Professional Learning for Ontario Educators – Program Archive
Updated: December 16, 2024
OECM, in collaboration with Dell Technologies, provided access to a series of free, high-quality Professional Learning (PL) webinar sessions, specially curated and designed by and for Ontario’s K-12 and post-secondary educators (i.e. faculty members, principals, teachers, coaches, classroom educators, etc.)
Recordings for several of these previously held webinars and workshop sessions are available and can be accessed here, for a limited time.
This program is offered by OECM through our End-User Computing Devices and Services agreement with Platinum Supplier Partner, Dell Technologies.
Automate the Mundane, Liberate the People: GenAI Productivity Hacks for Teachers
Automate the Mundane
Date: November 13, 2024
Presenter: Eric Nentrup is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
A session for using GenAI to assist with repetitive, time-consuming tasks so teachers can focus on what they do best—teaching and engaging with students.
Enhance Instructional Design
Date: November 27, 2024
Presenter: Eric Nentrup is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
This session explores how GenAI can accelerate insights and provide tools to improve overall course design, create engaging content, and personalize learning experiences—all aligned to the teacher’s desired standards or learning objectives.
Assessment Data Analysis for Personalizing Feedback & Increasing Student Engagement
Date: December 11, 2024
Presenter: Eric Nentrup is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
This session can focus on ways GenAI can help teachers see patterns in the data, provide more detailed feedback, and tailor learning experiences based on individual student needs. From grading assistance to interactive materials, GenAI can help keep students engaged and motivated to learn.
The Productive Principal: Modern Solutions for Reducing Workload and Saving Time
How AI Can Amplify School Communication and Collaboration
Date: November 12, 2024
Presenter: Madeline Black is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
Immerse yourself in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore its power to reshape and enhance communication and collaboration within your school. This session is designed for school leaders to learn how to utilize AI to streamline interactions among staff, students, parents, and other stakeholders to cultivate a more productive, informed, and harmonious educational environment.
How AI Can Enhance Your Instructional Leadership
Date: November 26, 2024
Presenter: Madeline Black is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
Together, we will explore AI’s potential to support the instructional design of your schools. Understanding how AI can support curriculum design and create an adaptive environment will strengthen student engagement and outcomes. We will look at how AI can monitor classroom interactions and provide feedback that helps teachers improve their instructional strategies, ensuring that teaching methods remain effective and responsive to student needs.
How can AI add to Data-Driven Dialogues and Decision-Making?
Date: December 10, 2024
Presenter: Madeline Black is the Education Consultant at Advanced Learning Partnerships
Whether making critical decisions about complex budgets, school or district-wide initiatives, or managing human resources, AI can significantly enhance your decision-making process in these areas and many others. This session explores how AI can support and refine your strategic thinking across key areas of school administration. Learn how AI can analyze vast amounts of data quickly and accurately, providing insights that enable more informed and effective decisions.
GenAI in Action: Math & Science Explorations Powered by AI
Teacher Toolkit: Harnessing GenAI for Engaging Math & Science Lessons
Date: November 7, 2024
Presenter: Rachel Fruin is the Director of Professional Learning at Advanced Learning Partnerships
We will explore how teachers can use generative AI in math and science class to enhance their lessons and help students go deeper with their learning.
Student Superpower: Empowering Learners with GenAI in Math & Science
Date: November 21, 2024
Presenter: Rachel Fruin is the Director of Professional Learning at Advanced Learning Partnerships
In this session, we will look at example lessons of how students can use generative AI to think critically and engage in learning in new and meaningful ways.
Beyond the Basics: Diving Deep into GenAI for Math & Science
Date: December 5, 2024
Presenter: Rachel Fruin is the Director of Professional Learning at Advanced Learning Partnerships
We will explore ways that teachers and students can use generative AI together in math and science classes to make the learning experiences richer and more engaging.
Presented between February 6, 2023, and March 8, 2023, these sessions and workshops were tailored to support educators’ specific teaching and learning goals. Sessions were facilitated by accomplished education leaders and organized in three pathways: Coding, Truth and Reconciliation, and Well-Being.
Coding
Coding | Coding micro:bit Sensors for Beginners
February 21, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Lisa Anne Floyd is a PhD Candidate at Western University, focusing on K-12 Teacher Education related to Computational Thinking, Coding, and Mathematics Education.
Coding | Beyond the Basics with micro:bit – Exploring V2 Sensors and the Data Logger
February 22, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Lisa Anne Floyd is a PhD Candidate at Western University, focusing on K-12 Teacher Education related to Computational Thinking, Coding, and Mathematics Education.
