NCTCA 2025: Full Schedule

EVENTBRITE (PRE-REGISTERED SESSIONS) -- Get your tickets here!
Tickets go on sale Monday, December 9th at 7PM
- EVENTBRITE IS THE ONLY WAY TO SECURE YOUR SPACE IN A PRE-REG SESSION!
- ONLY add a pre-registered session to your schedule on Sched if you have purchased your Eventbrite ticket.
- Sales end Monday, January 27 at 12PM

Wednesday Social - KARAOKE NIGHT!!
Location: The Westin Hotel - Devonian Room
Time: 7PM - 10PM
Appetizers will be provided throughout the evening.

2025 Tours
Art Gallery of Alberta
"Guided Tour": Thursday February 8th 9:30AM - 11:00AM
"Guided Tour": Friday February 9th 12:00PM - 1:30PM

Telus World of Science - Edmonton
Thursday February 8th PM

Fort Edmonton Park
Thursday, February 6th 9AM - 3PM
Friday, February 7th 9AM - 3PM

Muttart Conservatory
Thursday, February 6th 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Friday, February 7th 9AM - 10AM

Royal Alberta Museum
FRENCH Classroom: Thursday, February 6th 9:30AM - 11AM
ENGLISH Classroom: Thursday, February 6th 1PM - 2:30PM
FRENCH Tour: Friday, February 7th 9:30AM - 11AM
ENGLISH Tour: Friday, February 7th 1PM - 2:30PM

2025 Partners In Education Luncheon with Scott Ervin -- Get your ticket here!
Tickets go on sale Monday, December 9th 2024 at 7PM
10:30AM Doors open
11:15AM Program begins
11:30AM Scott Ervin to speak
12:15PM Lunch will be served

2025 Venues:

The Westin Edmonton: 10135 100 St. NW
Edmonton Convention Centre: 9797 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
Saville Community Sports Centre: 11610 65 Ave, NW, Edmonton
Art Gallery of Alberta: 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton
Offsite locations: There are numerous offsite locations which all require an Eventbrite ticket. All Attendees with an Eventbrite ticket will be emailed directly with a location address.

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9:00am MST

De l’arithmétique à l’algèbre - 1ère à 9e année

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Westin - Turner Valley Room

Cet atelier a pour but de démontrer, à l’aide de multiples exemples, la progression des apprentissages qui permettent à l’apprenant de passer des simples notions de dénombrement à la pensée algébrique. Les concepts explorés sont: la décomposition, faire des 10, la représentation rectangulaire, la multiplication à plusieurs chiffres, les fractions, pour enfin terminer avec les polynômes.

Speakers

Renée Michaud

Consultante en mathématiques/Math Consultant, RLM Consulting

Renée Michaud est consultante en mathématiques. Elle présente régulièrement des sessions variées à différents congrès de différentes provinces tel qu’à APPIPC, BCAMT, APEF et nationalement à ACPI et ce, en français et en anglais. Elle travaille également pour des... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Turner Valley Room Westin Hotel Edmonton

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation French
Grade Focus Division 2/3
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Room Details Westin - Turner Valley Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Tables Max capacity for 80 people)
Tags French, Division 2/3

9:00am MST

Numeracy and Young Learners: a Developmental Affair

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

Westin - Centennial Room

Have you wondered how to best teach your preschool or kindergarten students early number concepts? Come and learn the developmental approach to numeracy, using the Instructional Framework in Early Numbers as a guide. This session will provide you an appreciation of early number development, how to determine where your students are at, and Cross-Number puzzles you can use with your class.

Speakers

Angela Hanson

Angela Hanson is an elementary school educator who believes that learning math concepts should be active and fun. She structures math classes that encourage students to move and engage in group activities. Her students are excited to discover new math strategies using manipulatives... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Centennial Room Westin Hotel Edmonton

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Pre-K (Early Childhood)
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Room Details Westin - Centennial Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Pre-K (Early Childhood)

9:00am MST

Paint by Numbers: Frameworks for Building Mathematical Understanding (K-9)

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

ECC - Salon 02

We develop our Frameworks over the years, through education, exploration, and experience, creating an ever-more complex map of How Things Work that lets us be fluent with the ideas and operations we know, and helps us to learn and adapt to the new things we encounter. They help us become confident, powerful learners ready to take on new challenges. This session will explore a few of the key Big Ideas of Number, and examine how to Frame those ideas in ways that Learners can use to build increasingly-complex understandings of Number.. We will follow the learner as those initial tools and tactics are leveraged into helping to develop increasingly complex ways of handling number, from simply counting and organizing to developing Additive thinking, Multiplicative thinking, and to dealing with ever-increasing complexity in the numbers themselves… bigger numbers, decimals, fractions and integers.

