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Thursday, February 27
 

9:00am MST

'Give me a Break' How to become an unbreakable teacher in a complex system (45 minutes-1 hour
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Hall D
Let’s face it, education system is a complex mine field at times. Within that complexity educators are seeing an increase in individual case complexity too. My view is that if we do not look after our educators, we cannot look after our children. Educators are being expected to manage more and more complex behaviour. As well as tooling teachers up with recourses and training to understand how to manage that, we must support teachers in how to become masters of themselves in that complexity and challenge. When we become a master of the controllable variables, everything changes and that is what I want to remind us all of today.
Speakers
avatar for Dr LJ Ducksbury

Dr LJ Ducksbury

Thursday February 27, 9:00am - ECC - Hall D
Dr LJ is a practicing Educational and Child Psychologist who specialises in working with children and young people up to the age of 25, for the last 15 years. A great deal of her work is aimed at supporting practitioners in navigating the complexities of the education system and everyone... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Hall D
  Classroom Management, Classroom Management
  • Company English
  • format Theatre
  • Room Details ECC - Hall D (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Theatre Max capacity for 2000 people)
  • Tags English

9:00am MST

Class Meetings, Classroom Culture, and Creating Authentic Questions
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 3
Start your class period off strong with engaging class meetings! In this session, Kevin shares innovative ways to create interactive class meetings, growing classroom culture, and how to create authentic and engaging questions. He will outline his "Morning Co-host Show," filled with easily implementable ideas requiring little to no prep. This session also includes tips and resources for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), including the importance of a journal and taking time to play games that build culture. Participants will also explore how to create authentic questions that will help teachers formulate engaging questions for their units of study.
Speakers
avatar for Kevin Butler

Kevin Butler

Multiple sessions both days
Kevin began his teaching career over 2 decades ago in a suburban public school on Long Island, New York. He later moved to California, where he consulted for a startup charter school in Hollywood. For seven years, Kevin taught fifth grade at an independent school in Los Angeles and... Read More →
GETCAPDF Morning Meetings and Questions pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 3
  Classroom Management, CALM/Health/Life Skills
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 3 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 170 people)
  • Tags English

9:00am MST

Future Stewards: Building Critical Thinkers for a Sustainable World
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Center High - Room 306
Join Inside Education for an engaging and interactive session where we will equip teachers with essential strategies to foster stronger critical thinking skills, informed stewardship, and a deep understanding of natural resource education among their students. We will demonstrate how experiential learning opportunities benefit all learner levels and leave you feeling empowered to teach across a diversity of literacy and numeracy skills. This session focuses on sharing practical, hands-on approaches and activities that Inside Education integrates into each program, empowering students to critically navigate and evaluate diverse perspectives while inspiring ethical decision-making through real-world environmental issues.
Speakers
avatar for Inside Education

Inside Education

Inside Education
Inside Education is an Alberta-based, environment and natural resource education charitable society. We have been supporting teachers and inspiring students to think critically about natural resource topics since 1985! With our full suite of no-cost teaching resources, youth summits... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Center High - Room 306 10050 MacDonald Dr NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0S3, Canada
  Classroom Management, Biology/Physics/Chemistry/Science
  • Company English
  • format classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks
  • Room Details Room 306 (Centre High , classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks Max capacity for 32 people)
  • Tags English

9:00am MST

Rethinking Challenging Behaviour - An Introduction to Collaborative Problem Solving®
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Strathcona Room
Working with children and teens who demonstrate challenging behaviours can be difficult, stressful and complex. Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS) is a compassionate, evidence-based, trauma-informed approach that provides a philosophy and tools to address challenging behaviour. CPS is used in schools and programs across North America and has been demonstrated to build skills and relationships with students while reducing challenging behaviour. This is an introduction to CPS. This session helps educators reflect on their understanding of challenging behaviour and interventions to support students with challenging behaviour. Participants will learn about how the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach describes why people demonstrate challenging behaviour and how CPS can address these behaviours. This session will help educators decide if CPS would be an effective approach to include in their practice and provide the information and resources to learn more. If you would like more information about CPS prior to the session, please visit https://thinkkids.org/.
Speakers
avatar for Matt Sticksl

Matt Sticksl

Matt Sticksl is a teacher, parent and Think:Kids CPS Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®. For the past two and a half years he has been teaching in a Student Services role in a K-9 school with the Calgary Board of Education. Prior to this, he taught for eight years... Read More →
Introduction to CPS 1 Page Summary (1) (1) pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Strathcona Room
  Classroom Management, Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Strathcona Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English

