January 31, 2020
IMPORTANT DEADLINE LOOKING FOR IDEA X!
IDEA X Challenge: The IDEA X Challenge provides an amazing opportunity to do a “deep dive” around a “wicked world problem.” Students partner, invent and innovate to solve significant global problems. Scholarships of up to $15,000 are available to winning teams. Students should be 12 years and older. All teams must have a teacher sponsor and team members must attend the IDEA X Launch on February, 6th 4:30-8:00 pm at the School District Office. This Challenge lasts from February – May 2020 and culminates in a Pitch Event to Judges. For information on last year’s challenge and to register your team, click HERE. Deadline to Register is JANUARY 31ST.
DISTRICT LEARNING RESOURCES
Word Works Daily – Please click HERE for the new PrintShop form for ordering Word Works Daily classroom resources.
Supporting Diversity and Respect Week
“Be an Ally” Notebook – A Resource for Schools and Staff
A shared notebook is currently being built and added to by staff on an ongoing basis. The purpose of the notebook is to generate ideas around the theme of “Be An Ally” for the upcoming Diversity and Respect Week (February 24 – 28). Some sections are well resourced while others could use some support (especially around diverse abilities and Indigenous perspectives). Please share the link widely in the hopes of creating school plans for the week but also to seek more contributions to the document. Any staff members can also directly add to the resource (preferred) or you can also please send links, lessons or other ideas to Renge Bailie. Please note that if you would like to use any of the documents – double click on the icons. Do not drag documents out of the document.
Do you teach Secondary Social Studies?
If so, check out this list of resources available for you to borrow from the District Learning Commons. Please contact Monica Spreitzer, or your Teacher-Librarian, if you need assistance with the online booking system.
New Indigenous Education Resources: New resources to support teachers in incorporating Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in their classrooms are now available. The Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives in K–12 Curriculum lists both implicit and explicit references to Indigenous learning found within the curriculum and is arranged by subject area and grade. The Indigenous Education Resource Inventory is a non-comprehensive list that includes guides, books, articles, videos and web links to support Indigenous learning.
DISTRICT PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Story Workshop
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 [Register]
Where do you find your stories? Provocations for children to find, build, and create their stories through play, loose materials, and art mediums nurtures them into natural storytellers! Story Workshop encourages children to take a closer look, find their stories, and to see themselves as storytellers as well as writers and readers. How can mediums such as clay, natural materials, ice, paint and wire can transform an idea into a story?
Supporting ELL Readers
February 5 [Register]
This workshop is geared towards classroom teachers and new ELL teachers who are looking for strategies to support ELL/ESL students in their classrooms. You will also learn the distinction of what ELLs versus Native English Speakers need to succeed when learning to read. Appropriate for K-9 Teachers. All participants will receive a complimentary reference guide if they attend all four sessions.
Online Sexual Health Resource Workshop
February 20 [Register]
Are you looking for a one-stop shop for guidelines, curriculum links, scope and sequence, multiple resources easily accessed by grade or topic, community clinics, supports for indigenous students, newcomer students, students with differing abilities…… and much, much more? Langley School District’s online Sexual Health Resource Binder provides access to these and many other resources.
Did you know – you can also book the above presentation at your school??? The presenters are willing to attend a staff meeting, after school or during a ‘lunch and learn’ if that makes it easier to get the information to people. In order to provide a specialized session such as this – there must be a minimum of 5 teachers present. If you would like to arrange a session please email: rbailie@sd35.bc.ca
Stories, Play, and Social Emotional Learning for K-3
February 25 and April 6, 2020 [Register]
In this play-based session we will interact with a wide range of rich learning resources. We will use picture books for Winter and early Spring that link to the facets of Social and Emotional Well-being. Practical tips on how to incorporate the Personal and Social Core Competencies will be modelled. Come prepared to collaborate, play and have fun! Hosted by the Langley Primary Teachers’ Association.
February 14 Pro-D
Odyssey Conference 2020 [Register]
REGISTRATION CLOSES FEBRUARY 7
Our theme this year is “Empowered Learners: Voice and Choice” with a continued focus on the core competencies. Inside the program guide, you will find learning opportunities for teachers K-12, support staff, administrators, and more. In addition to the many facilitators from inside and outside our District, we are featuring the highly acclaimed Pernille Ripp as a keynote and session presenter in the area of literacy K-12 which is aligned with our District’s literacy goal.
