Declaration
To ensure adequate space and comfort for teachers and invited guests, the Convention Board has declared this to be a CLOSED, NON-SMOKING convention available only to paid delegates. Spouses, children, friends or others that do not pay convention fees may not attend the presentations.
Convention delegates are asked to wear the CEATCA lanyard provided while at the Shaw Conference Centre. The lanyard will serve as identification of proper convention delegates for Shaw Security Services.
Professional and Legal Obligation
Teachers are obligated professionally and legally by the School Act to attend the teachers' convention. Teachers may request permission to attend alternate professional development activities. Such requests MUST be submitted in writing, to the convention attendance chairperson. This person, in conjunction with the attendance committee, will make a judgment regarding the requests. Teachers failing to request permission from their Convention Attendance Committee may be subject to investigation and sanctions under the Code of Professional Conduct. Please visit for more information.
Central East Alberta Teachers’ Convention Association 2014 Board Members
President - Jim AllanSpeaker Liaison–Starla Lachowsky
Past and Vice-President – David TeasdaleChairperson Coordinator - Shonna Burkard
Treasurer - Linda RathwellExhibits - Darrel Teeter
Secretary –Karen BrooksSocial / HospitalityCoordinator–Raelene Tupper
Facilities - Lindsey BatesPublicity and Publications - Deb Venance
Program Chair – Martina Ruston-CarterEvaluations - Gilles Daigle
Program Vice-Chair - Cindy RoyMember at Large – Katherine Cook
AV Coordinator and Webmaster - Glenda KaryDistrict Representative - Léo Richer
CEATCA President Message – Jim Allan
Building for the Future is a theme which could have a myriad of meanings. Preparing for a future somewhat filled with uncertainty is a challenge both on a personal and professional level. We know that change is a given and that often we feel frustrated at the rate and degree of changes in our chosen profession. Those of us who have been teaching for many years have witnessed several initiatives come and go. Some had significant success while others have disappeared with teachers applauding their departure. Those of us who will remain in the profession for several years to come will experience new ways of teaching students who will expect you to be aware of their changing world and how they expect to learn and to be taught. Hopefully our sessions this year will help in some fashion in increasing your tool kit.
As you will notice there have been changes in our convention this year. They will be first among many to come in the future. Our decreasing numbers and resulting reduction in revenue have caused the CEATCA board to investigate alternatives for our convention. You will hear about the results of those over the next several months. Weare building for the future as well. Your board members have again donated many volunteer hours to prepare a program that we hope is of value to you. Please take a minute to thank them for their contribution to your two convention days. Mostly enjoy the experience and have a great future!
District Representative Message – Léo Richer
The convention season is about to start and CEATCA’s 2014 Convention promises again to be very educational for the over 1100 teachers it serves. CEATCA’s Convention Board is comprised of a very committed group of teachers and through their hard work and dedication, is able to provide a great variety of sessions. This year’s theme, “Building for the Future” is well chosen and reflects our professional development responsibility.
Of particular interest is an opening session geared to give strategies on how to handle the coddled generation! This is a timely topic that continues to bring new challenges every year! Hopefully, teachers will acquire new strategies on how best to cope with this all too common dilemma. Other sessions are geared toward our future responsibilities with SLAs and curriculum redesign. An engaging session with our ATA President Mark Ramsankar will also bring our teachers up to date on challenges that our profession currently faces.
By studying the over 70 convention topics that are listed, teachers will be able to find an array of choices that are bound to trigger their interest and needs. The teachers on the Board have put in hundreds of hours of hard work. Their service to their fellow teachers is commendable. I trust that the teachers of CEATCA will again enjoy their convention.
Many thanks to the Convention Board.
Coention ExhibitsThursday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Friday: 8:30 AM – 1:15 PM Hall C
Opening Keynote: Teaching the Pampered Generation:
Countering the Culture of Entitlement
Thursday, 9 AM Hall B
As an unintentional result of parents' efforts to nurture and support their deeply loved and highly treasured families, today's youngsters are growing up with the idea that they have servants to cater to their every whim, that everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault, and that the world just simply needs to adjust so that they are never bored or uncomfortable. "Helicopter parents" track their children's every move and attempt to protect them from the realities of the world outside the family. This presentation explores the contributing factors to this culture of entitlement, and suggests some lessons we can teach in order to provide a healthy balance.
Thursday 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location (capacity) / Session Presenter / TitleLevel / Subject Applicability / Session / Presenter Description
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(40) / Courtney Armstrong - Bullying: Perspectives through Experience
General/Leadership/Community Development
Division 2-4 / This workshop will be looking at bullying from the perspective of the victim and the bully. We will be using team building activities that focus on diversity and inclusion/exclusion to look at and discuss bullying. In learning how to breach the subject of bullying with students and walk students through the experience of both the bully and the victim, we can learn how to put an end to it.