9:00am MST

The New Teacher’s Toolkit: Navigating the Complexities of Contemporary Classrooms
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 8/9
If you have been a teacher for five years or less, this is the session for you! The New Teacher's Toolkit presents you with tangible toolkit tactics that you can take and use in your class immediately. The new teacher's toolkit unearths the realities of being a new teacher and navigating the current realities of the classroom including: Equity and Culturally Responsive Practices; The First Days of Teaching; Planning and Lesson Design; The Learning Environment; Instructional Practices; Assessment Practices; and Well-Being and Balance. Bring your questions, and be ready for a dialogue! No question too small, no issue too large. We are here to learn from each other!
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Vince Bustamante

Dr. Vince Bustamante

Author, Corwin Press
Vince Bustamante, Ed.D., is a Calgary-based instructional coach, curriculum content developer, and author. Formerly focused on school improvement, Vince now specializes in working with teachers, leadership teams, schools, and school districts in implementing high impact strategies... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Adomako-Ansah

Sarah Adomako-Ansah

Manager, Education Outreach, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Sarah Adomako-Ansah is a teacher from Edmonton, Canada. She taught for eight years in grades three through six before beginning a secondment with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, located in Winnipeg, Canada. As the Educator in Residence, she created an educational program to... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 8/9
  Classroom Management, General Interest/Wellness
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 8/9 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 560 people)
  • Tags English

10:20am MST

Executive Functioning 101: Tools for Empowering Young Minds
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
ECC - Salon 17/18
This session, led by a speech-language pathologist, is designed to empower educators with a deeper understanding of executive functioning and its impact on student learning and behavior. Executive functioning skills—such as perception, attention, organization, self-regulation, and working memory—are critical for academic success but are often challenging for many students. Through interactive discussions and practical strategies, participants will explore how executive functioning difficulties manifest in the classroom and how these challenges may appear as behavior problems or lack of effort. Educators will learn how to identify signs of executive functioning deficits, implement effective support strategies, and create a classroom environment that fosters the development of these skills. By the end of the session, teachers will leave with a better understanding of executive functioning and the toolkit of evidence-based techniques to enhance overall classroom behaviour and help all students reach their academic potential. This session is ideal for early childhood and elementary teachers.
Speakers
avatar for Rae-Anne Kerr

Rae-Anne Kerr

Registered Speech Language Pathologist, Calgary West Speech Language Pathology Inc.
Rae-Anne Kerr has been a Speech-Language Pathologist for over 16 years and is passionate about professional development. She is always trying to learn more so she can do better for her students and her colleagues. Rae-Anne owns a private practice in Calgary, Alberta and has a team... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
ECC - Salon 17/18
  Classroom Management
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 17/18 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 50 people)
  • Tags English

10:20am MST

MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND OUR KIDS
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
We hear much about how social media is impacting our kids. In this presentation I give evidenced based research on how social media and the mental health of our students are linked, and how educators can navigate our students world of technology with practical tips that educators can easily apply.
Speakers
avatar for Dr Daniel To

Dr Daniel To

District Principal, Education Services - Specialty Programs, Surrey Schools
I am the District Principal of Education Services and Specialty Programs in the Surrey School District, where I oversee programs for youth at risk, vulnerable youth, and students with mental health issues, including Summer Learning. I also represent the district in Mental Health and... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
  Classroom Management, General Interest/Wellness
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Yukon Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English

10:20am MST

Empowered Teaching and Learning: An Intro to Positive Discipline in the Classroom
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 12:40pm MST
Westin - Chairman Room
Join this experiential workshop that provides proven tools and strategies to: 1. Clarify your long-term teaching goals for your students 2. Strengthen your relationship with your students 3. Minimize power struggles with your students 4. Increase responsibility and capability within your students 5. Build a stronger, and therefore more peaceful, community within your classroom What is Positive Discipline? A research-based approach stemming from Adlerian Psychology that teaches educators to be kind and firm at the same time, so that students learn to think for themselves, become more responsible, develop capacity, and have greater respect for themselves and others. Positive Discipline helps educators foster belonging and significance within children, foundational anchors for humankind. More information can be found at www.positivediscipline.org
Speakers
avatar for Kimberly Lecky

Kimberly Lecky

From being in international education for over 20 years, Kimberly cares deeply about social inclusion; the privilege of working with people coming from many different backgrounds has cultivated in her an immense appreciation for the unique human spirit, honed her ability to consider... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 12:40pm MST
Westin - Chairman Room
  Classroom Management, CALM/Health/Life Skills
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Chairman Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 50 people)
  • Tags English

