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.

9:00am MST

Playing With Words – Upper Elementary Literacy Games

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

ECC - Salon 12

Are you looking for engaging and effective ways to help your upper elementary students gain confidence and competence with key reading, writing and comprehension concepts? Throughout the session participants will have opportunities to play literacy and vocabulary games, learn how to differentiate the activities, how to develop extensions, and how to use the game activities for assessment purposes. Student samples, gameboards, ideas for whole/small group instruction will be provided. Interspersed will be practical ideas for classroom organization and management to ensure effective implementation of games as a teaching strategy. Participants will be able to implement what they learn the next day in their classrooms and schools. Come prepared to play literacy games that incorporate the use of cards, dice, alphabet dice, letter tiles and other easily found literacy manipulatives. Concepts covered include: • Review of Phonics, Word Families and Sight Words • Reading and Writing Strategies • Effective use of Adjectives and Adverbs • Parts of Speech • Questioning strategies An extensive handout with games and gameboards will be available for download.

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 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Language Arts / Arts Langagier, 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)

10:15am MST

PLAY ON WORDS - PRIMARY LITERACY GAMES FOR DIFFERENTIATED LITERACY INSTRUCTION

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

ECC - Salon 12

Science of reading reminds us that brains learn best through PLAY! Come prepared to play literacy games that incorporate the use of hands-on manipulatives; literacy dice, word decks, letter tiles, dollar store finds and even a paint chip or two! Games and strategies will focus on the following: learning the alphabet, rhyme and word patterns, vocabulary building games, spelling simple cvc words, work with vowels and blends. These activities will fit into whole class, small group or center instruction, are easy to differentiate, and can be used for assessment. The games are also great for upper elementary students who are still struggling with literacy concepts, ELL students, and if you have Reading Buddies perfect for cross graded groups to play together. Handout will contain gameboards that can be used first thing Monday morning.

Speakers

Jane Felling

Presenter, Box Cars And One-Eyed Jacks Inc

Jane is author of the award winning Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks series of teacher resources - both for math and literacy. Jane has presented workshops across North America for over 30 years and has been a featured speaker at 100's of provincial, state, national and international conference... Read More →

Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Language Arts / Arts Langagier, Early Childhood

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1/2
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 1/2

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

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)

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)

9:00am MST

SHAKE UP YOUR OPERATIONAL FLUENCY - GAMES FOR PRIMARY ADDITION AND BEGINNING MULTIPLICATION

Friday February 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

ECC - Salon 12

Get ready to shake, shuffle and roll and learn our favorite operational fluency games and strategies for addition and early multiplication. Games and strategies will cover the following concepts: doubles, make ten, count on and back, commutative and associative properties of both + and -, square facts, using skip counting and patterns/number lines, building arrays. Games can be used whole class, small group or in centers and are easy to differentiate to meet the needs of all learners in your classroom. Handout will contain games, concept skill check lists for assessment and strategy pages. Come prepared to play!

Speakers

Jane Felling

Presenter, Box Cars And One-Eyed Jacks Inc

Friday February 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Learning Resources

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1 (K- Grade 3)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 1 (K- Grade 3)

10:15am MST

CONNECTING THE DOTS - DOMINO MATH GAMES FOR WHOLE GROUP AND CENTER INSTRUCTION K - 3

Friday February 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST

ECC - Salon 12

Dominoes are one of our student's favorite manipulatives, are easy to find and have the potential to teach so many math concepts. Come prepared to play and learn games that work on the following: counting, subitizing, patterns. operational fluency for +, -, x, place value 10's/1's to 100,10,1' to the 100 000's, graphing, multidigit operations. Handout will include gameboards, journal masters, ideas for differentiating the games will be provided throughout as well as management ideas to help focus and manage the play. Games learned in this session would be great to use at a family math games night.

Speakers

Jane Felling

Presenter, Box Cars And One-Eyed Jacks Inc

Friday February 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Early Childhood

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1 (K- Grade 3)
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 1 (K- Grade 3)

11:30am MST

Cuisenaire Rods: The Math Manipulative You Can't Live Without

Friday February 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST

ECC - Salon 12

Cuisenaire rods, those multi-colored blocks often found tucked away in the back of classroom cupboards, are truly indispensable math manipulatives. In this interactive, hands-on session, discover how these versatile tools can transform your math teaching. Learn how to effectively use Cuisenaire rods to demonstrate the four operations, work with fractions and decimals, develop proportional reasoning and understanding, and enhance measurement and geometry activities. These rods are especially beneficial for learners with dyscalculia, helping them visualize mathematics in a concrete way. Join us to explore the endless possibilities of Cuisenaire rods and how to use them in your classroom on Monday.

Speakers

Kelli Holden

Kelli is a dedicated educator with extensive experience as a teacher, Numeracy Lead, and Numeracy Facilitator for Parkland School Division, working with students from K-9. Her passion lies in making math experiences accessible to all learners. She has a strong belief in the power... Read More →

Chairperson

Jo-Anne Stewardson

Friday February 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Teaching Practices/ Pédagogie

Language of Presentation English
Grade Focus Division 1/2
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Room Details ECC - Salon 12 (Edmonton Convention Centre, Tables Max capacity for 160 people)
Tags English, Division 1/2

12:45pm MST

Allyship in STEM

Friday February 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST

ECC - Salon 12

Are you an ally interested in authentically weaving Truth & Reconciliation into your STEM lessons but don’t know where to start? Are you mindful of avoiding tokenism and teaching Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being with respect and authenticity? If so, then this is the session for you! Amanda Green will share her journey in learning from Indigenous people and appropriately implementing a variety of lessons that you can then use either on your own, or with guidance of a community member. Please remember that this is from the point of view of an ally, who sometimes makes mistakes, but ultimately wants to help others learn from them and do better. Amanda primarily focuses on Junior High (both in English and French), but has many ideas you can use with students of all ages.

Speakers

Julie Arsenault

Science Lead Teacher, Science Council

After receiving her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Microbiology and Biotechnology, Julie entered the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta to pursue her teaching career. She has been teaching with Edmonton Public Schools since 2002 and has developed a passion for incorporating... Read More →

Amanda Green

Teacher, Science Council

Amanda's spark for science ignited at an early age exploring nature with her family and grew into a flame for space exploration as she followed Canada's journey skyward. She teaches Junior High STEM classes in both English and French in Beaumont, Alberta. Alongside her colleague Julie... Read More →

Friday February 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Science-sciences, Indigenous Education

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

2:00pm MST

STEM Stations - Engaging students in authentic learning and collaboration in Science and Math.

Friday February 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST

ECC - Salon 12

Do you want to have more one-on-one time with your students while teaching them how to work independently and provide meaningful hands-on activities? Come and see how you can utilize stations to build collaborative and exploratory learning opportunities in Math and Science. Amanda Green and Megan Zaremba will share their passion for learning and how they make their lessons fun and interactive. You will walk away with resources and tips on running stations that are simple and can be implemented in your classrooms later this week! Although they primarily teach junior high in English, some ideas and resources will be available in French and applicable to other grade levels

Speakers

Amanda Green

Teacher, Science Council

Megan Zaremba

Megan has been teaching grade 9 Math and Science in Beaumont, Alberta for four years. During that time, she has enjoyed helping students find their own version of success and inspiring them to always try their best. With a passion for exploring, Megan continues to try new things in... Read More →

Friday February 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
ECC - Salon 12 Edmonton Convention Centre

Math, Science-sciences

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