June 4, 2021
June is Pride Month and National Indigenous History Month. Please check out the resources available in the Diversity Binder.
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!
Save the date! Summer Boot Camp 2021
August 31 & September 1
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.
Save the date! Summer Institute
Wednesday, September 1
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!
Math Place: A New Math Resource for Grade 1 & 2 Teachers
September 14 & October 5 [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. (Note: the grade 3 set will arrive in late August and the workshops will be set up then for grade 3 teachers.)
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.
NEW 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.
CONNECTING TO OUR COMMUNITY
Student Success
The Summer Edition of Student Success has now been published in the Langley Advance/Times. Read about the Foundation’s Pandemic of Kindness One Year Later; The Peoples’ Artist; Student Art Show Contest Winners; Sassy Award Winners; and a new and Accessible Playground at Langley Fine Arts here.
Scholarships
All awardees for the Langley School District Foundation scholarships have been named. The Foundation will be sending out awardee names to all donors. Please send any plans for award ceremonies to scairns@sd35.bc.ca and jdorland@sd35.bc.ca so we can let donors know if or how they can participate.
Food for Thought
The Foundation will be distributing gift cards to families who require assistance throughout the summer months. Please contact ihayer@sd35.bc.ca if you would like to include any additional families on the list. The cards will be distributed before June 24, 2021.
OTHER EXTERNAL STUDENT/STAFF OPPORTUNITIES and LEARNING RESOURCES
UBC Education Pro-D News
We’ve adapted most of our programs to an online format, and are proud to now be able to offer our programming in a more accessible format that accommodates different work schedules and those living far from the UBC Vancouver campus. But we also look forward to what the future holds, and hopefully offering some in-person programs in the future! For now, don’t miss these ONLINE professional development opportunities.
2021 Summer Institute Program
Please join the highly anticipated BC Summer Institute from August 23rd to 25th. Creating the Future – Partnerships for Inclusive Learning is a summer Virtual conference to provide a robust learning environment. Come together to hear and learn from people who have extensive experience in Inclusive Learning and who are champions in diverse and innovative approaches to facilitating inclusive school environments.