Presentations

Project Lit Community began as an American based grassroots reading initiative that gets diverse books in the hands of students. The selected Project Lit titles tackle current social issues and ignite meaningful discussions with students. Project Lit can be used as a model for developing relationships with our students and promoting diversity and empathy within our school communities and beyond.

According to NCTM and Cobb at all, meaningful learning in mathematics is characterized by connections, conceptual understanding, problem-solving, multiple representation, communication and reasoning, reflection and metacognition, transfer of learning, and social interaction.

Over the past few years I have been re-considering and reflecting on my own use of reward systems.

This engaging hands-on workshop will explore simple yet effective ways in which educators can leverage the Apple creative apps on a Mac to design and deliver engaging and inspiring learning experiences for their students.

This presentation will demonstrate that developing a working knowledge and shared understanding of educational neuroscience is one of the most transformative acts that a school can undertake,

Getting students to look beyond their "go-to"research methods can be an overlooked and sometimes frustrating endeavour. Ms. Mansfield is able to show educators some helpful tips and tricks to make student research not only more effective, but more fun!

This session will mainly focus on learning in the early years (3-7yrs) but will also contain a few examples for upper elementary. We will focus on ways we can deepen our students' learning by conferencing with them during their play, just as we do during literacy and math.

Students love stories in their personal lives, both consuming them and producing them. Come learn secrets of storytelling teachers.

This presentation covers community, teacher and peer-mentoring and presents research findings which may inform good practice.

"A live session where we will explore the benefits of a Making program in school. Beacon Hill School began their successful Making program in 2017.