Grade Group Get Together  Tuesday April 23rd   2:45- 4:15pm  no registration necessary!  

In Person @ SBO Conference Room. 

A place for teachers to gather and talk about teaching with grade range colleagues. Topics are formed by your questions and current context.  Ed Centre Resources available. Snacks provided! 

Bring a question, idea or something to share or just yourself!    

Spring time topics might include:  getting students outside on local field trips; yearend assessment; student self-assessment and learning celebrations.

8:45 – 2:45pm BCTF Classroom Management  Register on CIMS by April 17th.   

In Person @SBO

This workshop provides a framework for creating a classroom management plan that includes preventing problems, taking action when problems arise and intervening with individual students. This framework allows teachers to create a management plan that is based on positive behaviour support but is flexible to accommodate many strategies and teaching styles. Included is the opportunity to re-examine personal practice and beliefs, explore respectful discipline approaches and expand classroom management strategies.

Assigned educators, please check with your School Pro-D Committee to find out how you can help plan for the day. 

Teachers considering an alternate activity or self directed learning should share those plans at least 2 weeks in advance with their PD rep and Administrator.

District workshops being hosted on that day -  Register on CIMS before April 29,2023. 

• School of Hope Session #3 with Cathleen Beachboard - 1-2 hours starting at 9am ONLINE/ broadcast to school locations.   This is the third in the School of Hope series, participants should have attended the August 31 or September and November 16 sessions ( or viewed the recordings) in advance of this session.    
• Live it Earth - 1 hour starting at 9am ONLINE - exploring the resources available, how to make a part of your science learning and the new features added for 2023-24  
• More to come!  

TTOC grants are available for District workshops.  Please find the Grant Application on the Pro-D page,  applications are due April 22, 2023. 

9:30-12:30 SET BC - Microsoft Accessibility Tools for PC and iPad hosted by Maria and Lori from SET BC.  Must register on CIMS  by April 17th.      In Person Event @ SBO 

Do you have students who have difficulty writing, or who struggle reading? Do literacy skills impact the completion of assignments?  

This workshop explores many built-in and free reading and writing tools to support literacy. Whether a student is working on a laptop or an iPad, these tools can help them access information, make annotations, and create their own writing. Some supports include dictation, predictive text, text-to-speech, annotation of PDFs, and the reduction of visual distractions from websites. 

These are tools that will benefit all students. Come explore them with us.     This is a hands-on workshop. Laptops and iPads will be available to use.