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PROVINCIAL
INITIATIVES -
ARPDC Join Initiatives
Since
1995, the Alberta Regional PD Consortia, have worked together
to develop the following provincial initiatives:
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Adult
Learning for Students' Sake
- This conference is held every two years. Past speakers
have included Denis Sparks, JoEllen Killion, Linda Lamebert,
Thomas Guskey.
Dream
Big: Creating and Growing Your School Foundation - The purpose of this conference was
for schools to learn the hows and whys of having a foundation
support education in your district; build a better foundation
that supports and enhances public education; learn, share
and network with others interested in foundations and fundraising.
The keynote speaker was Mark Havens from Lewiston Idaho.
Mark is the author of Dream Big: Creating and Growing
your School Foundation.
Early
Literacy Symposia - Every
summer the regional offer two summer symposia (Edmonton
and Calgary). The focus of these symposia are to provide
K-3 educators with an opportunity to learn from experts
and share expertise with colleagues from across the Province
of Alberta.
Middle
Literacy Symposium - This
three year initative provided Middle Literacy educators
with an opportunity to examine concepts, strategies and
resources specific to Middle Schools.
Reaching
& Teaching Conference
- Since 2001 this conference has attracted over 4,000 attendes
provincially, nationally and internationally. Themes and
speakers have included:
2001
- Leadership and Learning for the 21st Century
Margaret Wheatley * Art Costa *
Eric Jensen * Ivan Fitzwater * Rick DuFour * Thomas Armstrong
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Robert Sylwester * Michele Borba * Terrance Deal
2002 - Good Schools Getting Better
Michael
Fullan * Jennifer James * Art Costa * William Daggett
* Grant Wiggins * Harold Braithwaite *
Roland Barth * Pat Wolfe * Gail Sauders-Smith * Michele
Borba * Martha Kaufeldt
2003 - Spirit of Learning
Dr. Martin Brokenleg* Rachael Kessler
* Gayle Gregory * Dr. David Sousa *
Dr. Douglas Reeves * Dr. Roger Taylor * Dr. Stevan Kukic
2004 - Creating Professional
Learning Communities at Work
Rick Dufour * Robert Eaker * Rebecca
DuFour * David Lazear * Ian Jukes * Vickie Burt * Joanne
Quinn
2005 - Leading and Supporting
Your Professional Learning Community
Andy Hargreaves * Carol Ann Tomlinson
* Marcia Tate * Laura Lipton * John Dyer *
Bruce Wellman Edie Holcomb * Chris Spence
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Small
Schools Conference - This
conference was created with the needs of small schools in
mind. Teachers, school and central office administrators,
trustees and school council members participated to allow
participants an opportunity to celebrate the wonderful things
happening in Alberta's small schools.
Teaching
& Learning with Technology (TLT)
Understanding
by Design, Grant Wiggins and Jay Mctighe
Weaving
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PROVINCIAL RESOURCES
The following resources were
developed on behalf of the six Alberta Regional PD Consortia.
Resources are listed in alphabetical order.
Assessment
for Learning Workshop Series
Email
Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium
Consortiamath.com
English
Language Arts Modules, 2001
First
Nations, Metis, Inuit (FNMI) Facilitator Resource Manual
Email
Northwest Regional lerning Consortium
Health
Curriculum Facilitators Toolkit and Series of Four Workshops
Email
Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium
Learning
Strategies in Math Workshop Series
Email
Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium
Online
Reference Centre Workshops, Materials, Presenters
Email
Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium
Small
School Successful Students, 2002
Email
Central Alberta Regional Consortium
Teaching
and Learning with Technology (TLT)
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COLLABORATION WITH ALBERTA LEARNING
Alberta Regional PD Consortia
purposes
include supporting the implemntation of new program of studies.
We believe that effective curriculum implemtation will is a shared
responsibility which will also positively affect student learning.
As funds for implentation become available, Alberta Learning provides
grants in specific areas, such as the list which follows. Regional
Consortia suport for implementation may include coordination,
development and delivery of inservice. We have collaborated with
Alberta
Learning on the following initiatives:
- Alberta
Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) Provincial Conference
- Alternatives
to the Traditional School Year Symposium
- Assisted
Learning Technologies Leadership Series
- Comprehensive
School Health Professional Development Initiative
- Crossing
Wires: Linking Learners - Video-Conferencing Training Iniative
- CTS
Logistics Inservice
- Curriculum
Based Inservice
- Daily
Physical Activity
- English
Language Arts Online Workshop Devleopment Project
- First
Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI)
- School
Liaison Workers program
- School
Community Learning Environmnet
- Provincial
Conferences
- French
Second Langugae Learning in Alberta: Setting the Stage
- Francophone,
French Immersion, and French as a Second Language Inservice
- Grades
4 and 7 Social Studies
- I.C.T.
Assessment Tool Kit
- I.O.P.
Inservice
- Junior
High Mathematics -Evergreening
- Junior
High Mathematics
- K-3
Social Studies
- Second
Language Learning
- Secondary
English Language Arts Modules and Inservice
- Secondary
English Langugae Arts Inservice
- Secondary
Mathematics Inservice
- Special
Education Inservice
- Autism
- Unlocking
Potential Resource
- Web
Awareness Inservice
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