ESTCA 2025: Full Schedule

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GOOSECHASE - Digital Scavenger Hunt
Please join us on Goosechase our digital scavenger hunt to win prizes! it will open Feb. 12th
Here is how to win and have fun:
1) Download Goosechase App on your apps store or google play
2) Find the mission ESTCA 2025 and Join the experience code - 6F65VN
3) Use password Estca and you are in
4) Start missions!
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Thursday and Friday Morning Selections (0730am - 11:00 am)
Muffins | V $4
Croissant | V $5
Cinnamon brioche bun | V $4
Double baked almond croissant + contains nuts| V $6
Slice of banana bread | V $4.00
Fruit to go cups | VN + GF $4.00

Thursday Lunch Selections (11:00 - 3:00 pm)
Whole fruit | VN + GF $2.25
Gluten free granola bar | GF + V $4
Assorted cookies | V $3
Old fashioned ham, tuna, & egg salad sandwich $6
Bistro sandwich: olive oil panino | artichoke tapenade | tomato |Italian bocconcini | V $10
Chef’s soup of the day with golden potato bun $6.00
Pizza (Hawaiian, pepperoni, & cheese) $6/slice
Grab and Go Box - Ukrainian bowl | 3 pcs cabbage rolls | 5 pcs perogies | 3 oz kielbasa | sour cream | green onions| $15

Friday Lunch Selections (11:00 - 3:00 pm)
Whole fruit | VN + GF $2.25
Gluten free granola bar | GF + V $4
Assorted cookies | V $3
Old fashioned ham, tuna, & egg salad sandwich $6
Bistro sandwich: olive oil panino | artichoke tapenade | tomato |Italian bocconcini | V $10
Chef’s soup of the day with golden potato bun $6.00
Pizza (Hawaiian, pepperoni, & cheese) $6/slice
Grab and Go Box - BBQ beef pieces | potato tots | seasonal vegetables | red wine sauce | GF $15

Thursday and Friday Beverage Selection:
Bottled water $4.25
Soft drinks $4.50
Canned juices $3.50
Coffee or tea (12oz) $3.00

10:30am MST

Making new.LearnAlberta.ca work for you - Alberta Education

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

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Did you know you can do so much more than just view curriculum on new.LearnAlberta.ca? This session will explore how you can make new.LearnAlberta.ca work for you. You’ll be guided through new.LearnAlberta.ca where you can view new curriculum implementation supports and find available resources for students, parents and for teachers. Please bring a device to explore new.LearnAlberta.ca.

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
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10:30am MST

Science on a Budget: Bringing the New K-6 Science Curriculum to life Indoors and Outdoors!

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

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Join Inside Education for this dynamic interactive workshop for K-6 teachers where we will delve into the environmental science and natural resource components of the new Alberta Science Curriculum. We will share hands-on tools, tricks, and methods to use inexpensive classroom supplies for engaging educational experiences both inside your classroom and in your outdoor classroom space. Not only will we teach you some Monday-morning activities, we will also showcase our new no-cost outdoor-focused toolkit to help scaffold learning through the new Organizing Ideas. Three lucky teachers will walk away with their very own toolkit! Every teacher will leave feeling inspired and prepared with resources and activities to foster inquiry-based learning, critical thinking, and environmental stewardship skills within their classrooms.

Speakers

Inside Education

Inside Education is an Alberta-based, environment and natural resource education charitable society. We have been supporting teachers and inspiring students to think critically about natural resource topics since 1985! With our full suite of no-cost teaching resources, youth summits... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
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10:30am MST

Using Picture Books to Launch Big Beautiful Math Problems in an Elementary Thinking Classroom

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

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Connecting numeracy to literature is a powerful strategy to engage students; making these connections in a Thinking Classroom is a game-changer. We have linked our favorite Big Beautiful Math problems to our favorite picture books, and the results have been magical! This session, anchored by Peter Liljedahl's framework, will focus on great stories, problem solving, engagement, connections, and joy. It will be hands-on, collaborative, and fun. I can't wait to share the magic with you!

