Odyssey '18 Course Catalog by Think Langley

2018 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CONFERENCE

FEBRUARY 23

ODYSSEY LANGLEY

SECONDARY

ODYSSEY 2018 Superintendent’s Message The Langley School District’s vision is to create an “innovative, inspiring, and unified learning community.” Part of that journey has been the District’s support of SOGI initiatives, commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, and our embrace of B.C.’s Redesigned Curriculum. In addition to our efforts supporting Langley students, we are equally committed to providing quality programs and education to all our staff. Sessions such as ‘Coast Salish Math and Weaving,’ ‘How to Start a GSA’, and ‘It’s Time to Breakout!’ strongly reflect our vision, mission, and the redesigned curriculum. With Odyssey ’18 we are offering many opportunities to bring concept-based and competency-based Pro-D to our educators. These development opportunities expand on our already excellent teaching practices, increase the skill level of our staff, and provide the building blocks to inspire all in our learning community. Gordon Stewart Superintendent of Schools

Welcome Message Once again, the annual Odyssey professional development conference is set to provide District staff with a wide variety of opportunities to further their expertise and continue to deliver Langley students an innovative and high-quality education. This year’s focus is “bringing the redesign to life.” This theme is based on teacher feedback that concrete examples of what the redesigned BC curriculum looks and feels like in practice are needed. Few of the educators who have volunteered to share their knowledge from the field would consider themselves experts in the redesigned curriculum, so we are especially grateful for their courage in stepping forward to share their successes and failures. We know that the redesigned curriculum is powerful and complex, and that by drawing on the excellent examples from within our learning community, we can strengthen our understanding and grow together. Thank you to all of the talented staff and community members who have offered to contribute to the 2018 Odyssey program. We look forward to seeing you on the 23rd. Woody Bradford, Assistant Superintendent of Schools Dawne Tomlinson, Director of Instruction

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Odyssey Workshops Schedule At-A-Glance

Additional Pro-D

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Curricular Connections Guide

• Creative Thinking • Critical Thinking • Communication

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• Positive Personal/Cultural Identity • Personal Awareness and Responsibility • Social Awareness and Responsibility

• Curricular Competencies

• Big Idea

Navigating your learning journey:

Odyssey pre-registration in four easy steps New to Odyssey? Looking for a refresher on pre-registration? Our simple, step-by-step guide will provide you with the knowledge you need to make the most of your Pro-D day. If you have any questions or concerns email thinklangley@sd35. bc.ca or call 604 530 4060. 1. BROWSE our workshop offerings by using our convenient schedule at-a-glance spread on pages 24 and 25, and by looking at our more detailed descriptions throughout the booklet. Workshops are listed according to the schedule, not topic, so you may have to do a little digging to find the right sessions for you. You’ll find information about the speakers too, including a biography. You’ll find the session’s big idea next to the lightbulb. 2. NOTE the sessions that interest you most. Use the schedule-at-a-glance to keep track. 3. REGISTER online at thinklangley.com. Not only is online registration more convenient, it also ensures that you make it into your preferred workshops by processing your registration instantly. If you work in the Langley School District, you can sign in using your employee number as your username, and your SD35 email password. If you are an out-of-District educator, you can create an account by following the “Sign up here” link. Registration is $65 for out-of-District participants. The deadline for registration is Friday, February 16. 4. TWEET about the conference using the hashtag #odyssey18 to connect with presenters and other attendees.

SESSION A

8:30 10:00

Aboriginal Drumming and Singing Sheila Jack Langley School District

All Interested

In this session, participants will receive an explanation about the significance of the drum and of songs in Aboriginal culture. They will learn about the responsibilities of being a drum carrier and receive instructions of how to care for a drum. They will learn about the different types of songs, how they are introduced, and about the traditions and protocols around songs. There will be a demonstration of drumming and singing as well as an opportunity to learn a song or two. There will be an invitation to try drumming and/or playing a rattle, and an opportunity to try different types of drum beats. During this session participants will have a first hand experience of the healing effects of the beat of the drum. Sheila is a local MĂŠtis woman who has been an Aboriginal support worker for the Langley School District for 12 years. She has been a drummer and a singer for years, and she also drums/rattles and sings with the Kwantlen First Nation Drummers. Sheila also holds weekly practices for the Langley School District Aboriginal program drummers and singers, the Red Hawk Drummers. She carries knowledge about many of the traditional Aboriginal drum and song protocols and welcomes the opportunity to share those teachings to develop an understanding of Aboriginal culture and to promote reconciliation.

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To develop cultural understanding and appreciation, as well as to have a cultural experience.

This session is offered in A and C

Active Social-Emotional Learning 4-12 Sheldon Franken Inquiry Adventures

All Interested, Intermediate, Middle, Secondary, Admin

Social-emotional learning is about building self and social awareness to enable growth. Adventure education is the use of kinaesthetic activities to promote learning. This workshop will explore experiential-based games and activities that can be used to enhance social-emotional learning, well-being, and resiliency with all students in grade four to 12. There will be a strong emphasis on the practice of the experiential learning models of framing and debriefing. These tools and resources can be used in your schools and classrooms immediately. Come ready to be active, and engage in a variety of experiential based social-emotional learning activities. Sheldon has a B.Ed in physical education and a M.A. in counselling psychology. Sheldon is a school counsellor with the Vancouver School Board, the director and facilitator for Inquiry Adventures, and has been on the Association of Experiential Education North West Regional Council. Sheldon has presented workshops on active and experiential based social-emotional learning to numerous educational organizations across North America, including presenting at the recent BCTF Super Conference.

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To incorporate experiential activities as a means of engaging students in socialemotional learning.

Literature Circles and Guided Reading Julia Henrey Langley School District

Intermediate and Middle Teachers

Literature circles provide a great vehicle for personalizing content for students; they can work on material at their own level, while contributing to the understanding of others. Students learn to use criteria to complete jobs and to give feedback to others on their work, and time is built into the process to allow for revision. While they are reading and working independently, guided reading groups can focus on strategies to make sense of non-fiction texts that support the science and social studies curriculum. Julia has been teaching at R.C. Garnett Demonstration School for a number of years. She uses literature circles and guided reading as a big component of her language arts teaching. Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Career Ed — Crafting a Better Story Audrey Milne Langley School District

All Interested

The Langley School District’s career education team works hard to create partnerships and relationships designed to promote and facilitate networks and collaborations and support positive transitions for our students. All schools are being encouraged to strengthen their engagement with and between students, teachers, parents, support staff, District staff, community, industry, and business groups. The goal is to engage all stakeholders to help our students transition in schools to post-secondary and employment opportunities. Let’s share our journey, stories, resources, and opportunities to help our students continuously grow, prepare for and navigate their school years and future. Let’s be part of the change and craft a better story! Please bring some of your best practises ideas to share. Audrey is a member of the Langley School District’s career education team where she supports secondary career education programs. She is a former work experience and career education teacher and business program developer at Emirates University in Dubai, UAE. Most recently a successful business education teacher at WGSS, she developed and taught marketing, tourism, economics and AP economics programs. She is a strong supporter of trades education as a career option for youth and she works hard to promote exciting initiatives and learning opportunities for Langley’s students.

To create a network of stakeholders to support and broaden student career awareness, options, and connection to community.

Capstone & Mentorship: Planning Ahead

Caring in Action Bill Roche Powerplay Strategies

Primary, Intermediate, Middle Teachers Caring in Action helps young people discover their power to create positive change by demonstrating caring in their communities. Students design their own socially responsible projects by following a simple and practical approach to planning. They make their own decisions, solve their own problems and devise effective ways to inspire others. Students also use reading, writing, and oral communication skills to add impact to their projects. Participants will learn how to: engage students with experiential learning techniques and real-world projects, integrate material into different subject areas, infuse core competencies into your classroom, encourage self-directed and collaborative learning, differentiate instruction for diverse groups of learners, and use a variety of practical assessment tools. This session is designed for grades K-8 teachers. Participants that implement the program during this school year will receive the teacher manual free of charge and will learn about a District-wide showcase event for Caring in Action students. Bill specializes in designing turnkey standards-based resources related to entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and social responsibility for K-12 classrooms. His highly engaging learning model makes it easy to differentiate instruction for diverse groups of learners. Over the years, Bill has supported a variety of B.C. school districts with the implementation of entrepreneurship and financial literacy education. With an energetic and entertaining style, he captivates his audiences and inspires with real-life stories that feature practical, easy-to-implement solutions for the classroom.

Lara Petrie & Brenda Barlow Langley School District

Secondary Teachers

As we begin to better develop our understanding of the graduate capstone project, we must also begin to better understand the role of mentorship and how we will support students to develop this work. This workshop will lay a foundation to understand the nature and the role of effective mentorship. We will then apply those principles of the capstone project to discuss system, staffing, and relational needs to move this work forward toward implementation. Lara is a member of the Langley School District’s Instructional Services team and is a District teacher for career education and transitions. Currently the facilitator for the District’s teacher mentorship programs, Brenda has taught K to grade eight, regular classroom and FSL.

Being in the world, and walking in the world, is supported, broadened, and deepened through community involvement, and the social experience of building personal networks.

To create a more respectful school community. Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot Harmony Kids Yoga

All Interested

Come join us in this exciting workshop featuring hands-on activities to easily integrate yoga into your classroom setting. Children’s yoga helps to develop essential tools such as self-regulation, a stronger mind-body connection, and introduces skills that help children find a sense of inner calm. These yoga tools are gifts that can transform the lives of the children who receive them. Each participant receives the Harmony Kids Yoga Guide For Elementary Teachers, with exercises and applications for classroom use. Jennie is the founder and director of Harmony Kids Yoga, bringing yoga and mindfulness tools to over 200 children a week in Langley public and private schools, Strong Starts, preschools, and daycares, as well as weekly studio classes, private classes for children with special needs, and teachers workshops. Jennie’s life passion is sharing yoga with children to offer the tools of mindfulness, self-regulation, and the ability to bring harmony to the body, mind and heart, so children can lead vibrant and fulfilling lives.

Yoga and mindfulness tools support children to think critically, develop sense of self-awareness, make educated choices for a healthy body and mind, and reflect on ways to interact effectively and peacefully with self, the environment, and community.

This session is offered in A, B, and C

Class Blogs on School Websites Ken Hoff Langley School District All Interested

Want to add a class, club, or team blog to your school website? Ken will walk you through the process of adding the necessary Wordpress (WP) shortcodes (mostly cut & paste) to set up a blog on your school website. Once set up, your students can log in to the WP Dashboard to blog (don’t worry, it’s safe!). Students will be able to add their text and pictures to the blog posts and submit them for your approval. Once you have checked the post for content, you approve the post and it goes live for all students and parents in your school community to enjoy. Imagine your class being the online news reporters for your journalism project or documenting their learning about plants through blog posts that include photos — the possibilities are endless! Accessing the WP Dashboard only requires a browser so bring your iPad and let’s get started. Ken is the communications manager for the Langley School District and is responsible for the District and school websites, among other things. Add a class blog to your school website using iPads.

Collaboration between SEAs & Teachers Juliane Dmyterko Langley School District

All Interested, Primary, Intermediate, Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers

Innovative research in the U.K. is suggesting ways that SEAs and teachers can work together to enhance student learning. This workshop will review findings from these large-scale studies on SEA work, and provide practical strategies for how teachers and SEAs can work together better as a team. We will review information on how teachers and SEAs can collaborate, share information, and support each other in the classroom. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of best practices for teacher-SEA collaboration, and with strategies to become a stronger team in the classroom. Juliane is currently a school psychologist intern at the Langley School District, and a MA student at UBC completing her thesis on the role, preparedness, and impact of SEAs in B.C. She completed her BA in psychology at UBC prior to starting her MA in school psychology. Juliane made her start in education working as an SEA in rural Alberta and urban England for approximately seven years. Her passion for inclusion, supporting students with special needs, and exploring the role and impact of SEAs is what lead her back to formal education. She enjoys sharing what she has learned, translating it into practical strategies to support staff, and ultimately students in schools.

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To develop a better understanding of best practices for teacher-SEA collaboration and strategies to become a stronger team in the classroom.

Creating Parent Connections Michelle Allen Langley School District

Middle, Secondary, Admin

Keeping parents involved in the classroom at the middle and secondary level can seem impossible, especially given today’s busy parent and student schedule. Come and learn options that are simple and effective for parents connections within your classroom and school community. Learn to create classroom blogs, newsletters, and feedback loops for communicating student learning and brainstorm other ways to create opportunities for parent involvement. This session will look at communicating student learning and connecting with parents primarily using the KDU model and the core competencies. Michelle is a computers and careers teacher at Brookswood Secondary. She is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, Apple Educator, and educational blogger. Michelle enjoys working with colleagues on developing ways to communicate via technology, writing the school newsletter, and web design.

Effective parent involvement can positively effect student learning and engagement in the classroom.

Coding in the Elementary Classroom Cari Wilson West Vancouver School District

All Interested, Primary, Intermediate, Middle, Admin

Have you heard about coding and computational thinking, but aren’t sure what it’s all about? Kids as young as kindie can start to code and benefit from the great learning that happens. Come to this session for some hands-on learning, some great sites, apps to use in your classroom, and enough information to get you and your students started right away! Cari works in West Vancouver School District where she is the elementary District innovation and technology support leader, as well as a grade seven teacher. With an MEd in educational technology, Cari has over 20 years of experience in the classroom, much of that in a 1:1 or BYOD environment. Cari is a Certified Google for Education Trainer and an Apple Teacher. While not truly techie (what, there’s no wizard inside my computer making it work?!), Cari enjoys finding innovative and engaging ways to use technology in the classroom. To help alleviate fears and help educators feel prepared to teach coding in their classroom.

