SEATCA 2025 - Southeastern Alberta Teachers' Convention: Full Schedule

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9:00am MST

From Principal to Author: Making Good Decisions for your Mental Health

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

F2004

The story of a former school administrator who made a decision for his mental health to leave the principalship and go back to the classroom, a decision that opened doors he couldn't have every imagined!

Speakers

Ben Galeski

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
F2004 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Health & Wellness

Audience Admin/Leadership, All Divisions

9:00am MST

Pop Quiz Hotshot...Dealing with Emergent Situations in Schools

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

S102

This interactive session is designed for both prospective school administrators and current administrators. Participants will explore real-life situations that have occurred in schools in order to collaboratively discuss how they would handle the situations if they were the administrator-in-charge.

Speakers

Tyler Powell

Tyler has been a teacher for the past 24 years and an in-school administrator for the past ten years. The schools he has worked in include rural K-12 and K-9, as well as urban junior high and high school. He is currently the principal of Tilley School and Hockey Academy in the Grasslands... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
S102 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Leadership

Audience Admin/Leadership

9:00am MST

Making new.LearnAlberta.ca work for you

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

F2005

Did you know you can do so much more than just view curriculum on new.LearnAlberta.ca? This session will explore how you can make new.LearnAlberta.ca work for you. You’ll be guided through new.LearnAlberta.ca where you can view new curriculum implementation supports and find available resources for students, parents and for teachers. Please bring a device to explore new.LearnAlberta.ca.

Speakers

Karla Holt

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
F2005 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Pedagogy & Educational Research

Audience Div 1, Div 2, Admin/Leadership

9:00am MST

Teaching Upstream: Delivering social emotional learning education and skills to children

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST

F2002

This session will explore the use of Children's Literature as a vehicle to accomplish PEW outcomes around mental health, skills, and attitudes. In a collaboration with the BEEJ project, the Niwa family, and Medicine Hat College, 4th year education students look to build a stronger, more resilient community through enhanced mental health education. Teachers will be able to look at grade specific unit and lesson plans created by Education students that pair the CASEL framework across five areas of social and emotional competence with physical education and wellness KUSP's in the Alberta curriculum. Education students will also share their anecdotal findings around the execution and implementation of the lesson plans they created. The hope for this session is to empower teachers with ideas, tools, and lessons to help build a resilient child, classroom, and community around mental health education.

Speakers

Jason McLester

Currently Jason teaches in the Arts, Science, and Education Department, as well as for the Collaborative Elementary Education Degree offered at Medicine Hat College through Mount Royal University. He is also a Practicum Supervisor for third and fourth year Education placements. His... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
F2002 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Professional issues

Audience Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Admin/Leadership

9:00am MST

Interconnectedness of Life: A Cree Perspective.

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MST

F2006

To understand how the Cree culture and Cree people look at and value our world.

Speakers

Darrell Willier

Darrell is from Sucker Creek First Nation of north-west Alberta. He is currently employed with Medicine Hat Public School Division as the First Nations, Metis & Inuit Education Coordinator, since 2018. After graduation, Darrell began his career in 1990.

Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am MST
F2006 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Indigenous Education

Audience Div 2, Div 3, Div 4, Admin/Leadership

10:30am MST

Canada Out of the Closet - Stories to Help You Support Queer Students

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

S146

Travis Boser is an educator, actor, and podcaster. In 2021 he started Canada Out of the Closet, a podcast focused on giving people a space to both share and hear the coming out stories of 2SLGBTQ+ Canadians. These stories have helped people in the closet to find their way out, while also allowing a glimpse into the queer experience for those who have not experienced it themselves. In this session, Boser intertwines his own story into those shared on the show to help other educators discover how they can become authentic allies for the students in their buildings.

Speakers

Travis Boser

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
S146 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

DEHR

Audience Div 2, Div 3, Div 4, Admin/Leadership

10:30am MST

Stop Wasting My Time!! Strategies for Effectively Facilitating Team Meetings

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

E175

Are you frustrated with productivity and impact when meeting in teams? Our time is precious so how do we ensure time spent together is maximized, whether engaging in PLC's, collaborative team meetings, staff meetings or any other meetings at your school? In this session, Kurtis will share specific structures and processes essential when engaging in collaboration, with multiple samples and resources shared. He will also present strategies for facilitators responsible for leading team meetings. Plan on leaving the session with some resources and strategies to impact your next meeting!

Speakers

Kurtis Hewson

Lead Learner/Co-Founder, Jigsaw Learning

Kurtis Hewson has been an award-winning teacher, vice-principal, and principal, as well as taught at the post-secondary level. With over a decade of experience as an administrator, Kurtis has championed the call for collaborative structures in schools to ensure success for all students... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
E175 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Leadership

Audience Admin/Leadership

1:00pm MST

Fluency in the Secondary Classroom

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

B371

Join us to uncover the essential role of fluency, specifically prosody and phrasing, in developing secondary students’ reading abilities. Fluency is one academic key in developing older students’ reading and comprehension skills, and comprehension skills, and is often overlooked. This session will examine how to structure and plan for fluency practice through both ELA texts and within the content areas. We will talk about deep and wide reading and ways to structure fluency practice through the lens of differentiation to meet your classroom's wide range of needs. You will leave with strategies, tools, and practices to embed with your secondary students immediately.

Speakers

Miriam Ramzy/Michelle Bence

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
B371 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

Literacy

Audience Div 3, Div 4, Admin/Leadership