding in the Classroom | Scott Blenkhorne
There has been much talk lately in the media around coding and it's importance in the 21st Century. How does one get started? Is there a natural progression? What would coding look like in an Elementary school vs. High School? Let's discuss how coding can live outside of the computer science class and live within each of the disciplines.
Embedding Aboriginal Perspectives in the Classroom | Marlies Sargent
This session will focus on the question of How can we Enhance Teacher Efficacy in Mindfully Including Aboriginal Perspectives? Come to learn what strategies your colleagues have used and deepen your understandings around the aboriginal perspectives and how they can be honoured in your classroom.
Exploring Outdoor Education | Paul Kelba
Guiding questions for this session include: How can I start up a successful outdoor education program? How do I engage students in outdoor education who have no previous experience with the outdoors? How can transform our classes so they are more "hands-on", "brains-on", and "on foot"?
Personalized, Differentiated and Individualized Education | Tom Currie
Personalized, Differentiated, Individualized: Aren't they all the same? Where do we find examples of Authentic Personalized Learning (for the learning and/or by the learning)?
Daily Physical Activity | HPEC
The goal of Daily Physical Activity (DPA) is to increase students' physical activity levels. DPA is based on the belief that healthy students are better able to learn and that school communities provide supportive environments for students to develop positive habits needed for a healthy, active lifestyle. (Alberta Education)
- How do I incorporate Daily Physical Activity in a meaningful way?
- How do I encourage our school to engage in Daily Physical Activity Consistently?
- How can I incorporate Daily Physical Activity into Language Arts and Social Studies in real and meaningful ways?
Mindfulness In The Classroom | Michelle Kollee
What does mindfulness look like in the classroom?
What strategies and resources are out there to implement mindfulness with students?
Documenting the Learning Process | Lorraine Kinsmen
This session will explore ideas and strategies for documenting student and/or teacher learning on the school landscape. Opportunities exist to reflect on various documenting strategies/media, using documenting as formative assessment, documenting as part of developing portfolios with students, documenting in Iris, tracking the growth of creativity, innovation, ideation and/or design throughout the school - among myriad other ideas. How do we capture what we know when knowing is not stationary?
Implementing Drama to Compliment the Core Curriculum | Laura Tennisco
How can I integrate drama as a teaching and learning method? How can my students use drama to represent their understanding in the core subject areas?
Second Language Learning Strategies | Dr. Sylvie Roy
Dr. Sylvie Roy will engage in discussion with educators involved in second language learning (bilingual, immersion, ESL, French, other languages). New and experienced teachers are welcome to come discuss ideas for best practice in second language learning.
- What are some best practices for teaching in language immersion programs today?
- What strategies are effective in developing students speaking skills in a second language classroom?
Supporting LGBTQ Learners | Pam Krause and Diana Wark
This session will help participants build a more inclusive classroom for LGBTQ students. We will discuss theGovernment of Alberta LGBTQ Guidelines and how schools can make changes to ensure they are providing a safe space within the school community.
How do we Improve Student Confidence and Engage Junior High Learners in Literacy | Karly Baxter and Ryan Bliss
We plan to discuss improvements in literacy, particularly through the use of technology.
Acknowledging our Traditional Lands | Laureen Lailey and Stephanie Leech
This year the Board of Trustees began the practice of starting public Board meetings with a verbal acknowledgement of the land and its first people. CBE schools and service units are now acknowledging the land where we gather at the beginning and end of each school year, and during significant celebrations, such as a graduation. The acknowledgement shows respect for people, their contributions and their ways of knowing, which are reflected through the stories and songs that have lived on this land for thousands of years. We are all treaty people. This session will help build our collective capacity to understand and pay respect to the land acknowledgment across the system to support safe, welcoming, caring and respectful environments for all.
Creating an Inclusionary Classroom | Matt Zinken
This session will focus on developing inclusive cultures that benefit all students. Some questions that may guide the discussion are: What makes a classroom/school inclusive? How can we create truly inclusive environments in our schools for students with diverse special needs? What can be done to make inclusion meaningful for both students with complex needs and students in the regular classroom?
Strategies and Principles for Autistic Students | Candice Montgomery
Share strategies and principles for meeting the needs of autistic students. Discuss work tasks, IPP tracking sheets, ABLLS tracking sheets, staff and assistant schedules, classroom organization.
Engagement, Creativity, Collaboration and Learning through Web-Based Technologies| Michelle Armstrong
Technology is changing rapidly, offering many amazing tools for our classrooms. Let's discover the potential of web-based technologies to promote student engagement, creativity, collaboration, and learning across all grade levels and within all areas of the curriculum. Whatever you teach, let's discuss your classroom objectives and see what new technologies could work to achieve your goals.