This session is offered in A and B

Cross Curricular in the Classroom Philip Barrington Coquitlam School District

Cutting to the Core C

Secondary Teachers

This presentation will focus on two potential English projects that you can use in your own teaching practice. They will show how you can collaborate with the art and drama departments to have your own students create children’s stories or a one-act play. The projects will show how you can tie in collaboration skills and technology to further engage the learning experience for your students. Philip has taught at Riverside Secondary for the past 10 years, in a variety of subjects. His key concentration has been English and P.E. Philip has taught all levels of English at Riverside Secondary and currently teaches English 12 and English nine.

To learn how to connect English with other school departments.

Joe Tong Surrey School District

All Interested, Middle, Secondary

This session will examine instructional frameworks starting with the “why” in mind: the core competencies! Joe will guide you through intentional curriculum designs to connect learning experiences between the core competencies and the curricular competencies from multiple areas of learning. We will share instructional strategies and assessments to guide students to take ownership of their growth and document learning over time. Joe (@teachertong) teaches inquiry eight and home economics (ADST) 8-12 at Fraser Heights Secondary in Surrey, B.C. Formerly the communicating student learning helping teacher (secondary) for the Surrey School District, Joe’s professional interests and graduate work focuses on holistic and contemplative approaches to teaching and learning. Recently recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator, Joe’s professional interests include empowering students and colleagues to reflect on their learning in meaningful ways and purposefully integrate digital technology in classrooms. Design learning experiences with the core in mind.

This session is offered in A, B, and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Excel: Basic Tips and Tricks Christine Sainsbury Langley School District All Interested, Clerical and Admin Assistants, Other Support Staff

Starting with a simple spreadsheet, we will look at some basic functions, explore how to add items to a toolbar, and use some of the main items on the Excel toolbar. Christine is the planning and financial control manager for the Langley School District, and has worked in the District for nine years. Amongst her responsibilities are ministry reporting and school generated funds (school bank accounts). Christine was responsible for the implementation of the KEV accounting system into all the district schools and is now responsible for the management of this system including training. She is also an accomplished Excel user who likes to keep spreadsheets simple and easy to understand. Enabling people to understand basic Excel.

Intro to Self Reg for New Teachers Jay Malcolm & Mark Touzeau Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, SEAs and Support, Admin Workers

We will be providing an overview of self-regulation in the classroom including zones of regulation, mind up, and practical application of self-regulation strategies such as setting up a classroom, creating tool boxes. But best of all there will be a 30-minute coffee break added to the session (just kidding!). We will include some take-away resources! Jiwan is a District teacher and instructional coach. She has taught grades one to five at Shortreed, Nicomekl, and Blacklock Fine Arts. Mark is a teacher at Shortreed Community School teaching grade two and three and enjoys long walks on the beach. To promote student success through self-regulation.

How to Start a GSA Dan Adrian Burnaby School District

Interacting with Your Learning Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers, Admin, Support Staff

This workshop is for both middle and secondary school staff (educators, support staff, EAs, etc.). Here participants will be given the tools needed to help start a GSA (gender/sexuality alliance, or gay/straight alliance) within their own schools. We will also explore tough situations surrounding the creation of these clubs within schools, troubleshoot solutions, and engage in meaningful discussion about the importance of GSAs. There is no experience required; all participants need is a willingness to learn and a passion for inclusion. Dan has taught English & ELL in the Burnaby School District for the last decade. Currently, Dan is the District SOGI support teacher for Burnaby Schools. One of his passions is working to infuse SOGI content in all grades of English, as well finding connections within other disciplines. He has presented at both District and provincial conferences, and has guest lectured for student teachers at UBC. Dan uses stories as a way of promoting inclusion within all schools.

Lisa Ellis & Alyssa Pagnanini Langley School District

Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers

Too often students are passive recipients of information. Join us while we look at different strategies that encourage students to interact with their learning. Lisa is a physical education and AVID teacher at Langley Secondary School. Alyssa is a math, science, and AVID teacher at Langley Secondary School.

Interacting with learning encourages critical thinking and increases student success.

To support students by creating a GSA club at your school.

Kinders Can Write Too!

It’s Time to Breakout! Joe Ducklow Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, Admin Turn your class into an escape room! Students use critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, and sometimes competition to solve problems based on clues. Learn how to use a significant data base of ready made challenges to engage learners in your classroom. Participants will need to bring their own iPad or laptop for this session. Joe is a grade five teacher who is excited about using technology in creative ways to engage students to use their critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and teamwork. Students will use critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, and sometimes competition to solve problems, puzzles, challenges based on clues.

Shelly Gardiner Langley School District

Primary Teachers Have you ever found yourself struggling to inspire your kindergarten students to share a story? This workshop will show a variety of ways to engage your students in fiction and non-fiction writing. We will explore using Writer’s Workshop, I Wonder, and Extra! Extra! activities to encourage writing in the kindergarten classroom. These activities begin in September and have a variety of levels to match the variety of needs of students. Shelly has been teaching in the Langley School District for more than 20 years. The bulk of her experience has been in kindergarten and grade one classes. Shelly has worked in schools from a variety of communities and has worked with students with a wide range of needs. Kindergartens have stories to share and they can be told through pictures and words.

Learn360/TC2 for the New Curriculum Debbie Trees Langley School District

Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers

Debbie is a teacher-librarian at Langley Fundamental Middle and Secondary School. Making connections with Learn360/TC2, two new digital resources, that support the new curriculum.

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Learn360 is the ultimate streaming multimedia resource for the K-12 resources.

“Education is not a tool for development — individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation of our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.” - Nita Ambani

Futures for Foodies Marie-Eve Masse Dennis Green go2HR

All Interested

Food is more than just one of life’s necessities – it can lead to numerous possibilities in the culinary arts! Expose students to the world of food in a variety of cross-curricular ways by connecting it to different subjects in the new curriculum. Join a facilitated conversation with go2HR, B.C.’s tourism human resource association, to discuss how food establishes meaningful connections and successfully prepares students interested in the food service industry for a fulfilling career. Topics include: - Ways to incorporate food projects into the ADST curriculum; - Ways to make cross-curricular connections with food projects; - Pathways to a variety of food-related careers; - Credit training and certificate opportunities; Marie-Eve, go2HR’s tourism career ambassador, works with B.C.’s high schools and post-secondary institutions, tourism operators and employees, and different levels of government, to promote tourism training and career opportunities to youth. She brings over 15 years of tourism and customer service experience along with multiple years of leadership experience and her teaching license, obtained in Quebec.

As director of the industry training team at go2HR, Dennis is responsible for initiatives that boost relevant frontline, leadership, and management skills in employees. On behalf of the industry, he liaises with secondary and postsecondary tourism and hospitality training providers to ensure programming is meeting the needs of industry. Dennis has more than 20 years’ experience as a Red Seal chef and was inducted into the B.C. Restaurant Hall of Fame in 2015 in recognition of his contribution to the cook apprenticeship training system in B.C.

Food can be used as a vehicle to teach a wide variety of core and curricular competencies.

Cozy Classroom: Rethinking Design

Making Math Meaningful Shelley Hegedus Langley School District

Primary How do I know where my students are at in their math learning? Are manipulatives really necessary if my students get it? This workshop will outline some basic conceptual understandings that primary students need to have in order to progress in their math learning. We will look at examples of mathematical thinking and how to determine next steps in instruction. This session will be a practical look at how to teach math in the primary grades using a developmental approach, and how to implement daily routines to help students expand their thinking. Shelley is a District teacher (primary). She enjoys working with teachers and students on literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional learning. Shelley likes to create integrated presentations that are engaging, openended, and allow for differentiation in the classroom.

Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modelled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.

Allie Corstorphine Langley School District Melissa Fuller Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge School District

All Interested

Learn how to create a fun, flexible and organized classroom! Creating a thoughtful and purposefully designed classroom leads to a student centered, inclusive, and choice-driven space that positively impacts student learning and self-regulation. This workshop will cover the theory, benefits, and challenges of classroom design, specifically focusing on flexible seating. A step-by-step process of designing a flexible classroom will be provided as well as ways to set-up expectations and routines with your students. You will leave with ideas you can implement in your classroom tomorrow! Allie and Melissa met completing their graduate diploma program in social-emotional learning and self-regulation at SFU. They bonded over teaching grades 6/7 and designing flexible classroom spaces. Allie teaches at Yorkson Creek Middle School and has been using flexible seating in her class for three years. Allie is currently completing her Master’s degree on belonging in middle school. Melissa is a teacher at Harry Hooge Elementary in the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge School District. Her passions include social emotional learning, inclusion, and self-regulation. Understanding the importance of classroom design and the impact it can have on student learning and classroom community. Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

MyEdBC Tips and Tricks for Clerical Bridie Robson Langley School District Clerical and Admin Assistants

Come and learn tips and tricks in MyEdBC: finding information faster, reports that are helpful, using queries, staying ahead of the rush. Give me a problem and we will find the answer! Bridie is the MyEdBC trainer for the Langley School District. To learn how to make the most of MyEDBC.

OneNote And Office Lens Awesomeness James Gill Coquitlam School District

All Interested

OneNote is the best tool for productivity in the classroom, and Office Lens is the ideal companion. Use Office Lens to scan content into OneNote, and with a only a few functions, start saving time and effort teaching and learning, with OneNote. James is a teacher in SD43/Coquitlam. Currently he teaches grades four and five in the Reggio inspired program at Meadowbrook Elementary. Over his 18 year career, he has taught at elementary, middle, and secondary levels, is one of 26 Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellows for Canada, and has been a speaker and presenter at national and international conferences. He loves cooking, travel, fitness and family. To meet the needs of many types of learners with one tool.

Teach Spelling, Not Test It!

Orchestrating Learning Amanda Leach Langley School District

CC Reading Recovery Teachers

Mary Fried’s webinar will take us through orchestrating learning for our readers who need extra support. It is critical for beginning readers to learn letters, letter-sounds, words, and how to solve words. Focus on how this learning is accomplished in Reading Recovery. **Note: this session is for reading recovery trained teachers only. Amanda is the Langley School District reading recovery teacher leader. She has been a K-3 teacher, resource teacher, and reading recovery teacher in the Langley School District for over 20 years. She is passionate about all students having success and positive growth in literacy.

Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words. Playing with language helps us discover how language works.

Sandi Osborne Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate Even with the revised curriculum, there is still a time and place for spelling instruction. However, we know that weekly spelling tests do little to improve students’ use of conventions and rarely provide opportunities for differentiated instruction. “Words Their Way” is a resource that provides teachers with a strategic approach to spelling instruction, helping students identify sounds and patterns in words, while working at their own level. Explore practical ways to engage students in word study and build their reading and writing skills all at the same time. Sandi is an Instructional coach at Nicomekl Elementary and has been a teacher at Nicomekl for 15 years. To develop an understanding of language patterns and applying this knowledge enable students to communicate in written form more clearly.

Resources for Visual Scheduling Carmen Eberle Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, SEAs and Support Workers, Other Support Staff

Resources for visual scheduling will focus on visual strategies and reminders that can help make routines and expectations for children clear, something that can be extremely helpful in preventing behavioural challenges and reducing anxiety. At this workshop, you will learn strategies to help improve a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to communicate, and you will receive a variety of resources to help you create and personalize visual strategies for the children in your care. By attending this workshop, participants will have time to explore templates used for visual supports, preview apps and software that promote and assist with scheduling, preview e-learning tools, and engage in conversations around tips and tricks of implementation. Participants are asked to bring a laptop or iPad. Carmen is a District principal for Learning Support Services at the Langley School District. Carmen holds a Master of Special Education from Adelaide, Australia. She has over 22 years of K-12 teaching and administrative experiences within the northern region of B.C. Carmen is currently on the B.C. Principal and Vice Principals Contract Advisory Committee. Over the years, Carmen has presented at Short Course and BCCASE on topics related to special education. She continues to be actively involved with District partners who serve families with children who have special needs, and she is actively involved in the Incisive Education Committee. Most recently, Carmen has become a District partner for Set BC and POPFASD.

Visual scheduling for improved communication, SEL and behaviour management

Supporting Grieving Students Wendy Sashikata Langley Hospice Society

All Interested

Death is a part of the life cycle, but it is often minimized and not discussed. Although grief is a normal and natural consequence of a loss, many children and teens have learned not to deal with their thoughts and feelings about the death of a significant person. When children and teens are not able to process or express their grief, it may have a negative impact on their well-being. This workshop will explore the topic of loss and grief, exploring how it may affect students emotionally, socially, and physically. Using a collaborative format, the workshop will also offer suggestions and activities that may help when supporting grieving students. Wendy is the child and youth bereavement coordinator at Langley Hospice Society. Grief and loss is normal and natural part of life but the thoughts and feelings that comes with grief needs to be recognized and supported.

Core Language Board Activities

Social Studies Sharing (8-10) Lynie Tener Langley School District

SEAs and Support Workers

Secondary Teachers

Teachers have been gathering resources, creating lessons, and exploring ways to engage students in the curricular competencies (CCs) of social studies. There are lots of questions: How do we help students internalize the CCs? How do we assess the CCs? How do we engage students in genuine historical thinking and processes? How do I get students to self-reflect? Join grade eight to 10 social studies teachers to share ideas, strategies, and resources, all the while building a practical collaborative network. As well, ways to assess the curricular competencies and ways to have students engage in metacognition will be shared. Lynie has taught at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels. She is passionate about engaging students in the learning process. For teachers to share resources, strategies, and to engage students in the curricular competencies of social studies.

Kelly Andal Langley School District

This class is an extension of ways to incorporate the core language board into daily activities. Dive in and explore engaging activities that your student will enjoy while providing opportunities for spontaneous language. You will leave class with a list of ideas for activities, and language scripts that support each activity. Kelly has worked in special education for the Langley School District for the past seven years. During the last three years she has explored her passion for developing communication skills and spontaneous language use with her students. Through this exploration she has created an effective toolkit of strategies that encourage spontaneous language production in her minimally verbal students.

