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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:
  1. The Westin Edmonton: 10135 100 St. NW
  2. Edmonton Convention Centre: 9797 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
  3. Saville Community Sports Centre: 11610 65 Ave, NW, Edmonton
  4. Art Gallery of Alberta: 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton
  5. 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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Thursday, February 6
 

9:00am MST

Spirit of the Metis
Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
The Metis are a people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry with a distinct and rich culture different from other Indigenous peoples. Participants will learn about the historical impact and significance the Metis have had on the development of Canada. An understanding and definition of the Metis identity will be defined and the importance and significance of traditional Metis cultural items will be shown.
Speakers
avatar for Brian St Germain

Brian St Germain

Retired teacher
My name is Brian St. Germain and I was born and raised in Red Deer. I recently retired from Red Deer Public School District after forty years of teaching. The last ten years spent with the First Nations, Metis and Inuit Program in Learning Services. I am Cree First Nations and Cree... Read More →
Thursday February 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Social Studies / Études sociales, Indigenous Education

10:15am MST

Indigenous War Veterans and My Cree Father's POW Experience
Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Information on the war efforts of Indigenous soldiers and their treatment upon their return to Canada. The session will also highlight the personal story of Cpl. Alphonse St.Germain and his time spent as a POW in Italy and Germany.A story of resilience and determination to survive and create a stable life for his family despite many unique obstacles.
Speakers
avatar for Brian St Germain

Brian St Germain

Retired teacher
My name is Brian St. Germain and I was born and raised in Red Deer. I recently retired from Red Deer Public School District after forty years of teaching. The last ten years spent with the First Nations, Metis and Inuit Program in Learning Services. I am Cree First Nations and Cree... Read More →
Thursday February 6, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Social Studies / Études sociales, Indigenous Education

11:30am MST

How to Bring Canadian History to Life - The Fur Trade
Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Want to bring history to life in your classroom? Want your students to experience history? This session will walk you through a series of simulations that you can run to explore the fur trade in Canada. Your students will be actively engaged in their learning and WANT to know more! They will have opportunities to put themselves into history and become the characters on their journey and actively experience the trials and tribulations alongside them! Lots of humanities cross curricular opportunities! You will walk away with the complete simulation packages, tasks and assessment for multiple simulations that connect together to teach various stages of fur trade and cross curricular final projects to assess a wide variety of outcomes.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Thursday February 6, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Language Arts / Arts Langagier, Social Studies / Études sociales

12:45pm MST

Exciting New Social Studies Project on The Regions of Canada that allows for Challenge and Differentiation!
Thursday February 6, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Are you struggling to meet the diverse needs in your classroom? Want your students to be engaged and passionate at their own level? Want your students to think critically and build research and writing skills? Students will be creating either a magazine, website, webcast etc. This session will walk you through how to explore the regions of Canada from the geography to history to the economics and cultural diversity. Activities include exploration of a job of a journalist, a look at different mediums including videos, google slide, texts, website etc.. Your students will be actively engaged in their learning and WANT to do these types of projects again and again! They will have opportunities to put themselves into the roles of a historian and journalist! Lots of humanities cross curricular opportunities! You will walk away with complete packages and resources.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Thursday February 6, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Language Arts / Arts Langagier, Social Studies / Études sociales

2:00pm MST

Gr 9 - Engaging Projects
Thursday February 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Do you struggle engaging your students with the topics of government and economics? Want your students to think critically and build skills? This session will walk you through a variety of different tasks that can be interactive, develop critical thinking skills, work to apply knowledge and interpret a variety of sources. Tasks range from government simulations, YCJA scenarios and trials, cross curricular ELA texts/resources, economic simulations, videos to support learning, propaganda, etc.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Thursday February 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Social Studies / Études sociales, Language Arts / Arts Langagier
 
Friday, February 7
 

9:00am MST

Writing for Social Studies (Div 3 and 4)
Friday February 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Are you struggling to develop your student’s academic social studies writing skills? This is the session for you! We will be focusing on paragraph structure building towards essay writing and interpreting sources and developing critical written responses leading to the source analysis. The scope and sequence from grade 7 to high school written tasks will be examined. We will be providing powerpoint lessons, tasks, templates and exemplars for a variety of different grades and abilities.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Friday February 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Social Studies / Études sociales, Language Arts / Arts Langagier
  • Language of Presentation English
  • Grade Focus Division 2/3
  • format Lecture
  • Room Details Westin - Yukon Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Lecture Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English, Division 2/3

