STF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Organizational Structure 1

Objectives 2

Mission 3

The Year in Review 5

Provincial Facilitator Community 9

Purposes and Beliefs 15

Activity Report 17 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Shaun McEachern Michelle Naidu Connie Molnar Linda Aspen-Baxter Lindsay Shaw Director Associate Director Associate Director Associate Director Associate Director

Nicole Turcotte Jay Salikin Pam Driedger Rosemarie Palidwor Marla Mullie Associate Director Senior Manager Administrative Administrative Administrative Learning Technology Assistant Assistant Assistant

MANAGEMENT ADVISORY BOARD

• Mr. Ted Amendt, School Boards Association

• Mr. Robert Bratvold, League of Educational Administrators, Directors and Superintendents

• Mr. Scott Burant, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Mr. David Burgess, Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit

• Ms. Xia Ji, Faculty of Education,

• Ms. Elizabeth Hutton, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Ms. Patricia Prowse, Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit

• Ms. Amanda Durocher, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Ms. Melissa Gerlach, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Mr. Steven Korecki, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Mr. Harold Robertson, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation

• Ms. Maria Chow, Ministry of Education

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 1 OBJECTIVES

THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE 5. Resources and programs to support school UNIT ARE THE DEVELOPMENT divisions, school staff and local teacher AND PROVISION OF: associations in promoting understanding of the need for ongoing high-quality professional 1. Consultative and capacity-building services development. to those who plan and deliver professional development. 6. Evaluation services related to professional development and professional development 2. Opportunities for the teaching profession that education. cannot be adequately accomplished at the local level. 7. Synthesis, interpretation and dissemination of research related to professional development. 3. Networks for communication and influence amongst educational organizations regarding 8. Sustainable leadership and systems that professional development. promote a vision for high-quality professional development. 4. An information network about exemplary professional development programs, resource 9. Partnership relationships with educational persons and events. organizations provincially, nationally and internationally.

2 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 MISSION

To support, empower and advocate for the growth of educators and students through responsive professional learning opportunities.

VALUES

RESPECTFUL WELCOMING

GENEROUS AND CARING PROFESSIONAL

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 3 4 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 In 2018-2019 STF Professional Learning connected with 4,079 participants, by 2020 that number had increased to over 4,700.

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

As was the case for many of us in the world in order to support teachers in their transition to of public education, 2019-2020 was a year of emergency remote teaching. During the remote unprecedented opportunities and challenges for teaching months, STF PL offered more than 15 STF Professional Learning (STF PL). In August of professional learning sessions on a wide array of 2019, we added two new members to our growing topics via Zoom to an audience of more than 2,000 team, Ms. Nicole Turcotte and Mr. Jay Salikin. Nicole Saskatchewan teachers. By the summer of 2020, became the fifth member of a passionate group the Saskatchewan Teacher’s Federation purchased of associate directors committed to supporting, a Learning Management System (LMS) and STF advocating and empowering Saskatchewan Professional Learning’s development of online educators through responsive professional learning. learning resources for our members began Jay’s appointment was to a newly created Senior in earnest. Manager of Learning Technology position with responsibilities related to the design of a learning AS YOU BROWSE THROUGH OUR ANNUAL technology framework to support our members. REPORT, YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE ARE FIVE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF WORK FOR By December of 2019, STF PL had re-configured its STF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING: web presence, joined the social media world with new Facebook and Twitter accounts and increased 1. Contracted services at the local level. the number of professional learning workshops 2. Contracted services at the provincial level. available to our members to over one hundred. By 3. Provincial workshops. the time the pandemic hit in early 2020, Jay and Nicole found themselves, along with the existing 4. Conferences. members of the STF PL team, applying their 5. Supporting initiatives of the Federation. considerable skills, as well as learning new ones,

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 5 In 2019-20, prior to the pandemic and the move emerged containing items such as social media towards emergency remote learning, STF PL and communication tools, a website, a learning provided 180 days of professional learning to management system, shared cloud storage, a video Saskatchewan teachers. From March until late June, conferencing solution, integrated event booking and virtual sessions were provided via Zoom. Please see an integrated login system. chart below for a description. We started with a Twitter account and began SERVICE DAYS PARTICIPANTS website development, which allowed us to transition Contracted Services 54.5 1934 from Remind.com. The IT department set up Office 365, which allowed us to move away from Dropbox School 9.50 304 and Google Drive. Zoom and Teams were utilized School Division 22.50 652 for video conferencing, and work began researching learning management systems. Integrated events Local Association 9.00 540 booking and login systems were tabled so that IT First Nation 11.00 334 services can be updated and streamlined.