To build spontaneous language in minimally verbal students. Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Starting with Books Love working from children’s books? Come and enjoy some children’s books while seeing how they can be used to support the core competencies, big ideas, curricular competencies and content of B.C.’s new language arts curriculum. During this workshop, participants will see how reading and writing can be brought to life through picture books. Some books will have an emphasis on First People’s cultures. This workshop is appropriate for K to two teachers.

Kathy Nelson University of the Fraser Valley

Primary Teachers

Kathy taught in Langley for 35 years. Much of her teaching was in the primary grades. For the last four years of her career she was the District literacy teacher, K to seven and presented many workshops for her District. Most recently, Kathy works with the University of the Fraser Valley as a faculty mentor for teacher candidates. Teachers will see how books can be used to support the core competencies, big ideas, curricular competencies and content of B.C.’s new language arts curriculum. Some books will have an emphasis on First People’s cultures.

Literacy for Little Learners Ruth Hodgins University of the Fraser Valley, Simon Fraser University

All Interested, Primary

Every early primary classroom has students who have a range of abilities, interests and motivations. How can teachers create activities in reading, writing, and oral language that meet the needs of their young learners? This workshop will emphasize a variety of instructional approaches and lesson activities that you can implement to help engage students in literacy learning. The sooner we can get our students off to a strong start in literacy, the better their chances are to be successful readers and writers who love to read and write! You will learn about: shared, independent, guided reading and read aloud, shared and independent writing, oral language, alphabet learning and phonological awareness, student motivation and engagement. Ruth is passionate about literacy teaching and learning! A teacher of children from K-4, Ruth has also worked with practicing teachers as a reading recovery teacher leader for both the Langley and Vancouver School Boards. She is a faculty mentor for pre-service teachers at the University of the Fraser Valley and sessional instructor for Designs for Learning: Reading at Simon Fraser University.

Playing with language helps us discover how language works.

Teaching English First Peoples Penny Carnrite Langley School District

The Power of Extreme Writing! PS

Diana Cruchley

Secondary

You will learn about teaching English First Peoples courses. You will be given an opportunity to see the course materials and teacher’s guides. The lessons are written by First Nations educators. They are transformative. It is the powerful teachings in the books that draw students in. They read Chief Dan George, Richard Wagamese, Drew Hayden Taylor and Thomas King. These writers tell of historical trauma and of healing. Their stories speaks to us as humans. They show us truth and a way to reconciliation. Penny teaches secondary English and social studies at Langley Fine Arts School. She believes that teaching B.C. First Nations 12 and English 12 First Peoples is transformative for both teachers and students. She is a pilot teacher for the new English 10-12 First Peoples courses. It is her goal to have these courses offered in every school in the Langley School District. Indigenous literature plays a role within the process of reconciliation.

Intermediate, Middle Create eager and fluent writers! Students who write too slowly, and can’t ideate quickly fall further and further behind as subjects become more demanding. But how do we enhance fluency and keep it engaging long enough to succeed? Extreme writing is a totally new journaling program that works. It’s fun! Can we do more? Leave with a plan for the year, and a method of assessing student capacity The brain loves novelty, and this workshop includes seven unique strategies to keep the program novel, with multiple ideas for each strategy, creating a year of refreshing unexpected choices for your grade 4-9 students. Diana is an award-winning educator and author who has taught at both elementary and secondary levels. She is the recipient of the Governor General’s Flight to Freedom Literacy Award. Her practical workshops are always enthusiastically received. Build student enthusiasm for writing, and fluency as writers, with this new strategy for journal writing, supported by lots of resource materials to make your job as a teacher easier.

Tips and Tricks for SEAs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Updated! Arden Thomas Langley School District

SEAs and Support Workers

Arden will provide you with tips, tricks and some visuals along with website addresses and information to create your own visuals as you personalize the support you give some of our most challenging students in the classroom. Arden is a District integration support teacher in the Langley School District. She has worked as a classroom teacher and as a resource teacher in Langley, supporting inclusive education and working alongside SEAs before becoming a District integration teacher. SEAs will gain new insights and deepen their thinking about how their support will assist children in gaining the skills needed to be contributing members of their community.

Understanding ELL Students Lisa Sadler Langley School District

All Interested

ELL students that are new to Canada have many challenges, including learning English and adapting to cultural differences in Canada. This workshop will help participants understand these challenges, including culture shock. Participants will hear first-hand from former students who have experienced what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be in a Canadian classroom for the first time. This workshop will give ideas on how to build a more culturally sensitive and inclusive classroom. Lisa is currently the manager of settlement workers in schools (SWIS). She has been working with immigrants and refugees for 10 years both professionally and as a volunteer. She holds a Master of Arts in community development and has researched on the barriers refugees face in the education system, community development, and resettlement. Building inclusive classrooms and schools to support English Language Learners.

Understanding Haisla Culture

WEX Teachers Sharing Session

Cecelia Reekie Langley School District

Edna Schuerhaus Langley School District

PS All Interested

First Peoples communities in B.C. and Canada are numerous and diverse. Participants will learn about the rich history and culture of the Haisla people of the Northwest Coast. Cecelia will share information about her Haisla community, including clan structures, ceremony, food, the role of traditional stories and more. Cecelia will share her personal story throughout this workshop. Cecelia is a member of the Haisla First Nation. She believes in the power of sharing personal stories to bring awareness in regards to culture and the history of Indigenous People in Canada. Cecelia always speaks from her heart and weaves many different life experiences through her cultural presentations. Knowing who you are, where you come from and the connections to the land.

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Secondary, Other Support Staff

This session is offered to current WEX teachers, who are interested in sharing their experiences with others, in addition to WEX teachers who are seeking new strategies or to streamline their procedures. A review of WEX audit criteria will also take place. Any staff interested in learning about work experience opportunities are also welcome. Edna is the District principal for the career education department.

Work experience is a key component of personalized, comprehensive transition plans for all students along with the final capstone project.

This session is offered in A and B 14

Motivation From Within Chris Wejr Langley School District

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All Interested

The vast majority of our students enter our schools in kindergarten with high motivation to learn, but as they progress up through the grades, motivation, and engagement tends to fade. Due to the many challenges facing our schools, educators often resort to a variety of incentives to try to motivate students to learn and behave to help create the optimal learning environment. But what are there risks with this? Are we decreasing long term motivation for short term wins? This session will challenge participants to rethink the use of incentives and encourage them to look at ways to create the conditions for students to motivate themselves.

Chris is a father of three and a former intermediate teacher and high school PE, Science, and Math teacher, coach, and athletic director. He currently works as a principal at James Hill Elementary in Langley, B.C. and previous to this, he worked as a teacher and principal in the community of Agassiz at Kent Elementary. He has successfully worked alongside staff in both schools to create positive changes in school climate as well as student motivation and engagement based on a strengths-based school culture. Chris has presented throughout B.C. and Alberta as well as parts of the United States. Developing healthy relationships helps us feel connected, supported, and valued.

Rick Hansen — Equity and Inclusion Marika van Dommelen Rick Hansen School Program

All Interested

Join the Rick Hansen team for a highly interactive workshop on building disability awareness, inclusion, and citizenship skills in your classroom. You will walk away with ready-made resources and practical activities you can take into your classrooms immediately. Our resources raise students’ understanding of the potential of people with physical, visual, and hearing disabilities, and empower students to become difference makers in their school and community. They support a culture of inclusion, where all students accept differences and are best positioned to succeed. Come find out how the Rick Hansen School program’s free resources can be used in your school to inspire, engage, include, and help meet your district’s social responsibility and inclusion goals at the same time. You can also find out how to book a free guest speaker for your school! Marika is a program coordinator for the Rick Hansen School Program. As a person who grew up with a disability, and as a parent, she is well aware of the challenges faced by teachers, students with disabilities, and their parents. She is passionate about providing awareness and resources that assist educators to support all students to have an equal opportunity to learn and participate in the classroom. To build disability awareness, inclusion, and citizenship skills in your class.

Project of Heart Janet Stromquist & Brian Coleman Langley School District

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All Interested

Project of Heart is an inquiry-based, hands-on, collaborative, intergenerational, artistic journey for seeking truth about the history of Aboriginal people in Canada. This teaching resource examines the history and legacy of Indian residential schools, commemorates the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result, and prepares students to engage in social justice activities that contribute to the developing truth and reconciliation movement. Janet is a Aboriginal program teacher with the Langley School District. Brian’s family is from the Gitxsan Nation, which means “People of the River of Mist”. He is an Aboriginal Support Teacher for math and science working at LSS and ACSS in the Langley School District. As a BCTF facilitator with the Aboriginal education program, Brian has had the privilege of meeting and leading workshops with other educators from diverse regions around the province. Brian is also a Local Representative for the Langley Teachers’ Association and is a voice for his teacher colleagues at the Representative Assemblies of the BCTF. Brian also sits with the Aboriginal Education Advisory Committee. He has co-created several workshops including “Gladys We Never Knew”, “Indigenous Perspectives”, and “The Secret Path”. Spearheading the “Warrior Club” District program, he is committed to finding innovative ways of providing genuine and meaningful experiences for his students that reflect Aboriginal ways of knowing and perspective.

SESSION AB

8:30 11:50

De/Colonization & Indigenous History Peggy Janicki Mission School District

Intermediate, Middle, Secondary, Administrators

Peggy was a contributor to UBC’s MOOC: Reconciliation through Education. She has her Master’s in Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous Pedagogies from UBC and has been teaching for 15 years Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and the world.

SESSION B

10:20 11:50

Big Ideas About the Métis!

Colleen Hodgson Métis Nation British Columbia

Come and learn indigenous history with role drama. Topics covered: pre-contact, consensus government, contact, small pox, reservation law, pass system, Indian residential schools, the Gradual Civilization Act, and present day governance. This emotional history lesson requires active participation and offers a beginning insight into de-colonization and cultural safety.

All Interested

Teachers will learn about the contemporary Métis in British Columbia. Did you know that Terry Fox is Métis? Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) has developed curriculum and resources that focus on Métis history, culture and language. This workshop will be about how we include Métis in the classroom. Activities will include project-based learning that takes us from Louis Riel to Terry Fox and what a Métis community looks like in British Columbia. Teachers will complete projects that they can share with their students that involve science, math, art, and language. Colleen is Métis and her kinship connections are from Manitoba. Since 2006, she has been working with Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) as the director of education. She earned a BA in education from the University of the Fraser Valley and spent several years working in the School of Health, Community & Social Justice at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Colleen works with the federal and provincial governments in policy development and education initiatives that are Métis specific. She believes that through hers and others efforts, Métis people will truly be recognized as one of the three Indigenous peoples in British Columbia, with a distinct history, culture, and language. Taking the mystery out of “Who are the Métis?” and bringing it into the classroom.

Databases & Curricular Connections Deb Cowland Langley School District Primary, Intermediate, Middle Teachers, SEAs and Support Workers

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Deb has been a teacher-librarian in the district for over 15 years and in her current role as District teacher librarian for 3 years. Find out how the range of databases in the Langley Digital Classroom can support your elementary curricular needs.

Worldbook Online, Science Power, Novelist, National Geographic Kids and more all freely available to every student with curricular connections for every grade. Come learn, explore and start your new resource collection.

ABC’s of Behaviour Management Simon Bazett Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, SEAs and Support Workers, Secondary, Admin

A simple model for understanding, planning, and implementing interventions for children and adolescents with significant behavioural and/or social-emotional challenges will be presented. The model allows for planning supports and interventions in six key areas: adaptations, behaviour interventions, cognitive strategies, demystifying diagnoses, esteem, and feelings. Case examples will be presented with time for discussion and application. If possible, please come with specific students in mind. Simon is a registered psychologist and one of the Langley School District’s senior psychologists. Mr. Bazett’s background includes extensive firsthand experience working in classrooms with children and adolescents with severe behavioural and emotional challenges both at the Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre and in the primary classroom at the Vancouver Children’s Foundation. Mr. Bazett also practices at the ABLE clinic in Surrey where he provides psychological assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder. Developing self-regulation and well being.

This session is offered in B and C

“There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Active Social Emotional Learning K-3 Sheldon Franken Inquiry Adventures

Primary, Admin

Social emotional learning is about building self and social-awareness to enable growth. Adventure education is the use of kinaesthetic activities to promote learning. This workshop will explore experientialbased games and activities can be used to enhance social-emotional learning, well-being, and resiliency with all students in grade four to 12. There will be a strong emphasis on the practice of the experiential learning models of framing and debriefing. These tools and resources can be used in your schools and classrooms immediately. Come ready to be active, and engage in a variety of experiential based socialemotional learning activities. Sheldon has a B.Ed. in physical education and a M.A. in Counselling Psychology. Sheldon is a school counsellor with the Vancouver School Board, the director and facilitator for Inquiry Adventures, and has been on the Association of Experiential Education North West Regional Council. Sheldon has presented workshops on active and experiential based social-emotional learning to numerous educational organizations across North America, including presenting at the recent BCTF Super Conference.

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To incorporate experiential activities as a means of engaging students in social-emotional learning.

