Growth Mindset YTA Territory-Wide Conference 2018

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Jeudi, le 27 septembre, 2018

KEYNOTE Speakers/Conferencières

Thursday, September 27th, 8:40 – 10:00 a.m.

Lisa Dion PCSS Gym Awakening the Genius Within Teachers and educators are introduced to a framework for human potential that will help awaken the genius in each of their students, and in themselves! They will learn what drives their students to do what they do and why certain things interest them. Teachers and educators are guaranteed to walk away from this talk with aha moments and a deeper

understanding of what it takes to truly inspire their students.

Thursday, September 27th, 2:10 – 3:25 p.m.

Gwyneth Jones PCSS Gym Choose to be an EdTech Trooper Our world is not changing back. In the tumult of today's technical and pedagogical innovation, it's time to take action! As fierce and future ready educators our language has shifted to connect, collaborate, create, construct, make, flip, share,

advocate and empower to move forward into the universe of rigorous instruction. This session will make sense of the sensational and decode the Babel of buzzwords. You needn’t choose to adopt and change everything in your tech tool bag - but picking just one or two new things to try, can transform your professional practice. Choosing to be an EdTech Trooper and a change agent within education isn't easy - but it's ultimately rewarding for administrators, teachers, librarians, and students! Doing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, is optional.

BREAKOUTS/SESSIONS 10:25-11:40

Lisa Dion PCSS Gym Developing Emotional Regulation in the Classroom: A Neurobiological Perspective for Teachers and Educators 1.0 As neuroscience continues to reveal the importance of developing greater and greater capacities for emotional regulation, it is essential that teachers and educators understand the biology behind regulation and how to develop it within the children in their classrooms.

Participants will understand exactly what regulation is and is not, the biological mechanisms in the brain and nervous system allowing for regulation, and what it takes to develop a child's regulatory capacity.

Véronique Lachance PCSS Drama Room

Drama, Expression & Creativity

I like to connect people from various backgrounds through theatre. My exercises help to shape the body, the speech and develop a natural ease of expression. I work a lot on an immersive way to develop a sensitivity of the body in the space. I also like working in

unusual places (outside a stage) to play. My main goal is to bring people together and create with them a unique and playful moment, where everyone has been involved in a creation.

Olivier de Colombel PCSS Music Room Music Therapy This interactive workshop offers an introduction to music therapy, its history and its fields of application. Through games, stories, and reading tips, you'll discover this discipline that is often misunderstood by the general public. This training is led by Olivier de Colombel,

musician graduated from the conservatory of Courneuve (France), and music therapist graduated from the University Paris-Descartes.

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Jeudi, le 27 septembre, 2018

Deanna Brajcich, Michael Pruner PCSS 101 & Susan Robinson

Instructional Routines: Connecting Content and Competencies How can we create a culture where curricular and core competencies can flourish? The New BC mathematics curriculum has opened up a world of flexibility and engagement for both students and teachers and the opportunity to build learning communities in our classroom. In this session, Deanna, Mike and Susan of the BCAMT will lead an exploration of different approaches and number routines. Come discover the power these instructional routines have to not only excite your students about the mathematics world, but also provide opportunities to assess the competencies in action.

Michel Emery PCSS 113

Breakout EDU & the Redesigned Curriculum - Cultivating inquiry, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity though engaging classroom-based challenges. In this session, participants will experience a Breakout EDU challenge and will learn about

this engaging resource. Once the scenario explained, participants will have a set amount of time to move around the room, work together, and solve a series of critical thinking puzzles in order to unlock a mystery box. Games are content-aligned and designed for learners of all ages and abilities. Breakout EDU takes curriculum and shakes it up!

Gwyneth Jones PCSS 168 Tweet Like a Ninja in 6 Easy Steps: Education Edition Twitter is one of the most significant, rich, and profound professional development tools out there (& it's FREE!) but mastering it takes some slick sensei moves. All

administrators and educators can benefit from the use of Twitter for creating global connections. Whether you're a Twitter newbie, lurker, or champion, this session will be chock full of easy tips and tricks to learn. You will explore the language of Twitter, see how to set up an account and gain followers. Learn how to connect and share resources with your community and educators around the world. Discover how to participate in real-time online professional development and get updates from educational organizations via Twitter using hashtags, chats and groups. From choosing the right user name, creating a profile that packs a punch, and using graphic designs that grab, to how to build a powerful global personal learning network, you can master the art of the Tweet! BYOD.