Courtney Armstrong is the Program Director at Camp Evergreen and has a B.Sc. in Kinesiology from the University of Lethbridge. She works with hundreds of outdoor education classes, summer campers, young adults, and adults every year at Camp Evergreen. Courtney is passionate about building effective teams, stronger communities, and helping students and adults realize their leadership potential.
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(125) / Sandi Berg - Incorporating Even More Student Centered Activities in Math 30
Math
Division 4
(Grade 12) / Are you looking to incorporate student centered activities in your Grade 12 math classroom? During this hands-on session, you will participate in a variety of activities that I did not share last year!
Sandi Berg, Curriculum Implementation Support Consultant for Central Alberta Regional Consortium, is always looking for opportunities to incorporate student centered learning in her classroom.
3
(100) / AAC -Assessment 911: Help! I have an outcomes based report card - now what?
Assessment
Division 1-2
Administration / Now that you are using an outcomes-based report card, what does assessment and grading look like in your classroom? In this session, participants will explore ways to plan for assessment with outcomes-based report cards in mind.
Alberta Assessment Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit education partner in the province of Alberta, providing support to teachers, students and school districts on assessment topics, to support student learning.
4
(200) / Patrick Bohnet - Get Googlefied!
20 Google Ideas to Use In Your Classroom with Students
Technology
All levels / This Session will provide 20 classroom based ideas and templates for using a variety of Google Apps in your classroom! Why do all the work when these are ready to go and take away! Links will be provided in the session, which contain a large list of additional valuable Google resources!
Patrick is a Curriculum Implementation Support Consultant with the Central Alberta Regional Consortium. Patrick has over 26 years of school administration and classroom experience, along with holding a B.Ed., M.Ed., and Ed.D. Having worked with CARC for 5 years, Patrick has provided numerous workshops at ATA conventions, districts, provincial and international conferences! Technology integration has been a focus of his sessions, but various subjects including the NEW Curriculum Redesign are focal points.
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(50) / Jane Felling - Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks – Power Play - Games for Teaching Place Value
Mathematics
Division 1 / Teachers often struggle with finding the right way to bring place value concepts to life for their students. Get your students on the power play team with our best strategies and games for teaching: reading, ordering and comparing numbers, patterns, rounding and expanding numbers. Games will incorporate the use of cards, dice & multi-sided place value dice. Reproducible gameboards, student samples and ready to use ideas for your math program will be shared. Come prepared to play.
Jane is co-author of the award winning Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks series, and has been providing workshops to teachers across North America for over 20 years. She is passionate about using games as a teaching strategy and continues to teach K – grade 8 as part of her contracts. Jane has been a featured speaker at the National ASCD conference for the past two years and is also working extensively with districts to implement daily use of games in the classrooms.
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(50) / Barb Maheu - Stories of the People Working Together to Build Alberta: A Resource for Social Studies 4
Social Studies
Division 2 (Grade 4) / This session provides learning activities cross-referenced to Social Studies 4 outcomes. It asks, “How have workers strengthened quality of life in Alberta?” Using an inquiry-based approach, we focus on contributions of various groups both in the past and present. Eachinquiry is differentiated based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences model.
Barb Maheu, writer/pedagogical consultantfor the Aspen Foundation, has served as an executive staff officer at the Alberta Teachers' Association in professional development. Shetaught social studies for Sturgeon School Division and the University of Alberta.
7
(55) / ATRF – Pension Interviews
General
Pre-Registration Required / To pre-register please visit:
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(240) / President Ramsankar - A Great School for All - A Hopeful Vision for Alberta: A Conversation with Mark Ramsankar, President of the Alberta Teachers' Association
General
All levels / As our cultural obsession with standardization, testing, technology, and elaborate accountability measures is increasingly reflected in our schools, the education of our children suffers. In classrooms and schools across North America, teachers are under attack and the public trust that many teachers once enjoyed is undermined by the media, politicians, school boards, and sometimes even by fellow educators. This lecture describes how this happened and what we can do about it in the Alberta context. In collaboration with a panel of international experts, the Alberta Teachers’ Association has published a roadmap for transforming Alberta’s schools called A Great School for All that offers both hope and practical steps to ensure all students success.
Mark Ramsankar, President, Alberta Teachers’ Association
Mark has been the ATA’s vice-president since 2009 and was elected last year as a vice-president with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. He was head of the Edmonton Public Teachers local from 2005 to 2009 and has more than 20 years of experience as a teacher and school administrator with Edmonton Public Schools.
9
(180) / Shelley Magnusson - The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
General
All levels / For children, families are a source of learning and love. All too often, however, intimate partner violence can disrupt this family refuge on which children and teens rely for stability, support and nurture. Children's exposure to domestic violence is much more common than generally believed.