11:40am MST

Art Therapy and Emotional Regulation
Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
Center High - Room 301
In this engaging 60-minute session, participants will discover how simple art exercises can effectively regulate the emotions of both students and staff. Through a hands-on approach, attendees will have the opportunity to practice three straightforward techniques during the lecture, facilitating experiential learning. These methods are designed to be easily integrated into daily routines, making emotional regulation accessible for individuals of all ages. By the end of the session, participants will not only understand the theoretical underpinnings of these exercises but also gain practical skills they can immediately apply in their educational environments.
Speakers
avatar for Jennifer Seniuk

Jennifer Seniuk

ATR, RCAT, CCC, Belly Eye Art Therapy Inc.
Jennifer Seniuk is a registered Art Therapist in both the United States and Canada, and a dedicated counsellor who has committed her career to helping others through creative expression and therapeutic practices. Based in Alberta, she specializes in conducting workshops for school... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
Center High - Room 301
  Classroom Management, General Interest/Wellness
  • Company English
  • format classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks
  • Room Details Room 301 (Centre High , classroom smartboard - no Chromebooks Max capacity for 32 people)
  • Tags English

11:40am MST

Strategies to Build Student Resilience with Students who have Experienced Trauma
Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
ECC - Salon 5/6
This session will provide staff with practical strategies on trauma-informed practice that focus on establishing safety, building relationships, the importance of play, and teaching social emotional skills. Using these strategies will help participants set up their learning spaces and connect with students in meaningful ways.
Speakers
avatar for Candice Larson and Shane Hewitt

Candice Larson and Shane Hewitt

Candice Larson and Shane Hewitt are dedicated educators and mental health advocates with a combined 40 years of experience supporting students with diverse learning needs. Shane and Candice have worked tirelessly to create supportive learning environments that prioritize students... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
ECC - Salon 5/6
  Classroom Management
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 5/6 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 144 people)
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Inclusion Made Easier - Practical Strategies for Struggling Learners
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Westin - Strathcona Room
Inclusion does not have to be difficult! This engaging session will provide teachers with a smorgasbord of instructional tips and tools designed to engage struggling and reluctant learners. You will also be introduced to some universal teaching strategies that work well for all students. Come learn practical tactics and effective approaches that work with struggling learners. While many of these strategies come from the field of inclusive education, they will benefit all students!
Speakers
avatar for Danny Bateman

Danny Bateman

Instructor, Concordia University Edmonton
Danny is currently an instructor of pre-service teachers at Concordia University of Edmonton. As an experienced and esteemed public speaker, he delivers teaching strategies and inspiration using entertaining experiences and actionable content. He has delivered hundreds of successful... Read More →
Inclusion Made Easier Worksheet docx
Selecting Accommodations and Strategies pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Westin - Strathcona Room
  Classroom Management, Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Strathcona Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Decoding the Psychoeducational Assessment: What Does it All Mean?
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Chancellor Room
Psychoeducational (or ed psych) assessments are important pieces of information for teachers, but so much of the data is often told in a different language. How do we decode the assessment reports and use them to inform planning for students? This session will give teachers a better sense of the data sources and information within an ed psych, and how they can apply it to supporting their students within the classroom and the larger school. The goal of this session is to leave teachers feeling more confident in understanding how to use ed psych data.
Speakers
avatar for Jill Stankov

Jill Stankov

Registered Provisional Psychologist, Thrive Teen Therapy
Jill Stankov is a Registered Provisional Psychologist with Thrive Teen Therapy in Edmonton. Armed with 5 years of teaching experience and a Masters in Counselling and Applied Psychology Jill left the junior high classroom for counselling private practice in 2022. Her main areas of... Read More →
Decoding the Ed Psych 2025 pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Chancellor Room
  Classroom Management, Leadership
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Chancellor Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 50 people)
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Discover the Secret to Building Unshakeable Self-Trust Today!
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
ECC - Salon 11/12
If a student doesn’t trust you, would you want to know? Students may lack trust because of previous experiences with authority. Did you know student trust in the teacher is a critical but overlooked factor in student success? Here's your chance to face trust issues in a fun, enlightening, safe, and effective way. Learn the four-step process for building your self-trust, intuition, and assertiveness. Gain self-awareness and sensitivity to the conditions that give rise to the possibility of overstepping professional boundaries—in class, online, and any learning or supervisory situation. Bonus Take Away: With self-trust, master personal success and experience serendipity—or happy coincidences. Even with life’s unexpected twists and turns, your life can still be a joyful ride!
Speakers
avatar for Monique MacKinnon

