NCTCA 2025

NCTCA 2025

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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8:45am MST

Conference Day 2 Opening Remarks ECC - Hall D

9:00am MST

21 People Services Skills That Help School Leaders ECC - Salon 03Ray Hoppins • Sandy Johnson Every Child Deserves a Team: Layering Meeting Structures to Support the Whole Child Westin - Leduc RoomLorna Hewson Stop Wasting My Time!! Strategies for Effectively Facilitating Team Meetings Westin - Saskatchewan RoomKurtis Hewson Counting Time ECC - Salon 17/18ATA Staff Officer Unmasking Racism: Redefining Education ECC - Salon 01Youssra Badr Self-Regulation Strategies on Behavioral Skills during Early Childhood Westin - Centennial RoomLia Chernenkoff • Kim Zapesocki Learn to Live Forward- Lessons in Resilience! ECC - Salon 04Chidi C Iwuchukwu Maegan Giroux - Keynote Session K-3 ECC - Salon 08Maegan Giroux Scott Ervin - Keynote Session ECC - Hall DScott Ervin Resurrecting a Rural Band Program ECC - Room D2Quinn Shelton An Inclusive Drama Classroom. Westin - Alberta RoomTracy Trethewy How to Keep the Movers, Shakers, Doers, and Makers in the Academic Stream ECC - Salon 02Liz Harrison Worldbuilding Fun for Fiction Writing ECC - Salon 10Alexis Marie Chute Math Vocabulary - What Exactly is the Correct Term in Our New Math Grades 4-6? ECC - Salon 09Chris Zarski SHAKE UP YOUR OPERATIONAL FLUENCY - GAMES FOR PRIMARY ADDITION AND BEGINNING MULTIPLICATION ECC - Salon 12Jane Felling Good or Bad Foods - Making the Most Out of a Tasting Experience ECC - Salon 19/20Mathew Christopher Tom-Kee Exploring the New Curriculum Through MakeCode Arcade Games ECC - Salon 05Bernadette Blakey • Whitney Horban VERBATHON®: How to Have Fun With Verbs and Grammar! Westin - Chancellor RoomEmmanuel Escueta • Machioudi Bello Ordinary Things ECC - Salon 13/14Lindsay Anderson Propaganda: Using Canadian War Posters to Develop Critical Thinking ECC - Salon 15/16Aaron Curtis Writing for Social Studies (Div 3 and 4) Westin - Yukon RoomNicholle Morrison • Joanna Zakus Expressive Writing for Wellbeing ECC - Salon 06Katie DeBoer Nurture Starts with You Westin - BC RoomJulianne Harvey Rock your Yoga level one Westin - Strathcona RoomKendra Silk AI Tools to Make Teacher Life Easier Westin - Manitoba RoomDarren Maltais Guided Tour- Muttart Conservatory Tour #2 Muttart Conservatory Tour #2 Ribbon Skirt Making - Friday Offsite Location 4Lori Phelps Fort Edmonton Tour #2 Fort Edmonton Park Tour #2Fort Edmonton guide

