ENCOMPASS Conference
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Afternoon - PM sessions
No need to pre-register for your session (except Kagan's session). First-come, first-served until the room is full
Strategies for thinking, rethinking and acting towards social justice.
Presenter: Ashley House
Middle (6-8)
Build community in the classroom by exploring questions of identity, critical thinking and activism through language arts and social studies. Options include the use of short stories and pictures books to explore perspectives on poverty and identity, creative writing lessons that produce soap box rants about peace, a graffiti unit demonstrating speaking back to injustice and work addressing the hidden curriculum. In our program, these activities are precursors to a student activism project that will be shared with interested participants. (some handouts in French).
Cooperative Activities to Engage Children in Physical Education: A Developmentally Appropriate Approach
Presenter: Dr. Stephen Berg
Elementary (K-7)
This session will focus on cooperative activities that can help engage elementary-aged school children in thier physical education lessons. Come prepared to be physically active!
Coquitlam School District and UNICEF Canada: Implementing the Rights Respecting School
Presenter: Kelly Quinlan & Denise Gibson
Elementary (K-7)
By engaging in a deep, action-oriented and school-wide exploration of the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child, children can experience making informed decisions and everyday life choices, which will help them on the road to becoming confident, active citizens. In this interactive and creative workshop you will learn about Cape Horn Elementary School's journey to becoming the first Rights Respecting School(RRS)in Canada. Teachers and students will share their own experiences and the positive impact the RRS has had on transforming the school environment, the classroom and the individual themselves. In the take-home package, we will provide resources, including an overview of the RRS toolkit, and information on how to become a Rights Respecting School. You will also receive information to connect with our online national professional learning community.
Introduction of Emotional Literacy for Educators
Presenter: Miriam Miller
All Grades (K-12)
This highly interactive workshop allows teachers to learn how emotions impact student learning and performance, decision making, relationships, and engagement. Teachers learn to leverage the power of emotions through the immediate use of the Mood Metre tool resulting in a supportive and engaging learning environment.
Empowerment to Social Responsibility
Presenter: Julie Rempel
All Grades (K-12)
Imagine the change young people could make across Canada given the opportunity. Imagine the values they would learn, and the empowerment they would take with them all their lives. MakeChange, The Ladybug Foundation Education Program is a multi media resource. It incorporates values and attitudes that are at the core of what the young founder of The Ladybug Foundation, Hannah Taylor has used to make a difference in the lives of Canada's hungry and homeless. Discover the inspiring stories and effective teaching materials, of how empowering a generation can lead to an incredible social action movement.
The Sustainable Story of Stuff
Presenter: Ms. Jessie Smith
Secondary (8-12)
This workshop offers Secondary teachers a powerful tool to engage students in the most pressing issue of our time: combating climate change and reducing poverty.
This workshop starts by looking at Annie Leonard’s fantastic (20 minute) video The Story of Stuff. Her work documents the journey of all ‘stuff’, from extraction of resources, through production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Concrete examples of the journey a t-shirt takes to get to our local story makes seemingly complex issues easy to understand.
This workshop takes participants on a journey to look at what a Sustainable Story of Stuff could look like. I have used this methodology with my students at Langara College and I have been amazed at their capacity to learn and be inspired by this framework. In this day and age when students can get depressed about the woes of the world, students need to hear positive visions for the future. This workshop helps students see how the world really works – and how it could be changed for the better.
Engaging Your Students
Presenter: Quinn Cashion-Vosburgh
All Grades (K-12)
What does your state of mind have to do with engaging students? In this workshop you will discover how your own well-being is an essential ingredient to keeping in touch with your students. No behavioral techniques required. No need for stress management. Using the innate resources we already have, learn how to release yourself from stress and engage your students potential for learning.
Engaging Youth Through Community Involvement
Presenter: Karen Gadowsky & Audrey Pfitzenmaier
Secondary (8-12)
Learn how to create project-based learning activities that help to better engage youth. A brief discussion about 21st Century Learning will be facilitated and several project examples will be provided. Time will be allotted for participants to work collaboratively to create age-appropriate activities helping students acquire 21st Century skills while meeting the curricular outcomes mandated by the BC Ministry of Education.
A Seat at the Table - McCreary Foundation Review of Youth Health and Engagement Strategies
Presenter: Annie Smith & Stephanie Martin
Secondary (8-12)
Using data from the 2008 BC Adolescent Health Survey, this workshop will offer a brief overview of youth health in the province before focusing on the data which supports the positive health benefits of youth engagement.
The workshop will also present the results of McCreary’s 2009 review of youth engagement (A seat at the table) and will include practical examples of successful strategies for engaging youth and how different organizations have overcome barriers to engagement.
SEL in Action: Dialogues on Compassion
Presenter: Jeannie Kerr
Middle (6-8)
For social-emotional learning to be authentic and meaningful there needs to be a sense of students actively grappling with the messy business of self-understanding and living well in community. The challenge for teachers is providing opportunities for students to meaningfully dialogue, through facilitating discussion and self-expression in a way that provides students with opportunities for greater self-understanding in a relational context. This session will aim to help participants develop a personal understanding of social-emotional learning and ways to engage students in authentic and meaningful social-emotional learning. An example of engaging upper intermediate students in dialogue and artistic expression on compassion will be provided to frame the discussion.
An Introduction to the BC Performance Standards for Social Responsibility
Presenter: Carleen Liski
K-12
This session will help you develop a deeper understanding of the four aspects of the BC Performance Standards for Social Responsibility. It will also provide you with tools to explicitly teach, model, assess and report on the Social Responsibility Performance Standards. You will leave the session with activities you can take back to your class and start using immediately.
Cooperative Learning Made Easy: Drop-of-the-Hat Structures
Presenter: Dr. Spencer Kagan
K-12
Come experience a range of simple, powerful, research-proven cooperative learning structures that dramatically enhance outcomes in any lesson. These simple structures involve no special preparation, no change in the academic content, and can be used with any curriculum! Whether you teach adolescents, or younger children, come prepared to interact, learn, and leave with new tools to transform any lesson. Experience and analyze the functions of a number of simple cooperative learning structures. Learn to use Timed Pair Share, Pair Share, RallyRobin, RoundRobin, Timed RoundRobin, Three-Step Interview, Instant Star, Quiz-N-Show and Traveling Quiz-N-Show drop-of-the-hat. Learn the brain science behind structures — how we change brain chemistry by the ways we have our students interact. Derive the functions of these structures — when to use them and when not to use them. You will generate applications for your own settings and leave with a toolbox full of ready-to-use structures for your very next lesson!
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