Monique MacKinnon

Investigator, Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Energetic Evolution
Monique MacKinnon strengthens individuals’ and companies’ influence and impact by applying and teaching them how to grow their intuitive foresight, insight, and decision-making skills. Areas of successful client work include workplace adaptation and modernization; health and wellness... Read More →
UnshakeableSelf Trust GETCA pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
ECC - Salon 11/12
  Classroom Management, General Interest/Wellness
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 11/12 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 600 people)
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Early career MADNESS? 10 Ways to Make Things Easier Starting Monday
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Devonian Room
Early career MADNESS? 10 Ways to Make Things Easier Starting Monday No matter how excellent your Education professors were, there’s no way they could get you ready for all the unending demands of being a teacher. Every teacher who does survive (!) the first few years of the job has to be lucky: the right school, the right colleagues, the right resources, and the right guidance. But what if you aren’t lucky enough to be lucky? What if you could really use some help right now so the rest of this year, and all of next year (and the years after that) feel 25%, 50% or even 100% better? Join ten-year veteran teacher and now educational consultant Malcolm Azania for a lively interactive session to learn (and even innovate upon) ten strategies for making your job easier so you can help your students succeed and become the teacher you want to be without working 50 hours per day!
Speakers
avatar for Malcolm Azania

Malcolm Azania

President, Project Saqqara
Having taught English in Edmonton high schools and junior high schools for a decade, Malcolm Azania is an award-winning novelist, award-winning print journalist, radio host-producer, television host and associate producer, sketch comedy writer, video game writer, poet, and community... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Devonian Room
  Classroom Management, Retirement/New Teachers
  • Company English
  • format Tables
  • Room Details Westin - Devonian Room (Westin Hotel, Tables Max capacity for 180 people)
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Kinder CALM
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Saville Centre - Gym 5
Kinder-calm Learn how to teach young children how to regulate through breathing and mindfulness techniques and why it is important for them to learn these tools. This workshop offers educators a lesson plan to follow offering your student a 4 week progressive mindfulness practice. It is geared towards Kindergarten and grade 1 students. As caring adults, we have a tremendous responsibility and opportunity to teach children these tools for social/emotional health.
Speakers
avatar for Sara Morris

Sara Morris

3 Sisters Yoga for Kids & Little Wonders Yoga
Since early 2011 Sara has dedicated years sharing the gifts of yoga with children and teens and had the honour of certifying over 100 inspiring children's yoga teachers in Canada and the United States as she facilitated the highly acclaimed YogaKids certification program in 2017-2020... Read More →
KinderCALM (1) pdf
KinderCALM yoga poses pdf
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Saville Centre - Gym 5
  Classroom Management, Early Childhood (Pre-K)
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details Saville Centre - Gym 5 (Saville Centre, )
  • Tags English

1:00pm MST

Let’s Make a Visual Journal: Bookbinding and Promoting Metacognition Through Visual Journaling
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Leduc Room
Students learn best by regularly utilizing metacognitive strategies to help process their thinking. When students use words, pictures, and symbols to represent their understanding and to reflect on the hefty concepts that they are presented within their daily classroom spaces, they are more likely to retain ideas and apply their learning later. While a significant portion of this full-day session will focus on making various types of journals from scratch, much of our attention will be on showing how teachers can apply metacognitive journal writing strategies in the courses they teach. In the end, all attendees will be able to develop skills for utilizing metacognitive strategies in their respective classrooms, regardless of the subject area they teach.
Speakers
avatar for Darrin Wilson

Darrin Wilson

President, ATA's Fine Arts Council (FAC)
Darrin has worked within the CBE since 2008, focusing mostly on teaching English language arts, visual arts, and drama to middle school students. He was the Art Representative and is currently President for the ATA’s Fine Arts Council. He has a Diplôme d'Études Collégiales in... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 1:00pm - 3:20pm MST
Westin - Leduc Room
  Classroom Management, Art
  • Company English
  • format Chairs
  • Room Details Westin - Leduc Room (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 70 people)
  • Tags English

2:20pm MST

Three Keys to becoming a student behaviour Jedi.
Thursday February 27, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST
ECC - Salon 8/9
A master of behaviour you’ll be after this session... Of course, it’s as easy as 3 steps isn’t it...! But in all seriousness, these KEY three steps are the forgotten foundations to phenomenal behaviour mastery. Let’s not get too lost in the sauce of complexity... Let’s keep it, simple and straight forward with this highly powerful psychology and you’ll master even the most challenging behaviours... take these kets with you and have instant impact in your classroom
Speakers
avatar for Dr LJ Ducksbury

Dr LJ Ducksbury

Dr LJ is an Educational and Child Psychologist based in the UK. She works with schools, families and children offering psychological guidance to help systems and individuals achieve their potential. If we do not look after our teachers, we cannot look after our children. In the complex... Read More →
Thursday February 27, 2025 2:20pm - 3:20pm MST
ECC - Salon 8/9
  Classroom Management, Classroom Management
  • Company English
  • format csv
  • Room Details ECC - Salon 8/9 (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Max capacity for 560 people)
  • Tags English
 
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