Janet Rudzroga PCSS Library 234

Mindfulness for Self-Care (Afternoon session is different) How can we take care of children when we haven’t taken care of ourselves first?

Morning session will focus on:

-Importance of Self-Care for school staff.

- Impacts of stress and how developing a mindful yoga practice can help calm the body and mind.

- Guided sequence of relaxing yoga poses with props (no yoga experience required).

- How to access free resources to support the development of a personal mindfulness practice.

Kaitlin Normandin PCSS 141 Using a Lightbox to Tell a Story Looking for lesson plans based on the new Yukon curriculum?

The Old Log Church Museum can help! Join us and test out our new program, suitable for Elementary English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Arts Education. We’ll be creating our

own simple lightboxes and telling stories to each other using our own “magic lantern.” All participants will be given two additional plans and associated resources, including: Journals and Their Role in Recording History (Elementary English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Arts Education) and Musical Instruments During the Gold Rush (Elementary Arts Education). Each lesson plan has been approved by Yukon Education.

Molly Pratt PCSS 143 Healthy Living in My Community Project - Bringing stories of healthy living to the classroom through mapping technology

The Healthy Living in My Community project will bring community stories of healthy living to the classroom and connect students to healthy living initiatives (related to: healthy

eating, active living, mental health, sexual health, youth leadership, career exploration, and cultural activities) in their communities through the creation of online maps and the integration of storytelling and experiential learning. This workshop will walk teachers through a free unit plan and lesson package that was developed by the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research in collaboration with Esri Canada, which meets Yukon’s English Language Arts, Physical and Health Education and Applied Design, Skills and Technologies curriculum requirements.

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Jeudi, le 27 septembre, 2018

Bryan Gidinski PCSS 145 Show! Don’t Tell: A Writing Workshop This interactive workshop focuses on encouraging students to write meaningful, interesting stories, and to participate in the writing process. The workshop develops the following concepts; the role of the writer, creating images as a writer, the components of a story, selecting a topic to write about, using meaningful detail in stories, using dialogue to develop

characters, creating suspense and writing in an active voice.

Audience: Teachers of Grades 3 – 9

Diane Labelle PCSS 146 L’apprentissage inquisitif authentique/Changement climatique (Session double: 1ere partie requise pour la 2ieme) L’interdisciplinarité demeure la porte d’entrée pour appréhender la complexité du changement climatique et de promouvoir l’éducation à l’environnement pour un développement durable. Les informations médiatisées massivement et la communauté naturelle s’avèrent des occasions d’apprentissage pour développer une enquête

authentique. L’apprentissage transformateur, le processus d’enquête, le cercle de construction de connaissances sont des approches à privilégier pour bâtir des savoirs, pour développer la pensée critique, pour développer les habiletés du 21e siècle afin d’engager davantage nos citoyens à générer des solutions créatives et innovatrices à des problèmes complexes qui se retrouvent au sein de notre société. Plusieurs ressources pertinentes pour développer le processus d’enquête et la pensée critique seront partagées.

Janice Haines PCSS 147 Authentic Inquiry and Environmental Education (Elementary) (Double Session: 1st part required for 2nd) Welcome to ‘Authentic Inquiry and Environmental Education Professional Development ‘. This institute will be a professional inquiry, conducted from a circle with input from

participants being a critical component. It is also experiential in nature and participants should come dressed casually and comfortably and be prepared to go outside…perhaps even in light rain. Please bring a journal, small device and your sense of professional adventure. Be thinking about what you have done this year outside with your students that you could share with the others. You will be delving into and receiving three fabulous resources that will help with your practise: LSF’s Connecting the Dots and Climate Change Resources for Teachers and Green Teacher's Teaching Kids About Climate Change. We are looking forward to inspiring your sense of curiosity and wonder!

