ECSD Elementary Summer Summit: Full Schedule

ECSD Elementary Summer Summit 2026: September Starts Here
Join us on August 28 for a day of learning, collaboration, and inspiration designed to help you start the school year strong! Choose from over 25 sessions featuring classroom-ready resources, practical strategies, and ready-to-use lessons across literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, assessment, inclusion, faith permeation, and wellness. Whether you’re exploring the new Grades 4–6 Social Studies curriculum, discovering Dynamic Math, or looking for fresh ideas to support every learner, you’ll leave confident, energized, and September ready!

9:45am MDT

From Routine to Remarkable - Supercharging Tier 1Instruction with Stations, UDL, and Tech

LIMITED

Friday August 28, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am MDT

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Materials

How can we design Tier 1 instruction that is deeply rooted in joy, faith, and purposeful learning, while ensuring all students are engaged, challenged, and empowered?

Inspired by Catlin Tucker’s Station Rotation Model and guided by Universal Design for Learning (UDL), participants will explore how to design inclusive, student-centred learning experiences that honour learner variability and promote deep thinking. Through meaningful technology integration, teachers will focus on aligning digital tools with learning goals to foster agency, differentiation, and authentic engagement.
Participants will experience station rotation in action through three lenses: a science-based model, an English Language Arts/literature model, and a cross-curricular application. These experiences will highlight how intentional design can cultivate joy, rigour, and ownership across disciplines while embedding opportunities for faith connections and purposeful learning.

Educators will collaborate to design their own station rotation plan, leaving with practical, ready-to-implement strategies and student-centred experiences to support learning from September through November, ensuring their classrooms are truly rooted in joy from the very start.

Speakers

Brandi Clark

English Language Arts Consultant (K-6), Edmonton Catholic School Division

I have been working in the division for over 25 years. I have a Masters in Elementary Language Arts. My passions are reading and writing across a variety of genres and topics. I live in a house of artists and writers, specifically, my husband, two adult kids, a pug and two cats. I... Read More →

Nicole Cunningham

Emtech, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Nicole Cunningham is an Educational Technology Consultant with Edmonton Catholic Schools for the past 3 years, supporting teachers from Kindergarten to Grade 12. She designs and delivers professional learning and at the elbow planning and in-class support that helps educators purposefully... Read More →

Katerina Campbell

Elementary Science Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Katerina is an elementary Science consultant at Edmonton Catholic Schools. She loves all things Science, exploring natural phenomena and will never stop asking “why?” Katerina is a self proclaimed maker and cardboard collector. She is a proud promoter of inquiry based learning... Read More →

Natalie Zuberbuhler

Elementary Science Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Natalie Zuberbuhler: Elementary Science Curriculum and Assessment Consultant with Edmonton Catholic Schools lives for Science and supporting her teacher colleagues. Natalie always has great recommendations on books, tips for catching fish, and how to incorporate computer science to... Read More →

Friday August 28, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am MDT
3A

3-6

2:00pm MDT

Dynamic Math: Introducing A New Math Resource

FILLING

Friday August 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT

Limited Capacity filling up

Session Materials

Discover Dynamic Math, a new resource designed to fully align with Alberta’s New Math Curriculum for grades 3–6. This session will introduce teachers to the teacher guide, student textbooks, and blackline masters that support strong pedagogy and seamless classroom implementation. Participants will explore how the resource connects directly to the manipulatives already provided in schools and how it strengthens both conceptual understanding and practice. Available in English and French, Dynamic Math offers a cohesive, hands-on approach to teaching mathematics. Join us to see how this resource can elevate instruction and support student success.

Speakers

Meredith Aubin

Elementary Math Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Meredith is an Elementary Mathematics Consultant who has been with Edmonton Catholic Schools since 2014. She is passionate about helping students to love learning mathematics in meaningful ways. You can also find her spending time outdoors, enjoying restaurants around the city, listening... Read More →

Haidee deRoca-Garcia

Elementary Math Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Haidee de Roca-Garcia is the Elementary Math Consultant for ECSD. She has taught K-6 for almost 30 years and is passionate about making mathematics engaging for all learners. She believes curiosity is a superpower and numbers are the best! When not learning something new every... Read More →

Friday August 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm MDT
2A

3-6

2:00pm MDT

Minecrafting Curriculum Connections

LIMITED

Friday August 28, 2026 2:00pm - 3:30pm MDT

Room 1

Limited Capacity seats available

Session Materials

In this hands-on session, we will explore how Minecraft: Education can support meaningful curriculum connections while making student thinking visible. Using portfolios, photos, reflections, NPCs, and mini-builds, we will explore strategies for documenting learning, collecting evidence of understanding, and sharing student work through Google Classroom. Teachers will leave with practical assessment approaches that capture both learning processes and KUSPs across subject areas.

Speakers

Joel Kristiansen

Emerging Technology Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Joel Kristiansen has been part of the EmTech team for the past 3 years. Joel finds inspiration in working with teachers to incorporate technology in feasible ways to make learning more accessible, exciting, and long lasting. Before that, Joel spent over a decade in K-9 schools where... Read More →