GETCA 2025

GETCA 2025

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

9:00am MST

Enhance Student Writing Starting on Monday: Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement and Improving Their Skills in Creative Writing (K–12) Westin - LeducDarrin Wilson Grades that Inform: Using Cognitive-Based Assessment vs. Traditional Grading Westin - Turner ValleyShelly Cloke How Does a Film Mean? Centre High - Room 318Shane Lawrence How Well Do Your Students Read? Westin - ChancellorTannis Niziol Writing Modern Monsters: Creatures, Mythology, and Folklore Workshop Westin - BCAndrew Buckley

10:20am MST

Addressing neurodiversity in the language arts classroom Centre High - Room 303David Lewkowich Come Alive! Developing Character Through Role Play and Storytelling Westin - ConsulateFinnian Burnett Introducing HSISSFF: Your High School’s Independent Shakespeare Short Film Festival! Centre High - Room 307Tyler B. Perry It’s All Part of the Plan: Story Structure Workshop Westin - BCAndrew Buckley Literacy Instruction Matters ECC - Salon 13/14Karen Filewych Playing With Words – Upper Elementary Literacy Games for Grades 4-6 and ELL Westin - SaskatchewanJohn Felling Scaffolded Assessment: Building Targeted Assessments that Show Where Students are at in Their Learning Westin - Turner ValleyShelly Cloke Twelve Ways You're Sabotaging Your Writing Progress... and How to Flip that Script! ECC - Salon 19/20Malcolm Azania

11:40am MST

What is and what isn’t the Science of Reading? Westin - Alberta

1:00pm MST

Experiments with Sound Poetry Centre High - Room 303David Lewkowich Practical Literacy Foundations Westin - ChairmanJaime McLachlan Priority Outcomes and Prerequisite Skills Westin - Turner ValleyShelly Cloke The Science of Reading and Inclusive Teaching Westin - AlbertaNicola Lott Words Matter: A Guide to Exploring Trans and Non-Binary Narratives in Reading and Writing Westin - ConsulateFinnian Burnett

2:20pm MST

Experiments with collage in the language arts classroom Centre High - Room 303David Lewkowich I can read ECC - Salon 10Rebecca Robins I Thought I Only Had to Teach Vocab and Comprehension? Activities that secondary teachers can use to get students to build decoding, fluency, and vocabulary skills Westin - Turner ValleyShelly Cloke Introducing Morphology - Empowering Readers and Writers Through Word Structure, Vocabulary, and Spelling ECC - Salon 13/14Karen Filewych Japanese Canadian resources for the K-12 curriculum Centre High - Room 315Olenka Bilash • Terri Rolfson

9:00am MST

All the Resources I Wish I Had as a Beginning ELA Teacher ECC - Salon 7Courtney Steiner The ‘Not So Happily Ever After’ Storytelling Workshop Westin - BCAndrew Buckley Using a Dialogic Feedback Approach to Get Students to Use Feedback Westin - Turner ValleyShelly Cloke

10:20am MST

BLAST: A Targeted Literacy Intervention ECC - Salon 7Nancy MacLellan Novel Studies - How to do it well! Westin - LeducNicholle Morrison • Joanna Zakus PLAY ON WORDS - PRIMARY LITERACY GAMES FOR SMALL GROUP AND CENTER INSTRUCTION Westin - SaskatchewanJane Felling

11:40am MST

A Look at Vretta: The Future Westin - Turner ValleyCindy Leung Gr1-6-Literacy Interventions that Work! (Tier 2 and 3) ECC - Salon 8/9Tracey Bowes Quick Collaboration - Humanities Essential Academic Terms and Skills (HEATS) in Junior High Westin - SaskatchewanCarolyn Fenrich • Chris Manderscheid

2:20pm MST

ELA and SS - Engaging Tasks Connected to Conflict Westin - LeducNicholle Morrison • Joanna Zakus Story Starters: How to Use Prompts to Motivate Students to Write ECC - Salon 8/9Marty Chan