Jessica Pia 

Participant: Inclusive Communities Workshop (February, CSSD) 

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Calgary City Teacher's Convention, hosted at the Telus Convention Centre (February, CSSD) 

     Workshops Attended: 

     "The Role of Wellness in the Classroom" 

     "From Beats to Keats: Exploring Poetry from Iambic to Instagramic"

     "The Power of Extreme Writing" 

     

     Keynote Attended: "A Writer's Perspective on Language, Literacy and Books", Joseph Boyden 

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District PD Day (January, CSSD) 

     Workshops/Sessions Attended: 

     "Spoken Word Poetry" (AM session), hosted at Madeline d'Houet School 

     "Aligning Assessment with Writing Portfolios" (PM session), hosted at Our Lady of Grace School 

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In-School PD Session—"Gifted Programming Instructional Strategies", meeting with Jeaneatte MacDonald, CSSD Gifted Programming Consultant, St. Basil School 

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Participant: Faith Day 2016, hosted at the Telus Convention Centre 

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Workshop—Junior High ELA, collaborative PD session hosted at Our Lady of Grace School 

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Instructional Media Services In-School PD Session—"Blogging in the Classroom", meeting with Brandy McClellan, CSSD ELA Consultant, St. Basil School  

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Attendee—Paliser District Teacher's Convention, hosted at the Telus Convention Centre

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    Keynote Attended: "Don't We Already Do Inclusion?: 100 Ways to Improve Inclusive Schools", Paula Kluth

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    Workshops Attended:

    "Secondary Language Arts/English: Poetry", Alan Friesen

    "Writer's Workshop: iwrite; uwrite", Naomi Hartey, Amanda Dwyer, Crystal Anderson, Andrea McGeachie,        Andrea Whalley, Meghan Zolpis, Paliser District Teachers' Convention, Telus Convention Center

 

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Conference Presenter—"Integrating Design Thinking in Postsecondary Teaching and Learning to Foster Creativity", Exploring Creativity in Post-Secondary Learning & Teaching, hosted by The University of Calgary

 

Workshop—Assessing and Scoring Real Essays: Turning Points, The Learning Parntership, hosted by The Werklund School of Education

 

Workshop—Comics in Teaching & Learning, Nick Sousanis, hosted by The Werklund School of Education 

 

Workshop—Lesson Planning Resources, Tammy Flanders, hosted by The Doucette Library (University of Calgary)

 

Seminar—LBGTQ Youth, YouthLink Calgary, hosted by The University of Calgary 

 

 

Workshop—Unseen Hurts: Mental Health of Students, Alberta Teacher's Association, hosted by The Werklund School of Education 

 

Workshop—Designing and Assessing Inquiry Work Part II, Galileo Eduactional Network, hosted by The Werklund School of Education 

 

 

Attendee—Under Western Skies II: Environment, Culture and Communty in North America, hosted by Mount Royal University 

 

Keynote Addresses:

"Green Earth: The Wounded Healer" Louise B. Halfe

"Finding Hope in the Carbon Crisis" Alanna Mitchell

"Making Film About Science and the Environment in the Oil Sands—A Story of Tipping Points" Tom Radford

 

Panels: 

CanLit, Environment and Place

"Combating Environmental Degradation: A Case for Ecocritical Approaches to Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Yann Martel's Life of Pi" R. K. Dhawan

"The Doctrine of Unintended Consequences: Post-human Possibilities in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood" Angela Waldie

"Reflections on 'Reading the Landscape': Exploring a Southern Albertan 'Sense of Place' Through Literature, Ecology and History" Mary-Ann McLean, Luke Bresky, and Gayle Thrft