Coding | Beyond the Basics with micro:bit (V1 or V2) – Collecting Data from a Remote micro:bit
February 28, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Lisa Anne Floyd is a PhD Candidate at Western University, focusing on K-12 Teacher Education related to Computational Thinking, Coding, and Mathematics Education.
Coding | Building an Awareness of Emerging Technologies in Grades 6-8
March 7, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Lisa Anne Floyd is a PhD Candidate at Western University, focusing on K-12 Teacher Education related to Computational Thinking, Coding, and Mathematics Education.
Coding | Scratch and Mathematics – Grades 4-8
March 8, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Lisa Anne Floyd is a PhD Candidate at Western University, focusing on K-12 Teacher Education related to Computational Thinking, Coding, and Mathematics Education.
Truth and Reconciliation
Vérité et réconciliation | Curiosité naturelle: L’importance du point de vue autochtone dans l’enquête dans l’environnment de l’enfant
February 6, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Chantal Larivière, EAO, accompagnatrice et facilitatrice l’école de la nature et de la forêt.
Truth and Reconciliation | Literature in Action: How Books that Centre Indigenous Voices Can Enact Change in the Classroom and Beyond
February 23, 2023
Presenter(s):
Join the following three educators from the Laboratory School at the Dr. Eric Jackson Institute of Child Study, as they share how literature that centres Indigenous voices can enact change in the classroom and beyond.
• Norah L’Esperance (OCT) – Early Years Educator
• Ben Peebles (OCT) – Junior Grades Educator
• Krista Spence (OCT) – Teacher Librarian
Truth and Reconciliation | Moving Beyond Land Acknowledgments: Upholding Responsibilities to Truth and Reconciliation without Appropriation
March 6, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Jade Harvey-Berrill is the Outreach Manager and Environmental Educator at The Outdoor Learning Store.
• Haley Higdon is the Program Director of Natural Curiosity at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Laboratory School, University of Toronto.
Well-Being
Well-Being | Leadership Strategies for Addressing Educator Burnout beyond Prescribing Self-Care
February 15, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Dr. Katy Fodchuk is the Executive Director, Organizational Development at Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Well-Being | Reducing Burnout in your School and District: Practical Strategies for Education Leaders
March 1, 2023
Presenter(s):
• Dr. Katy Fodchuk is the Executive Director, Organizational Development at Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Presented between August 30, 2021, and March 2, 2022, these sessions and workshops were tailored to support educators’ specific teaching and learning goals. Sessions were facilitated by accomplished education leaders and organized in three pathways: Social and Emotional Learning, Equity and Inclusion, and Achieving Excellence.
Social and Emotional Learning
Social and Emotional Learning | Shift to Positive: Create a better world with social media and technology
September 20, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Jennifer Casa-Todd is a teacher-librarian (YCDSB) and author.
Apprentissages socioémotionnels | Apprentissages socioémotionnels en mathématiques September 23, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Jackie Leardi est la directrice d’une école élémentaire dans le Sud-Ouest ontarien avec le CSC Providence et membre du CA de l’AFEMO (Association francophone pour l’enseignement des mathématiques en Ontario).
Social and Emotional Learning | Using Games & Play to nurture SEL in Junior/ Intermediate Classroom (online, F2F)**
October 13, 2021
October 27, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Zoe Branigan-Pipe is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships. She is also a special education teacher at the Hamilton-Wentworth School District as well as a Pre-service instructor at Brock University @zbpipe
Apprentissages socioémotionnels | Apprentissage par le jeu**
October 14, 2021
October 28, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dominic P. Tremblay, Education Consultant and LEGO Education Academy Certified Teacher Trainer
Social and Emotional Learning | Rest, Learn, Play
November 23, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dean Shareski is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Equity and Inclusion
Equity and Inclusion | Indigenous Education through Inquiry** September 22, 2021
September 29, 2021
October 6, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Pamala Agawa is an Anishnaabe Kwe currently on secondment with the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Equity and Inclusion | Amplify student voice using Flipgrid September 27, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Jennifer Casa-Todd is a teacher-librarian (YCDSB) and author.
Équité et inclusion | Comment vivre la réconciliation September 30, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Danielle Larouche, retired teacher and First Nations, Métis and Inuits Curriculum Coordinator
• Mélanie Smits, First Nations, Métis and Inuits Curriculum Coordinator at Conseil scolaire catholique Franco-Nord.
