the March 2015 Month-at-a

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.
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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) info@carcpd.ab.ca
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) info@carcpd.ab.ca
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