Post Secondary 1.00 31 The COVID-19 pandemic surfaced in March and Other 1.50 73 caused acceleration. We activated the website and provided supports for teachers as they moved to Provincial Workshops 18.00 272 emergency remote teaching. We used Twitter to Ministry Contracts 8.00 239 advertise and started a Facebook page to increase the audience. We used Zoom to offer online learning Accreditation 44.00 225 opportunities that allowed teachers to learn and Provincial Facilitator connect virtually. Canvas was chosen as the learning Community 4 89 management system in June 2020, and work is Development currently underway to pilot and develop resources Online Virtual Sessions 17.00 2027 for online learning opportunities. (March-June)

MARCH TO JUNE: REMOTE CONTRACTED SERVICES LEARNING AND STF AT THE LOCAL LEVEL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING’S In 2019, STF Professional Learning had the RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC opportunity to partner with Northwest Teachers’ Association, North East Teachers’ Association, Between March and June, STF Professional Learning Prairie Spirit Teachers’ Association, Sun West started hosting online learning events with panels of Teachers’ Association and for the first time, the Saskatchewan teachers and expert guests to assist Conseil des écoles fransaskoises, to co-plan and teachers with emergency remote teaching. These deliver the majority of professional learning for their were the first online events ever hosted by STF local association conventions. Members of the STF Professional Learning, and the high turnouts and PL’s core team and Provincial Facilitator Community positive feedback were evidence that teachers were presented a range of sessions for the participants. pleased to have the opportunities to connect and learn. STF PL’s website also became a repository Work with school divisions and individual schools of online learning resources to assist teachers with continued to be an important component of the STF emergency remote teaching. Within weeks of the PL work in 2019. The STF PL core team and the website’s creation, over 6,000 unique hits occurred. Provincial Facilitator Community carried out this By mid-June, those numbers had exceeded 18,000 work. Topics in demand continued to include: Early unique visitors. learning, literacy, numeracy, supporting diversity in the classroom and assessment. Work at the school division level was often guided by the distributive E-Learning leadership model. STF PL worked closely with With the hiring of Jay Salikin in August 2019, system leaders who in turn helped support the we began the visioning process related to how professional growth of their teachers. School-level technology could be utilized to enhance professional facilitation contracts were customized to meet the learning opportunities for our members. A plan needs of a particular staff in their unique context.

6 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 STF Professional Learning continues to cultivate In 2019-2020, six systems in the province engaged positive professional relationships with First in the initiative as a new cohort of leaders and Nations, Métis and Inuit educational authorities learners, while the previous year’s two cohorts went and tribal councils in support of teachers who into the implementation phase of the initiative and work in federal schools. In 2019-20, STF PL began having their leaders plan and deliver learning had the opportunity to work with teachers from opportunities inside their own systems. Prince Albert Grand Council, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, Little Red River School and Bernard A group of three in-school administrators Constant Community School. A significant on-going co-constructed and delivered the Leading to Learn partnership with the Tribal Council learning journey for the 2019-2020 cohort of school was also established in 2019 to support their leaders. They led this new cohort for five days of communities in the areas of anxiety and trauma. in-person learning, and several online sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to engage in STF Professional Learning continues to be a trusted learning on the topics of anti-racist/anti-oppressive provider of professional growth to our colleagues education, First Nations, Métis and Inuit culture and who work in the federal system. In-demand topics perspectives and the stance and skills of facilitation in federal schools mirrored the in-demand topics of to prepare them to lead these days of learning in schools in the provincial system. their home systems the following year.

STF Professional Learning also continued to connect The Leading to Learn partnership includes Elders and work with other external education partners and representatives from the Ministry of Education, including Northlands College, the Saskatchewan First Nations education authorities, school divisions Adult Basic Education Association, Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation School Boards Association, Wanuskewin, the Professional Learning team, which make up the Saskatchewan Early Childhood Association and the Technical Working Group. The administrator-facili- Conseil des écoles fransaskoises. The opportunity tators, leading each Signpost of learning, receive to support professional educators who work in support and guidance from members of this group non-traditional settings is a growing and important of educational stakeholders, in-session Elders and component of the work of STF PL. Knowledge Keepers and the facilitation team at STF PL in order to ensure that each day of learning is impactful, rooted in the core objectives and helps to CONTRACTED SERVICES prepare the attendees to deliver this learning in their AT THE PROVINCIAL LEVEL own systems.

