Conference Itinerary
Tuesday, February 18
| Time | Event | Venue (Burnaby Campus) |
|---|---|---|
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Registration and Welcome packages | EDUC 8620 |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Conference Opening Reception | EDUC 8620 &8515 (appetizers) |
Wednesday, February 19
| Time | Event | Venue (Burnaby Campus) |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration and Welcome packages | Diamond Family Auditorium |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Conference Welcome - | |
| Tsleil-Waututh Nation elder, Carleen Thomas | ||
| Dean's Welcome | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Keynote presenter | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Closing notes and transition to Session A |
Conference Sessions
One-hour sessions | 54 scheduled sessions in 13 separate venues | EDUC Building
| Time | Session/Event | Number of Sessions/Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Session A | 12 |
| 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Session B | 12 |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch | |
| Directors' Lunch (Indigenous Gathering Space - EDUC 8651) |
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| 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Session C | 12 |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Session D | 12 |
Session A - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
Artificial Intelligence and the Classroom: Using AI in Educational Practice
(Jarvis &Klein-Laufer) - EDUC 8620.1 (25) - Workshop:
Engaging all Students with Concept-Based Planning
(DeTerra) - EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
The Art Educator's Ethics Compass: A Workshop in Creative and Collaborative Pedagogy
(Eymundson) - EDUC 8502 (20) - Workshop:
Radical Agency in the Classroom: SEL Learning as Social Justice Work
(Zall) - EDUC 7505 (20) - Workshop:
The pedagogy of sharing food: engaging learners鈥� assumptions about food, eating and veganism as a way towards more respectful relations with animals
(Behrisch, Fernandes, Tucker) - EDUC 7506 (40) - Workshop:
A glimpse into the Story Studio/Reggio Emilia Approach: Engaging Language Arts for K-8 Learners and for first and additional language learners.
(Ramamonjisoa, Kolber) - EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
Les litt茅raties plurilingues au coeur des apprentissages :Des kamishiba茂 pour mieux apprendre le/en fran莽ais.
(Bullock & Moore) (Presented in French) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
The challenge of acknowledging land: land-based education, exploratory practice and duo-ethnography.
(Campbell, Tajiri, Dhaliwal, Brendzy, Brendzy, Munro) (Partially outdoors) - EDUC 7608 (40) - Workshop:
One Big Happy Family: Teacher Engagement through Collaboration
(Mah) - EDUC 7610 (35)
- The Spectrum of Sound: Engaging Music Students through Sound Exploration
(Micu) - Engaging Music Education Through Soundwalking and Soundscape Storytelling
(Clarke)
- The Spectrum of Sound: Engaging Music Students through Sound Exploration
- EDUC 7618 (65)
- Practicing What We Teach: Exploring the Connection Between Mental Health Literacy and Teacher Mental Health
(MacNeil) - Designing for Wellness: A Design-Based Research Approach to Optimizing Social Media Engagement and Promoting Long-Term Teacher Wellbeing Among Pre-service Teachers
(Dinh, Schedlosky)
- Practicing What We Teach: Exploring the Connection Between Mental Health Literacy and Teacher Mental Health
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- Bridging the gaps: The place of Interdisciplinary learning in secondary education
(Allen) - No leg! No problem: Cross-curricular modelling
(Abraha)
- Bridging the gaps: The place of Interdisciplinary learning in secondary education
Session B - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
Engaging Imagination for Meaningful Learning
(Hoonjan) - EDUC 8620.1 (25) - Workshop:
Using Math Workshop to support learners of Diverse Needs in a Math Classroom
(Rotzien) - EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
High Leverage Instructional Routines for your K-3 Literacy Block
(Thomas) - EDUC 8502 (20)
- Innovative Pedagogies for Refugee Students: Blending Art and Translanguaging in Elementary Schools
(Akimenko, Barber) - Supporting Immigrant Adolescents with Disabilities: Parental Strategies and Systemic Barriers to Home-Based Parental Involvement in Education
(Melnik)
- Innovative Pedagogies for Refugee Students: Blending Art and Translanguaging in Elementary Schools
- EDUC 7505 (20) - Workshop:
Scaffolding for Success: Structuring the Semester to Maximize L2 Learner Engagement
(O'Toole) - EDUC 7506 (40) - Workshop:
Pedagogies for negotiating a positive linguistic identity as L+ student teachers in French Education.
(Tang) (Presented in English) - EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
Litt茅rature Jeunesse Plurilingue et D茅veloppement de la Litt茅ratie Critique : Un Pont vers la Diversit茅 Linguistique en Classe
(Deehoo) (Presented in French) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
Presence, joy, and persistence, in practice: love in an age of disconnection and scarcity
(Wardrop) - EDUC 7608 (40) - Workshop:
AI-Powered Personalized Learning: The Future of Education
(Crandall & Anvari) - EDUC 7610 (35) - Workshop:
Journeying towards more inclusive learning environments for Indigenous identities and perspectives
(Carson) - EDUC 7618 (65)
- Transforming sustainability education through an exploration of Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and practises
(Thompson) - Cultivating Holistic Educational Approaches: Exploring the Intersection of Indigenous Pedagogies and Self-Regulated Learning
(Nielsen, Sam)
- Transforming sustainability education through an exploration of Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and practises
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- The Real Shakespearean Tragedy is That We Read Their Work Without Performing It
(Campbell) - Performing and Audiencing: A New Lens on Engagement in Diverse Classrooms
(Boland)
- The Real Shakespearean Tragedy is That We Read Their Work Without Performing It
Session C - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
Work-Life Wellness for New Teachers
(Jarvis) - EDUC 8620.1 (25)
- Layers of Identity: Exploring Intersections of Our Cultural and Professional Being in Teacher Education
(Sadhra) - I Have ADHD, So What?
