June 25, 2021
As this is the final In the Loop publication for this school year, I want to thank all of you for the amazing work you do with Langley students every day. In a particularly challenging year (definitely an understatement), I thank you for continuing to care deeply for your students and for ensuring they are set up for academic success. We hope the summer break provides you with the 3 R’s: rest, relaxation and rejuvenation, as you have earned every minute of it! Happy Summer!!!!!
Dawne Tomlinson
Director of Instruction
Langley Schools
DISTRICT RESOURCES K-12
Instructional Services Website: For all your district-vetted resources K-12! Check it out!
- Aboriginal Resources vetted by the District
- District Learning Commons – K-12 Resources to book out! Kits, Lit Circle Sets and more!
- TCS Sites (TCS SS-grade 3, 4-8, Secondary): Key resources are still being placed in these Teams. If you need access to one of these Teams, please email karinwright@sd35.bc.ca.
DISTRICT PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES and RESOURCES
SD35’s Read-Speak-Champion Virtual Author Series with David A. Robertson
Monday, June 28 [Register]
Join us to learn from David A. Robertson, an award-winning Canadian author and educator and a member of the Norway House Cree Nation, about the value of teaching and reading texts by diverse voices and ways to explore and navigate challenging topics. Three copies of his books will be given away during the session!
Summer Boot Camp 2021
August 31 & September 1 [Register]
Sail into the new school year confidently and enthusiastically by attending this two-day camp! Sessions have been designed at different levels for K to 12 classroom teachers and for all TTOCs. All these offerings have been designed to assist you in the development of a framework for your teaching, with an emphasis on the first six to eight weeks of the school year.
Summer Institute
Wednesday, September 1 [Register]
The Langley School District’s Summer Institute will host a number of professional development options all packed into one day – a “smorgasbord of learning.” The areas of learning will be centered around curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and we are excited to provide learning options relevant for all teachers K-12!
NEW SD35’s Read-Speak-Champion Virtual Author Series with Jael Richardson
Tuesday, September 14 [Register]
Join us for a virtual session with Black-Canadian author & founder of Canada’s Festival of Literary Diversity, Jael Richardson. She’ll be talking and reading from her book Gutter Child, a dystopian novel that portrays a frighteningly realistic world where those from the Gutter trade their lives for a societal debt forced onto them by the privileged Mainland. Whether you are looking for an opportunity to learn, a secondary ELA or SS novel study for students, or just a good read, Gutter Child is for you!
Math Place: A New Math Resource for Grade 1-3 Teachers
September 14, October 5, October 19 [Register]
Math Place is a newly approved Math resource for Grade 1-3 teachers. This September, each school will receive 1 kit per grade of the NUMBER and OPERATIONS set. Join Diane Stang, the author of Scholastic Math Place, as she goes through the kits and shows you how this new resource aligns with the BC curriculum and how you can use it as part of your math instruction. This is a great way to start building number sense in your students right at the beginning of the year.
Story Workshop Book Study Series
September 22, October 13 & November 3 [Register]
Join a small passionate group of teachers who wish to create or continue their journey with the story workshop model and explore aspects of the Early Learning Framework. In this 3-part series, we will be reading the brand new book Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers by Susan Harris MacKay (a teacher and pedagogical director of the Opal School in Portland Oregon.) Participants will be immersed in the book talk for the first 2 sessions and will also be encouraged to try story workshop in their classrooms. Session 3 will be spaced out from the first 2 sessions to give you opportunity to live that teacher researcher role and come back to share ideas and experiences with other members.
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators: A Book Club
Register by September 30 [Register]
Are you looking “ONWARD” to the next school year, wondering how you will further “Cultivate” your “Emotional Resiliency,” as an Educator? If participating in creating a safe space (virtually) with like-minded colleagues next school year, through a casual monthly book club, with the goals of building more self-awareness and uplifting and empowering one another, interests you, please join us.
From Phonological Awareness to Reading Building a Strong Foundation
October 4, 18, & 25 [Register]
As teachers, we strive to provide a rich learning environment and a balanced literacy approach to helping all our learners become strong readers, writers and communicators. The BC Early Learning Framework recognizes that children approach learning in different ways to construct knowledge, test theories, explore and express ideas. We want to give all children access points to reading and the tools to success. We have created this 3-part series of workshops on early reading development to help you explore the skills that all students need to be successful in learning how to read. By attending this workshop, you will grow an understanding of how a child learns to read and how writing and vocabulary are an integral part of this process. While learning to talk is natural and innate, reading skills must be taught.
Tan Huynh’s Guided Co-planning with Colleagues
Friday, October 22 [Register]
This full-day event is dedicated to giving teachers time to collaborate with their colleagues to support their language learners. Teachers will be guided by Tan in ways to co-plan at various levels such as writing, lessons, and assessments, and then given time to create together. They may choose to work with other ELL teachers, content teachers, and resource teachers to foster rich learning opportunities for their students. At the heart of collaborative professionalism is “leadership from the middle (your peers in your own and other schools).
Call for proposals!
Connecting the Pieces: Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference is our annual conference dedicated to professional development for kindergarten teachers and early childhood educators. Would you like to present, or do you have suggestions for workshops we should offer? Submit your ideas to us!
If you have any questions, contact Professional Services at thinklangley@sd35.bc.ca.
OTHER EXTERNAL STUDENT/STAFF OPPORTUNITIES and LEARNING RESOURCES
Call for Nominations for the Langley Primary Teachers Executive 2021-2022
The September Annual General Meeting will elect the executive for the coming school year. The Langley Primary Teachers Association will hold their Annual General Meeting on September 28th at 3pm.
We are looking for primary teachers in the Langley School District who are interested in joining the executive for the September 2021-September 2022 year. If you are interested in letting your name stand, please contact Barb Peck (bpeck@sd35.bc.ca) or Jennifer Espin (jespin@sd35.bc.ca).
Environmental Education: Take Me Outside Book Launch next week
New Podcast: The School Garden Curriculum
In partnership with Green Teacher and Stoked on Science, the new Earthy Chats Podcast is now available! In the fourth episode, co-hosts Jade Harvey-Berrill and Ian Shanahan chatted with outdoor and garden educator Kaci Rae Christopher, author of The School Garden Curriculum. Listen in…
CBEEN Partner Events
Register to join us at one of these upcoming CBEEN partner events:
- August 10-11 – Natural Curiosity Summer Institute
- October 20 – Take Me Outside Day 2021
- October 22-23 – Classrooms to Communities 2021 Conference
Retirement Celebration
A Special Farewell from Susan Cairns, Executive Director of the Langley Foundation.