Leading to Learn Accreditation

Leading to Learn is an initiative introduced by In 2019-20 the Saskatchewan Accreditation Initial the Ministry of Education in 2018 and supported and Renewal/Second Subject Seminars were by STF Professional Learning. Leading to Learn offered across the province. Two school divisions is an essential element of the Education Sector – Saskatoon Public and South East Cornerstone – Strategic Plan’s First Nations, Métis and Inuit hosted accreditation seminars to complement the Student Engagement and Graduation Rate Outcome. calendar offerings of STF Professional Learning. A foundational component of the initiative is Over 157 teachers participated in the accreditation anti-racist/anti-oppressive education, as school seminars and met the requirements for accreditation. leaders learn to create and maintain learning The accreditation seminar was impacted by the environments which are responsive to student needs COVID-19 shut-down, but plans are in place to and foster relationships and community at their safely resume the seminar in 2020-21 in partnership core. In support of the Truth and Reconciliation with school divisions across the province. Commission Calls to Action and to make a positive impact on First Nations, Métis and Inuit students, STF Professional Learning continued the work of educators from provincial systems and First Nations renewing accreditation materials and processes, this education organizations work together to create year focusing on mentoring facilitators in the new capacity-building professional learning opportunities seminar. A majority of the accreditation cohort was for in-school administrators across the province. able to facilitate the new seminar in some capacity In 2018-19, ten school divisions from across the and provided valuable feedback in finalizing the province engaged in the initiative. new seminar.

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 7 Provincial Workshops Supporting Initiatives of the Federation STF Professional Learning facilitated 22 provincial In 2019-20, STF Professional Learning worked workshops throughout the province in 2019-20. The to support initiatives of the Saskatchewan areas of focus for provincial workshops included Teachers’ Federation. This support included accreditation, early learning, supporting diversity, providing professional learning and a voice to instruction and assessment, literacy, leadership strategic planning with numerous operating and and numeracy. Schools and school divisions had sub-committees. These committees included: the opportunity to host provincial offerings. These Pre-Service Teachers, Teachers in the First Five workshops are contracted by a school, division or Years, Teacher Well-Being and Principalship tribal council client. Supports.

8 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 The Provincial Facilitator Community was formed in 2014-15. See bar graph below for recent membership numbers.

PROVINCIAL FACILITATOR COMMUNITY

The Provincial Facilitator Community currently the province. As professional growth opportunities consists of 84 educators from across Saskatchewan become more centralized across the province, it from 22 different school divisions. These is increasingly important to develop facilitation professionals range from classroom teachers to capacity within school divisions. administrators to consultants. PROVINCIAL FACILITATOR As the Community matures more members are COMMUNITY MEMBERS

entering lead facilitating and planning roles. STF PL 100 has been contemplating how Community members might begin mentoring others, how to increase 80 networking opportunities and how to improve 60 feedback and critical and creative reflection. 9 94 40 5 4

School divisions generously continue to release 20 41

their teachers to assume these leadership roles NUMBER OF MEMBERS 0 within their home school divisions as well as across 14-15 15-1 1-1 1-1 1-19 19-

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ALLEN, SCOTT BRANDT, SEAN E.D. Feehan Catholic High School Warman High School Greater Saskatoon Roman Catholic Separate School Prairie Spirit School Division Division BRASS, JAYLENE ANDERSEN, KIM St. Francis Community School F. W. Johnson Collegiate Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division Regina Public School Division CARLISLE, KATE ANDERSON, KERRY Living Sky School Division Saskatoon Public School Division CHARABIN, LINDSAY Battleford Central School ANDERSON KLASSEN, PAM Living Sky School Division John Diefenbaker School Saskatchewan Rivers School Division CLARKE, DAN City Park Collegiate ARMSTRONG, DEAN Saskatoon Public School Division Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate North East School Division COOPER, CARLA Lumsden High School BAIER, TYLER Prairie Valley School Division St. Joseph High School Greater Saskatoon Roman Catholic Separate School DANYLUK, CHRISTINE Division Canora Junior Elementary School Good Spirit School Division BALLEK, JADE Dinsmore Composite School DAUBISSE, SARA MARIA Conseil des écoles fransaskoises

BECKER, STACY DIZY, MICHELLE Harris-Tessier Central School St. Mary School Sun West School Division Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division

BIBBY, PATRICIA DOGNIEZ, CORT Saskatchewan Rivers School Division DUNITS, CHERYL BIEM, RACQUEL Pope John Paul II School Chinook Cyber School Light of Christ Roman Catholic Separate School Chinook School Division Division

10 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 ELASCHUK, DARRYL JEFFERY, DWAYNE Eston Composite School Lloydminster Comprehensive High School Sun West School Division Lloydminster Public School Division

