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Conference Itinerary

Tuesday, February 18

Time Event Venue (Burnaby Campus)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Registration and Welcome packages EDB 8620
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Conference Opening Reception EDB 8620 & 8515

Wednesday, February 19

Time Event Venue (Burnaby Campus)
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Welcome Packages Diamond Family Auditorium
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Territorial Welcome: Tsleil-Waututh Nation Elder Carleen Thomas

Director's Welcome and Land Acknowledgement: Dr. Stephen Smith

 
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Opening Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gillian Judson  
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Closing Notes    
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Transition to Session A  

Conference Sessions

One-hour sessions | Education Building
Time Session/Event  
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Session A  
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Session B  
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch  
  Directors' Lunch
(Indigenous Gathering Space - EDUC 8651)
 
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Session C  
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Session D  
Session A - Details

WORKSHOPS

  • Artificial intelligence and the classroom: Using AI in educational practice
    (Jarvis and Klein-Laufer)  [More]
    Room EDB 8620 Hub (capacity 70)
  • Engaging all students with concept-based planning
    (DeTerra) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.1 (capacity 25)
  • Language and Joy in Education: Exploring the big ideas of K-12 ELA
    (Johnston)
    Room EDB 7509 (capacity 40)
  • One big happy family: Teacher engagement through collaboration
    (Mah) [More]
    Room EDB 7608 (capacity 40)
  • Radical agency in the classroom: SEL learning as social justice work
    (Zall) [More]
    Room EDB 8502 (capacity 20)
  • Story studio - Reggio Emilia approach
    (Ramamonjisoa and Kolber) [More]
    Room EDB 7506 (capacity 40)
  • The art educator's ethics compass: A workshop in creative and collaborative pedagogy
    (Eymundson) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.2 (capacity 25)
  • The challenge of acknowledging land: land-based education, exploratory practice and duo-ethnography
    (Campbell with Tajiri, Dhaliwal, Brendzy, Brendzy and Munro) (Partially outdoors) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50)
  • The pedagogy of sharing food: engaging learners’ assumptions about food, eating and veganism as a way towards more respectful relations with animals
    (Behrisch and Fernandes) [More]
    Room EDB 7505 (capacity 20)

PRESENTATIONS

  • Bridging the gaps: The place of Interdisciplinary learning in secondary education
    (Allen) [More]
    and
    Empowering inclusive classrooms: Leveraging assistive technologies through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to support students with autism
    (Chung) [More]
    Room EDB 8504 (capacity 32)
  • Practicing what we teach: Exploring the connection between mental health literacy and teacher mental health
    (MacNeil) [More]
    and
    Designing for wellness: A design-based research approach to optimizing social media engagement and promoting long-term teacher wellbeing among pre-service teachers
    (Dinh and Schedlosky) [More]
    Room EDB 7618 (capacity 65)
  • The spectrum of sound: Engaging students through sound exploration
    (Micu) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
  • Engaging music education through soundwalking and soundscape storytelling
    (Clarke) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
Session B - Details
Session C - Details

WORKSHOPS

  • Creating a warm learning environment for every student
    (Dimopoulos and Whitehouse) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.2 (capacity 25)
  • Creating culturally responsive and sustaining classrooms: Strategies for engaging diverse student populations
    (Meadows and Sinnott) [More]
    Room EDB 7506 (capacity 40)
  • Double trouble: The online side of sex ed
    (McPhee) [More]
    Room EDB 7505 (capacity 20) 
  • Engaging students’ Social-Emotional Learning through outdoor classrooms
    (MacLean) (Partially outdoors) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50)
  • Ethical and responsible use of GenAI in education: Hands-on exploration for educators
    (Woloshen and Hutchison) [More]
    Room EDB 7509 (capacity 40)
  • Queering the classroom: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ students by resisting heteropatriarchy
    (Thomson and Oikawa) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
  • They tried to bury us not realizing we were seeds: Examining curriculum through an anti-oppression lens
    (Ohana) [More]
    Room EDB 7608 (capacity 40)
  • Work-life wellness for new teachers
    (Jarvis) [More]
    Room EDB 8620 Hub (capacity 70)

