MELIT - One Size Does Not Fit All: Responsive Teaching for Every Student

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FULL - Keynote AM: The Reading Landscape

Landscapes can be welcoming and full of life, or treacherous and uninhabitable. How can the Manitoba ELA curriculum help teachers and students to view literacy as a thriving ecosystem that values all of the parts to support growth for both students and teachers.

Presenter: Karen Boyd, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Programming RETSD

FULL - VIRTUAL Keynote AM: The Reading Landscape

Landscapes can be welcoming and full of life, or treacherous and uninhabitable. How can the Manitoba ELA curriculum help teachers and students to view literacy as a thriving ecosystem that values all of the parts to support growth for both students and teachers.

Presenter: Karen Boyd, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Programming RETSD

FULL - AM - 1: Running Records as the Ultimate Tool

In this session, we will examine records noticing how the student initiates literacy processing, finding evidence of their inner control. From this sensitive analysis, we will design instructional emphases with the goal of drawing a new way of working into the child’s repertoire.

Presenters: Jennifer Flight, Literacy Consultant Manitoba Education Reading Recovery Trainer CIRR Western Region and Dr. Allyson Matczuk

FULL - AM - 2: Indigenous Literacy Responsiveness

This session will address aspects of literacy through a lens of indigeneity with understandings pertaining to context, nonverbal cues, silences/pauses, along with subconscious knowledge. This workshop session is reflected within Indigenous sources of information (msv) to support the path to literacy learning.

Presenter: Gloria D. Sinclair

FULL - AM - 3: Responding to Multi-Lingual Learners: Revealing Strengths

Join us as we honor the diverse strengths of multi-lingual Ukrainian newcomer learners in order to respond effectively. Using a language learning lens, we can observe for and respond to children's prior history of learning opportunities and extend the literate path for these children.

Presenter: Jennifer Chetyrbok, Teacher Dauphin Manitoba and Tracy Genik, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader MVSD

FULL - CANCELLED AM - 4: Innovative Projects in Response to Student Needs

This session will give participants an opportunity to circulate around in 15-minute time slots to a variety of inquiry-based, responsive teaching-based projects led by various presenters. This session will provide a smorgasbord of ideas and inspirations.

Facilitator: Helen Proulx, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader SJASD

FULL - VIRTUAL AM - 1: Running Records as the Ultimate Tool

In this session, we will examine records noticing how the student initiates literacy processing, finding evidence of their inner control. From this sensitive analysis, we will design instructional emphases with the goal of drawing a new way of working into the child’s repertoire.

Presenters: Jennifer Flight, Literacy Consultant Manitoba Education Reading Recovery Trainer CIRR Western Region and Dr. Allyson Matczuk

FULL - VIRTUAL AM - 2: Indigenous Literacy Responsiveness

This session will address aspects of literacy through a lens of indigeneity with understandings pertaining to context, nonverbal cues, silences/pauses, along with subconscious knowledge. This workshop session is reflected within Indigenous sources of information (msv) to support the path to literacy learning.

Presenter: Gloria D. Sinclair

FULL - VIRTUAL AM - 3: Responding to Multi-Lingual Learners: Revealing Strengths

Join us as we honor the diverse strengths of multi-lingual Ukrainian newcomer learners in order to respond effectively. Using a language learning lens, we can observe for and respond to children's prior history of learning opportunities and extend the literate path for these children.

Presenter: Jennifer Chetyrbok, Teacher Dauphin Manitoba and Tracy Genik, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader MVSD

FULL - Keynote PM 1: Assessing Reconciliation - Presence, Practice, Pedagogy, and Permanence

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Presenter: Dr. Niigaan Sinclair

FULL - VIRTUAL Keynote PM 1: Dr. Niigaan Sinclair

Assessing Reconciliation - Presence, Practice, Pedagogy, and Permanence

Presenter: Dr. Niigaan Sinclair
Dr Niigaan Sinclair is an Anishinaabe writer, editor, and activist. He is currently Head of the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. Niigaan is a journalist, public speaker, and media commentator, who was named to the “Power List” by Maclean’s magazine, as one of the most influential individuals in Canada.

FULL - Keynote PM 2: Creating a Community of Support: Transfer and Transitions for Students

Moving between supplementary support in individual or small group settings and the classroom context can be challenging for our most vulnerable students. How can we ensure smooth transition and maximize the transfer of newly learned literacy processes into multiple contexts? How can we ensure students have a sense of security on a day-to-day basis and after supplementary support ends? Collaboration, cohesion, cooperation and caring!

Presenter: Dr. Allyson Matczuk

FULL - VIRTUAL Keynote PM 2: Creating a Community of Support: Transfer and Transitions for Students

Moving between supplementary support in individual or small group settings and the classroom context can be challenging for our most vulnerable students. How can we ensure smooth transition and maximize the transfer of newly learned literacy processes into multiple contexts? How can we ensure students have a sense of security on a day-to-day basis and after supplementary support ends? Collaboration, cohesion, cooperation and caring!

Presenter: Dr. Allyson Matczuk