10:15am MST

Stop Tiering Your Students! Establishing, Refining and Utilizing a Continuum of Supports Westin - Leduc RoomLorna Hewson Heading overseas with ATA’s international cooperation opportunities ECC - Salon 17/18Dr. Andrea Berg Food Context - Understanding Food From Multiple Perspectives ECC - Salon 19/20Mathew Christopher Tom-Kee Advancing Equity in Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching, Anti-racism, and Allyship ECC - Salon 01Youssra Badr Choreography Building Blocks (ATA Fine Arts Council) Westin - Alberta RoomVictoria Reid The Eras Tour (Elementary Art Version) ECC - Salon 15/16Thomas Meier Accessibility and AI Tools to Help Differentiate for All Students Westin - Manitoba RoomDarren Maltais What's happened to our students and how can we help? Westin - Centennial RoomBrenda Kelly Practicing Metissage for Compassion, Narrative Communication, & Community Building ECC - Salon 02Liz Harrison Teaching Students to Write Cool Characters, Superheroes, and Themselves ECC - Salon 10Alexis Marie Chute All Aboard for Algebra! ECC - Salon 09Chris Zarski CONNECTING THE DOTS - DOMINO MATH GAMES FOR WHOLE GROUP AND CENTER INSTRUCTION K - 3 ECC - Salon 12Jane Felling Rock your Yoga with friends level two Westin - Strathcona RoomKendra Silk Botanical Art with Music and Stories! Art Gallery of Alberta - Studio 1 (Yellow)Coreen Blenkhorne Computational Thinking 101: Foundations for Every Educator ECC - Salon 05Bernadette Blakey • Whitney Horban ELA and SS - Engaging Tasks Connected to Conflict Westin - Yukon RoomNicholle Morrison • Joanna Zakus Who Killed Barney Greenman? ECC - Salon 13/14Lindsay Anderson 22 Timely Topics on Teacher Health & Wellness - Ideas I Stole From Others ECC - Salon 03Ray Hoppins Organization Strategies to Simplify Life Westin - BC RoomJulianne Harvey eSports Community of Practice Westin - Saskatchewan RoomDavid Hay

10:30am MST

Why are outcomes for Indigenous students so unequal? ECC - Hall DDouglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) • Andrew Stobo Sniderman • Cindy Christou

11:30am MST

Intentional Use of Data to Guide and Inform the Collaborative Conversation Westin - Saskatchewan RoomKurtis Hewson Making the Most of Outcomes in Assessment Westin - Leduc RoomJason Cooper • Laura Pankratz Extended/Long Term Disability: It’s All About the Medical ECC - Salon 17/18ATA Staff Officer Easy Visual Effects for Junior High Tech ECC - Salon 19/20Shane Lawrence Making Meaningful Institutional Changes: using ERGs to create safety and inclusion for all employees. ECC - Salon 01Katie DeBoer • Jolene • Erin Keca • Hardeep Rai The Science of Language Learning for Schools and Homes Westin - Chancellor RoomMichael Witten Chidi Iwuchukwu - Breakout session ECC - Salon 11Chidi C Iwuchukwu Connie Jakab - Keynote Session ECC - Salon 04Connie Jakab Note-Taking for School Counsellors and Administrators ECC - Salon 03Vincent Mireau Supporting Neurodivergent Students at School ECC - Salon 05Stepha Fode Culturally Sensitive Trauma Informed Practices in the Classroom: Understanding the Impact of Intergenerational Trauma Westin - Consulate RoomJoanna Gladue The Arctic Experience: Goota's Journey Through Inuit Traditions Westin - Strathcona RoomGoota Desmarais • Nicole Lueke Dangerous Language Arts: Praxis to Support Safety in Risk-Taking ECC - Salon 02Liz Harrison Novel Studies - How to do it well! Westin - Yukon RoomNicholle Morrison • Joanna Zakus Write On: Hands-On Activities To Get Your Students Going Westin - Turner Valley RoomMiranda Krogstad Cuisenaire Rods: The Math Manipulative You Can't Live Without ECC - Salon 12Kelli Holden • Jo-Anne Stewardson Math Intervention Made Easy with Cross-Number Puzzles Westin - Centennial RoomPamela Finnie A Reasonable Act of Worship | understanding & teaching the connection between worship & purity Westin - BC RoomPeter Hill Personal Retiree Plan education session Westin - Manitoba RoomCandice Hartwell Case Studies and More! Unpacking Concepts in the New Science Curriculum ECC - Salon 09Chris Zarski Land Reclamation In The Classroom - Educating Through Game ECC - Salon 13/14Julie Arsenault • Valerie Miller Reading, Writing, Speaking: The Metacognitive Connection ECC - Salon 10Dr. Karena Hartson

12:00pm MST

Guided Tours at the Art Gallery of Alberta Art Gallery of Alberta Tour #2Art Gallery of Alberta Alberta Landscape Art and Haida Art with Music and Stories! Art Gallery of Alberta - Studio 2Coreen Blenkhorne