Speakers

Gerry Varty

"For over 35 years, Gerry has been a classroom teacher, school and district leader, and tireless advocate for professional learning support. A leader in K-12 Mathematics education, Assessment, and Instructional Design initiatives, Gerry loves working with teachers to make success... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 02 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Math

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 2/3
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Room Details ECC - Salon 02 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 2/3

9:00am MST

What Should Every Junior High Teacher Know About the New Grades 4-6 Math Curriculum?

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

ECC - Salon 09

So, you aren’t teaching a new curriculum yet but what have Grades 4-6 students learned that you already do? How might that change what a current 7 or 8 classroom could look like? Come join a fast paced session on what’s new - old and somewhere inbetween. Try some of the manipulatives that students will be familiar with - how might you implement these in your class now? How might assessment look different? Put your track shoes on and join in the exploration. Participants will receive access to support documents outlining the changes.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Designer of Professional Learning, ARPDC

Chris is an Educational Consultant supporting Alberta teachers as a Designer of Professional Learning with the Alberta Provincial Learning Consortium (APLC). She has served as a Teacher, Administrator, Curriculum Director of Curriculum, Examiner with Alberta Education, and Author... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 09 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Assessment / Évaluation

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 3 (Grades 7-9)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 09 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 3 (Grades 7-9)

10:15am MST

Intervention in Math: Getting the Big Ideas Right

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST

ECC - Salon 02

Some things aren't a big deal… you can get them wrong now, and yet still do well on everything else. But other things are so important that their loss means the learner is handicapped at learning new ideas. Sometimes, you can't let weak understandings slide. Enter the need for targeted Intervention in Math. Based on the work of Marilyn Burns, Do The Math is a series of targeted interventions, aligned with a Mathematical Learning Progression, that leverages the power of Manipulatives, Models, Direct and Guided Instruction, along with the engaging power of games to help remediate and strengthen student performance where it counts... on the Big Ideas of Math. Use these ideas for Intervention, Remediation, or everyday Instruction to build strong learners that leverage strong mathematical foundations to tackle new situations.

Speakers

Gerry Varty

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
ECC - Salon 02 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Learning Resources

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1/2
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Room Details ECC - Salon 02 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 1/2

10:15am MST

Math Vocabulary - What Exactly is the Correct Term in Our New Math Grades 7-10?

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST

ECC - Salon 09

So many of the terms we use each day in mathematics classes are the very concepts we want our students to learn and make connections with. Using the appropriate terminology can provide clarity and consistency. Do your grade partners use the same language as you? Would students entering different math classrooms in your school hear the same language? Come and check out some of the math terminology we have for you to engage with.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Chris is an Educational Consultant supporting Alberta teachers in the implementation of the new Math and Science Curriculums as well as Assessment and Leadership. She has served as a Teacher, Administrator, Curriculum Director of Curriculum, Examiner with Alberta Education, and Author... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
ECC - Salon 09 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 3/4
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Room Details ECC - Salon 09 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 3/4

10:15am MST

Top 10 Numeracy Activities for Preschool/Kindergarten

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST

Westin - Centennial Room

Join our interactive session of our top 10 numeracy activities for the preschool and kindergarten classroom. These activities are easy to implement, cross-curricular, low-cost, and fun! And you will be able to use them in the classroom the next day.

Speakers

Angela Hanson

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
Westin - Centennial Room Westin Hotel Edmonton

Math, Math

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Pre-K (Early Childhood)
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Room Details Westin - Centennial Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Pre-K (Early Childhood)

11:30am MST

Are You Sure? Questions that Build Thinking Classrooms (Math).