Equity and Inclusion | Indigenous Technology through the lens of the Wiigwaas Jiimaan (Birch Bark Canoe) October 4, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Sylvia Plain is an Anishinaabe Kwe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and Coordinator of the Great Lakes Canoe Journey Program.
Equity and Inclusion | The “How-To” of Reconciliation October 7, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Danielle Larouche, retired teacher and First Nations, Métis and Inuits Curriculum Coordinator
• Mélanie Smits, First Nations, Métis and Inuits Curriculum Coordinator at Conseil scolaire catholique Franco-Nord.
Equity and Inclusion | Getting back to Land-Based Learning – Respecting Protocols and Methodologies when entering an Indigenous learning environment October 18, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Sylvia Plain is an Anishinaabe Kwe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and Coordinator of the Great Lakes Canoe Journey Program.
Equity and Inclusion | Canoes, Food and Water – A story of trade, relations and culture October 25, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Sylvia Plain is an Anishinaabe Kwe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and Coordinator of the Great Lakes Canoe Journey Program.
Equity and Inclusion | Natural Curiosity: The Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in Children’s Environmental Inquiry December 7, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Haley Higdon is the Program Director of Natural Curiosity at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Laboratory School, University of Toronto.
Equity and Inclusion | Natural Curiosity: The Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in Children’s Environmental Inquiry** February 9, 2022
February 23, 2022
Presenter(s):
• Haley Higdon is the Program Director of Natural Curiosity at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Laboratory School, University of Toronto.
Achieving Excellence
Achieving Excellence | Empowering Learners Synchronously and Asynchronously
August 30, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dean Shareski is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
• Brenda Sherry is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Atteindre l’excellence | Pour une intégration réfléchie du codage dans notre planification annuelle
August 31, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dominic P. Tremblay, Education Consultant
Achieving Excellence | Empowering Students as Assessors of their own Learning
September 1, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dean Shareski is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
• Brenda Sherry is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Achieving Excellence | Long-term planning for a thoughtful integration of coding
September 2, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Dominic P. Tremblay, Education Consultant
Achieving Excellence | Building a Thinking Classroom
September 21, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Alex Overwijk is a 30-year mathematics teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute in the Ottawa Carleton District Board.
Achieving Excellence | Spiraling Curriculum with Activity Based Learning September 28, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Alex Overwijk is a 30-year mathematics teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute in the Ottawa Carleton District Board.
Achieving Excellence | Digital Storytelling: Tools & Ideas October 4, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Jennifer Casa-Todd is a teacher-librarian (YCDSB) and author.
Achieving Excellence | Managing Flow and Letting Go October 5, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Alex Overwijk is a 30-year mathematics teacher at Glebe Collegiate Institute in the Ottawa Carleton District Board.
Atteindre l’excellence | Actionne ton idée October 7, 2021
Presenter(s):
• André Savard, director of leadership and international programming with Idée Éducation Entrepreneuriale
• Jean-Sébatien Reid, directeur général adjoint, Idée Éducation Entrepreneuriale
Achieving Excellence | The Oft Untapped Potential of Assessment: It’s Not Just About Measuring Learning** October 19, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Steven Joordens, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab, University of Toronto Scarborough (www.altlab.ca)
Achieving Excellence | Developing Cross-Curricular and Culturally Responsive Approaches to Coding in the New Math Curriculum** November 1, 2021
November 8, 2021
November 15, 2021
Presenter(s):
• Brenda Sherry is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Achieving Excellence | Finding Your Way as an Occasional Teacher** January 20, 2022
February 10, 2022
Presenter(s):
• Beth Rayl is the Chief Academic Officer for Plymouth Community Schools.
• Brenda Sherry is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Achieving Excellence | Dive into Data: Why? What? How?** February 1, 2022
February 8, 2022
February 15, 2022
Presenter(s):
• Isabelle Liu is a Science & Chemistry Teacher and an Educational Technology Innovation Director.
• Iniyal Inparajah is an Instructional Liaison Educational Partnerships & Digital Learning, TVO (on secondment from TDSB).
Achieving Excellence | School Leader Series: Big Changes Start Small – Digital Hacks that have BIG impact!** February 10, 2022
February 24, 2022
Presenter(s):
• Brenda Sherry is a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships.
Atteindre l’excellence | Actionne ton idée** February 10, 2022
February 17, 2022
February 24, 2022
Presenter(s):
• André Savard, director of leadership and international programming with Idée Éducation Entrepreneuriale