ASD and Challenging Behaviour Lindi Rae Langley School District SEAs and Support Workers

Problem behaviour is not uncommon in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sometimes the behaviour seems purposeless and disruptive, and can limit the student’s participation in school activities and alienate them from their peers. Through the lens of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), this workshop will explain the function of unwanted behaviours and offer some practical strategies to change them. Lindi is a Langley School District speech and language pathologist and a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst. She has been working with children and adults with complex disabilities for 35 years in many different settings. She had been with the Langley School District for the past 11 years and currently supports minimally verbal students with autism and their school teams throughout the district. Learn the basics of Applied Behaviour Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This session is offered in B and C

Behaviour in Schools Carmen Eberle Langley School District

PS Primary, Intermediate, Middle

Drawing on research and best practices, this workshop provides teachers with theoretical and practical strategies to prevent and manage behaviours in a proactive and positive way. Behaviour in Schools will be an in-depth look including topics such as classroom set-up, lesson delivery, transitions, wait time, proximity, and more. In addition, teachers will be provided with effective strategies, resources, and interventions that improve behavioural outcomes for class composition and individual students who exhibit challenging behaviours. A response to intervention model will be shared to encourage academic achievement and healthy social development of all students in a safe, supportive, and proactive way. Carmen is a District Principal for Learning Support Services at the Langley School District. Carmen holds a Master of Special Education from Adelaide, Australia. She has over 22 years of K-12 teaching and administrative experiences within the northern region of BC. Carmen is currently on the BC Principal and Vice Principals Contract Advisory Committee. Over the years, Carmen has presented at Short Course and BCCASE on topics related to Special Education. She continues to be actively involved with District partners who serve families with children who have special needs, and she is actively involved in the Incisive Education Committee. Most recently, Carmen has become a District partner for Set BC and POPFASD. Classroom management: pro-active and preventative responses to intervention

Career Café: Career Advisors Edna Schuerhaus & Audrey Milne Langley School District

Other Support Staff

This session brings together our school District career advisors. The Career Café model is an opportunity for career advisors to share trends, promising practices and experiences in their schools. They will also have opportunities to co-plan and organize future initiatives. career advisors will contribute to building the agenda and idea sharing. Edna is the District Principal for the career education eepartment. Audrey is a District career education teacher.

This workshop supports the learning needs of Career Advisors support staff. Having said that, the topic of supporting the career K-12 curriculum will likely also come up.

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot Harmony Kids Yoga

All Interested

This session is offered in A, B, and C

Coast Salish Weaving & Math — Primary Nadine McSpadden Surrey School District

Teachers will explore Coast Salish weaving and math. Hands-on activities will make this an interactive workshop. Teachers will leave with lesson plans that they can use in their classroom. Nadine is a helping teacher for Aboriginal learning.

Primary

Objects and shapes have attributes that can be described, measured and compared.

Coding in the Elementary Classroom

Career Life Education: Resource Sprint! Lara Petrie Langley School District

Secondary Teachers

This interactive session will present a sample of resources to deeply engage your students into the topics covered in the CLE curriculum. Prepare to participate! You will engage in lesson demonstrations to walk away with nine new ideas in 90 minutes for your classroom! Feel free to bring your own resources to share, like a cookie exchange!

Lara is a member of the Langley School District’s Instructional Services team and is a District teacher for career education and transitions. Career and education paths require ongoing exploration, planning, evaluating, and adaptation.

Cari Wilson West Vancouver School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, Admin

This session is offered in A and B Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Connect Kids to Nature & Place Vanessa Lee Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Primary, Intermediate, SEAs and Support Workers

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Learn how to use the outdoor classroom and teach students to use critical inquiry to investigate the natural world around them. Dress to go outside for the hands-on experiential learning and activities portion. Vanessa is passionately involved with anything green, watery, or mountainous! The love affair started 16 years ago with tracking snakes in Ontario Provincial Parks and has continued with environmental education and interpretation in various positions, from classroom teacher, to Vancouver Aquarium interpreter to her current position as a Metro Vancouver Regional Parks interpretation specialist. She has also volunteered for the David Suzuki Foundation, Interpretation Canada, NatureKids BC, and EEPSA (Environmental Educators Provincial Specialist Association). Her biology studies and Master’s degree in ecological education helps her connect people to nature’s awe and wonder, in the hopes of inspiring care of wild spaces. To help educators utilize the outdoor classroom as a place for hands-on experiential learning and teach students how to use critical inquiry to investigate the world around them.

This session is offered in B and C

Cross Curricular in the Classroom Philip Barrington Coquitlam School District

Secondary

Learn how to connect English with other school departments.

Reading Intervention for ELLs

Cutting to the Core Joe Tong Surrey School District

All Interested, Middle, Secondary

Janis Sawatzky Langley School District

PS Primary

Do you have ELLs you want to support with reading in elementary classrooms? Come to this workshop to learn what every K-3 reading program needs to support ELL students. We will also learn what challenges ELL students face and targeted strategies to support them in your classrooms. Many of the strategies will benefit students learning English but some will also apply to whole classroom instruction.

Janis works with Instuctional Services as the District ELL teacher. She has received specified training from the SIOP Institute and the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL) on reading intervention and strategies to support English Language Learners (ELLs). Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world.

This session is offered in A, B, and C 20

ELA + SS = Humanities Brenda Barlow Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle

Explore how to develop effective humanities units that will strengthen the skills, deepen the understanding, expand the knowledge, and perhaps most importantly increase the enjoyment of your students. Currently the facilitator for the District’s teacher mentorship programs, Brenda has taught K to grade eight, regular classroom and FSL. Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Elementary Math Games Julia Henrey Langley School District

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Primary, Intermediate

Having students play math games is an effective way to meet many of the goals of the redesigned curriculum: developing mental math strategies, improving computational fluency, estimation, communication, explaining and justifying, probability, and making connections. Most of the games we will play require just dice and cards, and many can be played at a variety of developmental levels. Julia has been teaching at R.C. Garnett Demonstration School for a number of years. She is passionate about math, and uses games frequently in her classroom. Math games help students develop computational fluency.

This session is offered in B and C with different games

Empowering Children Outdoors Katelynn Tekavc & Laureen Klaassen Langley Forest School, Langley School District

PS Primary, Admin

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in an outdoor classroom fully immersed in nature? Join us as we dive deeper into planning for place-space learning. We will focus on risk management and how these ideas can inspire you and your administration to go beyond the everyday four walls and into a wide open outdoor space. Be ready to go outside rain or shine and please be prepared for hands on exploration (warm coats and boots are a good idea). Katelynn is an early childhood infant, toddler, and special needs educator. She has worked in a variety of early learning fields and currently works for the Langley School District in early learning as well as the Langley Forest School as a preschool teacher. She hopes to inspire parents and educators to step outside the box and try something new with their children’s learning everyday. Laureen is and early childhood educator and forest school practitioner. She is the co-founder of the Langley Forest School and has a wealth of knowledge in early childhood development. She integrates her passion with the outdoors to empower the minds and hearts of young children. Personal choices and social and environmental factors influence our health and well-being.

Guided Math Instruction Made Easy! Kim Cline Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle

Guided math and small group instruction are key components of a balanced math program. This workshop will walk you through some basic structures and ideas that will allow you to pinpoint struggling learners, differentiate instruction, and keep all students engaged in a way that will free you up to work with small groups. Participants will leave with ready-to-use handouts and resources Kim works in Instructional Services as a District teacher supporting intermediate literacy and numeracy.

This workshop will address all of the mathematical big ideas in the B.C. curriculum.

This session is offered in B and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Nurturing an Entrepreneurial Mindset Bill Roche PowerPlay Strategies

Support Staff, Clerical Staff

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Experiential learning is highly engaging for students. This presentation features PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs, a real-world project that helps grades 4-8 students become design thinkers by creating their own business ventures. Students conceptualize product ideas, complete market research, make prototypes and finalize their products to sell at a school-based sales event. They also learn about social responsibility by donating a portion of their profits to charity. This is a practical workshop for educators that plan to use the program in their classrooms. Teachers will learn how to: - Engage students of varying abilities with project-based learning techniques; - Align with the new curriculum & integrate into different subjects; - Make ADST meaningful & relevant; - Help students develop a growth mindset; - Support students in self-directing & assessing learning; - Inspire learners to actively develop core competencies in order to achieve their goals. NOTE: The district will cover the cost of the resource package for teachers that choose to implement the program during this school year. Teachers will also learn about a district-wide showcase opportunity for PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs students. Bill specializes in designing turnkey standards-based resources related to entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and social responsibility for K-12 classrooms. His highly engaging learning model makes it easy to differentiate instruction for diverse groups of learners. Over the years, Bill has supported a variety of B.C. school districts with the implementation of entrepreneurship and financial literacy education. With an energetic and entertaining style, he captivates his audiences and inspires with real-life stories that feature practical, easy-to-implement solutions for the classroom. Empowering students with an entrepreneurial mindset sets them up for success in school and in life.

Intermediate Reading Strategies Deanna Lightbody Langley School District

Intermediate and Middle Teachers Reading instruction in the intermediate grades is just as important as the primary grades! Take a closer look at several reading strategies that improve comprehension and vocabulary development across the curriculum for your students. Participants will walk away with practical ideas to support all students in their literacy development.

Deanna works in Instructional Services as a District teacher supporting intermediate literacy and numeracy.

This workshop will address all of the English language arts big ideas in the B.C. curriculum.

K-4 Dance Joe Ducklow Langley School District

CT Primary and Intermediate Teachers

Get up and moving in this dance session! Participants will learn four simple hip hop style dances they can bring back to their class. Gym wear recommended for this session.

Joe is a grade five teacher who is excited about using technology in creative ways to engage students to use their critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and teamwork.

Students can use physical movement to connect to music.

KEV Cash Online and Parent Portal Christine Sainsbury Langley School District

New to KEV? Needing a refresher? Can’t remember or never learned how to put items for sale online? This workshop is going to demonstrate how to set up items online and to show what the parent will see. If there is time available, we will also look at school reports. Christine is the planning and financial control manager for the Langley School District, and has worked in the District for nine years. Amongst her responsibilities are ministry reporting and school generated funds (school bank accounts). Christine was responsible for the implementation of the KEV accounting system into all the District schools and is now responsible for the management of this system including training. She is also an accomplished Excel user who likes to keep spreadsheets simple and easy to understand.

Clerical and Admin Assistants

To help admin assistants use KEV.

Get Moving, Get Learning

Jared Kope PacificSport Fraser Valley

Jared is the executive director at PacificSport Fraser Valley, an organization championing quality sport and physical activity. Jared works closely with SD35 to ensure all children have positive physical literacy journeys. Jared has a Master of Arts degree in human kinetics from the University of Ottawa, studying sport and physical activity for community development.

Nicole Erickson Langley School District Primary Teachers

Nicole currently teaches K-5 physical education at Langley Meadows Community School. She has been teaching PE for 12 years and has taught kindergarten to grade 10 PE. She is currently working towards a Masters degree in health, outdoor and physical experiential education. She has a passion for teaching children the skills they need to be successful in PE regardless of their age and experience and hopes to inspire children to physically active for their entire lives. Develop and apply a variety of fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments.

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This session is offered in B and C

Les Albums Jeunesse, Vive l’Oral! Nathalie LaRoche Surrey School District

MyEdBC Training for Counselors

All Interested Venez vous laisser bercer par les mots et découvrir la puissance de l’utilisation des albums jeunesse au coeur de votre enseignement. Que ce soit pour les touts petits et le développement du vocabulaire ou encore comme activité brise-glace pour un enseignement interdisciplinaire et ou pour aborder des thèmes sensibles, les albums jeunesse restent un outil incontournable. Rien de mieux que pour développer l’esprit critique, provoquer des activités de communication et de s’auto-évaluer lors des activités d’apprentissage. Native de la ville de Québec, 26 ans d’expérience en salle de classe d’immersion de la M-12e et en FLS , Nathalie oeuvre depuis plus d’un an comme conseillère pédagogique pour la C.S. de Surrey. C’est depuis sa participation au Congrès 2013 “De mots et de craies” qu’elle a eu le coup de foudre pour les albums. Depuis, elle a partagé avec plusieurs de ses collègues cette nouvelle approche et ses stratégies d’enseignement en salle de classe. Nathalie circule dans les salles de classe de son District et offre des ateliers dans le grand Vancouver afin de soutenir les enseignants dans leur développement professionnel.

Bridie Robson Langley School District

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Come and learn how to navigate MyEdBC. This session will include information on how to schedule students, find information fast, and complete course requests and useful reports. Bridie is the MyEdBC trainer for the Langley School District.

To learn how to make the most of MyEDBC.