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST

ECC - Salon 12

Simple questions can lead students to think deeply about how they got to an answer and often leads them to explain their process. Effective questioning strategies and sample questions will be modeled and highlighted by the presenter throughout the session as participants engage in a variety of math games. Asking students the right kind of question often leads them to retrace the steps they took to come up with an answer and sometimes self-correct or refine their answer along the way. A secondary focus of the presentation will be on mental math and estimation strategies and activities. The math games presented use regular cards and dice, commonly found at “dollar stores” and department stores. Participants will gain the knowledge, skill and confidence to embed higher level thinking questions throughout their math games classes (and hopefully, other classes as well).

Speakers

John Felling

presenter, Box Cars And One Eyed Jacks

The workshops and seminars John Felling presents are engaging, informative, fun, and hands-on. In his workshops, teachers learn a variety of games and activities (new ones every year), closely tied to provincial curriculum standards. The games and activities presented integrate easily... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 2 (Grades 4-6)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 2 (Grades 4-6)

11:30am MST

Exploring outdoors: Discovering Math in Nature

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST

Westin - Centennial Room

Are you interested in connecting math with nature? Join us for an exciting Let's Talk Science session to explore examples of mathematics in our natural world. Build your confidence by exploring geometric shapes, common patterns, symmetry and tessellations in nature. Discover a learning strategy that can be scaffolded for use both inside and outside of the classroom. Finally, examine opportunities for mathematics to be integrated across different subject areas to achieve curriculum outcomes.

Speakers

Colleen Kiselyk

Instructor, Co-owner, K-9 Teacher, Nature Alive Adventures

Colleen Kiselyk is a Kindergarten, Elementary music, and outdoor skills teacher with a passion for exploring the outdoors, even in the cold Canadian winters. She has been a Teacher Leader with Let's Talk Science since 2022 and is almost done her Master's in Outdoor Learning from Acadia... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Westin - Centennial Room Westin Hotel Edmonton

Math, Science-sciences

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1 (K- Grade 3)
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Room Details Westin - Centennial Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 1 (K- Grade 3)

11:30am MST

First, we Understand: Visual Algebra and Trig Origami (9-12)

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST

ECC - Salon 02

All Math starts as a picture in your mind… a way to see the problem, a way to hold the numbers still while you look for the relationships that you can use to answer the question: Why? That simple word, the repetitive question of every three-year-old, is the key to unlocking the beauty of mathematics, but somehow, by High School, math is too often more about "finding answers" than about finding the reason why. From the exciting beginnings of Early Numeracy, where we see the magic of pattern and order unfold, math becomes a race to use algorithms, to apply formulas, to follow rules, to show your work, and to try mightily to avoid those costly 'stupid' mistakes... It doesn't have to be that way. As we move from more concrete to more abstract, for our learners to keep up with the shifts, they must do more than blindly try to match the ‘right’ algorithms and solution methods to the 'right' problems … … But First, we Understand

Speakers

Gerry Varty

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
ECC - Salon 02 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Math

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 3/4
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Room Details ECC - Salon 02 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 3/4

11:30am MST

Games Aren't Just for the Young - They Teach!

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST

ECC - Salon 09

Getting students excited about their learning and engaging them are great stepping stones to having them deepen their own learning. A well crafted engagement activity can serve as a replacement for the traditional set of questions in a textbook. Your presenters both taught PAT/DIP courses so we understand the value of time and the pressures of getting through it all! Come join us as we share some activities that you can take back and implement in your own classrooms.

Speakers

Chris Zarski

Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
ECC - Salon 09 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 4 (Grades 10-12)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 09 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 120 people)
Tags English, Division 4 (Grades 10-12)

2:00pm MST

Mastering Multiplication and Place Value – Upper Elementary

Thursday February 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST

ECC - Salon 12

Multiplication and Place Value games and strategies for upper elementary students will be shared and modeled by the presenter throughout the session. Participants will be able to use the games and strategies from the session immediately back in their classrooms. The games and strategies presented mostly utilize simple cards and dice as manipulatives for engaging, hands-on learning and practice of these two extremely important areas of upper elementary math. They also apply the most up-to-date findings in brain research regarding effective ways to instill learning into permanent memory (mastery). The presenter will model and highlight easy and effective ways to manage the manipulatives and implement the games and strategies into classrooms without extra work by the teachers. Easy and effective differentiation and assessment strategies including assessment tools will be shared during the session and in the extensive handout that will be provided for download before and after the session.

Speakers

John Felling

presenter, Box Cars And One Eyed Jacks

Thursday February 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 2 (Grades 4-6)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 2 (Grades 4-6)