FAUBERT, DARIN KELLER, LOIS Wadena Composite School Horizon School Division Saskatoon Public School Division

FAVEL, ALISA KLEIN, MARCIA Saskatoon Public School Division École Vickers Public School Saskatchewan Rivers School Division FRANKLIN, HOLLY Shaunavon Public School KRAFT, ROB Chinook School Division St. Joseph High School Greater Saskatoon Roman Catholic Separate School GARG, ADITI Division Saskatoon Public School Division KRAWETZ, CANDICE Lumsden High School GELLNER, LYNDA Prairie South School Division Ecole Harbour Landing Regina Public School Division LALIBERTE, ERIN Rossignol Elementary School GRASBY SAWATZKY, PAM Ile a la Crosse School Division Westberry Elementary School Sun West School Division LEASK, HEATHER Conseil des écoles fransaskoises GRAY, MICHELLE Prairie Valley School Division LEBLANC, RYAN E.D. Feehan High School GUEST, MURRAY St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Separate School Division Saskatoon Public School Division LEIDL, REG

HARBOR, JASON LEWRY, CALLIE Porcupine Plain Composite School Ecole W.S. Hawrylak School North East School Division Regina Public School Division

HARTALL-HADWEN, GLENDA LICHTENWALD, KYLE Prairie Valley School Division Sacred Heart Community School Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Separate School HELFRICH, KENDRA Division Yorkton Regional High School Good Spirit School Division LOW, ARLENE Sun West Distance Learning Center HURLBERT, NINA Sun West School Division Douglas Park School Regina Public School Division LUCHINSKI, ROBERTA

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 11 MARCOTTE, LISA ROWE, DAVID St. Peter Elementary School Humboldt Collegiate Institute Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division Horizon School Division

MAZUREK, TANYA SANDOR, WARREN Walter Murray Collegiate MCDIVITT, KRISTA Saskatoon Public School Division Sheldon-Williams Collegiate Regina Public School Division SIBBALD, DAWN Spring Lake Hutterian School MCFARLANE, MELISSA Chinook School Division Brunswick Elementary School North East School Division SMITH, AMANDA Northwest School Division MIELKE, DAN Porcupine Plain Comprehensive School STEINER, LANA North East School Division Springside School Good Spirit School Division MILLETTE, DAVID Humboldt Collegiate Institute STILLAR, RAMONA Horizon School Division Light of Christ Roman Catholic Separate School Division MOEN, SANDRA Colonsay School THUNDER, TERRI Prairie Spirit School Division Oskayak High School Greater Saskatoon Roman Catholic Separate School MOHR, PENNY Division Bjorkdale School North East School Division TREPTOW, CHERYL Northwest School Division OWENS, JENNIFER Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division VAN HESTEREN, SHERRY PANTEL, MICHELLE Saskatoon Public School Division

PELLETIER, JOE WAHL, MONIQUE Miller Comprehensive High School St. Kateri Tekakwitha School Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division

PON, TERRY WEISBROD, KATE-LYNN Pense School Regina Public School Division Prairie Valley School Division

POPOFF, CORY WEISBROD, MEGAN Humboldt Collegiate Institute Seven Stones Community School Horizon School Division Regina Public School Division

RIOUX, TINA WHITE, KATIE North East School Division Saskatoon Public School Division WILSON, COLE

12 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 WILSON, SUSAN YOCKEY, VAL Cyber Stone Virtual School Notre Dame School South East Cornerstone School Division Light of Christ Roman Catholic Separate School Division YEAMAN, ANGELA Riverside Community School Saskatchewan Rivers School Division

PROFESSIONALSASKATCHEWAN GROWTH TEACHERS’ OPPORTUNITIES FEDERATION – EARLY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 13 14 SASKATCHEWAN TEACHERS’ FEDERATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 In 2019, the STF Professional Learning team revisited their current purpose and belief statements. Through a co-constructed, collaborative-rich process, it was decided that STF PL’s current purpose and belief statements should remain the same but that a mission statement should also be included:

“To support, empower and advocate for the growth of educators and students through responsive professional learning opportunities.”

PURPOSE AND BELIEFS

The purpose of STF Professional Learning is to • Focus on deepening professional knowledge and create and provide high-quality professional skills with the goal of supporting student learning. development resources and opportunities for • Include opportunities for dialogue, practice, the members of the teaching profession of research and reflection in a supportive climate. Saskatchewan and to provide support for the educational community’s pursuit of the same. • Be foundational to the ongoing work of educators.

In fulfilling this purpose, STF Professional Learning • Be sustainable over time. believes that the resources and opportunities • Promote and enhance cooperation and developed and delivered must: collaboration among educators.