(Threlfall)
- Layers of Identity: Exploring Intersections of Our Cultural and Professional Being in Teacher Education
- EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
Creating a Warm Learning Environment for Every Student
(Dimopoulos & Whitehouse) - EDUC 8502 (20)
- Preparing Students for an Online World
(Basnett) - To Phub or Not to Phub? Socio-moral Reasoning at a Digital Citizenship After-School Program
(Rohr)
- Preparing Students for an Online World
- EDUC 7505 (20) - Workshop:
Double Trouble: The Online Side of Sex Ed
(McPhee) - EDUC 7506 (40) - Workshop:
Creating Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Classrooms: Strategies for Engaging Diverse Student Populations
(Meadows & Sinnott) - EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
Ethical and Responsible Use of GenAI in Education: Hands-on Exploration for Educators
(Woloshen & Wright) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
Engaging Students鈥� Social-Emotional Learning through Outdoor Classrooms
(MacLean) (Partially outdoors) - EDUC 7608 (40) - Workshop:
They Tried to Bury Us Not Realizing We Were Seeds: Examining curriculum through an anti-oppression Lens
(Ohana) - EDUC 7610 (35) - Workshop:
Queering the Classroom: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Students by Resisting Heteropatriarchy
(Thomson & Oikawa) - EDUC 7618 (65)
- Fostering Supportive Teacher Communities: Reducing Isolation Through Structured Collaboration
(Bin Li) - A Sense of Belonging in Teacher Education
(Ragoonaden, Yamamoto, Bartsch, Billingsley, Sheenan, Setters, Woloshen)
- Fostering Supportive Teacher Communities: Reducing Isolation Through Structured Collaboration
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- Finding a Home for Francophone Pre-Service Teachers/ Trouver un foyer pour les stagiaires francophones
(Campbell) - Plurilingual Approaches: Building Inclusive Japanese Language Classrooms in Canadian Higher Education
(Zhang)
- Finding a Home for Francophone Pre-Service Teachers/ Trouver un foyer pour les stagiaires francophones
Session D - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
Developing Community, Empathy, and New Understandings through Ensemble-Based Theatre
(Bernstein) - EDUC 8620.1 (25)
- Engaging Senior Years Students in Controversial Topics
(Peloquin-Epp) - Beyond Grades: Unpacking Student Teacher Knowledge Development in Ungraded Teacher Education
(Dharamshi, Bahrmai, Cojocaru)
- Engaging Senior Years Students in Controversial Topics
- EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
Beyond the Identity Wheel: Crafting Complex Positionality Maps
(Sharda, Ilten-Gee) - EDUC 8502 (20) - Workshop:
Incorporating social emotional learning into practice
(Bigsby) - EDUC 7505 (20) - Workshop:
The Mathematics of Tla鈥檃min Fish Traps
(Tan) - EDUC 7506 (40) - Workshop:
Climate Change Education: Collaborative Course Development
(Germanos, Kazmi, Olynyk, Sanford, Robertson) - EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
Trauma Informed Practice in Experiential Learning
(Henderson) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
What is Environmental Learning?
