Central Alberta Regional Consortium Working Together: Making a Difference Month at a Glance - March 2015 Transforming School Culture with Anthony Muhammad Apr. 13-14 | $400 No matter how hard you work, school improvement will not happen in a toxic culture. This hands-on workshop sheds new light on an age-old challenge: addressing diverse issues of resistant staff to develop a cohesive, positive culture. Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and leave with concrete strategies that will improve school culture and lay the foundation for a powerful learning environment. Dr. Muhammad has developed the strategies necessary to address staff cohesion issues and maximize human potential in schools and districts. Get ready to roll up your sleeves to develop an effective action plan for eliminating unproductive conflicts and creating healthy working and learning environments. Challenging Behaviours In Youth Gr. 6-12 with Lana Dunn Mar 3 | $125 For those who work with youth, managing challenging behaviours that interfere with development, learning or success can be both frustrating and exhausting. This workshop will review challenging behaviours related to aggression, non-compliance and attention-seeking, and will provide a framework for intervening with these behaviours. Participants will analyze the effectiveness of their current approach and develop insights into what is happening when attempts at intervention do not work. They will gain a clear understanding of how to structure interactions for positive outcomes and will be provided with a coaching model to bring out the best in youth who exhibit challenging behaviours. Vulnerable Readers and Writers K-6 with Purnima Lindsay Mar. 10 | $45 Vulnerable readers need to read much more than their counterparts! In this session, participants will explore many promising practices in literacy to assist in instruction for diverse learners. As writers they need many strategies to experience success with written work. Which strategies work best for each student? Each learner is unique and teachers have to discern which strategy(ies) work(s) best for their learners. Participants will leave with a variety of writing strategies to choose from for not only their vulnerable writers, but all readers and writers in their classrooms. Cross-Curricular Competencies in the Classroom Practical Ideas For and From Classroom Teachers with Sandi Berg *Webinar 4-5pm* Mar. 11 | $20 Teachers will address the following discussion questions: How do I currently plan for and support students in developing the “Apply multiple literacies” and “Demonstrate good communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others” competencies? How can I plan for and support students in developing these competencies? Bring ideas to share, examples also provided. Flexible Learning and Pacing in Various Learning Environments K-8 with Purnima Lindsay Mar. 11 | $45 Flexible learning focuses on enabling learners to learn when they want, how they want and what they want, thus helping them become engaged thinkers, ethical citizens with an entrepreneurial spirit. In this session, a variety of models for flexible learning will be explored using recent examples from Central Alberta schools. Learning environments and how they can be set up to be more conducive to a variety of learning styles and groupings will be modelled through video clips of a bird’s eye view into schools and classrooms. The logistics of organizing and scheduling will be discussed along with the pedagogical ramifications of flexible learning and pacing. CTF Planning Day For Administrators with Brenda MacDonald, Caitlin Fox & Gerry Varty Mar. 10 | $45 Using Visualization to Support Learning in the Elementary Math Class with Sandi Berg Mar. 12 | $45 The new Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) curriculum will be provincially implemented in the fall of 2015, reflecting the 5 CTS occupational clusters. The CTF program will enable students to explore and develop their interests, passions, and skills in a variety of occupational contexts, and help them to create a platform of understanding from which to choose future learning opportunities and to explore their career connections. This full-day session will assist administrators in leading the shifts needed to support these new course offerings. Visualization is the ability to use concrete materials, technology, and pictorial and mental representations when processing information, making connections, communicating mathematical ideas and solving problems. During this workshop, we will explore a variety of techniques for developing students’ ability to visualize within the mathematics curriculum. w) www.carcpd.ab.ca p) 403-348-8194 e) [email protected] Central Alberta Regional Consortium Working Together: Making a Difference Creating Engaging Activities in your FSL Class Gr. 4-9 with Lise May Mar. 12 | $45 Do you sometimes wonder how to motivate and engage your FSL students? What should you do to make them love being in your French class? How can you encourage them to speak French in class? This session will review some exciting activities that you will want to use in your French class immediately. As a result, your students oral French will greatly improve and their enthusiasm to learn and to use French in class will increase as well. Be prepared to also share some of the activities