uLead2025 - The Summit of Educational Leadership: Full Schedule

This is the Sched site for the uLead 2025. The site for the Pre-Conference is available here.

Welcome to uLead 2025. We are thrilled you will be joining us at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel for our annual school leadership conference hosted by the Council for School Leadership of The Alberta Teachers’ Association.

If you have any questions during the event, we will have uLead team members throughout the venue wearing red and black plaid. The registration desk will also have our team available throughout the conference. This table can be found just outside of the Van Horne Ballroom where all of our keynote presentations are taking place.

If you need a digital map of the facilities, you can click here

In order for our team to best determine room allocations for breakout sessions would ask that delegates log in (top right corner of this page) and select sessions that they are interested in attending.

Finally, if you are interested in earning University credits for attending uLead, please visit the uLead website

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9:00am MDT

It's About Time

Tuesday April 8, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

TBA

This workshop will equip and motivate delegates with free, practical, ready-to-use strategies that ensure students will succeed faster and teachers will be less stressed. This is achieved with radically different ways of teaching, coupled with the smart use of smart tools (including AI). Delegates may quickly realise that they are also achieving many of the goals from other PLD initiatives. You will leave this workshop with strategies, resources and exemplars that can be used immediately in your school. You will leave this workshop feeling energised, optimistic and even more ambitious for our students and teachers.

Speakers

Martin Hughes

Martin Hughes has been working with schools for 20 years. He relentlessly focuses on making the most educationally effective behaviours, the easiest to achieve. So that within busy schools, we have 100% uptake amongst teachers, leaders and students. He delivers professional learning... Read More →

Tuesday April 8, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
TBA

International Perspectives, School Culture

10:20am MDT

How Teachers and School Leaders use their time - findings from QTU supported research - Leah Mertens, Greg Thompson and Sarah Holcombe

Tuesday April 8, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MDT

TBA

The QTU has sponsored academic research into the time use of teachers and school leaders. Our research partner, Professor Greg Thompson, will outline the findings. Sara Holcombe, small school principal, will share her lived experience of multi-tasking the multi-tasks.

Speakers

Greg Thompson

Professor of Education Research at Queensland University of Technology. After working as a high school English, History and HPE teacher for 13 years in Western Australia, Professor Thompson completed his PhD at Murdoch University in 2009. From 2009 he worked as a Lecturer and Senior... Read More →

Sara Holcombe

As a school leader, Sarah has a wealth of experience as a Small School Principal, Head of Department (Curriculum & Inclusion) and a Regional Curriculum Advisor. She is a passionate member of the Queensland Teachers' Union and engages actively in various roles including Area Council... Read More →

Leah Michelle Mertens

Deputy General Secretary (Member Services) at Queensland Teachers' Union. A former French language teacher in state primary and secondary schools, Leah's QTU career began in 1994 with her appointment as Women's Coordinator. In 2011, she took up the role of Strategy and Policy Officer... Read More →

Tuesday April 8, 2025 10:20am - 11:20am MDT
TBA

International Perspectives