10:15am MST

ELA and SS - Engaging Tasks Connected to Conflict
Friday February 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Want to bring conflict and military history to life in your classroom? Want your students to connect to different challenges associated with people's experiences with conflict? Want your students to think critically and build skills? We will be looking at a variety of different conflicts connected to the curriculum (EG: War of 1812, Conquest of the Americas, Remembrance Day, etc.) in social studies as well as a variety of different ELA texts that have conflict as a theme (EG: The Sniper, War Poetry, songs connected to war and peace, etc.). Students get to explore and understand situations where individuals are interacting with conflict and war and the consequences individually and for society. There are many connections to be made to other times in world history to allow students to critically think about the movement of peoples. You will walk away with the complete lessons, activities, projects and resources.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Friday February 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Social Studies / Études sociales, Language Arts / Arts Langagier

11:30am MST

Novel Studies - How to do it well!
Friday February 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Do your students hate reading? Do they struggle to complete tasks/assignments due to lack of engagement? Please join us for engaging ways to teach novels that will have your students asking, “Are we going to read today?” We will be going through a variety of different novels for different grade levels/abilities, as well as different approaches to novels and reading, strategies to build literacy and comprehension skills, tasks to develop academic writing, the gathering of evidence, critical analysis of the text and creative hands on projects.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholle Morrison

Nicholle Morrison

Teacher, Calgary Board of Ed.
Nicholle has a BA in Sociology and a BEd Education. She has taught for 14 years. She began by primarily teaching elementary grades 5 and 6 and then 9 years teaching social studies and humanities at the junior high level. Nicholle currently is a high school Social Studies teacher with... Read More →
avatar for Joanna Zakus

Joanna Zakus

Joanna has a BA History and a BEd Secondary Social Studies. She has been teaching primarily social studies and humanities for the last 20 years at the junior high level. Joanna currently is a teacher at a junior high school with the Calgary Board of Education. She focuses on interactive... Read More →
Friday February 7, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Language Arts / Arts Langagier, Language Arts / Arts Langagier

12:45pm MST

Askîhk Kiskinohamâtowin - Weaving Métis Ways of Knowing into Land-Based Learning
Friday February 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
nd Based Learning is central to Métis ways of knowing and being. When we create relationships to the land, we have a responsibility to live in reciprocity by protecting and caring for the land and all that lives on it. Seeing the land as a relation is an important Métis worldview. Join Rupertsland Centre for Teaching and Learning in exploring what Land-Based Learning could look like in schools, what it is and resources to support this learning.
Speakers
avatar for Holly Brandsma

Holly Brandsma

Metis Education Consultant, Rupertsland Institute
Rupertsland Centre for Teaching and Learning develops comprehensive foundational knowledge resources, engaging lesson plans, meaningful professional development opportunities and authentic classroom learning tools that speak accurately and meaningfully to topics in Métis educati... Read More →
Friday February 7, 2025 12:45pm - 1:45pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Indigenous Education, Learning Resources
  • Language of Presentation English
  • Grade Focus All Grades
  • format Lecture
  • Room Details Westin - Yukon Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Lecture Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English, All Grades

2:00pm MST

Exploring Inuit Games: Tradition, Skills, and Community
Friday February 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room
Join us for an engaging session dedicated to the rich tradition of Inuit games. Participants will delve into the cultural significance, historical roots, and the skills involved in these traditional activities. Through interactive demonstrations and hands-on participation, you'll gain a deeper appreciation for the games that have been passed down through generations, fostering community and resilience in Inuit culture. Whether you're learning about the endurance-testing Knuckle Hop, the strategic Blanket Toss, or the cooperative Seal Crawl, this session promises a fun and educational experience for all ages. Be prepared for an immersive journey into the world of Inuit games, where tradition meets play!
Speakers
avatar for Goota Desmarais

Goota Desmarais

Inuit Education
Goota Desmarais, from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, experienced a unique upbringing, spending winters in a modern Inuit settlement and summers in a traditional camp. Now residing in Sherwood Park, Alberta, she stays connected to her heritage through regular visits. Through her business, Inuit... Read More →
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Nicole Lueke

Director of Communication, North Central Teachers' Convention
Friday February 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm MST
Westin - Yukon Room Westin Hotel Edmonton
  Indigenous Education, Physical Education / Éducation Physique
  • Language of Presentation English
  • Grade Focus All Grades
  • format Lecture
  • Room Details Westin - Yukon Room (Westin Hotel Edmonton, Lecture Max capacity for 100 people)
  • Tags English, All Grades
 
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