Let’s Write! Engaging Students as Writers and Thinkers with Journals [Register]
Let’s write! Come learn how to use journals to engage students as writers and thinkers and explore the formative assessment possibilities journals offer. The journals combine writing and representing analytical and social-emotional work.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls [Register]
Learn about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, including terminology and context. You’ll be introduced to the resource “Their Voices Will Guide Us” as well as a number of others prior to boarding a bus to head downtown to participate in the Annual Women’s March on the Downtown East Side for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Dinner included.
Everyday Anxiety Strategies for Educators (EASE): Educator Workshop [Register]
The EASE workshop is available K-7 Educators. Find out about anxiety and how it impacts children, discover ways to integrate anxiety prevention tools as part of regular classroom routines, and get hands-on strategies to help students recognize helpful and unhelpful thinking, take brave steps to face a challenge and use relaxation skills to dial down strong emotions and build resilience
Creating and Communicating Growth in Student Learning [Register]
During the morning you will develop expertise in using the iPad to capture student learning through your own experiences with manipulatives. You will have time for reflection leading into our after lunch focus on developing meaningful ePortfolios. You will leave the day with skills and ideas that you can use with your class on Monday!
See our full calendar of upcoming events and find your fit at thinklangley.com
Sun Run Reminder
Join the “Langley School District” Sun Run team to run in the 2020 Sun Run, April 19, 2020. As part of our team you get: a souvenir technical t-shirt with our school district logo/name on it. If you register by February 14th, 2020 the registration price is $49 plus tax and processing fees. Having a captain means you don’t need to go and pick up your bib downtown ahead of time! T-shirts and bibs will be available for pickup on the Thursday/Friday prior to the race – so you must stop by the SBO on April 16th or 17th, 2020.
Click here to register.
Make sure to indicate you want to join an existing team: Langley School District
Pass Phrase: sunrun
Any questions, please feel free to call (604-534-4779) or email (npowell@sd35.bc.ca) Neil Powell.
STUDENT and STAFF OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT
KPU Pro D Day for High School Art Teachers
Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, KPU Surrey Campus
Please click here for all workshop information. To register, please email assal.khamsi@kpu.ca.
Climate Change Resources from UBC Please click here to access Secondary Instructional Resources to engage high school students in climate change education.
Minerva BC is now accepting applications for our Learning to Lead™ program.
Learning to Lead™ provides Grade 11 girls with the opportunity to increase confidence and explore their leadership potential while creating a network of women and girls who will support them along their educational and career journeys. Applications are now open on our website. Participants develop their confidence through workshops that identify their key strengths and core values. They leave the program with greater self-awareness, and the inspiration to take on new challenges and opportunities.
Critical Digital Literacy from Historica Canada
Do you students think critically about the messages fighting for their attention? Explore historical cases of deception and misrepresentation through this Critical Digital Literacy video series. Click here for access.
SFU (GDE): Exploration, Innovation and Literacy in the French Classroom
This program was developed in partnership with Langley School District but is open to teachers from all School Districts. This two-year, 30-unit program of study is for teachers whose focus is school-based educational practice. It provides the opportunity to engage in focused, sustained reflective inquiry. Completion of the diploma allows teachers to move from TQS category 4 to TQS 5 or from category 5 to 5+. For more information, please click here.
Institut de Français | UBC à Québec
Join UBC Faculty of Education in a 12-day non-credit French summer institute at the Collège Mérici in Quebec City. The program is designed to meet the needs of all French second language teachers, both experienced teachers and those entering the profession, and is open to all levels of French second language teachers. For more information and to register, please click here.
Road Safety Resources
As part of their commitment to promoting a safer driving culture in British Columbia, ICBC has developed an updated road safety curriculum to help teachers give children and young adults the tools they need to be safer. Please click here for more information.
Wellness Event
February 26
The Langley Education Centre is hosting its third annual wellness event, #thatwellnessthing, Wednesday February 26, 2020 from 4:30 – 7 pm. This event is for students, staff and their families and the community. For more information, please click here.
Victoria Literacy Conference
The Canadian Institute of Reading Recovery presents Bright Futures – Setting Foundations for Literacy in Victoria, B.C. on April 17, 2020. Featuring Ruth Culham (6+1 Traits of Writing) and several other teachers from across Canada. Early bird registration is on now until February, 14, 2020.