The Reggio Inspired Classroom | Julie Ramsay
Exploring the Reggio philosophy in a Canadian context. How can teachers bring the fundamental principles of the Reggio philosophy into their own classrooms? What would be a good starting point to learn more about the Reggio philosophy and integrating into my practice?
Comprehensive School Health | HPEC
Comprehensive school health is a framework for building healthy school communities that support students in reaching their full potential as learners—and as healthy, productive members of society. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is a whole school approach that supports healthy school communities. The CSH framework can be used to include other evidence informed practices into the school environment. (Alberta Education)
Maker Education as a Pedagogical Approach | Steve Clark
What if, instead of working on questions out of the textbook, students were asked to create something and work towards solving real a world problem? Join others in exploring how and where the incorporation of Maker practices can effectively engage students in hands on work while addressing outcomes of the discipline. How have you experimented with making in the classroom? What have you tried that has worked, or not? What do other people need to know when implementing this idea?
Ditching the Desk: Designing a Student Centered Classroom | Tracy Evans
A teacher desk comes with so much weight in terms of history, pedagogy and practice. What would it mean if you ditched your desk? How could you make your space more student-centered and include your students voices in designing their space?
Effective Use of the SMART Board | Geoff Bell
This session will explore effective use of SmartBoards from Kindergarten to Grade 6. Participants will be invited to share success stories about lessons and activities that have been "just right" for their classes. We will also discuss challenges and share solutions. Participants will be given free access to a collection of SmartBoard activities and lessons that can be used right away or adapted to suit their needs.
How Might we Reimagine Professional Learning? | Dr. Barb Brown
Redesigning Professional Learning: How might we create research-active and authentic professional learning experiences?
How might we reimagine professional learning so that teachers continue to grow, feel inspired, and have the greatest impact on student learning, engagement and well-being?
Genius Hour: Engaging Students Through Their Passions | Lindsey Bingley and Michelle Berry
What is Genius Hour? How does it relate to inquiry, PBL, design thinking? How can you use this in your classroom to differentiate and meet the needs of your students? How can we use Genius Hour to support curriculum and teach self-reflection skills to students?
Google Apps for Education to Personalize Learning | Jody Shpur
GAFE (Google Apps for Educators) provides a cloud-based platform in which teachers, students and parents may be part of the learning that occurs. Questions relevant to this resource may include: #1 What is really meant by 'cloud'? #2 What resources reside within GAFE and which are one's to address first? #3 What will it require of stakeholders to use this resource effectively?
Helping Students Transition Past High School | Devon Donahue
How did teachers and parents frame your own transition to after high school? What is most important for students to know about their transition after high school? What anxieties typically arise? How as educators can we help students see their options realistically?
Students should know their options and these include the tools and resources at their finger tips to plan for jobs, careers and schooling at any stage of their life after high school. Moving out of high school is a huge and overwhelming steps for students. What can we do as educators to make the transition easier?
Evaluating a Body of Evidence and Determining Achievement | Matthew Armstrong
What does a 4 look like? How do I know that my 4 is the same as the 4 at another school? Let's discuss strategies for collecting a body of evidence and ultimately determining achievement for the purposes of reporting.
HELP!! The Sticker Chart Didn't Work... | Christel Mueller, Andra Coulter and Sharon Purcell
If you’re like most of us, you may feel frustrated and defeated when confronted with a student with struggling behaviours. With 30 years combined experience in the Special Education field, three teachers from Children’s Village School will facilitate this session with practical strategies that you can take back to the class and use. Bring your strategies, stories, shenanigans, and struggles and leave feeling empowered.
Daily 5 and CAFE | Celine Orieux
Daily 5 consists of 5 literacy components that can create independent readers and writers. It structures your literacy time so students can work independently and productively while you instruct small groups and individually. The CAFE presents the four components associated with reading mastery: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. It offers you a menu of strategies.
Communicating Learning to Parents | Meagan Keashly & Karen Howard
How can we clearly communicate classroom learning strategies to parents, so they can support their children at home? How can our students meaningfully share their learning with parents?
Interdisciplinary Learning in High School | Ryan Cancilla, Kerry Warner, Andie Shaffer
This session will ask how high school teachers can collaborate and facilitate interdisciplinary project based learning. Teachers will have an opportunity to explore and brainstorm ideas for future collaborations. It will also feature an example of an interdisciplinary project that was developed in a high school, which connected science, English and art.
