Registration $190 + tax (fee includes all 3 sessions and a copy of The Reading Strategies 2.0 - spiral book - $62 value). Registration is open until April 5th. Exclusive offer for Alberta teachers! Contact APRDC or your local consortia for a promo code and save $25 on your registration.
Do you have Spark?
Are you considering purchasing it for your school or classroom?
Join Karen to see how it can be used with the new ELA curriculum. We will explore various instructional contexts such as Interactive Read Aloud, Independent Reading, and Shared Reading. We will also talk about the addition of decodable texts which link to the Organizing Idea of Phonics in the new curriculum: how and why decodable texts can be used.
Karen Filewych has twenty-five years of educational experience as an elementary teacher, school administrator, and language arts consultant. In 2007, she completed her Master of Education degree in the area of literacy. Karen's first book - How Do I Get Them to Write? - was published by Pembroke Publishers in May of 2017. Her second book - Freewriting with Purpose - was published in January of 2019. Both books are practical guides for the teaching of writing and include lists of mentor texts for each area of study. Karen continues to write and has some exciting projects in the works!
Karen presents regularly for teachers on a variety of topics. She especially enjoys working with students through school-based writing residencies to demonstrate how writing can transform their work and their lives in the classroom and beyond. She also offers parent literacy evenings providing simple, effective ways to engage children in literacy-rich activities in the home.
Come join Kristy Dunn for a webinar that will cover the following areas:
Kristy Dunn is a doctoral candidate in Special Education at the University of Alberta. With over 15 years of teaching experience, Kristy brings valued knowledge as a literacy and learning specialist to the work of teachers of reading. She has designed reading intervention programs for both Alberta Education and different research projects. Kristy is currently on the board of directors of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta. She has received many awards, including the Alberta Excellence Scholarship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council Doctoral Fellowship.
Do you have Spark? Are you considering purchasing it for your school or classroom? Join Karen to see how it can be used with the new ELAL curriculum. We will explore various instructional contexts such as Interactive Read Aloud, Independent Reading, and Shared Reading. We will also talk about the addition of decodable texts which link to the Organizing Idea of Phonics in the new curriculum: how and why decodable texts can be used.
Learn More Watch the Recording
Karen Filewych has over twenty-five years of educational experience as an elementary teacher, school administrator, and language arts consultant. In 2007, she completed her Master of Education degree in the area of literacy. Karen's first book - How Do I Get Them to Write? - was published by Pembroke Publishers in May of 2017. Her second book - Freewriting with Purpose - was published in January of 2019. Both books are practical guides for the teaching of writing and include lists of mentor texts for each area of study. Karen continues to write and has some exciting projects in the works! She regularly provides professional development for teachers and writing residencies for students. Visit her website for more information: www.wordschangeworlds.ca.
This session will delve into the use of the variety of BAS Optional Assessments (Letter Identification, Early Reading Behaviours, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Word Reading, Word Analysis, Vocabulary) in order to gather information, program plan, reliably identify skill level, and track student progress over time.
Learn More Watch the Recording
Bonnie Lebowitz is a Reading Specialist /Consultant with a MA degree in literacy. Currently, Bonnie works (part time) for Edmonton Public in the capacity of Reading Special, on the Specialized Learning Support Team, performing a variety of normative based academic assessments and program planning for literacy. Bonnie has extensive experience presenting workshops and coaching all aspects of literacy K-12. Bonnie's passion is to support teachers in order to give all students the gift of literacy.
During this webinar, you'll explore The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum, Expanded Edition: A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Teaching. Together we will look at how to use this resource with the new Alberta English Language Arts and Literature curriculum to construct a common vision for student achievement that effectively and efficiently engages all students in the robust, authentic, and meaningful literacy learning every child deserves.
Learn More Watch the Recording
Siobhan Murphy is the Planning & Implementation Manager for Literacy for Pearson Canada. She has been in the field of education for 20 years, including teaching at the elementary and junior high levels, as a district lead literacy teacher and on secondment at the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium as a literacy consultant. Siobhan is passionate about all things literacy. She completed her Master's degree in education at the University of Alberta focusing her research on assessment for learning in elementary writing.