PRESENTATIONS

  • Finding a home for Francophone pre-service teachers / Trouver un foyer pour les stagiaires francophones
    (Campbell) [More]
    and
    Plurilingual approaches: Building inclusive Japanese language classrooms in Canadian higher education
    (Zhang) [More]
    Room EDB 8504 (capacity 32)
  • Building capacity for gender and sexual orientation-inclusive practices with teacher candidates
    (Palmer) [More]
    and

    A sense of belonging in teacher education
    (Ragoonaden with Yamamoto, Bartsch, Billingsley, Sheenan, Setters, and Woloshen) [More]
    Room EDB 7618 (capacity 65)
  • Layers of identity: Exploring intersections of our cultural and professional being in teacher education
    (Sadhra) [More]
    and
    I have ADHD, so what?
    (Threlfall) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.1 (capacity 25)
  • Preparing students for an online world
    (Basnett) [More]
    and
    To Phub or not to Phub? Socio-moral reasoning at a digital citizenship after-school program
    (Rohr) [More]
    Room EDB 8502 (capacity 20)
Session D - Details

WORKSHOPS

  • Beyond the identity wheel: Crafting complex positionality maps
    (Sharda and Ilten-Gee, with Carmichael and Almeida) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.2 (capacity 25)
  • Bringing the outside in: Interdisciplinary learning in the secondary years
    (Younghusband with Mocilac, Rutherford and Procter) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
  • Climate change education: Collaborative course development
    (Germanos with Kazmi, Olynyk, Sanford and Robertson) [More]
    Room EDB 7506 (capacity 40)
  • Decoding dyslexia: A hands-on perspective
    (Ramirez) [More]
    Room EDB 7608 (capacity 40)
  • Developing community, empathy, and new understandings through ensemble-based theatre
    (Bernstein) [More]
    Room EDB 8620 Hub (capacity 70)
  • Presence, joy, and persistence, in practice: Love in an age of disconnection and scarcity
    (Wardrop) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50)
  • The mathematics of Tla’amin fish traps
    (Tan) [More]
    Room EDB 7505 (capacity 20)
  • Trauma informed practice in experiential learning
    (Henderson) [More]
    Room EDB 7509 (capacity 40)
  • What is environmental learning?
    (Zandvliet with Leddy and Paul) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50)

PRESENTATIONS

  • Engaging senior years students in controversial topics
    (Peloquin-Epp) [More]
    and
    Beyond grades: Unpacking student teacher knowledge development in ungraded teacher education
    (Dharamshi with Bahrmai and Cojocaru) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.1 (capacity 25)
  • Increasing educator capacity to support students mental wellness in secondary & intermediate classrooms
    (Jakubowski and Robertson) [More]
    and
    Layers of identity: Exploring intersections of our cultural and professional being in teacher education
    (Sadhra) [More]
    Room EDB 7618 (capacity 65)
  • Integrating Indigenous pedagogies: A pathway for beginning teachers
    (de Groot) [More]
    and
    Developing political consciousness through critical family literacy
    (Reiners) [More]
    Room EDB 8504 (capacity 32)

Thursday, February 20

Conference Sessions

One-hour sessions | Education Building
Time Session/Event  
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Session E  
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Session F  
Session E - Details