that you use in your own French classroom. The more ideas, the better! Using Visualization to Support Learning in the Jr/Sr High Math Class with Sandi Berg Mar. 13 | $45 Visualization is the ability to use concrete materials, technology, and pictorial and mental representations when processing information, making connections, communicating mathematical ideas and solving problems. During this workshop, we will explore a variety of techniques for developing students’ ability to visualize within the mathematics curriculum. Guided Reading: The Basics and Beyond K-5 with Purnima Lindsay Mar. 13 | $45 In this session, participants will have the opportunity to learn how to set up guided reading groups and administer guided reading lessons in any classroom. A variety of benchmarking methods will be discussed and shared, including PM Benchmark, Fountas and Pinnell and Jerry Johns to help match text to students’ current reading levels. Participants will have an opportunity to practice administering, coding and scoring reading assessments, as well as how to interpret the assessments in order to determine a student’s independent and instructional reading level. Unseen Hurts: Promoting Positive Mental Health in Schools with Mary Frances Fitzgerald Mar. 16 | $45 Schools can be pro-active and teach about positive mental health to help prevent mental health problems and mental health illnesses. By integrating positive mental health activities throughout the curriculum and grade levels, schools can become safe and positive spaces for students, teachers and families. This workshop will help participants understand a vision of mental health, raise their awareness of mental health issues, identify the signs of specific mental health issues and explore practical strategies and interventions to promote positive mental health. Participants will also learn strategies to protect their own mental health. Comment le cadre CECR peut-il me soutenir dans l’apprentissage, l’enseignement et l’évaluation du français langue seconde? Venez voir! with Philippe Le Dorze Mar. 18 | $45 Le but de la session est de presenter aux enseignants de francais immersion le Cadre europeen commun de reference (CECR) base sur les deux titres de RK Publishing : 1) CEFR: A Guide for Canadian Educators 2) CEFR: Scenarios for an Action-Oriented Classroom La presentation en francais comprendra des activites d’evaluation de la langue ainsi que d’un regard sur d’autres ressources fournies par des ministeres de l’education au Canada. Inscrivez-vous! Transforming School Culture with Anthony Muhammad Apr. 13 & 14 | $450 No matter how hard you work, school improvement will not happen in a toxic culture. This hands-on workshop sheds new light on an age-old challenge: addressing diverse issues of resistant staff to develop a cohesive, positive culture. Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and leave with concrete strategies that will improve school culture and lay the foundation for a powerful learning environment. Get ready to roll up your sleeves to develop an effective action plan for eliminating unproductive conflicts and creating healthy working and learning environments. L’Enseignement Differencie du sens du Nombre M A 3 with Renee Michaud Apr. 15 | $45 Nos eleves sont tous tres differents les uns des autres. Il est donc important de donner a chacun l’opportunite d’apprendre, de comprendre et de montrer leurs apprentissages de differentes facons. Cet atelier vous propose d’elargir votre repertoire de strategies afin de mieux prendre en consideration les particularites de vos eleves. Plusieurs sujets seront discutes tels que les questions ouvertes, les taches paralleles, le jeu, l’importance de la communication et des strategies pour y arriver et la resolution de problemes. L’Enseignement Differencie du wens du Nombre - 4e A 6e with Renee Michaud Apr. 16 | $45 Nos eleves sont tous tres differents les uns des autres. Il est donc important de donner a chacun l’opportunite d’apprendre, de comprendre et de montrer leurs apprentissages de differentes facons. Cet atelier vous propose d’elargir votre repertoire de strategies afin de mieux prendre en consideration les particularites de vos eleves. Plusieurs sujets seront discutes tels que les questions ouvertes, les taches paralleles, le jeu, l’importance de la communication et des strategies pour y arriver et la resolution de problemes. w) www.carcpd.ab.ca p) 403-348-8194 e) [email protected] Central Alberta Regional Consortium Working Together: Making a Difference Oral Language & Vocabulary Building K-6 with Purnima Lindsay April 27 | $45 “First grade vocabulary predicts students’ reading achievement in their junior year in high school” (Cunningham and Stanovich, 1997). Vocabulary instruction in the classroom is very important but is often overlooked. In this interactive session, participants will learn effective methods to increase vocabulary across all subject areas in the classroom. Teaching Grammar in an FI Classroom Gr 4-9 with Lise May Apr. 27 | $45 We all know as FI teachers how important it is to teach ‘la grammaire’ in our FLA classes. It is done in so many ways by all of us and yet students continue to make the same mistakes when they speak and when they write. How can we be more efficient in introducing grammar in such a way that students will understand and know how to use the basics of the French