• Acknowledge and respect the existing professional knowledge and skills of educators.

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PROVINCIAL WORKSHOPS • Early Learning with Block Play – Numeracy, Science and So Much More! Accreditation • Simple Solutions for Documentation • Responding to Children’s Interests Number of workshops: 4 (initial), 5 (renewal/second)

Topics: Supporting Diversity • Initial Accreditation Number of workshops: 1 • Renewal/Second Accreditation Topics: Early Learning • Classroom Management: Creating a Positive Classroom Climate Number of workshops: 11

Topics: Literacy • Connecting Curriculum to Play-Based Projects Number of workshops: 5 • Supporting Writers in the Early Years Topics: • Fundamental Practices for High-Quality Early Learning • Cracking the Code • Developing Self-Regulation and Social Emotional • Writing Series: Responsive Writing Instruction Skills in Early Years • Writing Series: Purposeful Writers • The Amazing Brain in the Early Years • Supporting Writers in the Early Years • Rich Literacy Practices in Primary • Rich Literacy Practices in Primary • Parent and Family Engagement: Inviting Families and Parents to Share in Our Learning

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Number of workshops: 6 • Foundations of Teaching Series: Planning for Instruction and Assessment Based on Outcomes Topics: • The Amazing Brain in the Early Years • Instructional Leadership • Instructional Coaching Skills and Strategies Holy Family RCS School Division • Supporting the Principalship • safeTALK • Facilitator Series: Embedding Formative Assessment into Professional Learning • Leading to Learn Overview • Facilitator Series: Unearthing and Responding to Barriers to Adult Learner Participation Holy Trinity School Division • Facilitator Series: What is Facilitation Anyway • Understanding Outcomes and Assessment for Reporting Numeracy Number of workshops: 3 Holy Trinity School Division, Vanier Collegiate • Outcomes-Based Assessment Topics: • Building Mathematical Fluency and Automaticity with Games Light of Christ RCS School Division, John Paul II Collegiate • Using Structures to Support Differentiation in a Math Classroom • Coaching • Technology in Mathematics Foundations and Pre-Calculus Lloydminster Public School Division

• Instructional Coaching Skills and Strategies CONTRACTED SERVICES • Responding to Children’s Interests

Charlebois Community School Northern Lights School Division

• Classroom Management • Developing Self-Regulation and Social Emotional Skills in the Early Years Conseil des écoles fransaskoises • The Continuum of Play and Instruction in the Early Years • La gestion de classe

Northwest School Division Creighton School • Instructional Coaching • Differentiation • Let’s Talk: Supporting Diverse Language Learners in the Early Years Creighton School Division • Coaching for Student Engagement • Reading Comprehension K-6 • Reading Comprehension 7-12 Northwest Teachers’ Association

• Rich Literacy Practices in Primary École secondaire monseigneur de laval • Number Talks and Beyond • La gestion de classe • Growing Inquiring Minds in Science • Using Tasks in High School Math Gateway Elementary School Prairie Valley School Division • Beyond the Spelling List • The Amazing Brain in the Early Years • Simple Solutions for Documentation

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• Vision and Strategic Planning Bernard Constant Community School

Regina Public Schools • Outcomes-Based Planning for Instruction and Assessment • Grad Rates Symposium

École White City Rocanville School • Curriculum and Assessment • Structures for Differentiating Elementary Mathematics Little Red River School

Rossignol Elementary School • Classroom Management

• Outcomes-Based Assessment Melfort and Unit Comprehensive College

Saskatchewan Rivers School Division • Starting the Year Off Right: Creating a Positive Classroom Climate • Accreditation

North East Daycare Directors Cooperative • Responding to Children’s Interests • Accreditation – Renewal

Northlands College South East Cornerstone School Division • Comprehension Strategies in All Subject Areas • Accreditation

Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Sun West School Division • Classroom Management • Number Talks

Prince Albert Grand Council Sun West School Division Teachers’ Association • Facilitation of New Resources

• Beyond the Spelling List SABEA Conference • High School ELA: Teaching the 5% - The Struggler and the Elite • Teaching with the Blend in Mind • Number Talks • Using Tasks in High School Math Saskatoon Tribal Council • Connecting Curriculum to Play-Based Projects in • Trauma-Informed Approach to Education Kindergarten • Growing Independent Learners in Multi-Graded Settings Sun West Distance Learning Centre

• They Never Could Have Before! Using Technology • Communication and Problem-Solving Skills for to Enhance Learning in Elementary Classrooms Team Success • Supporting EAL Students: Foundational Understandings and Practical Approaches

Vibank Regional School

• Growth Mindset

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