Les mots sculptent la pensée; plus on a de vocabulaire, plus la pensée s’enrichit. Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

SESSION B: 10:20

SESSION A: 8:30 AM TO 10:00 AM Aboriginal Drumming and Singing Sheila Jack

Learn360/TC2 for the New Curriculum Debbie Trees

Big Ideas About the Métis! Colleen Hodgson

Active Social-Emotional Learning 4-12 Sheldon Franken

Literacy for Little Learners Ruth Hodgins

ABC’s of Behaviour Management Simon Bazett

Career Ed — Crafting a Better Story Audrey Milne

Literature Circles and Guided Reading Julia Henrey

Active Social Emotional Learning K-3 Sheldon Franken

Capstone & Mentorship Lara Petrie & Brenda Barlow

Making Math Meaningful Shelley Hegedus

ASD and Challenging Behaviour Lindi Rae

Caring in Action Bill Roche

Cozy Classroom: Rethinking Design Allie Corstorphine & Melissa Fuller

Behaviour in Schools Carmen Eberle

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot

MyEdBC Tips and Tricks for Clerical Bridie Robson

Career Café: Career Advisors Edna Schuerhaus & Audrey Milne

Class Blogs on School Websites Ken Hoff

OneNote And Office Lens Awesomeness James Gill

Career Life Education: Resource Sprint Lara Petrie

Coding in the Elementary Classroom Cari Wilson

Orchestrating Learning Amanda Leach

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot

Collaboration between SEAs & Teachers Juliane Dmyterko

Project of Heart Janet Stromquist & Brian Coleman

Coast Salish Weaving & Math - Primary Nadine McSpadden

Creating Parent Connections Michelle Allen

Resources for Visual Scheduling Carmen Eberle

Coding in the Elementary Classroom Cari Wilson

Cutting to the Core Joe Tong

Rick Hansen - Equity and Inclusion Marika van Dommelen

Connect Kids to Nature & Place Vanessa Lee

Cross Curricular in the Classroom Philip Barrington

Social Studies Sharing (8-10) Lynie Tener

Cross Curricular in the Classroom Philip Barrington

Excel: Basic Tips and Tricks Christine Sainsbury

Core Language Board Activities Kelly Andal

Cutting to the Core! Joe Tong

Futures for Foodies Marie-Eve Masse & Dennis Green

Starting with Books Kathy Nelson

Taking Desmos to a New Level Chandra Balakrishnan

How to Start a GSA Dan Adrian

Supporting Grieving Students Wendy Sashikata

ELA + SS = Humanities Brenda Barlow

Interacting with your Learning Lisa Ellis & Alyssa Pagnanini

Teaching English First Peoples Penny Carnrite

Elementary Math Games Julia Henrey

Intro to Self Reg for New Teachers Jay Malcolm & Mark Touzeau

The Power of Extreme Writing! Diana Cruchley

Empowering Children Outdoors Katelynn Tekavc & Laureen Klaassen

It’s Time to Breakout! Joe Ducklow

Tips and Tricks for SEAs - Updated! Arden Thomas

Get Moving, Get Learning Jared Kope & Nicole Erickson

Kinders Can Write Too! Shelly Gardiner

Understanding ELL Students Lisa Sadler

Guided Math Instruction Made Easy! Kim Cline

Motivation from Within Chris Wejr

Understanding Haisla Culture Cecelia Reekie

Intermediate Reading Strategies Deanna Lightbody

Teach Spelling, Not Test It! Sandi Osborne

WEX Teachers Sharing Session Edna Schuerhaus

K-4 Dance Joe Ducklow

De/Colonization & Indigenous History Peggy Janicki

Reading Intervention for ELLs Janis Sawatzky Databases and Curricular Connections Deb Cowland

AM TO 11:50 AM KEV: Cash Online and Parent Portal Christine Sainsbury Les Albums Jeunesse, Vive l’Oral! Nathalie LaRoche

SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE SESSION C: 12:10 PM TO 1:40 PM

ABC’s of Behaviour Management Simon Bazett

KEV - Cash Drawer Hints and Tips Christine Sainsbury

Aboriginal Drumming and Singing Sheila Jack

Literacy for Little Learners Ruth Hodgins

Ah, So That’s Why They are Like That Kathleen McKay

MyEdBC Tip and Tricks for Teachers Bridie Robson

ASD and Challenging Behaviour Lindi Rae

Understanding the tools of Microsoft Office 365

School Career Teams: Group Planning Lara Petrie & Edna Scheurhaus

Personalized Spelling Claire Burns

Plains, Trains, and Treaties Deni Paquette

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot

Plains, Trains and Treaties Deni Paquette

Quick Practical Inquiry that Works! Diana Cruchley

Coast Salish Weaving & Math - Interm. Nadine McSpadden

Promoting Health and Resiliency Gail Markin & Cindy Andrews

Rockin’ the Resource Room Arden Thomas

Connect Kids to Nature & Place Vanessa Lee

Re-thinking Core French Judy Sinclair

Social Studies Sharing - Electives 12 Lynie Tener

Core Strength Amanda Slade

Redesign in Action Meagan Wood & Kendall Sewell

SOGI Novel Study: Aristotle & Dante Dan Adrian

Cutting to the Core! Joe Tong

Self-Regulation Langley School District OTs and PTs

Defiance in the Moment Carmen Eberle

SOGI in the English Classroom Dan Adrian

Easy Ways to Document Student Work James Gill

Video Modelling Using Pictello Kelly Andal

Education for Innovation Bill Roche & Dr. Maria Cantalini-Williams

Teaching to Diversity in My Class Michael Morgan

Elementary Math Games Julia Henrey

The Art of Book Introductions Amanda Leach

Empowering Children Outdoors Katelynn Tekavc & Laureen Klaassen

Treasures For Trinkets Brandon Gabriel

Get Moving, Get Learning Jared Kope & Nicole Erickson

Vocabulary Instruction That Works! Shanu Kotwal & Andrea Lalic

High Yield Math Routines - Grades 4-8 Deanna Lightbody

Weaving Indigenous Content into Math Carolyn Roberts

Indian Act Role Play Penny Carnrite

Website Wizardry Ken Hoff

Just In: Writing Secrets Revealed Kim Cline

Why is Reading Hard for ELL/ESLs? Janis Sawatzky

Creating Strong Non-Fiction Readers Brenda Barlow

Working With Refugee Students Lisa Sadler & Sharon Kavanagh

Access Granted: Googlefree Databases Joanie Proske

Youth TRAIN Teacher Sharing Session Sherri Silcox-Burk

MyEdBC Training for Counselors Bridie Robson Nurturing an Entrepreneurial Mindset Bill Roche Nurturing Problem Solving in Writing Amanda Leach Pictures and Music to Tell a Story James Gill

Language Bags Kelly Andal Starting with Books Kathy Nelson Support Student Independence for SEAs Juliane Dmyterko Supporting Grieving Students - Elementary Wendy Sashikata Tales from the Trails Marlee St. Pierre Ashley Harder Treasures For Trinkets Brandon Gabriel TTOC: Tips and Tricks Theresa Clarke Understanding Haisla Culture Cecelia Reekie Website Wizardry Ken Hoff Writing Across the Curriculum Shelley Hegedus Introduction to RDA Cataloguing Richard Beaudry

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Nurturing Problem Solving in Writing Amanda Leach Langley School District Reading Recovery Teachers

This webinar by Pamela Grayson will explore problem solving in writing, from composition to word construction, through theory, practice, and video demonstration. **Note: This session is intended for trained Reading Recovery teachers only. (This is a repeat webinar presented in October 2016). Amanda is the Langley School District reading recovery teacher leader. She has been a K-3 teacher, resource teacher, and reading recovery teacher in the Langley School District for over 20 years. She is passionate about all students having success and positive growth in Literacy. Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.

Pictures and Music to Tell a Story James Gill Coquitlam School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle Teachers

This fun filled workshop explores how students can use Garage Band and the camera of their iPad to tell a story that moves people. We will learn basic picture editing and how to get started with Garage Band to make a great multimedia presentation. James is a teacher in SD43/Coquitlam. Currently he teaches grades four and five in the Reggio inspired program at Meadowbrook Elementary. Over his 18 year career, he has taught at elementary, middle, and secondary levels, is one of 26 Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellows for Canada, and has been a speaker and presenter at national and international conferences. He loves cooking, travel, fitness and family. A beginner’s guide to using Garage Band and the iPad camera for making great projects.

Plains, Trains, and Treaties Deni Paquette Langley School District

Quick Practical Inquiry that Works! C

Diana Cruchley

Teachers There is a 30 minute presentation followed by a finger weaving project to make friendship bracelets. The presentation gives an overview of the end of the Pemmican trade when the buffalo herds are wiped out. The hard years of dispossession of the Métis Nation and the making of the First Nations numbered treaties of the west. Kokum wants participants to ask lots of questions about the presentation topic throughout the workshop, this is an opportunity to ask those difficult and uncomfortable questions you are not sure of. Deni is a Métis Presenter with the Aboriginal education program. She holds a International Indigenous Studies BA and has worked within the Aboriginal community and in various government positions. She blends her love of arts and crafts with sharing a deep and rich Indigenous heritage as Kokum. Her presentations range from making bannock with grade two students, finger weaving with grade four students, talking treaty with grade sevens and discussing constitutional impacts with secondary students, Kokum engages classes and shares the Métis perspective of being Aboriginal in Canada. This workshop will address all of the mathematical big ideas in the B.C. curriculum.

Intermediate and Middle Teachers Harness the brainpower of your grade 4-9 class. Does inquiry seem complicated and time consuming? This model is simple, quick, easy-to-use, and powerfully effective. After a provocation that pokes brains to think, students collect great questions, individually investigate, and construct data, then share their results to answer the original I wonder questions they posed. It’s fun! It doesn’t take much time! It’s practical: the same model works over and over. Diana has created many resources for you to access. Detailed handout included. Diana is an award-winning educator and author who has taught at both elementary and secondary levels. She is the recipient of the Governor General’s Flight to Freedom Literacy Award. Her practical workshops are always enthusiastically received. “Poke” students’ minds and they start to generate inquiry questions. If each student takes a piece of the problem, the collective result can be astonishingly good. This inquiry model has already proven itself to be engaging and super effective.

This session is offered in B and C 26

Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Resource Room The new or nearly new resource teachers who attend this workshop will learn about formative assessments, support materials, and teaching strategies to use as they begin to support students with learning challenges in their schools.

Arden Thomas Langley School District

Arden is a District integration support teacher in the Langley School District. She has worked as a classroom teacher and as a resource teacher in Langley, supporting inclusive education and working alongside SEAs before becoming a District integration teacher.

Other Support Staff

Teachers who are just at the beginning of their careers in resource will gain some insights into assessments and strategies they can start out with as they discover more about their schools, students and build relationships within the building.

Social Studies Sharing Electives 12 We have an extra year to prepare for the implementation of the redesigned curriculum for the grade 12 social studies electives. However, lots of teachers are exploring ways to engage students in the curricular competencies (CCs) at the senior level while others want to do so. There are lots of questions: How do we help students internalize the CCs? How do we assess the CCs? How do we engage students in genuine historical thinking and processes? How do we get students to self-reflect?

Lynie Tener Langley School District Secondary Teachers

Join senior social studies teachers to share ideas, strategies and resources, all the while building a practical collaborative network. As well, ways to assess the curricular competencies and ways to have students engage in metacognition will be shared. Lynie has taught at the primary, intermediate, and secondary levels. She is passionate about engaging students in the learning process. To share resources and strategies that align with the curricular competencies of the senior social studies electives, so they feel confident to explore new approaches in historical thinking.

SOGI Novel Study: Aristotle & Dante

Language Bags

Dan Adrian Burnaby School District

Kelly Andal Langley School District

Middle, Secondary Teachers and SEAs This workshop is aimed at junior English teachers who are looking for a new novel that is modern and engaging. Written from the point of view of a teenager, the award winning Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets to the Universe explores topics including identity, race, sexual orientation, mental health, and more. This unit is built around the new curriculum, with interdisciplinary assignments that encourage students to engage in inquiry and critical thinking. While it is encourage the attendees read the novel beforehand, it is not a requirement. Participants will also receive access to over 30 files created specifically for this novel unit. Dan has taught English & ELL in the Burnaby School District for the last decade. Currently, Dan is the District SOGI support teacher for Burnaby Schools. One of his passions is working to infuse SOGI content in all grades of English, as well finding connections within other disciplines. He has presented at both District and Provincial conferences, and has guest lectured for student teachers at UBC. Dan uses stories as a way of promoting inclusion within all schools.

SEAs and Support Workers

Come and learn an innovative new way to build spontaneous language for your toolkit. Its success is in its simplicity. In this class you will learn how to effectively use the language bags that I have created. You will also see video of me and my students as they take part in the language lessons. You will have an opportunity to customize the system to meet your studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual needs. You will leave the class with a starter kit of language bags that we will make in class. All materials will be supplied. Kelly has worked in special education for the Langley School District for the past seven years. During the last three years she has explored her passion for developing communication skills and spontaneous language use with her students. Through this exploration she has created an effective toolkit of strategies that encourage spontaneous language production in her minimally verbal students. Building spontaneous language in minimally verbal students.

Infusing SOGI curriculum in English, through a class novel study. Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Starting with Books Kathy Nelson University of the Fraser Valley

Primary Teachers

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Kathy taught in Langley for 35 years. Much of her teaching was in the primary grades. For the last four years of her career she was the District literacy teacher, K-7 and presented many workshops for her District. Most recently, Kathy works with the University of the Fraser Valley as a faculty mentor for teacher candidates. Teachers will see how books can be used to support the core competencies, big ideas, curricular competencies and content of B.C.’s new language arts curriculum. Some books will have an emphasis on First People’s cultures.

Support Student Independence for SEAs

Juliane Dmyterko Langley School District

Love working from children’s books? Come and enjoy some children’s books while seeing how they can be used to support the core competencies, big ideas, curricular competencies and content of B.C.’s new language arts curriculum. During this workshop, participants will see how reading and writing can be brought to life through picture books. Some books will have an emphasis on First People’s cultures. This workshop is appropriate for K to 2 teachers.

SEAs and Support Workers

SEAs will learn about effective ways that can be used to support students one-on-one and in small groups. Strategies such as how to plan for and provide structured help, so the students can reach specific goals, use of questioning, and helping students engage in self-assessment will be discussed. Attendees will leave with resources to help their students become more confident and independent learners. Juliane is currently a school psychologist intern at the Langley School District, and a MA student at UBC completing her thesis on the role, preparedness, and impact of SEAs in BC. She completed her BA in Psychology at UBC prior to starting her MA in school psychology. Juliane made her start in education working as an SEA in rural Alberta and urban England for approximately seven years. Her passion for inclusion, supporting students with special needs, and exploring the role and impact of SEAs is what lead her back to formal education. She enjoys sharing what she has learned and translating it into practical strategies to support staff and ultimately, students in schools. Strategies for SEAs help their students become more confident and independent learners.

Supporting Grieving Students in Elementary Wendy Sashikata Langley Hospice Society

Tales from the Trails Marlee St. Pierre & Ashlee Harder Langley School District

Primary Teachers

Elementary Teachers Death is a part of the life cycle, but it is often minimized and not discussed. Although grief is a normal and natural consequence of a loss, many children and teens have learned not to deal with their thoughts and feelings about the death of a significant person. When children and teens are not able to process or express their grief, it may have a negative impact on their well-being. This workshop will explore the topic of loss and grief, exploring how it may affect students emotionally, socially, and physically. Using a collaborative format, the workshop will also offer suggestions and activities that may help when supporting grieving students. Wendy is the child and youth bereavement coordinator at Langley Hospice Society.