Shelley Magnusson has been a staff officer in communications with the Alberta Teachers’ Association since January 2012. Prior to joining the Association, Shelley worked with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geo-Scientists of Alberta as director of Education Outreach, and before that she was the program manager for literacy with Alberta Education. As with all executive staff with the ATA, Shelley is first and foremost a teacher.
10
(180) / Herky Cutler - De-Escalating Conflict in the Classroom
General
All levels
Continued into next session. / How does conflict begin in the classroom? How do teachers contribute to escalating conflict? How can teachers de-escalate conflict? In this session, participants will learn practical skills that they can use immediately to de-escalate conflict in their classrooms and to promote healthy communication between students and between students and teachers. Armour is not required!
Herky is an organizational consultant, speaker and trainer with a background in education, business and career development. An out-of-the box thinker, Herky will take you out of your comfort zone and push your buttons, while at the same time, provide you with insightful knowledge and information.
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(40) / Elizabeth Colbeck / Colleen Wright - Embedding Wellness Through Curricular Links in High School Settings
Cross Curricular
Division 4 / Discover how wellness is being embedded in high school settings across Alberta using a comprehensive school health approach. Learn how to take a cross-curricular approach to infuse wellness into the culture of your school community where everyone is responsible for wellness.
Elizabeth Coldbeck, B.Ed. and Colleen Wright, B.Sc., MAHE work at Alberta Healthy School Community Wellness Fund which provides funding to school communities across the province which address healthy eating, active living and positive social environments using a Comprehensive School Health approach.
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(20) / Terry Steiestol - Sewing - A Foundation for Life
Art/CTS/Special Education
Division 2 - 4 / Do you want to teach something new in your art class, try a hand at fundraising or add to your fashion program? Then this workshop is for you. We’ll show you how you can do this and more with simple, fun, quality hand sewing kit projects.
Terry Steiestol has taught in Canada and the US for 35 years. With a Bachelor of Science Degree in Home Economics she became a passionate teacher, gifted actress and singer. She developed a great love for her students, while passing on her love of sewing and nutrition.
Please note this session is limited in number of participants to a maximum of 20 and has a materials fee of $22. Delegates wishing to attend this session are asked to pay upon arrival at the session and are requested to have exact change. Please note the session will be closed once the 20 participant maximum has been reached.
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(40) / PD Workshop –Joni Turville - Communities of Professional Practice for Administrators
Administration
All levels / This introductory workshop is designed to provide background information about “Communitiesof Professional Practice,” why they are valuable and how to go about establishing them in schools.Through a variety of activities, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their professionalpractice, become familiar with the content, and engage in some early steps in the developmentprocess. A section designed specifically for school leaders will assist them in understanding theirrole as their school does, or does not, develop these communities.
An award-winning teacher, Joni Turville brings energy and expertise to both her presentations and instructional practice. Her past rolesinclude technology consultant, administrator, university instructor and teacher of many different grade levels and subjects, including special education. Turville has written numerous articles and books, focusing on effective instructional strategies, differentiated instruction and technology and is currently serving as Executive Staff Officer, Professional Development, Alberta Teachers’ Association in Edmonton.
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(40) / Charlene Bearhead – Sacred Relationship with Water
Science/Social Studies
Division 2 / Sacred Relationship is an on-line film series, with middle school curriculum supports, created in Alberta by BearPaw Communications based on the 3 year water research project conducted by BearPaw Research which culminated in 2012. The workshop presents the films, lesson plans and discussion on the applications and adaptations of 'Sacred Relationship' that align with the Alberta Program of Studies.
Charlene Bearhead has been a teacher and principal for over 25 years in Alberta and Manitoba. She currently works in teacher education across Canada primarily focusing on Indian Residential School history and the importance of teaching all students Indigenous wisdom for reconciliation and respect.
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(30) / Lynne Penniket - Multi-Age Classrooms - Who, What, When, How, but most of all WHY?
Multi-Age Classrooms
All levels / Multi-age classrooms are often created for administrative and budgeting reasons. There is sound research that supports the structures and processes of a multi-age classroom. Approaching multi-aging from a pedagogical basis will vastly improve the chances of success and lead to a better student and staff experience. This session will look at the whys as well as the hows of multi-age classrooms.
Lynne has taught most subjects from Grade 2 – 11 over a 38 year career. Her focus was on French and Math but also taught Language Arts and Social Studies extensively. She took her Masters of Education from the University of Lethbridge. She served as a Vice Principal of Granum School for 6 years then Principal of Granum School for 3 years, where a very successful multi-age program for grades 1-9 across the school was implemented. Lynne then was principal of a middle school for 2 years, then moved to the principalship of the 12 Hutterite Schools in Livingstone Range School Division for 3 years, where the multi-age strategies are embedded.
Thursday 12:45 – 2:00 PM