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Thursday, February 20
 

9:00am MST

Unlocking Literacy: Simple Strategies to Support Struggling French Immersion Readers
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Grades 1-4 French immersion teachers, struggling readers in French immersion classrooms face unique challenges, especially when learning a second language. In this session, we’ll explore how the brain learns to read and how this understanding can shape our teaching practices. We’ll uncover the overlaps between French and English reading concepts and explore tips to align your literacy instruction with the science of reading.
Through practical examples you’ll discover simple, purposeful strategies that support your struggling readers. Whether you’re short on time, looking to refine your approach or trying to figure out how to meet the number of exposures a struggling reader needs, you’ll leave with actionable ideas and the confidence to make a difference tomorrow.
 
Thursday February 20, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB
  EAL

10:30am MST

3 Simple Fixes to Help Struggling French Immersion Readers Thrive
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
Grade 4-6 French immersion teachers, 
Are you looking for practical strategies to help your struggling French immersion readers? This session focuses on three impactful techniques designed to build confidence, eliminate common errors, and boost reading skills in grades 4-6. Learn how to:
  1. Address the persistent -ent mistake 
  2. Unlock decoding success.
  3. Leverage letter patterns 
Each strategy is grounded in real classroom practice and is easy to implement. Walk away with clear, actionable ideas you can use tomorrow to help your students that seem stuck break free from their reading ruts and achieve measurable progress.
 
Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB

1:00pm MST

Critically Engaged Language and Literacy Workshop
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Critically Engaged Language and Literacy Workshops (CELLWs) represent a progressive and disruptive educational model that is specifically designed to enhance literacy by integrating critical thinking, multimodality, and inquiry-based learning. Grounded in critical literacy theory, CELLWs cultivate spaces for students to creatively explore issues such as equity, racism, and inclusion, promoting a deeper awareness of themselves and the broader social context (Piazzoli, 2011; Berriz et al., 2018).
Speakers
avatar for Michelle Veroba

Michelle Veroba

Michelle Veroba (she/her/hers) serves as the ELL Student Support Teacher at Brooks Composite High School, where she directs the English Language Learner (ELL) program, drawing on over a decade of experience in supporting culturally and linguistically diverse students. She is actively... Read More →
Thursday February 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB
  EAL
 
Friday, February 21
 

9:00am MST

Helping Students Navigate Academic Vocabulary Across Subject Areas
Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
Students require specialized skills to be able to cope with the demands of disciplinary text. As students move up in secondary grades, the language of the texts they engage with becomes more specialized and precise, and the language more academic. Academic vocabulary (often referred to as Tier 2 Academic Words) is problematic for students to master, as academic vocabulary can take on dramatically different meanings depending on the usage. As the knowledge students engage with becomes more formalized and complex, so too do the patterns of language that construct that knowledge. This session will take a look at patterns of language and some of the problems with academic vocabulary. Teachers will come away with practical and useful tools that students can use to visualize, organize and structure their thinking to improve their reading, writing and communicating across all subject areas.
Speakers
KH

Karena Hartson

Karena is a secondary literacy consultant who delivers high-level, high-energy professional learning sessions that help teachers leverage their own experiences to support student learning. Teachers attending her sessions will come away with tools and strategies that they can use immediately... Read More →
Friday February 21, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB
  Literacy

10:30am MST

How Big Movies Help Students Understand Big Transferable Concepts
Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
Finding Nemo. How to Train Your Dragon. Apollo 13. There are big ideas and big moments in big movies: ideas that can pinpoint key instances of learning and transfer. We’ll examine these moments (and more) and bridge them into classroom learning. Teachers will learn about transfer theory and ways to use movies to explicitly teach for transfer of understanding. This session includes a support package of takeaways, teaching tips, and graphic organizers teachers can use in their classrooms.
Speakers
KH

Karena Hartson

Karena is a secondary literacy consultant who delivers high-level, high-energy professional learning sessions that help teachers leverage their own experiences to support student learning. Teachers attending her sessions will come away with tools and strategies that they can use immediately... Read More →
Friday February 21, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB
  Literacy

1:00pm MST

My Students Can’t Summarize! Please Help!
Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
The ability to read and summarize a text is an essential skill. A good summary needs to do more than pick out the big ideas and simplify the text. A good summary helps students to identify and analyze key points in the text and then relate those points to the overall structure of the text. Teaching summarization that is linked to text-structure improves both the quality of the written summaries and students’ overall comprehension of the text. Join Dr. Hartson to explore this powerful method of summarizing text. You’ll walk away with examples, graphic organizers, and materials you can use in your class tomorrow.
Speakers
KH

Karena Hartson

Karena is a secondary literacy consultant who delivers high-level, high-energy professional learning sessions that help teachers leverage their own experiences to support student learning. Teachers attending her sessions will come away with tools and strategies that they can use immediately... Read More →
Friday February 21, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
E149 299 College Dr SE, Medicine Hat, AB
 
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