Jessica Reis PLC CHART

Date Title Presenter Description Key Points

Sept 26 Second Language James Cummins Taking stock of the issues There is a demand for second language-
Educlang related to language teaching specific courses in Ontario, we just need to
Conference and learning. expand what we offer.

Every teacher is a language teacher.

In every classroom, there will be many

students who will be far behind in the
language of either English or French and that
will put them even further behind in terms of
content of the course.

The policies that have been written in the

past, do not reflect the needs of modern
students.

Students are actively engaged with literacy in

their 2L
Identity texts: artifacts students have created
that affirms their identity as someone who
has something to say and it fuels future
engagement.

Languages help promote each other and build

up in awareness. They build each other more
than they take away from each other.
Nov 7 Ministry of Ministry of ed Changes to curriculum NTIP
education - New math New teacher induction program
 professional - Financial literacy
development - Greater incorporation
program for teacher of STEAM
candidates - New presentation of
curriculum to public
Efficacy and make sure that all new teachers
are comfortable and okay
Teach Ontario website, online community
supported by TVO for educator’s resources

Toscha Urbach
- Need FSL pt1 to be able to teach
French immersion
- Not qualified by ministry so therefore
cannot teach in French.
- Need 5 aqs to move up the pay
scale??? News to me
- Emergency supply days don’t count
towards 20 days of supply teaching.
- BUZZWORDS ARE NOT NECESSARY IN
OCDSB INTERVIEWS. HOW TO
IMPLEMENT ASSESSMENT FOR AS
AND OF. PUT A REAL KID BEHIND
EVERY ANSWER YOU GIVE.
- Don’t prep before. Wait to get the
questions and then decide how you’re
going to approach
- How to leverage relationships in the
board and in the school.
-

St Pat’s Principal

Nov 21 Culturally responsive Jocelyn- York Culturally Responsive teaching Poster Analysis activity
 pedagogy University Mindsets: Examples and Non- - Critical art that illicit discussion on
Examples societal issues.
- A great open-ended tool for AfL
- CRP is a 3D approach
- Personal, Instructional, Institutional
- Bring able to identify bias is important
for self reflection
- Culture is more than identifying with
an ethnicity.
- Incorporating lived reality into the
classroom. Show the students that
you are listening and learning from
how they see themselves.
- We want to be critical and infiltrate
other voices and push back against
dominant narratives.
- Don’t be colorblind.
- Don’t ignore lived realities of
individual students
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Nov 21 Black Canada, Black Awad Ibrahim Moving away from equality - Important for us to realize the history
Excellence and towards equity. of the institution we will be apart of
and we are currently apart of
- Emphasis on black excellence
- We cannot afford to be politically
incorrect as educators.
- ‘racialized’ a category that was
imposed on us.
- The education of African Canadian
Children – Awad Ibrahim.
- Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones were
 two of the founding fathers of Jazz.
- Jazz used to be looked at like we look
at hip hop now. Working class, vulgar,
unneeded, and now we are teaching it
- Jazz was improvised on Bourbon
street.
- Mathieu da Costa:
o First recorded black person to
set foot in New France,
(Canada), 1605
o Spoke English, Dutch, French,
baske, Portuguese.
o Came over with Samuel
Dechamplain, so that he could
interpret the Micmac language
for him.
o He came as a free man, he is
the anomaly, not the norm.
o www.blackhistorycanada.ca
- Early education history is one of
segregation
- The African School
o First school recorded and built
before 1796 in New Brunswick
- Buxton Mission School (1850s)
o 13 years after opening, white
students outnumber black
students at the school.
o Was made a part of the regular
school board, but this school
stands alone in this. Most were
 segregated, underfunded,
understaffed etc.
o Black students would have
their own schools and no other
until 1954 in NS, and 1964 in
Ontario.
o Until 1964, black students
could not attend regular
schools.
o Black segregated schools were
the best thing to happen to
black community. It was the
centre of the community, it
was where people felt sense of
sommunity, where you felt
successful as a student. They
held you to a standard.
o Desegregated schools were
poor, ill-equipped. When you
have control of the school, you
have control over what you are
dealing with.
- Black educators
o 1) Arthur Richardson1833 UNB
o 2)Mary Matilda Winslow 1905
UNB
o 3) Mary Ann Shadd – 1850s
Windsor, school for black
students ages 4-45 in one
room.
o 4) Wilson O. Brooks, first black
 principal in Toronto that we
have record of.
- Black presence has a long history in
Canada
- Black Canada is young and urban
- Most are the second or third-gen
- Black excellence has always existed,
nut negative perception is something
to fight against
- It is multinational, multicultural and
multilingual

Feb 6th Resume and Digital Robert Miller, Pat How to ensure that your - Specific examples
Hub Review Session McKenzie, Anna digital hub and resume are
Bowles ready

Feb 13th Ophea- Draw the line Lee Cameron Egale Canada: Against transphobic violence
LGBTQI2S
Serophobia, saneism
Active Bystander Intervention: BUilding a
community that intervenes in situations that
might lead to violence, harassment, and/or
discrimination.
Be brave:
B: Begin by listening
R: Respect Confidentiality
A:
V:
E: Empathize

Feb 20 Federation Day Kelly Granum OSSTF: OT Union Rep.

 OSSTF (kelly.granum@d Regulation 274, Top 5 LTOs are considered --
OECTA
25.osstf.ca) not just based on seniority also based on
613-729-7211 qualifications.

Robert Briscoe OECTA: Occasional Teaching

Victoria Nogueira Interview: Pastoral Letter, Letters of
recommendation, portfolio, board initiative,
know your strengths.
Know emergency procedures for each school
that you go into
March 5 Professional Information about Specialist part II and 2 years experience
Development
Programs
Additional
Qualification

Graduate Stud