2025/26 Opportunities:

 

1. Link to May-In Lieu Opportunities:  Click HERE.

2. Additional Pro-d Opportunities:

(listed in order of occurrence)

ONlit Kindergarten Drop-in Series:

All kindergarten educators are welcome to join Kate Winn and the ONlit kindergarten team for these virtual drop-in sessions, which will include a brief presentation/professional development on a hot kindergarten topic, followed by more informal Q & A and discussion.

The presentation portion of the sessions will be recorded. Registration for one session will automatically register you for all sessions.

Advance questions and/or suggestions for topics of discussion and PD can be emailed to info@onlit.org (Subject: Kindergarten Drop-in).

Date	Topic	Time
Wed Oct 29	Oral Language	3:45 – 4:30 pm ET
Wed Nov 26	Screening and Data	7:00 – 7:30 pm ET
Wed Jan 21	Structured Literacy, Play, and the Flow of the Day	3:45 – 4:30 pm ET
Wed Feb 25	Vocabulary	7:00 – 7:45 pm ET
Wed March 25	Mid-year screening, Progress Monitoring and Small Groups	3:45 – 4:30 pm ET
Wed April 22	Phonemic Awareness	7:00 – 7:45 pm ET

• Link to information and registration page.

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Ongoing Pro-d Opportunities:

Virtual Sharing Circle – Call 92: Building Respectful Relationships with First Nations Art

“On September 29, 2025, in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we joined Gracie Kelly, Cultural Safety and Humility facilitator/educator and Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism and Cultural Safety Liaison at Doctors of BC, and guest speaker Peggy Janicki, illustrator, author, facilitator, and teacher, as they shared and reflected on the importance and practices for engaging respectfully with First Nation’s Art. Through this webinar, participants learned from Gracie and Peggy about the relationship between First Nations Art and First Nation’s sovereignty, authority, pride, and responsibilities, as well as concepts, practices, and actions that can be adopted to act in good relations with First Nation’s art.”

Professional Learning Resources for Teachers: Curated and Created by Sandra Norum

Leveraging AI for the Inclusive Classroom

Ableism In The Classroom – What Can We Do?

Mini Science of Reading Self Guided PD

Demand Avoidance in School – What Is It?  What Can We Do?

Brief Overview of MS Office Acessibility Tools – An Educators Guide

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Please see HERE for a FREE Indigenous-based learning opportunity, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered through UBC called Nurturing Childhood through Indigenous Ways of Knowing. 😊

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BC Ministry of Education: Anti-Racism Course for Educators

• Link to course
• Link to additional resources (Inclusion Calendar Guide, Anti-racism Action Plan)

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Indigenous Art Practices – Professional Development Series and Resources

“This workshop series content was designed with K-12 educators in mind who wish to incorporate the Indigenous arts into their educational practices. This archival website makes available resources used and videos of key presentations made during the sessions. We invite teachers and other educators from any discipline or support service area to use them to deepen their learning around Indigenous art practices.”

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Cox Campus: Cox Campus provides free coursework on literacy topics from early childhood education to primary grades.  

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Becoming a Literacy Leader Series: 

“The Right to Read Report of the Ontario Human Rights Commission has several recommendations related to early screening. Each of the three parts of Our Literacy Leader Series was recorded and is available for free on our IDA Ontario YouTube channel. Valuable practical handouts are also included in the descriptions below the recordings.”

Link to register:  https://bcadults.mindup.org/

Link to register: https://bceducators.mindup.org/

Both courses are Free, can count toward May-in-lieu, and are approximately 90 minutes long.

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Historical, Systemic and Intersectional Anti-racism: From Awareness to Action

Additional resources and pro-d opportunities on becoming an Anti-racist educator can be found here.

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Indigenous Canada (offered by the University of Alberta):

“Indigenous Canada is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada.

From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.

Indigenous Canada is for students from faculties outside the Faculty of Native Studies with an interest in acquiring a basic familiarity with Indigenous/non-Indigenous relationships.

Registration is now open.”

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Focused Education Resources (formerly ERAC) Webinars: K-12

Hosted by the Professional Learning Team, the Webinar Series for Educators guides you through a variety of the resources offered in the BC Digital Classroom.

Click here for archived webinars (scroll down to the bottom of the page)

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