Ellen Field PCSS 148

Authentic Inquiry and Environmental Education (Secondary) (Double Session: 1st part required for 2nd) In this very popular 1-day PD experience, we will facilitate collaborative knowledge-building and help educators pursue the knowledge and skills that will position them to be effective facilitators of climate change learning.

Outcomes—through their participation, educators will:

-Bring their experiences, pose questions, be provoked by relevant insights and collaboratively navigate curriculum, assessment and the application of inquiry learning to address climate change

-Experience hands-on instructional strategies for integrating climate change into your teaching practice

-Investigate collaborative knowledge-building principles and methods

-Gain confidence in planning authentic inquiry learning experiences

-Explore how inquiry and project-based learning maximize student engagement

Nicole Bringsli & Lisa Evans PCSS 149

Brain Development and Building Core Strengths What is the NMT model? The Neuro-sequential Model is a developmentally-informed, biologically-respectful approach to working with at-risk children.

The Neuro-sequential Model is not a specific therapeutic technique or intervention; it is a way to organize a child’s history and current functioning. The goal of this approach is to structure the assessment of a child, the articulation of the primary problems, identification of key strengths and the application of interventions (educational, enrichment and therapeutic) in a way that will help family, educators, therapists and related professionals best meet the needs of the child.

-Why is this important

-Brain organization and memory

-Core principles of brain development

-Creation of relational templates

-Caregiving for the child’s brain and the development of core strengths (Attachment, Regulation, Affiliation, Awareness of Others, Tolerance and Respect).

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Jeudi, le 27 septembre, 2018

Ted Temertzoglou PCSS 150 Exercise in Disguise (elementary) This active session fuses numeracy, literacy through physical literacy. You will come away from this session with ideas on how to easily integrate fun 'exercise in disguise' games to get students moving both inside and outside the classroom during DPA and H&PE. See how

we can help students improve their academic readiness, mental health while contributing to their physically literacy journey.

Luann Baker-Johnson Participants via Draw Shipyards Park Art Therapy At Lumel Studios we take for granted that humans are smart, have a healthy fear of

1200 C molten glass and have wonderfully creative instincts! In fact, we are trying to grow future glass blowers and from experience we know that working with hot glass is positively addictive and engaging. Come create your own piece of art and learn how art is beneficial for the heart and the soul.

Gurdeep Pandher JHES Large Gym Bhangra dance Bhangra dance is a great activity for health and wellness. Many people attend Bhangra sessions as a great alternative to cardio or gym workouts. Bhangra is a hardcore and high-

energy dance, but very fun and entertaining fitness activity as well. Being active is an important part of personal wellness. Absolutely no previous experience required. One hour of bhangra sessions can burn around 400 to 500 calories.

Lynda Monk JHES Small Gym Burnout Prevention Burnout, compassion fatigue and at times, possibly vicarious trauma, are occupational hazards for teachers and educational leaders. Stress and burnout are commonly identified

in teachers within the K-12 system with wide ranging causes and impacts. This conference workshop is designed to inform teachers about these work-related risks that can result from the very nature of the work itself and to offer practical evidence-based strategies for reducing risk and enhancing resiliency in order to thrive and be/do well both personally and professionally. This highly interactive session will use group discussion, self-assessment, storytelling, videos, and reflective learning tools to ensure participants gain new awareness as well as options for positive resiliency actions beyond the workshop.

BREAKOUTS/SESSIONS 12:30-1:45 New or Continuations of Morning Sessions

Lisa Dion PCSS 168

Developing Emotional Regulation in the Classroom: A Neurobiological Perspective for Teachers and Educators 2.0 Part 2

Deanna Brajcich, Michael Pruner PCSS 101 & Susan Robinson The Power of Thinking Classrooms: Are our classrooms populated by students

who are engaged in deep thinking for the duration of class? This session will explore what a thinking classroom looks like, how to create a thinking classroom, and approaches to assessment. Michael, Susan and Deanna of the BCAMT will guide your learning about changes that you can apply right now to shift the culture of your classroom towards one where students are engaged, enthusiastic and independent in their learning.