Join us in this 2-part practical session of learning new activities to support Number and Place Value learning in Grades 1-3. Time will be spent exploring the new curriculum and how Place Value learning builds over time. Activities and assessment support will be shared from Mathology.ca. You will leave with access to use these activities with your students in your classroom.
| October 4, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 1) | |
| October 11, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 2) |
Kim Mastromartino is an experienced educator, facilitating learning at the National, Provincial and District level. She has over 25 years’ experience working in various roles at the District level and Ministry of Education.
Currently working as the Planning and Implementation Manager for Math with Pearson Canada and providing support to all things Mathology. Supporting Educators in their learning is at the heart of Kim’s partnerships in collaboration.
Join us in this 2-part practical session of learning new activities to support fraction learning in Grades 1-3. Time will be spent exploring the new curriculum and how fraction learning builds over time. Activities and assessment support will be shared from Mathology.ca. You will leave with access to use these activities with your students in your classroom.
| October 18, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 1) | |
| October 25, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 2) |
Join us in a conversation with a Math Little Book Indigenous Author Nadine McSpaddin. Nadine will highlight indigenous ways of knowing and math activities in early patterning through the story We Can Bead. You will leave with practical math activities to share with students in your classroom and digital access to the Math Little Book.
| October 5, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm |
My name is Nadine McSpadden. I am from the Shuswap Band in Invermere, BC. Our community makes up one of 17 communities in the Secwepemc Nation. I currently work for Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows (SD42) as an Aboriginal Resource Teacher. I am the author of three of the Mathology Little Books; We Can Bead, Canada’s Oldest Sport, Memory Book. I have also co-written the grade 3 Inquiring Minds Social Studies Modules.
I love helping teachers truly connect Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous ways of knowing and being into all areas of the curriculum because I think it is really important that our students with ancestry see themselves reflected in what we teach in school.
Facilitated by the Authors Tara Flynn and Shelley Yearly
Online and classroom teachers Grades 2-9, administrators, curriculum coordinators, math specialists, learning coaches.
We hope you will join us in this learning series, to deepen your own understanding of fractions and related pedagogy, and to discover how to use the assessment questions in Rethinking Fractions to select tasks and inform instruction. Together, we will consider how this research-based resource can support you in the classroom.
Rethinking Fractions: 8 Core Concepts to Support Assessment and Learning is based on a decade of research with over 80 teachers and 2000 students from Grades 3 to 9. The 8 Core Concepts form a trajectory of learning that builds deep understanding of the complex and challenging topic of fractions.
Each core concept contains detailed examples along with assessment questions designed to reveal student thinking and rich tasks to support learning. Throughout, a focus on unit fractions and powerful representations help to support student confidence and understanding.
| November 16, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 1) | |
| November 30, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm (Part 2) |
Tara Flynn is an educational researcher, author, and editor who has been an integral contributor to Dr. Bruce’s mathematics education research program at Trent University for the past 15 years, most recently as Director of Research.
Shelley Yearley is excited to be back in the classroom as a secondary school mathematics and student support teacher in Trillium Lakelands District School Board after years as a K–12 curriculum consultant with the board, followed by a lengthy secondment as a mathematics Project Lead for the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE).
Administrators, school and district math leaders for grades K-3
This 3- part webinar series is designed for math coaches, consultants, and administrators who want to dig deeper into the facilitator’s guide and extend their learning. Working on two levels—deepening math knowledge and providing facilitation support—these highly interactive learning sessions will support you with the tools you need to lead learning in your school or district and begin to use the facilitator’s guide.
| November 8, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm | |
| November 22, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm | |
| November 29, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 pm |
For as long as I can remember, I have been a teacher in some capacity. I have taught throughout my life in a variety of capacities and across the spectrum. After completing my Master’s Degree, I began teaching at Lakehead University - Thunder Bay Campus, alongside Dr. Alex Lawson, in the Bachelor of Education Department. The work of digging into how people (children and adults) learn the key ideas of mathematics and finding ways to support that learning brings me great joy. I work with educators on a regular basis to support them to understand the Continuum of Student Development in Mathematics developed by Alex Lawson. My own personal areas of interest include the development of multiplicative and proportional reasoning. I could geek out for hours about either one of those topics.
