Professional Activity Day Details

• Mandatory health and safety training will cover areas such as violence and harassment; de-escalating strategies; WHMIS; slips, trips, and falls; incident reporting overview; epi-pen use; concussion policy and protocol review.
• Early years reading screening training to help identify students who are experiencing difficulty and provide instructional support to improve reading proficiency.
• Early years updates on playful literacy and numeracy learning in the classroom while intertwining the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Mental Health training for Grades 6-8 educators on how to incorporate healthy habits and coping strategies into daily routines to help maintain mental health and encourage resilience.
• Mathematics and literacy training to help support multi-language learners by focusing on foundational knowledge and skills, including oral language, word-level reading and spelling, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
• Social and emotional and well-being strategies training to help students foster their own overall health, well-being, positive mental health, resilience and ability to learn and thrive. Indigenous resources to support elementary teams.
• Equity and trauma informed classroom training for staff to learn the framework needed to create a more inclusive and supportive educational environment for all students.
• Secondary assessment and evaluation updates focused on achievement of learning outcomes and core academic skills with a focus on literacy and numeracy to prepare students for future success.
• Behaviour Management Systems full certification or recertification training.
• Review and discussion of the Discernment Tool for classroom resources.

Elementary Educators: will participate in a variety of student assessment, evaluation, grading, and reporting.

EAs and DECEs: will participate in a variety of professional learning opportunities, which may include Virtual sessions in MH LIT – Mental Health.

Librarians: will participate in completing library duties, including processing new books.

Secretaries: will participate in professional learning opportunities which includes KD registration, Admissions, PowerSchool and Attendance Management, Finance - School Cash Online and Lunchbox

Elementary Educators:
• Literacy training –including oral language, word-level reading and spelling, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and supporting multi-language learners - foundational knowledge and skills.
• Mathematics training – enhancing foundation mathematic skills through structured play, enhancing mathematics learning and motivation through spatial reasoning; evidence-based strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples).
• Family Life – will center on family as a gift from God; called to be loving, faithful, healthy, hopeful and joy-filled disciples.
• School safety - supporting emerging and escalating needs through substance abuse prevention.
Secondary Educators:
Student well being
• Review - De-streamed Gr. 9 English and Mathematics curriculum.
• Guidance and Career training - making connections to skilled trades, transferable skills and apprenticeship & STEM.
• Assessment and Evaluation strategies - to support student success
• School Improvement Plan - analysis of data and planning to support student learning
• Universal Design for Learning
EAs: Behaviour Management Systems (BMS) training – Full certification and workshop style training on trauma informed school-based approaches to support students.
ECEs: will engage in an interactive workshop that will explore how structured play can enhance foundational literacy and numeracy skills in kindergarten.
Librarians: will participate in an information session sharing ways to support staff and students through various library services and programs.