language. This session will give you practical ways to efficiently introduce the teaching of ‘la grammaire’ in an authentic way. It will be presented in French. Challenge of Differentiation in a Secondary FI Class with Johanne Proulx Apr. 28 | $45 J’ai 25 eleves dans ma classe, comment puis-je repondre aux besoins de chacun? Est-ce que je dois individualiser mon enseignement pour chacun de mes eleves? Qu’est-ce que je dois differencier? Par ou commencer? Voila des questions que l’on entend souvent! Lors de cette session, nous allons explorer les reponses a ces questions ainsi que des facons efficaces pour differencier des taches et nous permettre de repondre aux besoins des eleves. Une approche pedagogique par centres pourra nous aider a offrir des taches engageantes qui sauront motiver nos eleves. Implementing Literacy and Numeracy Performance Assessments Gr 2-3 with Sandi Berg & Purnima Lindsay Apr. 29 | $45 Life seldom asks us to simply regurgitate facts. Instead, we must think critically about a vast amount of information in order to solve complex problems. It is imperative that we provide students with the skills necessary to be successful in this process. Participants will explore several literacy and numeracy performance assessments and have the opportunity to develop a performance assessment. Teaching Measurement in the Elementary Math Class with Sandi Berg Apr. 30 | $45 How can we effectively teach measurement? During this hands-on workshop, we will explore a variety of activities that will help students more fully understand the concepts of measuring length, distance, mass, area, perimeter, circumference, volume, etc. RTI at Work - Workshop with Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos April 29 & 30 | Commonwealth Centre - CALGARY | $450 Proven techniques to close learning gaps, RTI is not a series of implementation steps to cross off on a list, but a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each child receives the time and support needed to achieve success. This workshop was developed for school teams who have started RTI but are still refining processes or experiencing challenges. The presenters have worked with hundreds of schools throughout North America and can help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable. RTI work must be divided between collaborative teacher teams and two schoolwide teams (a leadership team and an intervention team). Together, the entire school assumes responsibility for the learning of every student. Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail - and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles—collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access—and experience a simple process for bringing these principles to life in your school. • Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation • • Define essential learnings in a program of concentrated instruction • • Create a toolbox of effective interventions • Shift to Culture of collective responsibility Build team structures for collaboration Develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for intervention and their unique needs, monitor thier progress, and revise or extend learning based on their progress. w) www.carcpd.ab.ca p) 403-348-8194 e) [email protected] Central Alberta Regional Consortium presents the 2015 Librarians' Conference Mission Possible Thursday, April 16, 2015 || 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Black Knight Inn 2929 50 Ave || $95 (includes breakfast pastries and lunch) Conference Schedule and Sessions: Time Session Title Presented by: 9:00 – 10:00 am Keynote: Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in Canada Judith Sykes K - 12 10:00 – 10:20 am Coffee Fun With Follett! Archie Jaswal K - 12 Get Connected to the Online Reference Centre (ORC) in K - 6 Jamie Davis K-6 From School Library to Learning Commons: Imagine the Possibilities Jill Usher K - 12 Mission Possible: Information Stewardship in your Learning Commons Mary Medinsky & Kristine Plastow Moving Forward with Learning Commons--Exploring Networking discussion K - 12 Book Displays Various K - 12 10:20 – 11:20 am Breakout Sessions 11:20 – 12:10 pm Facilitated Networking 12:10 – 1:10 pm Lunch 1:10 – 2:10 pm Breakout Sessions 2:10 – 2:30 pm 2:30 – 3:30 pm Breakout Sessions Audience Gr 7 - 12 K - 12 Connecting Junior and Senior High Students and Staff with the Online Reference Centre (ORC) Jamie Davis From School Library to Learning Commons: Imagine the Possibilities Jill Usher K - 12 Infusing Story with Library Skills Marjorie Jantzen K - 12 Library Redesign—Calgary Catholic’s Journey Michelle Catonio & Marylee Ang-Sadecki K - 12 Moving Forward with Learning Commons--Emerging Networking discussion K - 12 Book Displays Various K - 12 Drafting Change: Documenting your Library Learning Commons Plan Leanne Gosse K - 12 Enliven Library Learning Commons Programming with the Online Reference Centre (ORC) Jamie Davis K - 12 Gasp! There are Comics in the Library! Jay Bardyla K - 12 Moving Forward with Learning Commons--Evolving Networking discussion K - 12 What You Don’t Know about Our ATA Library Sandra Anderson K - 12 Book Displays Various K - 12 Gr 7 - 12 Coffee Book Vendors: Happy Harbour Comics, Follett Library Systems, World Book/Learn360, Young Alberta Book Society, Scholastic, Foothills Systems & Legacy Library Services. Register at www.carcpd.ab.ca