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!
This K to 3 Social Studies professional learning session will introduce teachers to foundational Métis perspectives through exploration of key cultural symbols such as the Red River cart and Métis sash, the beauty of the Michif language, and traditional Métis ways of living including farming, hunting, trapping, buffalo hunting, river-lot systems, and living off the land. Teachers will also learn about historical Métis communities and the significance of Métis Settlements as self-governing communities that continue to support Métis culture and identity. Teacher Take Aways.
A clear understanding of Métis symbols and how they reflect identity and worldview
Strategies for integrating Michif language and Métis place-based knowledge
Confidence in addressing curriculum outcomes connected to Métis perspectives
Explore Printable and digital resources for immediate classroom use
This session explores how concept circles can be used as an engaging structure for helping elementary students represent mathematical ideas through images, words, and manipulatives. Participants will experience hands-on tasks that show how placing manipulatives directly on the circles strengthens students’ discourse, visualization, modelling, and representation skills. The session highlights the role of the central circle in uncovering mathematical relationships and patterns, offering a powerful entry point for deeper reasoning. Teachers will leave with practical strategies for designing interactive tasks that make mathematical thinking visible.
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 →
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 →
This session brings clarity to what reading looks like in Kindergarten to Grade 3 through the lens of the Alberta ELAL curriculum. Together, we’ll unpack grade-level reading expectations, explore what students should know and be able to do within each organizing idea, and examine how assessment, texts, and instructional tools can help build a clear profile of a reader. Teachers will leave with a stronger understanding of how to identify student strengths, determine next steps, and support reading over the course of the year with clarity and purpose.