Dr. Hanley PCSS 107

Cannabis: The Medical Facts As the sole Medical Officer of Health in the Territory, Dr. Hanley’s responsibilities cover the full gamut of public health, whether it be preparing for pandemics, advising on immunizations, overseeing communicable disease investigations and management, working with government in developing public health policy and setting public health priorities, answering questions from doctors and nurses, talking public health with the public, or

participating on various national committees. He was able to free himself from his very busy schedule to speak with us about Cannabis, its use in Canada, its health effects and how to best deal with intoxicated youth.

Michel Emery PCSS 113 Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and 360 Photography: Accessible, Authentic and Engaging Immersive Learning From Antarctica to the Grand Canyon to the International Space Station - where will you

take your class using VR? Or how about using AR to bring an active live volcano, a full skeletal system, or a contagious virus in your classroom. Or even create your own Yukon VR experiences using an iPad to capture a cultural event, to tell a story, or to solve a problem in your community. Make the curriculum and your lessons come alive with these cutting-edge technologies accessible to all grade levels. Participants will explore these technologies, learn about the Gadzoosdaa Residence VR tour we created, and receive a set of cardboard VR goggles to keep.

Thursday, September 27, 2018 Jeudi, le 27 septembre, 2018

Kevin Lamoureux PCSS 168 Indigenous Perspective on Colonization & Reconciliation in Schools You are invited to find out more about Canadian history but from a difference angle with a truly engaging speaker. How did colonization have a lasting impact on Indigenous peoples?

What is reconciliation and specifically how can we translate it into actions and climates within our schools in a positive and realistic way?

Janet Rudzroga PCSS Library 234

Mindfulness for Self-Care (Morning session is different) How can we take care of children when we haven’t taken care of ourselves first? Afternoon session will focus on:

-Benefits of developing a personal mindfulness practice to help calm the body and mind. -Simple, yet effective breathing techniques. -Guided progressive relaxation body scan to aid in relaxation. All equipment provided -How to access free resources to support the development of a personal mindfulness practice.

Bryan Gidinski PCSS 145 Reading Portfolios: Reading, Responding, and Reflecting Learn how to engage students in responding to self-selected novels, resulting in Reading Portfolios. Students have diverse options to select from when drafting their responses, submitting entries every two weeks. Bryan will provide insight as to how he provides descriptive feedback to build their capacity to respond with depth, elaboration, and voice.

He will demonstrate how he builds student understandings about what makes powerful, effective responses, and will illustrate how students engage in self-evaluation, and reflect on Core Competencies, particularly Creative and Critical Thinking.

Diane Labelle PCSS 146 L’apprentissage inquisitif authentique/Changement climatique (Session double: 1ere partie requise pour la 2ieme) Deuxième partie

Janice Haines PCSS 147 Authentic Inquiry and Environmental Education (Elementary) (Double Session: 1st part required for 2nd) Part 2

Ellen Field PCSS 148

Authentic Inquiry and Environmental Education (Secondary) (Double Session: 1st part required for 2nd) Part 2

Nicole Bringsli & Lisa Evans PCSS 149 Trauma, Neglect and/or Maltreatment and the Developing Brain -Impact of traumatic and neglectful experiences on the developing brain.

-Caregiving, relationships and attachment including co-regulation.

-Reparative Experiences.

-The developmental of the stress response system including understanding the arousal continuum.

-Dissociation and hypervigilance.

Ted Temertzoglou PCSS 150 Reimaging Health and Physical Education (secondary) UNESCO’s Quality Physical Education Policy document emphasizes the tremendous impact a quality H&PE program has on our students, their families, and our society. In this semi

active session, we will apply a flipped classroom approach using the new Healthy Active Living (HAL) 2.0 and the Functional Fitness Chart resources. The three lessons we will focus on are, movement preparation (warm-up games), the seven key features of human movement, and creating personalized fitness assessment protocols, to engage all students regardless of current athletic ability.