Pro-D

2023/24 Opportunities:

familycenteredpractice

Farm to School BC: Garden Mentorship Online workshops

Upcoming 2024 session dates: click here to register

April 2024 – POPEY Spring Conference:

Additional Pro-d Opportunities:

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.”

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

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.”

MindUpSchools

MindUpforAdults

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

MindUpEducators

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

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

The Science of Reading Short Course:

The Science of Reading Short Course is comprised of five, self-paced modules that can be completed in approximately ten hours. Each module has clearly stated objectives, explicitly written background information, useful video demonstrations, numerous graphic illustrations, and a variety of downloadable resources and links. Based on adult learning theory, each module includes activities to reinforce concepts, intermittent feedback through the use of checks for understanding, and a final knowledge check to support mastery of concepts. The modules are based on more than forty years of research, including several foundational conceptual modules that explain how reading works:

How Students Learn to Read: An Introduction to the Science of Reading
Structured Literacy
Word Recognition: An Encounter with Phonics
The Language Comprehension Domain
The Reading Comprehension Domain

Cost is $100.00 (US dollars)

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

https://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/anti-racism-awareness/

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

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.”

Accessible Any Time:

Pre-recorded Webinar Dr. Angela Nardozi and guests (May 2020)

What do Decolonization and Indigenization look like in the classroom?

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)