Grief and loss is normal and natural part of life but the thoughts and feelings that come with grief needs to be recognized and supported.

Marlee and Ashley from Fort Langley Elementary will share some of their successes and tips from the outdoor education program. Take away inspiration for the amazing place-based learning environments Langley has and the many ways the outdoors can facilitate learning in all areas of the curriculum. This workshop will be aimed at primary teachers and may include activities outside. Marlee and Ashley are teachers at Fort Langley Outdoor Elementary. They have been teaching several years in the District and are excited to share their passion for the outdoors.

This workshop will address all of the mathematical big ideas in the B.C. curriculum.

TTOC: Tips and Tricks Every TTOC needs a bag of tricks! Sometimes one book can provide you with materials to do a variety of lessons in different subjects and at different grade levels. What are some classroom management strategies that work well for TTOCs? What resources are available to TTOCs in the Langley School District? Explore some of these resources at this session as well as other tricks of the trade that will enable you to have successful and productive days in classrooms.

Theresa Clarke Langley School District

Theresa has been working in the District for 10 years. She is currently teaching grade seven at a middle school. Theresa has taught a variety of ages, grades two to 12, resource and French immersion. Theresa enjoys working with all teachers.

All Interested

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The big idea for this workshop is to provide TTOCs with activities that engage students in meaningful learning and encourage participation in core competencies.

Understanding Haisla Culture First Peoples communities in BC and Canada are numerous and diverse. Participants will learn about the rich history and culture of the Haisla people of the Northwest Coast. Cecelia will share information about her Haisla community, including clan structures, ceremony, food, the role of traditional stories and more. Cecelia will share her personal story throughout this workshop.

Cecelia Reekie Langley School District

Cecelia is a member of the Haisla First Nation. She believes in the power of sharing personal stories to bring awareness in regards to culture and the history of Indigenous people in Canada. Cecelia always speaks from her heart and weaves many different life experiences through her cultural presentations.

All Interested

Knowing who you are, where you come from and the connections to the land.

This session is offered in A and B

Treasures For Trinkets Brandon Gabriel Kwantlen First Nation

Website Wizardry

All Interested You are now tasked with integrating First Nations content into your curriculum, but you don’t want to be tokenistic or perpetuate stagnated colonial mythologies. In this session, Brandon will ask four basic questions which have far reaching impacts in your classroom, school, community, and in our world. Self, others, community, and the world will be the focus. This workshop is designed to be challenging but also enlightening and rewarding for educators who are looking for additional First Nations resources to bring to your school community. A slide presentation of Brandon’s communitybased art practice, as well as a brief video presentation will be part of this workshop. Brandon is a graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and majored in Visual Arts. He has taught First Nations studies at UFV, and guest lectures on First Nations topics in all levels of primary, secondary, and post secondary education. His works have been exhibited in the UK, Hong Kong, USA, South America, and Canada and his works have appeared in film and television.

Ken Hoff Langley School District Support Staff, Clerical Staff Become the wizard of your school website with just a few simple illusions and incantations. Conjure up some magic to add newsletters, abracadabra, as you add a calendar event, and charm everyone with your new skills! Wish you could ‘open sesame’ that weblink to somewhere else? Cast a spell on your parents with subscription options? Update tables and staff lists with the skill of a sorcerer? It’s all possible and within your grasp, my wizarding apprentice! Bring your own questions and potions for a magical time. Ken is the communications manager for the Langley School District and is responsible for the District and school websites, among other things.

He currently practices worl from his home studio in unsurrendered Kwantlen territory in Fort Langley BC with his partner Melinda and daughter Jamie. Brandon enjoys canoeing, art, movies, food, and working with children and youth. Reframe the concept of reconciliation using the one key tangible item left off the entire 194 TRC recommendations: the land. Lets frame ourselves in a sustainable way to each other and the land itself.

This session is offered in B and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Learn to edit school websites.

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Writing Across the Curriculum Shelley Hegedus Langley School District

All Interested, Primary Teachers

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Many students are excellent readers but struggle with writing. Research shows that being a good reader does not mean a student will naturally be a good writer. This workshop will go through the writing curricular competencies and show you how you can explicitly teach students how to write. You will leave with loads of practical ideas, lists of great mentor texts (children’s literature), and ways you can write across the curriculum. Participants will learn how to use formative assessment to move students forward in their learning, as well as how to use writing (and reading) done in other curricular areas as a basis for summative assessment. Shelley is a District teacher (primary). She enjoys working with teachers and students on literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional learning. Shelley likes to create integrated presentations that are engaging, open-ended, and allow for differentiation in the classroom. Everyone has a unique story to share.

Taking Desmos to a New Level Chandra Balakrishnan Langley School District Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Staff, Admin

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Use Desmos with your classes in a whole new way! Do more than just graph functions FOR your students, use Teacher.Desmos to get your students to have fun exploring some higher level concepts. In this workshop you will learn how to get your students to use Marbleslides to explore transformations of functions and Central Park to develop algebraic equations — and more! Bring your iPad, laptop or mobile device and take Desmos to a new level! Chandra is a mathematics professor with Thompson River University OL and for the past 10 years has taught mathematical reasoning to pre-service teachers. He has been a sessional instructor at both SFU and UFV teaching secondary and elementary mathematics methods courses. As a high school math teacher, Chandra focused on imaginative engagement utilizing a wide variety of ways to get students to conceptualize mathematics from storytelling to physical movement. Using technology (Desmos) to explore transformations of functions in a fun way.

SESSION BC

10:20 1:40

Introduction to RDA Cataloguing Richard Beaudry Langley School District Teacher-Librarians and Library Technicians

RDA is designed to help libraries transition to the technological capabilities of the internet, today and into the future, by having teacher librarians identify the entities and relationships at the element level, that machines can use better than they have been able to in the past in our MARC records. Richard is an information specialist having worked as a teacher-librarian in public schools and a librarian in academic institutions. He has experience teaching various subjects in K-12 public schools and postsecondary institutions. He has taught cataloguing courses in the Teacher Librarianship Diploma program at UBC and the Master’s degree in Teacher-Librarianship at the University of Alberta. He is the teacherlibrarian at the library learning commons at R.E. Mountain Secondary. RDA is a new cataloguing format that replaces AACR2 and is used to integrate cataloguing data with other metadata elsewhere across the web.

This is a double session, running in both B and C

SESSION C

12:10 1:40

ABC’s of Behaviour Management

Simon Bazett Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, SEAs and Support Workers, Secondary, Admin

A simple model for understanding, planning, and implementing interventions for children and adolescents with significant behavioural and/or social-emotional challenges will be presented. The model allows for planning supports and interventions in six key areas: adaptations, behaviour interventions, cognitive strategies, de-mystifying diagnoses, esteem, and feelings. Case examples will be presented with time for discussion and application. If possible, please come with specific students in mind. Simon is a registered psychologist and one of the Langley School District’s senior psychologists. Simon’s background includes extensive firsthand experience working in classrooms with children and adolescents with severe behavioural and emotional challenges both at the Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre and in the primary classroom at the Vancouver Children’s Foundation. Simon also practices at the ABLE clinic in Surrey where he provides psychological assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder. Developing self-regulation and well being.

This session is offered in B and C

Aboriginal Drumming and Singing Sheila Jack Langley School District

All Interested

In this session, participants will receive an explanation about the significance of the drum and of songs in Aboriginal culture. They will receive instructions and an explanation of how to care for a drum, and the responsibilities of being a drum carrier. They will learn about the different types of songs, how they are introduced and the traditions, and protocols around songs. There will be a demonstration of drumming and singing as well as the opportunity to learn a song or two. There will be an invitation to try drumming and/or playing a rattle and to try different types of drum beats. During this session participants will have a first hand experience of the healing effects of the beat of the drum. Sheila is a local Métis woman who has been an Aboriginal support worker for the Langley School District for 12 years. She has been a drummer and a singer for years, and she also drums/rattles and sings with the Kwantlen First Nation Drummers. Sheila also holds weekly practices for the Langley School District Aboriginal Program drummers and singers, the Red Hawk Drummers. She carries knowledge about many of the traditional Aboriginal drum and song protocols and welcomes the opportunity to share those teachings to develop an understanding of Aboriginal Culture and to promote reconciliation. To develop cultural understanding and appreciation, as well as to have a cultural experience.

This session is offered in A and C

Connect Kids to Nature & Place Vanessa Lee Metro Vancouver Regional Parks

Primary, Intermediate, SEAs and Support Workers

This session is offered in B and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Children’s Yoga for Self Regulation Jennie Abbot Harmony Kids Yoga

All Interested

This session is offered in A, B, and C

Ah, So That’s Why They are Like That Kathleen McKay Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle

School Career Teams: Group Planning Lara Petrie & Edna Schuerhaus Langley School District

Secondary Teachers

In this workshop you will walk away with a detailed Career Education unit, adaptable to your students’ and classroom needs. This unit is best suited for grade six to seven, but I have used it in grades four and five. Participants are asked to bring your own technology.

This session is to give school career teams collaborative time to further develop the work started at the Harrison 2017 career retreat. Teams will have time to dive more deeply into development plans for the second half of the school year.

Kathleen has over nine years teaching experience at all levels of education as a specialist, classroom teacher, and collaborator. She is happy to bring to you ideas for building your career units as part of the new curriculum. Kathleen is a teacher-librarian at Shortreed Elementary.

Lara is a member of the Langley School District’s Instructional Services team and is a District teacher for career education and transitions.

My attitudes of careers is based on my ideas of myself.

Edna is the District principal for the career education department.

Career and education paths require ongoing exploration, planning, evaluation, and adaptation.

ASD and Challenging Behaviour Lindi Rae Langley School District SEAs and Support Workers

Problem behaviour is not uncommon in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Sometimes the behaviour seems purposeless and disruptive, and can limit the student’s participation in school activities and alienate them from their peers. Through the lens of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), this workshop will explain the function of unwanted behaviours and offer some practical strategies to change them. Lindi is a Langley School District speech and language pathologist and a Board Certified behaviour analyst. She has been working with children and adults with complex disabilities for 35 years in many different settings. She had been with the Langley School District for the past 11 years and currently supports minimally verbal students with autism and their school teams throughout the district. Learn the basics of Applied Behaviour Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This session is offered in B and C

Coast Salish Weaving & Math — Intermediate Nadine McSpadden Surrey School District

Intermediate

Cutting to the Core

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” - B.B. King

Joe Tong Surrey School District

All Interested, Middle, Secondary

This session is offered in A, B, and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Defiance in the Moment Carmen Eberle Langley School District

Defiance in the Moment focuses on responding to children with complex behavioural needs. This workshop will provide a comprehensive look at strategies used to help children who have behavioural challenges that escalate quickly. An overview of trauma informed schools and proactive intensive interventions will be shared. Strategies of ways to help students learn to cope, manage selves, and develop pro-social skills will be explored. Preventative measures and responses during escalation will be discussed to help inform practices that develop healthy, respectful relationships between child, peers, and adults. Carmen is a District principal for Learning Support Services at the Langley School District. Carmen holds a Master of Special Education from Adelaide, Australia. She has over 22 years of K-12 teaching and administrative experiences within the northern region of BC. Carmen is currently on the BC Principal and Vice Principals Contract Advisory Committee. Over the years, Carmen has presented at Short Course and BCCASE on topics related to special education. She continues to be actively involved with District partners who serve families with children who have special needs, and she is actively involved in the Incisive Education Committee. Most recently, Carmen has become a District partner for Set-BC and POPFASD.

All Interested

Regular changes in patterns can be identified and represented using tools and tables.

Easy Ways to Document Student Work James Gill Coquitlam School District

Save time and effort by using your iPad to document student work. In this beginner workshop teachers learn fast and easy ways to capture authentic examples of student progress using their iPad and PowerPoint. Although this workshop is targeted towards novice technology users, experienced users will still find some good take-aways from this workshop.

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, SEAs and Support Workers, Secondary, Admin

James is a teacher in SD43/Coquitlam. Currently he teaches grades four and five in the Reggio-Inspired program at Meadowbrook Elementary. Over his 18 year career, he has taught at elementary, middle, and secondary levels, is one of 26 Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellows for Canada, and has been a speaker and presenter at national and international conferences. He loves cooking, travel, fitness, and family.

Capture authentic examples of student learning with your iPad, and share it in a variety of ways.

Education for Innovation Bill Roche Powerplay Strategies Dr. Maria Cantalini-Williams Nipissing University

All Interested

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Participants will learn how to use the Education for Innovation resources to create awareness of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich history of innovation and to inspire students to create their own innovations. Innovation is by nature a cyclical process so teachers will also learn how to encourage students to research, revise, and share their work. They will discover how to guide students through the four phases of innovation: Inquiry, Ideation, Incubation and Implementation. Participants will receive a free Innovation Nation book and have access to online lesson plans for grades 1-8 classes. These resources are flexible, align with a variety of curriculum areas, and can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse learners. Your students will: - Develop an understanding and appreciation of the concept of innovation - Participate in learning experiences that promote innovative thinking and skills - Utilize the stories of Canadian innovators for inspiration - Celebrate Canadian innovations and cultivate a culture of innovation. Maria and Bill are education partners with the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF). They have helped support the development of the RHFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Education for Innovation resources for K-12 classrooms. As the lead writer for this project, Maria drew from 35 years of experience that includes teaching students from preschool to the graduate level at various school boards and universities. She is currently works with the Schulich School of Education in Nipissing University in Ontario. Bill also has a wealth of experience with developing turnkey curriculum-based resources. In addition, he is the co-founder of a non-profit organization that is committed to building an entrepreneurial culture in Canada.