3D Printing in the Classroom | Kevin Scott
This session will explore how 3D printing fits into learning. From complimenting STEM curriculum and fostering design thinking to promoting problem solving skills, 3D printing is revolutionizing our world. Let’s discuss how we can bring this technology into our classroom in a pedagogically meaningful way.
Understanding and teaching the ADHD Learners | Les Redick & Kim Tackaberry
We will explore the following:
- misconceptions about ADHD and ADHD Learners
- effective strategies/understandings for teaching ADHD Learners
Blended Learning - What is it in your classroom? | Verena Roberts
Blended Learning has multiple meanings and descriptions. This session will examine what blended learning looks like in Calgary. We will ask two guiding questions: What does Blended Learning mean to you and How has Blended Learning been implemented in your classroom? Hopefully we can get to - What evidence of a change in student learning do you have to support your blended learning implementation?
Math Task Design | Tracy Rand
How can teachers foster mathematical thinking?
How can teachers help students acquire a deeper understanding of mathematics?
Acknowledging our Traditional Lands | Laureen Lailey and Stephanie Leech
This year the Board of Trustees began the practice of starting public Board meetings with a verbal acknowledgement of the land and its first people. CBE schools and service units are now acknowledging the land where we gather at the beginning and end of each school year, and during significant celebrations, such as a graduation. The acknowledgement shows respect for people, their contributions and their ways of knowing, which are reflected through the stories and songs that have lived on this land for thousands of years. We are all treaty people. This session will help build our collective capacity to understand and pay respect to the land acknowledgment across the system to support safe, welcoming, caring and respectful environments for all.
French Immersion in the Primary Grades | Laura Nicholson
The goal for teaching French Immersion in Kindergarten and Grade 1 is 100% French Instruction. How can teachers make this a reality while still strengthening relationships with kids who don't speak the language well? How do teachers present instructions so that students will understand? Are there appropriate occasions for switching to English?
This session will focus on developing inclusive cultures that benefit all students. Some questions that may guide the discussion are: What makes a classroom/school inclusive? How can we create truly inclusive environments in our schools for students with diverse special needs? What can be done to make inclusion meaningful for both students with complex needs and students in the regular classroom?
Strategies and Principles for Autistic Students | Candice Montgomery
Share strategies and principles for meeting the needs of autistic students. Discuss work tasks, IPP tracking sheets, ABLLS tracking sheets, staff and assistant schedules, classroom organization.
- What are resources you have found to be helpful?
- Strategies that work for you?
- Ways of tracking student progress?
Engagement, Creativity, Collaboration and Learning through Web-Based Technologies| Michelle Armstrong
Technology is changing rapidly, offering many amazing tools for our classrooms. Let's discover the potential of web-based technologies to promote student engagement, creativity, collaboration, and learning across all grade levels and within all areas of the curriculum. Whatever you teach, let's discuss your classroom objectives and see what new technologies could work to achieve your goals.
The Reggio Inspired Classroom | Julie Ramsay
Exploring the Reggio philosophy in a Canadian context. How can teachers bring the fundamental principles of the Reggio philosophy into their own classrooms? What would be a good starting point to learn more about the Reggio philosophy and integrating into my practice?
Comprehensive School Health | HPEC
Comprehensive school health is a framework for building healthy school communities that support students in reaching their full potential as learners—and as healthy, productive members of society. Comprehensive School Health (CSH) is a whole school approach that supports healthy school communities. The CSH framework can be used to include other evidence informed practices into the school environment. (Alberta Education)
- How do we organize our school to encourage school-wide well-being?
- How can Physical Education be meaningfully included in cross-curricular inquiry work?
- How can Health class be more meaningful to students?
Maker Education as a Pedagogical Approach | Steve Clark
What if, instead of working on questions out of the textbook, students were asked to create something and work towards solving real a world problem? Join others in exploring how and where the incorporation of Maker practices can effectively engage students in hands on work while addressing outcomes of the discipline. How have you experimented with making in the classroom? What have you tried that has worked, or not? What do other people need to know when implementing this idea?
Ditching the Desk: Designing a Student Centered Classroom | Tracy Evans
A teacher desk comes with so much weight in terms of history, pedagogy and practice. What would it mean if you ditched your desk? How could you make your space more student-centered and include your students voices in designing their space?
Effective Use of the SMART Board | Geoff Bell
This session will explore effective use of SmartBoards from Kindergarten to Grade 6. Participants will be invited to share success stories about lessons and activities that have been "just right" for their classes. We will also discuss challenges and share solutions. Participants will be given free access to a collection of SmartBoard activities and lessons that can be used right away or adapted to suit their needs.
How Might we Reimagine Professional Learning? | Dr. Barb Brown
Redesigning Professional Learning: How might we create research-active and authentic professional learning experiences?