Speakers

Alicia Burdess

Numeracy Lead Teacher, Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools

Alicia Burdess has been a teacher, assistant principal, and math coach with Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools since 2005. Alicia’s passion is teaching through problem solving in a Thinking Classroom; she enjoys working with students and teachers implementing Peter Liljedahl's... Read More →

1. Using Picture Books to Launch Big Beautiful Math Problems in an Elementary Thinking Classroom pdf

Thursday February 13, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
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11:45am MST

Agriculture: An Awe-full and Wonder-full Way to Teach and Learn

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST

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This session invites teachers to explore agriculture as a way to engage students’ innate sense of awe and wonder, which are powerful experiences that can enrich curriculum connections, deepen engagement, and harness children’s natural curiosity. Based on research findings from a school using agriculture as a lens to facilitate elementary curriculum, teachers will learn how agriculture-based teaching can tap into children’s natural curiosity, sense of wonder, and desire to discover, while expanding their experiences with nature. Teachers will leave with practical examples for integrating agriculture- and nature-based lessons they can build on to make learning meaningful, awe-full, and wonder-full, not only for students but also for teachers. Tried and true lessons will be showcased to encourage teachers to map agriculture onto Alberta curriculum in discipline-specific or cross-curricular ways. This session is meant to spark ideas for modest or elaborate projects for teachers regardless of school context. Resources including the school's own lessons website will be shared so that teachers will have concrete plans to put into action.

Speakers

Carleigh Duiker

Grade 3 Teacher, New Humble Community School

I’m a small-town teacher with a big passion for helping students understand where their food comes from and how life works. I teach at New Humble Community School, a unique charter school that blends hands-on learning with agriculture and environmental education. I don’t have... Read More →

Bonnie Stelmach

Professor, University of Alberta

I am a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. My particular research interest is in rural school innovation. I’m currently researching in a K-9 school in Alberta, Canada that has a program focused on agricultural literacy, experiential learning, and... Read More →

Info Sheet pdf

Agriculture An Awe full and Wonder full Way to Teach and Learn pdf

Thursday February 13, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST
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1:00pm MST

Finding Home on the Range: Exploring Alberta's Wildlife and Conservation Agriculture

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

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Join Inside Education for an introduction to agriculture in Alberta's Grasslands region, exploring ecosystem health, impacts on wildlife and agriculture practices addressing climate change. This session covers biodiversity, climate change, and conservation agriculture, aligning with grade 5-6 Earth Systems, grade 6 Living Systems, grade 7 Interactions and Ecosystems, and grade 9 Biological Diversity. In addition, we’ll highlight our full suite of additional support through classroom programming, field trips, youth summits, learning resources and teacher PD.

We will showcase 3 interactive low-equipment Monday-morning ready classroom activities, adaptable by grade:
-An active reflection game that explores students' connections to agriculture and the food system.
-An immersive group game on habitat in the grasslands
-A high-energy game show about native grasslands species, innovation in the region, and more!

Speakers

Inside Education

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
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1:00pm MST

I've Done All these Assessments - Now What?

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST

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Feeling overwhelmed by the volume of mandated assessments? Do they seem to consume valuable instructional time without adding real value? While these assessments are often out of our control, we can control how we use the data to drive targeted, impactful instruction.

Join me for an in-depth session using Alberta Education’s K-4 literacy and numeracy assessments to create student learner profiles. Together, we’ll explore strategies to transform raw data into meaningful, personalized instruction.

*Note - we will use the Alberta Education assessments as examples, but the process could be used K-12 with any pre-assessment.