Innovative thinking strengthens communities and makes a positive difference in the world.

Elementary Math Games Julia Henrey Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate

Math games help students develop computational fluency.

This session is offered in B and C with different games

Get Moving, Get Learning Jared Kope PacificSport Fraser Valley Nicole Erickson Langley School District

Primary Teachers

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Physical literacy is a critical component to our children and community’s health. What is the school community’s role? We will discuss this question and learn new games and activities for the gym and classroom in this hands-on, practical workshop. Jared is the executive director at PacificSport Fraser Valley, an organization championing quality sport and physical activity. Jared works closely with SD35 to ensure all children have positive physical literacy journeys. Jared has a Master of Arts degree in human kinetics from the University of Ottawa, studying sport and physical activity for community development. Nicole currently teaches K-5 physical education at Langley Meadows Community School. She has been teaching PE for 12 years and has taught kindergarten to grade 10 PE. She is currently working towards a Masters degree in health, outdoor and physical experiential education. She has a passion for teaching children the skills they need to be successful in PE regardless of their age and experience and hopes to inspire children to physically active for their entire lives. Develop and apply a variety of fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments.

This session is offered in B and C

High Yield Math Routines — Grades 4-8

Indian Act Role Play

Deanna Lightbody Langley School District

Penny Carnrite Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle

PS Secondary

Explore simple routines that can develop a wide variety of math concepts for your students. Each routine has a slightly different emphasis and purpose, but all focus on communicating, thinking, and working together (core competencies) and as well as targeting the curricular competencies in math. Walk away with plenty of practical and engaging strategies that require little investment of time yet yield high returns in terms of mathematical understanding!

In the session, you will participate in an interactive role play where you must solve the so-called “Indian” problem. By the end of the role play you will understand what the Indian Act is and why it was enacted. This is experiential learning and often elicits strong emotions.

Deanna works in Instructional Services as a District teacher supporting intermediate literacy and numeracy.

Penny teaches secondary English and social studies at Langley Fine Arts School. She believes that teaching BC First Nations 12 and English 12 First Peoples is transformative for both teachers and students. It is her goal to have these courses offered in every school in the Langley School District.

All five big ideas in the math curriculum will be directly addressed.

The examination of First Peoples lived experiences builds understanding of Canadian’s responsibility in reconciliation.

Access Granted: Googlefree Databases Joanie Proske Langley School District

Canada in Context, Science in Context, Global Issues in Context & World History in Context are key online databases available to all staff and students in the Langley School District. This session will provide an overview of these amazing resources, give you some direct curricular connections and suggest ways to incorporate these resources into your teaching plans. It’s a game changer. Bring your device and use the exploration time time to find and save links to use next week.

Brendan D’Acre Gale Cengage Learning Consultant

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Joanie is the teacher-librarian at Walnut Grove Secondary. She has been a district leader in resource acquisition and implementation for many years. Join her to learn how using the Gale databases can support you and your middle & secondary students in a range of subject areas.

Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Staff, Teacher Librarians, Admin

Brendan works for Gale Cengage Learning and will share his expertise of the online resources provided in Langley.

Learn to access and incorporate valuable and reliable online data to support the curriculum.

Just in: Writing Secrets Revealed Kim Cline Langley School District

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Intermediate, Middle

Looking for ways to revamp your intermediate/middle writing program and connect it to the new curriculum? This workshop will explore how to use the traits of writing and mentor texts to develop a robust and practical writing framework that creates fluent, confident writers. We will unlock secrets for how a successful writing classroom is structured, for a day and across the entire year. Kim works in Instructional Services as a District teacher supporting intermediate literacy and numeracy.

This workshop will address all of the big ideas in the English language arts curriculum.

KEV — Cash Drawer Hints and Tips Christine Sainsbury Langley School District

Clerical and Admin Assistants

New to KEV? Needing a refresher? Not sure whether you should deposit money through the cash drawer or the deposit module? Not sure what happens when you have a partial payment? This workshop is going to explain the different ways to deposit and identify which works best depending on circumstances. If there is time available, we will also look at school reports. Christine is the planning and financial control manager for the Langley School District, and has worked in the District for nine years. Amongst her responsibilities are ministry reporting and school generated funds (school bank accounts). Christine was responsible for the implementation of the KEV accounting system into all the District schools and is now responsible for the management of this system including training. She is also an accomplished Excel user who likes to keep spreadsheets simple and easy to understand.

Understanding the Tools of Microsoft Office 365 Sam Muraca Langley School District All Interested, Support Staff Microsoft Office 365 is free for all students and employees of the Langley School District. During this session, participants will explore and understand some of the tools and how they integrate together. Some of the tools will include: Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, and Microsoft Teams.

Sam is the District principal of special projects.

To make the most of the tools of the Microsoft Office 365 suite.

To help admin assistants use KEV.

Literacy for Little Learners Ruth Hodgins University of the Fraser Valley, Simon Fraser University All Interested, Primary

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Every early primary classroom has students who have a range of abilities, interests and motivations. How can teachers create activities in reading, writing, and oral language that meet the needs of their young learners? This workshop will emphasize a variety of instructional approaches and lesson activities that you can implement to help engage students in literacy learning. The sooner we can get our students off to a strong start in literacy, the better their chances are to be successful readers and writers who love to read and write! You will learn about: shared, independent, guided reading and read aloud, shared and independent writing, oral language, alphabet learning and phonological awareness, student motivation, and engagement Ruth is passionate about literacy teaching and learning! A teacher of children from K-4, Ruth has also worked with practicing teachers as a reading recovery teacher leader for both the Langley and Vancouver School Boards. She is a faculty mentor for pre-service teachers at the University of the Fraser Valley and sessional instructor for Designs for Learning: Reading at Simon Fraser University. Playing with language helps us discover how language works.

MyEdBC Tips and Tricks for Teachers Bridie Robson Langley School District

Come and learn tips and tricks in MyEdBC: finding information faster, reports that are helpful, using queries, staying ahead of the rush, give me a problem and we will find the answer! Bridie is the MyEdBC trainer for the Langley School District.

Primary, Middle, Intermediate, Secondary

To learn how to make the most of MyEDBC.

Personalized Spelling

Plains, Trains, and Treaties

Claire Burns Langley School District

Deni Paquette Langley School District

Claire is an instructional coach supporting numeracy and literacy within the Langley School District. Spelling instruction can occur in an engaging, meaningful, and personalized way which meets the needs of all students.

There is a 30-minute presentation followed by a finger weaving project to make friendship bracelets. The presentation gives an overview of the end of the Pemmican trade when the buffalo herds are wiped out. The hard years of dispossession of the Métis Nation and the making of the First Nations numbered treaties of the west. Kokum wants participants to ask lots of questions about the presentation topic throughout the workshop, this is an opportunity to ask those difficult and uncomfortable questions you are not sure of. Deni is a Métis presenter with the Aboriginal education program. She holds a International Indigenous Studies BA and has worked within the Aboriginal community and in various government positions. She blends her love of arts and crafts with sharing a deep and rich Indigenous heritage as Kokum. Her presentations range from making bannock with grade two students, finger weaving with grade four students, talking treaty with grade sevens, and discussing constitutional impacts with secondary students Kokum engages classes and shares the Métis perspective of being Aboriginal in Canada. This workshop will address all of the mathematical big ideas in the B.C. curriculum.

This session is offered in B and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

PS All Interested

Intermediate Teachers Are you interested in revamping the way you teach spelling? Are you looking for a realistic way to meet the various needs of your learners? Let’s move beyond traditional methods (random word lists, one size fits all, pre-tests and post-tests). It’s time for personalized spelling! This workshop will provide you with a practical method that allows students to take ownership over their learning as they improve their writing and learn key spelling rules and patterns. Personalized spelling will engage your students, provide them with differentiated learning, and encourage them to make connections between spelling and their current world of reading and writing. Our curriculum has been redesigned; discover a new approach to spelling instruction that weaves curricular competencies and content together. Come and learn about how you can make spelling instruction more engaging and meaningful in your classroom. This session is most applicable for grade three to seven teachers.

Promoting Health and Resiliency Gail Markin & Cindy Andrews Langley School District

Are you a middle or high school teacher who is stressed out about finding great curriculum linked resources to address health and promote resiliency? Join us! Learn and co-create a plan that fosters resilience and health in your students. We will explore the curriculum connections that support health and resilience and try out hands on lessons and practices that you can take back to your classrooms. Gail is the Langley School Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s District counsellor supporting health and wellness

Middle Teachers, Secondary Teachers

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Cindy is a former teacher and long-term health advocate. She is an active member of the BC School Centred Mental Health Coalition and works with both the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and the Psychology Foundation of Canada. Healthy choices influence our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Re-thinking Core French Judy Sinclair Langley School District

Middle, Secondary

Language teacher satisfaction comes from seeing students successfully participating spontaneously in meaningful conversations. Such spontaneity happens frequently in immersion and intensive French classrooms, but is harder to come by in the typical core French classroom. In this workshop, Judy will share her experience of integrating principles of intensive French into her core French classroom. Participants will be given an overview of the methodology together with a breakdown of how a French 9 unit was planned and delivered with IF principles in mind. Judy has been teaching core and IB French at R.E. Mountain Secondary since 2004 where she also sponsors an active debate team. She has a son in French immersion and lives in Coquitlam. Judy took part in the week-long Intensive French training in Surrey in July 2017, and since September has enjoyed integrating that methodology into her core French 9 classes. We can have meaningful conversations about things that are important to us in French.

SOGI in the English Classroom

Redesign in Action Meagan Wood & Kendall Seawell Langley School District

PS Middle, Secondary

Using reflection, critical thinking, and collaboration, teachers can implement the redesign in authentic and meaningful ways. Student choice and student voice promotes ownership in the classroom, and enables passions and inquiry to drive the learning. Meagan is a teacher at Langley Secondary School. She is passionate about choice and ownership in the classroom. Kendall is a teacher at Langley Secondary School. She is passionate about promoting critical thinking through collaboration and engagement in the classroom. Voice, choice, reflection and collaboration, how to create a culture of learning in the classroom through authentic assignments and hands on activities.

Dan Adrian Burnaby School District

Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers

This workshop is aimed at English teachers who are looking to infuse SOGI (Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity) content within their classes. Using a series of activities, exercises, stories, and poems, teachers will be given the tools and resources needed to build SOGI within their units to help deepen discussion about identity. These resources and materials are aimed at grades 7-12. Dan has taught English & ELL in the Burnaby School District for the last decade. Currently, Dan is the District SOGI support teacher for Burnaby Schools. One of his passions is working to infuse SOGI content in all grades of English, as well finding connections within other disciplines. He has presented at both District and provincial conferences, and has guest lectured for student teachers at UBC. Dan uses stories as a way of promoting inclusion within all schools. Infusing the new English curriculum with SOGI narratives.

Vocabulary Instruction That Works! Shanu Kotwal & Andrea Lalic Langley School District

Primary, Intermediate, Middle, Admin

Vocabulary is a crucial skill involved in reading comprehension, written expression, and oral communication. Some students come to school with small vocabularies and have difficulty with making connections between words, what we sometimes call “poor language processing.” This workshop will define what language processing skills are and discuss the importance of vocabulary intervention for improving these skills. We will summarize what the research tells us about the most effective, efficient, and engaging ways that you can teach vocabulary in the classroom. There will be opportunities to practice instructional techniques that can be embedded in regular classroom literacy routines for any elementary or middle school grade. Participants will walk away with practical ideas and resources to provide vocabulary instruction the next day. Shanu is a speech-language pathologist that has been working in the Langley School District since 2014. Her favourite thing about working in schools is collaborating with other educators to support children in their speech and language development. She has a passion for translating research about effective speech and language interventions into practical solutions for school teams. Andrea is a speech-language pathologist that has been working in the Langley School District since 2012. She enjoys working with teachers and SEAs in supporting students’ speech and language development in the classroom. Her particular interests are in helping non-verbal or minimally verbal children improve their functional communication skills and gain greater access to the school curriculum. This workshop covers how to expand students’ vocabularies so that they are better able to achieve expectations in the core competency of communication.

Video Modelling using Pictello Kelly Andal Langley School District

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In this session we will walk through how to make a video model, its purpose, and different applications with a focus on why to increase spontaneous language production. You will leave the class with an array of video models personalized to meet your student’s needs. Please bring your iPad with Pictello installed. Kelly has worked in special education for the Langley School District for the past seven years. During the last three years she has explored her passion for developing communication skills and spontaneous language use with her students. Through this exploration she has created an effective toolkit of strategies that encourage spontaneous language production in her minimally verbal students. To build spontaneous language in minimally verbal students.

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’” - Maria Montessori

Self-Regulation Rae Fong, Ross Taylor, Tamara Robinson & Janice McLeod Langley School District

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All Interested

This workshop will provide participants with a deeper understanding of sensory processing and the connection with self-regulation. We will also provide activities to support improved self-regulation for all students and teachers. Activities will be presented for individual, small group and, classroom wide use. Recently the OT division has shifted our focus from primarily seeing many students on a tier 3 level to building capacity with staff by providing tier 1 in-servicing. We continue to see students individually, but would also like to offer this workshop in our ongoing provision of improving understanding of how sensory processing mechanisms impact a student’s ability to self-regulate. The core competencies of self-determination, self-regulation, and well-being are facilitated by an understanding of sensory processing.