(Zandvliet, Leddy, Paul) - EDUC 7608 (40) - Workshop:
Decoding Dyslexia: A Hands-On Perspective
(Ramirez) - EDUC 7610 (35) - Workshop
Bringing the Outside In: Interdisciplinary Learning in the Secondary Years
(Younghusband, Mocilac, Rutherford, Procter) - EDUC 7618
- Increasing Educator Capacity to Support Students Mental Wellness in Secondary & Intermediate Classrooms
(Jakubowski, Robertson) - Fostering psychosocial well-being in refugee students: Educational strategies and inclusive frameworks
(Lin, Pazoki)
- Increasing Educator Capacity to Support Students Mental Wellness in Secondary & Intermediate Classrooms
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- Integrating Indigenous Pedagogies: A Pathway for Beginning Teachers
(de Groot) - Settler Family: Engaging in Critical Family Literacy in the Classroom
(Reiners)
- Integrating Indigenous Pedagogies: A Pathway for Beginning Teachers
Thursday, February 20
| Time | Event | Venue (Burnaby Campus) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | Diamond Family Auditorium |
Conference Sessions
One-hour sessions | 26 scheduled sessions in 13 separate venues | EDUC Building
| Time | Session/Event | Number of Sessions/Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Session E | 12 |
| 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Session F | 12 |
Session E - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
Turning to One Another to Foster Hope Through Metissage
(Schnellert, Younghusband, Sanford, Fisher, Kozak, Howe, I Yee, Robertson, Olding, Ragpot, Banack, Koehn, Willms, Farish, Maguire, Laminger) - EDUC 8620.1 (25) - Workshop:
Fears of Failure: Teachers Perceptions and Practices Used
(Banta) - EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
Get Outside! Explore Imaginative Education and The Walking Curriculum
(Jaffer) (Partially outside) - EDUC 8502 (20) - Workshop:
Unit茅 p茅dagogique annuelle sur la temporalit茅 fond茅e sur les approches plurielles CARAP
(Boucher, Ishikawa) (Presented in French) - EDUC 7505 (20)
- Educating for the Capacity and Will to Engage
(Chen) - Reimagining Elementary Classroom Design; Environments for Success
(Zupan)
- Educating for the Capacity and Will to Engage
- EDUC 7506 (40)
- AI Meets UDL: Designing Adaptive Classrooms for Inclusive and Future-Ready Learning
(Shilibekova) - Emancipation and Engagement in the Online Classroom
(Krilic)
- AI Meets UDL: Designing Adaptive Classrooms for Inclusive and Future-Ready Learning
- EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
Empowering Inclusive Classrooms: Leveraging Assistive Technologies Through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Support Students with Autism
(Chung) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
Joyous Journaling
(Deitcher) - EDUC 7608 (40) - Workshop:
Lean into your Strengths to Step into Scholarly Teaching in the K-12 classroom
(Whintors) - EDUC 7610 (35) - Workshop:
Expressions of Place: Post Cards from Oaxaca
(Elderton) - EDUC 7618 (60)
- Teacher Education as Secondary Curriculum: The Anatomy of Foundations of Teacher Education 12
(Sutherland, Olchowy) - Learning to Lead: How Mentorship Transforms the Student-Teacher Experience
(Kenney)
- Teacher Education as Secondary Curriculum: The Anatomy of Foundations of Teacher Education 12
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- Interdisciplinary Teaching for Professional Growth: Strategies for Senior Years
(Teichroew) - Teaching about Settler-Colonialism in Senior Years History Classes
(Derry)
- Interdisciplinary Teaching for Professional Growth: Strategies for Senior Years
Session F - Details
- EDUC 8620 Hub (70) - Workshop:
The Power of Curiosity: Cultivating Engagement through Wonder, Exploration, and Indigenous Perspectives
(Warkentin and Gillis) - EDUC 8620.1 (25) - Workshop:
Transforming Classrooms with Video Modeling: A Tool for Inclusive and Skill-Based Learning
(Nwobodo, Williamson) - EDUC 8620.2 (25) - Workshop:
Comprehensive sexual health beyond the PE classroom
(Nyberg, Watt) - EDUC 8502 (20)
- Creating Student Engagement Through Facilitated Communal Experiences
(Ens) - Promoting Student Autonomy and Voice: Practical Insights for New Teachers
(Tordiffe)
- Creating Student Engagement Through Facilitated Communal Experiences
- EDUC 7505 (20) - Workshop:
Increasing Engagement by Incorporating Visual Arts in the Middle Years Classroom
(Edwards) - EDUC 7506 (40) - Workshop:
Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing your practice with a critical lens.
(Roberts) - EDUC 7509 (40) - Workshop:
The Connection Between Effective Literacy Practices Engagement and Equity: Science-Informed and Relationship Focused Practices for K-12 Educators
(Raymond-Baerg) - EDUC 7600 (50) - Workshop:
Choose Your Own Adventure: Two Pathways for Engaging Culturally-Sustaining Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
(Sam, Ilten-Gee, Gis) - EDUC 7608 (40)
- Settler Family: Engaging in Critical Family Literacy in the Classroom
(Reiners) - Critical Literacy in Action: Engaging in Diverse Spaces
(Yao, Zandrazavi, Cummins)
- Settler Family: Engaging in Critical Family Literacy in the Classroom
- EDUC 7610 (35) - Workshop:
A Modern Critical Stand to the Funds of Knowledge
(Bin Li, Bejdo) - EDUC 7618 (60)
- Alberta Pre-service Teachers & LGBTQ+ Students: The Interplay Between Alberta Politics, LGBTQ+ Youth, and Future Teachers
(Razon) - Content Analysis of Sensitive Classroom Discussions Using an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lens (EDI) from Students and Instructors鈥� Perspectives in Higher Education
(Biferie, Sam)
- Alberta Pre-service Teachers & LGBTQ+ Students: The Interplay Between Alberta Politics, LGBTQ+ Youth, and Future Teachers
- EDUC 8504 (32)
- A meaningful exchange of roles: students as teachers in teacher professional learning
(Griffith) - Educating Pre-Service and Early Career Teachers for Inner City Schools
(Olding, Redekop)
- A meaningful exchange of roles: students as teachers in teacher professional learning
Post-Session Itinerary
| Time | Event | Venue (Burnaby Campus) |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Closing Keynote and addresses | Diamond Family Auditorium (refreshments) |