12:30pm MST

Maegan Giroux - Keynote Session ECC - Hall DMaegan Giroux

12:45pm MST

Using Assessment to Improve Teaching Westin - Leduc RoomJason Cooper • Laura Pankratz Promote Yourself: Resumes and Cover Letters that Get Noticed ECC - Salon 17/18TBD What is MoodleHub? Westin - Chancellor RoomAngelo Delli Santi Be An Upstander: Finding Hope in Complex Times ECC - Salon 01Sarah Adomako-Ansah Choosing Your Tomorrow: Harnessing Your Power of Choice ECC - Salon 04Jodie Baulkham Trickster Theatre Presents: Storytelling Westin - Strathcona RoomAlex Allen Enhance Well-being, Enhance Learning: The CSH Approach ECC - Salon 15/16David Knechtel • Matthew Mitschke • Rodney Snaterse I'm Having Weird Thoughts: a Universal Language for Social Thinking Westin - Centennial RoomKayla Anderson • Rebecca Dupont • Danielle Kirton Askîhk Kiskinohamâtowin - Weaving Métis Ways of Knowing into Land-Based Learning Westin - Yukon RoomHolly Brandsma Addressing neurodiversity in the language arts classroom ECC - Salon 05David Lewkowich AI & I: Empowering Student Creativity Westin - Manitoba RoomMiranda Krogstad • Terra Beth Dowhaluk Reading Comprehension Success! ECC - Salon 13/14Brigitta Goerres Art and the Holocaust Art Gallery of Alberta - Studio 3Lindsay Anderson Neurographic Art Art Gallery of Alberta - Studio 1 (Yellow)Kendra Silk The Purity Pandemic | dealing with disaster in our postmodern world Westin - BC RoomPeter Hill Allyship in STEM ECC - Salon 12Julie Arsenault • Amanda Green Bringi(NG) the Three Sisters Garden and Inuit Life and Culture to Chemistry Curriculum ECC - Salon 02Michael Ng Help! There is a Critic Living in my Head! ECC - Salon 03Vincent Mireau How to Say No Westin - Saskatchewan RoomJulianne Harvey Using Riddles and Unsolvable Problems to Encourage Oral Language and Higher Order Thinking Skills ECC - Salon 10Dr. Karena Hartson

1:00pm MST

Visit the Royal Alberta Museum (Tour) Royal Alberta Museum - TourMonica Roberts

1:45pm MST

Scott Ervin - Breakout Session ECC - Salon 08Scott Ervin

2:00pm MST

Fun Times with H5P! Westin - Chancellor RoomAngelo Delli Santi Outcomes, Triangulation and Gradebooks - OH MY! ECC - Salon 09Julie Arsenault Laurie McIntosh - Keynote Session ECC - Hall DLaurie McIntosh • Janet Vader Maegan Giroux - Keynote Session 4-6 ECC - Salon 04Maegan Giroux The Sailing of the St. Louis Art Gallery of Alberta - Studio 3Lindsay Anderson Let’s Talk About Food: Reframing messaging for an inclusive classroom ECC - Salon 15/16Jaclyn Chute Exploring Inuit Games: Tradition, Skills, and Community Westin - Yukon RoomGoota Desmarais • Nicole Lueke How Well Do Your Students Read? ECC - Salon 13/14Tannis Niziol STEM Stations - Engaging students in authentic learning and collaboration in Science and Math. ECC - Salon 12Amanda Green • Megan Zaremba All Who are Weary and Heavy-Laden ECC - Salon 10Mike Landry Maki(Ng) More Magic & Science Fun! ECC - Salon 02Michael Ng Non-Permanent Learning Surfaces (aka Whiteboards) In the Science Classroom Westin - Turner Valley RoomKristian Basaraba Trickster Theatre Presents: Science Through Theatre Westin - Strathcona RoomAlex Allen Visual Block-Based Coding with Minecraft Education Edition Westin - BC RoomDavid Hay Pathways to Possibility: Navigating the Transition from High School to University for Underrepresented Students ECC - Salon 01Sarah Flynn Financial Wellness – it’s more than just investments! Westin - Manitoba RoomRick Harcourt • Elizabeth Walton Risk. Rest. Resilience. Westin - Saskatchewan RoomJulianne Harvey