How might we reimagine professional learning so that teachers continue to grow, feel inspired, and have the greatest impact on student learning, engagement and well-being?
Genius Hour: Engaging Students Through Their Passions | Lindsey Bingley and Michelle Berry
What is Genius Hour? How does it relate to inquiry, PBL, design thinking? How can you use this in your classroom to differentiate and meet the needs of your students? How can we use Genius Hour to support curriculum and teach self-reflection skills to students?
Google Apps for Education to Personalize Learning | Jody Shpur
GAFE (Google Apps for Educators) provides a cloud-based platform in which teachers, students and parents may be part of the learning that occurs. Questions relevant to this resource may include: #1 What is really meant by 'cloud'? #2 What resources reside within GAFE and which are one's to address first? #3 What will it require of stakeholders to use this resource effectively?
Helping Students Transition Past High School | Devon Donahue
How did teachers and parents frame your own transition to after high school? What is most important for students to know about their transition after high school? What anxieties typically arise? How as educators can we help students see their options realistically?
Students should know their options and these include the tools and resources at their finger tips to plan for jobs, careers and schooling at any stage of their life after high school. Moving out of high school is a huge and overwhelming steps for students. What can we do as educators to make the transition easier?
Evaluating a Body of Evidence and Determining Achievement | Matthew Armstrong
What does a 4 look like? How do I know that my 4 is the same as the 4 at another school? Let's discuss strategies for collecting a body of evidence and ultimately determining achievement for the purposes of reporting.
HELP!! The Sticker Chart Didn't Work... | Christel Mueller, Andra Coulter and Sharon Purcell
If you’re like most of us, you may feel frustrated and defeated when confronted with a student with struggling behaviours. With 30 years combined experience in the Special Education field, three teachers from Children’s Village School will facilitate this session with practical strategies that you can take back to the class and use. Bring your strategies, stories, shenanigans, and struggles and leave feeling empowered.
Daily 5 and CAFE | Celine Orieux
Daily 5 consists of 5 literacy components that can create independent readers and writers. It structures your literacy time so students can work independently and productively while you instruct small groups and individually. The CAFE presents the four components associated with reading mastery: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. It offers you a menu of strategies.
Communicating Learning to Parents | Meagan Keashly & Karen Howard
How can we clearly communicate classroom learning strategies to parents, so they can support their children at home? How can our students meaningfully share their learning with parents?
Interdisciplinary Learning in High School | Ryan Cancilla, Kerry Warner, Andie Shaffer
This session will ask how high school teachers can collaborate and facilitate interdisciplinary project based learning. Teachers will have an opportunity to explore and brainstorm ideas for future collaborations. It will also feature an example of an interdisciplinary project that was developed in a high school, which connected science, English and art.
3D Printing in the Classroom | Kevin Scott
This session will explore how 3D printing fits into learning. From complimenting STEM curriculum and fostering design thinking to promoting problem solving skills, 3D printing is revolutionizing our world. Let’s discuss how we can bring this technology into our classroom in a pedagogically meaningful way.
Understanding and teaching the ADHD Learners | Les Redick & Kim Tackaberry
We will explore the following:
- misconceptions about ADHD and ADHD Learners
- effective strategies/understandings for teaching ADHD Learners
Blended Learning - What is it in your classroom? | Verena Roberts
Blended Learning has multiple meanings and descriptions. This session will examine what blended learning looks like in Calgary. We will ask two guiding questions: What does Blended Learning mean to you and How has Blended Learning been implemented in your classroom? Hopefully we can get to - What evidence of a change in student learning do you have to support your blended learning implementation?
Math Task Design | Tracy Rand
How can teachers foster mathematical thinking?
How can teachers help students acquire a deeper understanding of mathematics?
Acknowledging our Traditional Lands | Laureen Lailey and Stephanie Leech
This year the Board of Trustees began the practice of starting public Board meetings with a verbal acknowledgement of the land and its first people. CBE schools and service units are now acknowledging the land where we gather at the beginning and end of each school year, and during significant celebrations, such as a graduation. The acknowledgement shows respect for people, their contributions and their ways of knowing, which are reflected through the stories and songs that have lived on this land for thousands of years. We are all treaty people. This session will help build our collective capacity to understand and pay respect to the land acknowledgment across the system to support safe, welcoming, caring and respectful environments for all.
French Immersion in the Primary Grades | Laura Nicholson
The goal for teaching French Immersion in Kindergarten and Grade 1 is 100% French Instruction. How can teachers make this a reality while still strengthening relationships with kids who don't speak the language well? How do teachers present instructions so that students will understand? Are there appropriate occasions for switching to English?