Name: Leading School Wellness for All
Start: 2025-04-06T14:45:00-0600
End: 2025-04-06T15:45:00-0600

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

Sunday April 6, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm MDT

TBA

This session will present the findings of a study aimed at better understanding the impact of focused leadership education on personal and collective wellness and mindfulness for teachers and leaders in K-12 schools. By engaging in interviews with twenty-four teachers and leaders undertaking such leadership education and through the co-creation of an edited book of their experiences as teachers and leaders committed to wellbeing, the importance of these topics to leadership became critical. Four themes stood as the findings and have been structured around the work of Arrien (1993). These include the importance of vertical leadership growth, the criticality of voice in pedagogical leadership, the role of mindfulness in teacher and leader health and wellbeing, and the need for a resurgence in storytelling as a medium for leadership. Participants in this session will be encouraged to consider what new possibilities could be explored around leadership education in today's complex educational contexts.

Speakers

Patricia Danyluk

Director, Field Experience, Community Based B.Ed., Werklund School of Education

Dr. Danyluk's research extends to teacher education, critical service learning, community engagement and reconciliatory pedagogy. She has over 20 years of experience working with preservice teachers during practica. She has held a variety of roles at Werklund including Graduate Program... Read More →

Amy Burns

Dr. Amy Burns is an Associate Professor and Interim Dean of the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her research centres on the lived experiences of those in educational systems, particularly on the narrative experiences of those who hold formal leadership positions... Read More →

Sunday April 6, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm MDT
TBA

Wellness

uLead2025 - The Summit of Educational Leadership

Patricia Danyluk

Amy Burns

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