Name: "From Collaborative Team Meeting to Intentional Classroom Instruction: Building Our Instructional Playbook Together"
Start: 2025-04-08T09:00:00-0600
End: 2025-04-08T10:00:00-0600

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

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

TBA

In many cases we come out of a Collaborative Team Meeting in which effective teacher generated strategies are shared, however those strategies may be shared within a grade group or maybe a division. In this session we will take you through a journey whereby collectively the staff of Joan Carr Catholic Elementary/Junior High school are creating an Instructional Playbook that takes the many effective instructional strategies teachers are already using in the building and through a simple, common framework, we are creating a site specific Instructional Playbook that meets the learning needs of the students in our school community. Our staff work from a mindset and culture of Collective and Self-Efficacy and we are ready to take our Collaborative Team Meetings to the next level.

Speakers

Kurtis Hewson

Lead Learner/Co-Founder, Jigsaw Learning

Kurtis Hewson has been an award-winning teacher, vice-principal, and principal, as well as taught at the post-secondary level. With over a decade of experience as an administrator, Kurtis has championed the call for collaborative structures in schools to ensure success for all students... Read More →

Darrin Deforge

Principal, Edmonton Catholic Schools

Darrin DeForge, has been a principal with Edmonton Catholic Schools for 18 years and has opened three new schools, in 2017, 2020 (Genesis online school) and 2022 where he is currently the principal of Joan Carr Catholic Elementary/Junior High. He has been Director of Inclusive Education... Read More →

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

Instructional Leadership

uLead2025 - The Summit of Educational Leadership

Kurtis Hewson

Darrin Deforge

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