Teaching to Diversity in My Class Michael Morgan Langley School District

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Intermediate, Middle, Secondary, SEAs and Support Workers

Participants will have the chance to explore a relationship based approach to ensuring that all learners have the opportunity to display their gifts in a classroom setting. Opportunities will be given to practice small group and classroom approaches that place relationships at the centre of learning experiences. Michael is the District principal of Aboriginal education in the Langley School District. Everyone plays a role in working together to build upon and nurture every student’s gifts.

Treasures For Trinkets

The Art of Book Introductions Amanda Leach Langley School District

Brandon Gabriel Kwantlen First Nation

PS All Interested

Primary, Intermediate How do you choose a new book? Do you read the back cover before you purchase the book or do you buy the book based on a recommendation? How can you activate your students’ prior knowledge and peak their interest before opening the front cover? Join us in a session about why we introduce our books and how to do this in your classroom. The session will be geared towards primary teachers, but all teachers are welcome to attend as a good book introduction sets the stage for learning at all ages.

Amanda is the Langley School District reading recovery teacher leader. She has been a K-3 teacher, resource teacher, and reading recovery teacher in the Langley School District for over 20 years. She is passionate about all students having success and positive growth in Literacy.

Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words. Playing with language helps us discover how language works.

You are now tasked with integrating First Nations content into your curriculum, but you don’t want to be tokenistic or perpetuate stagnated colonial mythologies. In this session, Brandon will ask four basic questions which have far reaching impacts in your classroom, school, community, and in our world. Self, others, community, and the world will be the focus. This workshop is designed to be challenging but also enlightening and rewarding for educators who are looking for additional First Nations resources to bring to your school community. A slide presentation of Brandon’s communitybased art practice, as well as a brief video presentation will be part of this workshop. Brandon is a graduate of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and majored in visual arts. He has taught First Nations studies at UFV, and guest lectures on First Nations topics in all levels of primary, secondary, and post secondary education. His works have been exhibited in the UK, Hong Kong, USA, South America, and Canada and his works have appeared in film and television. He currently practices worl from his home studio in unsurrendered Kwantlen territory in Fort Langley, BC with his partner Melinda and daughter Jamie. Brandon enjoys canoeing, art, movies, food, and working with children and youth. Reframe the concept of reconciliation using the one key tangiable item left off the entire 194 TRC recommendations: the land. Lets frame ourselves in a sustainable way to each other and the land itself.

This session is offered in B and C 40

Empowering Children Outdoors Katelynn Tekavc & Laureen Klaassen Langley Forest School and Langley School District

Primary, Admin

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be in an outdoor classroom fully immersed in nature? Join us as we dive deeper into planning for place-space learning. We will focus on risk management and how these ideas can inspire you and your administration to go beyond the everyday four walls and into a wide open outdoor space. Be ready to go outside rain or shine and please be prepared for hands on exploration (warm coats and boots are a good idea). Katelynn is an early childhood infant/toddler/special needs educator. She has worked in a variety of early learning fields and currently works for the Langley School District in early learning as well as the Langley Forest School as a preschool teacher. She hopes to inspire parents and educators to step outside the box and try something new with their children’s learning everyday. Laureen is and early childhood educator and forest school practitioner. She is the co-founder of the Langley Forest school and has a wealth of knowledge in early childhood development. She integrates her passion with the outdoors to empower the minds and hearts of young children. Personal choices and social and environmental factors influence our health and well-being.

Weaving Indigenous Content into Math Carolyn Roberts Langley School District

All Interested.

Are you wondering how you will implement Indigenous ways of knowing into your math lesson? In this session we will share some great lesson ideas, work through some of the First Peoples’ principles of learning, and engage in discussion about how to get started infusing your practice. Carolyn is from the Squamish Nation and is Coast Salish. She brings traditional knowledge and ways of knowing into her teaching practices. She holds a Master’s degree in Aboriginal education and leadership and is an educator and vice principal in the Langley School District. Over the last few years, her main focus has been navigating how to embed traditional ways of knowing into her teaching practice. Embedding Indigenous ways of knowing into your practice.

Why is Reading Hard for ELL/ ESLs?

Website Wizardry

Janis Sawatzky Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle, Secondary Teachers Do you have ELL/ESL students in your classroom? Learn why these students are struggling to read and strategies to support them. This workshop is geared towards content-based educators who teach grades 5-12 looking to enhance their classroom instruction to differentiate for English Language Learners. We will also be using the strategies during the presentation that focus specifically on building comprehension using content-area texts. Janis works with Instructional Services as the District ELL teacher. She has received specialized training from the SIOP Institute and the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL) on reading intervention and strategies to support English Language Learners (ELLs).

Learn to edit school websites. People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.

This session is offered in B and C Register by Friday, February 16 at thinklangley.com

Working With Refugee Students Refugee students face many barriers to education in Canada including trauma, language, poverty, culture shock, and limited schooling experience. This workshop will provide an overview of information and resources to help teachers and staff working with refugee students. Participants will hear personal stories from youth who came to Canada as refugees. This workshop will be of interest to anyone globally minded, or anyone interested in learning more about refugees.

Lisa Sadler & Sharon Kavanagh Langley School District

Lisa is currently the manager of settlement workers in schools (SWIS). She has been working with immigrants and refugees for 10 years both professionally and as a volunteer. She holds a Master of Arts in community development and has researched the barriers refugees face in the education system, community development, and resettlement.

All Interested

Sharon is the Coordinator of the Settlement Workers in Schools program and has been working with refugees for 10 years professionally and as a volunteer. Sharon has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with vulnerable refugee children, youth and their families. This workshop will provide information and resources for school staff working with vulnerable refugee students struggling with trauma, language, poverty, culture shock, or limited schooling.

Youth TRAIN Teacher Sharing Session Sherri Silcox-Burk Langley School District

This session brings together school district teachers of Langley’s Youth TRAIN programs. Goals include sharing promising practices and updates from the ITA, MoE, and our post-secondary partners. Marketing Langley’s programs will be an additional focus of this session. Teachers will collaborate to build the agenda and share content. Youth TRAIN teachers only.

Langley’s Youth TRAIN Teachers

Sherri is an associated professional in Langley’s career education department. Langley’s team of Youth TRAIN teachers are a committed group of professionals who inspire, teach and lead our specialized dual credit programs.

Youth Train Teachers

Youth TRAIN programs are an excellent program option for students, considering the importance of personalized learning in the new curriculum.

Creating Strong Non-Fiction Readers Brenda Barlow Langley School District

Intermediate, Middle Teachers

Explore the use of non-fiction texts to increase the reading comprehension skills of your students. Build a bank of strategies that you will be able to put into practice in your classroom immediately. Help your students to deepen their understanding of the non-fiction readings that they are doing in science and social studies classes. Make more efficient use of the time you have with them. Currently the facilitator for the District’s teacher mentorship programs, Brenda has taught K to grade eight, regular classroom and FSL. Exploring non-fiction texts empowers students to deepen their connections to others and to extend their thinking while increasing their reading comprehension skills.

Additional Pro-D 8:30 11:50

CLERICAL MENTORSHIP School Board Office - 4875 222 Street Clerical and Admin Assistant SD 35 Staff Only

8:30 1:40

Join colleagues for this first clerical mentorship gathering! This event will kickoff at the SBO, with an informal collaboration session. Later, there will be an opportunity for break outs to do work-site mentoring in afternoon. You’ll be matched as either a mentor or mentee depending on your preference and experience on the job. You’ll have the opportunity to share your tips, tricks, and experience with your partner!

BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT AT SCHOOL Langley Secondary School - 21405 56 Avenue

Juanita Jackson & Caitlin Kellner Langley School District Teaching Staff SD 35 Staff Only

In this session, you will learn to examine how and why some challenging behaviours persist over time through conducting a brief functional behaviour assessment. From there, you will learn how to build a positive behaviour support plan to help create student success at school. Please come with a student in mind as there will be work-time during the day to make the most of your Pro-D. This session is targeted towards resource teachers and administrators - but we welcome classroom teachers to join in with their learning support team! Juanita is a District vice principal with Learning Support Services. She has a school-based background in classroom teaching, resource and administration. Caitlin is a District teacher with Learning Support Services. She has a background in classroom teaching, as well as working with challenging students in the school setting. The presenters’ backgrounds have helped them to develop some key understandings of challenging behaviour and what maintains them over time. Both Juanita and Caitlin enjoy helping school teams discover what they can do to change the environment, proactively set a student up for success, and teach pivotal skills and replacement behaviours to create positive and successful outcomes.

8:30 3:30

CPI BASIC

HD Stafford Middle School - 20441 Grade Crescent Kathy Keyworth & Karen LeBrash Langley School District SD 35 Staff Only

Participants will receive CPI certification for the basic six-hour training. You will gain an understanding of the levels of behaviour escalation and learn strategies to de-escalate behaviours. Topics include verbal and nonverbal behaviour, verbal escalation, personal safety and a debriefing strategy. Participants must attend the day in full to gain certification. Certification will remain current for 2 years (until February 2020) upon successful completion.

8:30 1:40

TECH ED LSA CONFERENCE Walnut Grove Secondary - 23752 - 52 Avenue

Kevin McIntyre Langley School District Jordan Perrault Construction Foundation of BC Middle and Secondary SD 35 Staff Only

8:30 1:40

All day session at Walnut Grove that focuses on technology education in the Langley School District. Presentation from the Construction Foundation of BC in the morning followed by a collaborative breakout session for the afternoon. Intended for tech ed (shop/industrial ed) teachers in the Langley School District.

Kevin is the local president of the Langley Technology Educators Association LSA. He has taught for fourteen years in technology education at several schools in the province. Jordan is the project leader for the Construction Ready program being developed by the Construction Foundation of B.C. He has experience in the trades and throughout industry that he brings to the table to show tools and strategies to improve work ethic and expectations in high school shop courses.

IPAD 101: FUN WITH ONEDRIVE Langley Secondary School 21405 56 Avenue

Greg Anslow & Cindy Pederson Langley School District Middle & Secondary Teachers SD 35 Staff Only

Join a small group of teachers (Grade 8-12 recommended) for an all-day immersion the world of OneDrive as it connects to an assortment of apps. Use your hidden creative thinking skills to explore all the ins and outs of the features of OneDrive cloud storage by doing fun mini activities with your iPad (or borrowed iPad). What a great way to spend a rainy day in February: to unlock the secrets of OneDrive and how to use it effectively with students in your classroom! (Please bring one class list of student names, printed from MyEdBC) Greg has been teaching for 36 years (31 years in Langley at ACSS), mostly in math and science. Greg has been teaching with iPads on a daily basis with his classes over the past five years. Greg also teaches grade eight iPad explorations for Betty Gilbert Middle School. Cindy has been teaching for 25 years, and is currently teaching math and forensic science.

8:30 1:30

HOME EC. SUMMIT Walnut Grove Secondary - 23752 - 52 Avenue

Laura Dawe Vancouver Community College Andrew George Langley School District Marie-Eve Masse & Dennis Green Go2HR

Join us for an all-day session for home economics teachers! Chef Andrew George will present Breaking Bread, a presentation on the history of traditional Aboriginal food, culture, feasts, and the cycle of the salmon. Chef Laura Dawe, VCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Walnut Grove PC1 instructor and past member of Culinary Team Canada will provide a brief introduction to her program and share some culinary opportunities. Go2HR â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s Marie-Eve Masse and Chef Dennis Green will be offering a special session on food-themed education and will be sharing some great new resources. This summit will provide an opportunity for home economics teachers from across the District to gather, learn, and share together. Home Economics SD 35 Staff Only

8:30 12:00

ROOKIE RUGBY D.W. Poppy Secondary - 23752 - 52 Avenue

Stuart Crowley & Kyle Barry Langley School District

SD 35 Staff Only

Participants will learn how to incorporate safe, non-contact flag rugby in their PHE classes, or possibly how to establish a school flag rugby team. There will be a variety of activities presented that will focus on teaching the principles and skills of rugby in a fun, basic, age-appropriate way. Please come dressed and prepared to be an active participant in the activities and games, and bring a water bottle. Stuart has been teaching in Langley since 2008, and has been passionate about rugby since his high school days. A PHE teacher and rugby coach at DW Poppy Secondary, he is also currently the head coach of the provincial U18 women’s team, a certified World Rugby Level 2 coach, and a Rookie Rugby facilitator. Kyle has been an SEA in Langley District for 10 years, and is the coach of the senior boys rugby team at DW Poppy.

9:00 2:00

ATHLETICS VISION IMPLEMENTATION Walnut Grove Secondary - 23752 - 52 Avenue

Jonathan Harris, John Hantke, Carla Clapton, Logan Kitteringham, Jeremy Lyndon, Allan Joo

This session is for all athletic directors at the middle and high school level. We will be discussing the implementation of the athletics vision for Langley schools that was co-created with coaches and athletic directors in 2016. In this session, we will create strategies and processes to effectively implement the vision and mission of athletics in Langley schools.

Athletic Directors SD 35 Staff Only

8:00 5:00

OFA, LEVEL 1 School Board Office - 4875 222 Street

Valley First Aid $85

SD 35 Staff Only

Get your Occupational First Aid, Level 1 certificate. Learning tasks include: • Priority action approach • Primary survey - conscious patient /unconscious patient • Cervical spine control • Airway and breathing interventions • Hemorrhage control • One person CPR • Minor injuries which require medical aid • Management of soft tissue injuries • Records and reports You must bring two pieces of identification, (at least one of which is photo I.D.) to the class. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your own lunch. Be prepared to spend a great deal of time on your knees, and consider bringing something to kneel on (yoga mat, towel, knee pads). Manual included. Space is limited please register early if you require this training or recertification.

Pick-Your-Own Pro-D

edcampkinder Alice Brown Elementary February 23, 2018 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM Register at thinklangley.com!

d e s a B t c e j Pro g n i n Lear

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about making posters!

February 23, 2018 8:30 AM to 3:30 00 PM Brookswood Secondary Register at thinklangley.com