Speakers

Tracy Lundell

K-6 Curriculum Coordinator, Aspen View Public Schools

With over a decade of experience teaching primarily in grades K-3, Tracy has spent the past three years supporting educators implementing new curriculum and delivering literacy and numeracy interventions. This work has consistently underscored the importance of truly understanding... Read More →

Thursday February 13, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
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2:15pm MST

HALL B: Collaboration Session - TABLE 2 - Collaboration sur l'enseignement des FILAL et des mathématiques en immersion française (4e à 6e année)/Collaboration on Teaching FILAL and Mathematics in French Immersion (Grades 4 to 6)

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MST

HALL B - Collaboration Table 2

Facilitator: Benoit Côté
Space: Collaboration Session - Table 2 Thursday, 2:15-3:15
Discussion:
Table ronde : Collaboration sur l'enseignement des FILAL et des mathématiques en immersion française (4e à 6e année)
Objectif : Cette session vise à favoriser une collaboration enrichissante afin d’améliorer l’enseignement des FILAL et des mathématiques en immersion française au primaire (4e à 6e année). Elle offrira un espace d’échange sur les meilleures pratiques, les ressources pédagogiques et les stratégies d’enseignement adaptées aux élèves en immersion.

Questions pour guider la conversation :

Quels outils ou stratégies utilisez-vous actuellement et trouvez-vous efficaces en FILAL et en mathématiques en immersion française ?
Quels sont les principaux défis que vous rencontrez dans l'enseignement de ces matières ?
Quelles ressources avez-vous à partager avec vos collègues ?
De quelles ressources ou soutiens auriez-vous besoin pour améliorer votre enseignement ?

Roundtable: Collaboration on Teaching FILAL and Mathematics in French Immersion (Grades 4 to 6)
Objective: This session aims to foster meaningful collaboration to enhance the teaching of FILAL and mathematics in French immersion at the elementary level (Grades 4 to 6). It will provide a space for exchanging best practices, educational resources, and teaching strategies tailored to immersion students.
Guiding Questions for Discussion:

What tools or strategies do you currently use and find effective in FILAL and mathematics in French immersion?
What are the main challenges you face in teaching these subjects?
What resources do you have to share with your colleagues?
What resources or support would you need to improve your teaching?

Thursday February 13, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MST
HALL B - Collaboration Table 2

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10:30am MST

Fun, Fast, Fresh, Free! New Resources for Teaching K-6 Physical Education and Wellness

Friday February 14, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST

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Come explore Ever Active Schools NEW suite of digital resources, now available for free through new.LearnAlberta.ca. These Physical Education and Wellness resources are locally developed for K-6 Learners in both English and French and aligned to the new K-6 Physical Education and Wellness Programs of Study. Participants will preview the suite of resources, sample activities and have the opportunity to give feedback.

Speakers

Ever Active Schools

Health & Wellness Consultant, Ever Active Schools

Ever Active Schools is a registered national charity designed to create and support healthy school communities. We engage and support schools through a Comprehensive School Health framework, which addresses health and education goals to improve the social outcomes of children and... Read More →

Friday February 14, 2025 10:30am - 11:30am MST
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11:45am MST

Case Studies and More! Unpacking Concepts in the New Science Curriculum

Friday February 14, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST

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How do we engage students in learning all the new concepts in their science curriculum? Learning e terms and their definitions is always a starting point but it's just surface level learning. This session will look at ways that we can ask our students to become independent thinkers and start to draw connections between what they know and where we need them to go. Participants will take part in several interactive activities that they can adapt to their own student levels and use within the classroom. Yup, another roll up your sleeve event!

Instructional strategies are always areas that we as teachers continue to grow in. As we are challenging our students to learn content knowledge, we also want them to become independent thinkers and make connections between the concepts they have learned. providing different learning activities that allow students to practice these skills is the goal of this session!

Speakers

Ted Zarowny

Ted’s educational journey has taken him through three provinces. He began his career as a classroom teacher in Saskatchewan, and spent many years in British Columbia on the North Coast and in the interior as a teacher and principal. He returned to the prairies to a principalship... Read More →

Chris Zarski

Chris is an Educational Consultant supporting Alberta teachers as a Designer of Professional Learning with the Alberta Provincial Learning Consortium (APLC). She has served as a Teacher, Administrator, Curriculum Director of Curriculum, Examiner with Alberta Education, and Author... Read More →

Friday February 14, 2025 11:45am - 12:45pm MST
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