GETCA 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to GETCA 2025! We are excited to see you soon...

9:00am MST

Creating a Neurodiverse-Affirming Classroom

Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Creating a neurodiverse-affirming classroom encourages students to work with their brain instead of working against it. When we facilitate neurodiverse-affirming classrooms, we create environments that include neurodiverse students instead of alienating them. Accommodations and modifications can become the norm without adding to our already significant workloads. This session will combine opportunities to learn about what it means to create a neurodiverse-affirming classroom and opportunities for discussion around how we can do this in our classrooms practically and realistically.

Speakers

Kendall Delamont

The ADHD Toolkit

Kendall holds a B.A. in Behavioural Sciences, a B.Ed., and is an ADHD Certified Educator. She spent 8 years teaching grade 4 and has since developed The ADHD Toolkit; a series of courses for people with ADHD and the people who love and support those with ADHD. Through her own ADHD... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Beaumont Westin Hotel

Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism, Classroom Management

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Room Details Westin - Beaumont (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 50 people)
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10:20am MST

Hacking ADHD Motivation

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

Westin - Beaumont

We’ve all had those ADHD brains in our classroom who can’t motivate themselves to work without a significant fire under their butt. But we don’t have the time to stand over a child or the energy to intimidate them into finishing their work. Stop taking away recess, begging or pleading, or sending work home (where it never gets finished anyway). Lean into what actually motivates the ADHD brain to complete tasks. We’ll discuss ways to work with the ADHD brain instead of fighting against it. You’ll empower kids to leverage the skills they do have without adding hours to your own workload.

Speakers

Kendall Delamont

The ADHD Toolkit

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
Westin - Beaumont Westin Hotel

Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism, Classroom Management

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Room Details Westin - Beaumont (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 50 people)
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11:40am MST

Trauma Informed Practices in Secondary Schools – They're Not Just Lazy!

Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST

Westin - Beaumont

Much of the work on trauma informed practices seems to focus on elementary students; however, the bigger kids feel the effects of trauma just as much...they just show it differently. Changing classrooms, large class sizes and increasing demands on teachers make identifying and supporting students affected by trauma very difficult in Junior High and High School. This session is focused on providing teachers with concrete strategies and approaches to make our classrooms a safe place where students feel supported and can be successful.

Speakers

Kris Christianson

Kris Christianson has been a teacher for 19 years and is the Guidance Counsellor at Holy Trinity High School in Edmonton. He has experience teaching a variety of subjects and received his Masters in School Counselling from the University of Alberta. Kris has been involved in many... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 11:40am - 12:40pm MST
Westin - Beaumont Westin Hotel

Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism, Classroom Management

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Room Details Westin - Beaumont (Westin Hotel, Chairs Max capacity for 50 people)
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10:20am MST

Wassup with all the Black Boys Sitting in the Principal's Office (Keynote)

Friday February 28, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST

ECC - Hall D

Often the focus is placed on how we can “fix” Black male students rather than how we can equip schools and teachers to better meet the educational needs of Black males. Rather than providing teachers with broad, complex, ideological approaches for addressing the needs of Black male students, this presentation offers teachers with salient, visceral, and first hand details regarding young black males’ schooling experiences in which teachers can immediately reflect upon and use in their teaching pedagogy.

Speakers

Dr. Rashad Anderson

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr. Rashad Anderson serves in dual roles as both a Director & Associate Professor in the esteemed School of Education at Metropolitan State University of Denver and as the National Expansion Coordinator for the highly acclaimed Call Me MiSTER Teacher Leadership Program, which focuses... Read More →

Joshua Barringer

Brandon Edmon

Friday February 28, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MST
ECC - Hall D

Diversity/Equity/Anti-racism, Classroom Management

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Room Details ECC - Hall D (Edmonton Convention Centre (ECC), Theatre Max capacity for 2000 people)
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