May 17th PD Day has ended

Create Your Own Event

May 17th PD Day

INQUIRE.COLLABORATE.EXPLORE 8

8:00- 8:30 Muffins/Coffee/Tea
8:30 - 10:00 Keynote - Natasha Tony
10:30- 12:00 Breakout Sessions
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH (PROVIDED in the Commons)
1:00- 2:30 Breakout Sessions

Register early - low enrollment may mean cancelled sessions.
Bring your own water bottle/mug if possible.
Carpooling is encouraged.
All sessions are at VSS unless otherwise indicated.

PARK ONLY IN DESIGNATED AREAS AND NOT ALONG 21ST AVE (this is a tow away zone)

8:30am PDT

Building Inclusive SpacesLIMITED GYMNatasha Tony Get Outdoors! with Wild BCLIMITED Kidston ElementarySimone Runyan

10:30am PDT

Attention Literacy and Mental Well-Being Through the Lens of MindfulnessFULL Room 205Darlene Loland Autocad and 3D printing for grades 6 and 7LIMITED Room 163 Small LabBrendan Robertson Capillaries: Poetry as Your Classroom’s Beating HeartLIMITED Room 223Kyle McKillop Classroom Cirlces Create Great CommunitiesLIMITED Room 225Kristy Ware CLE/CLC/Capstone, Eeks!LIMITED Room 177Andrew Affleck • Debbie Meyer Climate Action Planning in Vernon Room 204Dr. Mary Stockdale • Laurie Cordell • Bill Darnell Getting Started with Beginning Writers: Kindergarten & Grade OneFULL Room 203Heather Jamieson • Jennifer Friesen Google Classroom for BeginnersLIMITED Room 165 Large LabCorinne McWhinney IEP Interventions using the Relational-Developmental ApproachLIMITED Room 206Devon Wolfe Infusing SOGI (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity) into your lessons and curriculum (Grades 6-12).LIMITED Room 306Bryan Gidinski Natasha Tony Breakout session: Focus on Cultural SensitivitiesLIMITED Room 207Natasha Tony Promoting Healthy Relationships - PHE 10 resourcesLIMITED Room 326Chris MacPherson Prompting and Guiding Emergent Literacy LearnersLIMITED Room 307Allison Jmayoff • Cathy Lower Teacher/Librarians: Designing Learning Environments to Support Participatory LearningLIMITED LibraryAmber Hartwell Traditional Storytelling with Okanagan LanguageLIMITED Room 309Anona Kampe “Work It Out”- Building a problem solving languageLIMITED Room 224Steven Wilson • Andrew Hough Creating CalmLIMITED Room 327Laura Paiement FASD-informed Approach: Building Knowledge to Action FASD 101 and the LEIC Planning ToolLIMITED Room 222Meredith Keery

1:00pm PDT

Climate Action Planning in Vernon (Repeat Session) Room 204Dr. Mary Stockdale • Laurie Cordell • Bill Darnell Infusing SOGI (Sexual Orientation Gender Identity) into your lessons and curriculum (Grades K-5)LIMITED Room 306Bryan Gidinski Okanagan Indigenous and Outdoor Education, and Our Relationship With Water.LIMITED Room 177Pamela Barnes Playful Mathematics with Intentional Instruction: Developing Numeracy in the Early YearsFULL Room 308Jennifer Carter PMII Empowering Peers to Make a Difference LIMITED Room 170Josh Vance • Andrea Schiiler Pollution Solution – District Wide Green Initiatives Task ForceLIMITED Room 205Pam Taylor Sharing/Collaboration Round Table for Core French/French Immersion TeachersLIMITED Room 307Yvonne Fiala Side by Side: Bringing Students into the Assessment ProcessLIMITED Room 223Kyle McKillop Teacher/Librarians: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-Plan, Co-Teach and Assess LearningLIMITED LibraryAmber Hartwell Vaping – the price of coolLIMITED Room 203Doug Rogers Yoga/Mindful MovementLIMITED Gym MezzanineDebbie Vandesande Self Care for SuccessLIMITED Room 225Kristy Ware