WORKSHOPS

  • Expressions of place: Post cards from Oaxaca
    (Elderton) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
  • Fears of failure: Teachers perceptions and practices used
    (Banta) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.1 (capacity 25) 
  • Get outside! Explore imaginative education and The Walking Curriculum
    (Jaffer) (Partially outside) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.2 (capacity 25) 
  • Joyous Journaling
    (Deitcher) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50) 
  • Lean into your strengths to step into scholarly teaching in the K-12 classroom
    (Whintors) [More]
    Room EDB 7608 (capacity 40)
  • Re-storying education: Decolonizing your practice with a critical lens
    (Roberts) [More]
    Room EDB 7509 (capacity 40)
  • Turning to one another to foster hope through Metissage
    (Schnellert Younghusband, Sanford, Fisher, Kozak, Howe, Yee, Robertson, Olding, Ragpot, Banack with Koehn, Willms, Farish, Maguire, and Laminger) [More]
    Room EDB 8620 Hub (capacity 70)
  • Unité pédagogique annuelle sur la temporalité fondée sur les approches plurielles CARAP
    (Boucher and Ishikawa) (Presented in French) [More]
    Room EDB 8502 (capacity 20) 

PRESENTATIONS

  • AI meets UDL: Designing adaptive classrooms for inclusive and future-ready learning
    (Shilibekova) [More]
    and
    Emancipation and engagement in the online classroom
    (Krilic) [More]
    Room EDB 7506 (capacity 40)
  • Educating for the capacity and will to engage
    (Chen) [More]
    and
    Reimagining elementary classroom design; environments for success
    (Zupan) [More]
    Room EDB 7505 (capacity 20)
  • Interdisciplinary teaching for professional growth: Strategies for senior years
    (Teichroew) [More]
    and
    Teaching about settler-colonialism in senior years history classes
    (Derry) [More]
    Room EDB 8504 (capacity 32)
  • Teacher education as secondary curriculum: The anatomy of foundations of teacher education 12
    (Sutherland and Olchowy) [More]
    and
    Learning to lead: How mentorship transforms the student-teacher experience
    (Kenney) [More]
    Room EDB 7618 (capacity 60)
Session F - Details

WORKSHOPS

  • Trauma informed practice in experiential learning
    (Henderson) [More]
    Room EDB 7610 (capacity 35)
  • Choose your own adventure: Two pathways for engaging culturally-sustaining Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
    (Sam and Ilten-Gee, Gis) [More]
    Room EDB 7600 (capacity 50)
  • Comprehensive sexual health beyond the PE classroom
    (Nyberg with Watt and Black) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.2 (capacity 25) 
  • Engaging all students with concept-based planning
    (DeTerra) [More]
    Room EDB 7506 (capacity 40) 
  • Inclusive education - So much to know, where do I start?
    (Willms) [More]
    Room EDB 7509 (capacity 40) 
  • Increasing engagement by incorporating visual arts in the middle years classroom
    (Edwards) [More]
    Room EDB 7505 (capacity 20) 
  • The power of curiosity: Cultivating engagement through wonder, exploration, and Indigenous perspectives
    (Warkentin and Gillis) [More]
    Room EDB 8620 Hub (capacity 70)
  • Transforming classrooms with video modeling: A tool for inclusive and skill-based learning
    (Nwobodo and Williamson) [More]
    Room EDB 8620.1 (capacity 25) 

PRESENTATIONS

  • A meaningful exchange of roles: students as teachers in teacher professional learning
    (Griffith) [More]
    and
    Educating pre-service and early career teachers for inner city schools
    (Olding and Redekop) [More]
    Room EDB 8504 (capacity 32)
  • Building capacity for gender and sexual orientation-inclusive practices with teacher candidates
    (Palmer) [More]
    and
    Content analysis of sensitive classroom discussions using an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion lens (EDI) from students and instructors’ perspectives in higher education
    (Biferie and Sam) [More]
    Room EDB 7618 (capacity 60) 
  • Creating student engagement through facilitated communal experiences
    (Ens) [More]
    and
    Promoting student autonomy and voice: Practical insights for new teachers
    (Tordiffe) [More]
    Room EDB 8502 (capacity 20) 
  • Developing political consciousness through critical family literacy
    (Reiners) [More]
    and
    Critical literacy in action: Engaging in diverse spaces
    (Yao with Zandrazavi and Cummins) [More]
    Room EDB 7608 (capacity 40)

Post-Session Itinerary

Time Event Venue (Burnaby Campus)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Closing Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sara F. Davidson
Closing Notes
Diamond Family Auditorium