Professional Activity Day Details
October 11, 2024
- 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.
September 3, 2024
Part I: Welcome, Important Updates and Student Well-Being
- Review of Fire Plan (School site specific)
- Review of Violence Risk Assessment (School site specific)
- Students with Prevalent Medical Conditions (School site specific)
- Updates to Ministry Policies (Vaping, Cell Phone Use, Guest Speakers, Communication)
Part II: Student Achievement and Well-Being – Ministry, Board and School Priorities
- Primary Principal led evidenced informed Mathematics session
- Primary Health and Physical Education Program Guides
- Secondary Review of changes to Assessment and Evaluation procedures with a focus on curriculum expectations.
Part III: Training
- Violence and Harassment
- De-escalating Strategies
- WHMIS
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Incident Reporting Overview
- Epi-Pen Use
- Concussion Policy and Protocol Review