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Embedding Anti-Racism Education into Everyday Teaching Practice
Anti-Black racism is a troubling phenomenon that Ontario educators have become increasingly aware of in recent months. Creating teaching and learning environments where all students see themselves, can learn, grow and thrive is important to their success. Data show that not all students are achieving to their full potential due to systemic racism and other …
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Using Developmental Continua to Deepen Mathematical Learning
This session will help you meet your students within their zone of proximal development to move their learning forward using specific practices and strategies. Participants explore how to: Notice and name mathematical learning in play Use more than one developmental continuum to place students on a trajectory and support learning within a student’s zone of …
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Spiraling INTO Control: A Different Way to Plan and Teach Math for Deeper Student Understandings
In this session, Mary-Kay will share her approach to spiraling through the Math curriculum, balancing content expectations and the math processes, to achieve her goal of strengthening students’ mathematical reasoning skills. As well, discussion will look at how this approach better aligns with the assessment practices described in Growing Success. Student work will be from …
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Pedagogical Documentation: Highlighting the Learning in Kindergarten
The act of documentation helps to highlight the authentic learning and meaningful curriculum outcomes that present themselves naturally in a play-based learning environment. In this session, teachers will familiarize themselves with the role documentation plays in a Kindergarten program, learn, and see examples of different forms of documentation from practice (photos, videos, student voice, learning …
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The Kindergarten Educator Guide: What’s in it for you?
This session is aimed at familiarizing participants with the variety of resources available to support the Kindergarten Communication of Learning, in particular, the recently revised Educator Guide. Come and participate in large and small group discussion to unpack key elements of the guide, including equitable and inclusive communication, completing the templates and communicating enduring evidence-based …