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!
Feeling unsure about where to begin - or ready to refresh your FSL classroom? This session offers simple, high-impact routines and practical strategies to get students using French. With a focus on low-prep, adaptable approaches, you’ll explore easy ways to move beyond passive activities and into real language use - all without adding to your workload.
By the end of this session, you will leave with:
A clear, ready to go plan for your first days and weeks of September
Practical, UDL-informed strategiesn you can use across grades and levels
Simple ways to move beyond worksheets and get students talking right away
Ready to go routines you can implement immediately
Start simple - and let the the language grow from there!
French as an Additional Language Consultant, Edmonton Catholic Schools
Amy Leavitt, a self-professed language nerd from Saskatchewan, is a dynamic French as an Additional Language consultant with Edmonton Catholic Schools in Alberta. Passionate about making language learning fun, Amy incorporates game-based learning and the Action-Oriented Approach into... Read More →
This session is all about experiencing the learning for yourself. We will explore a variety of simple yet carefully crafted fraction cards,through interactive activities, problem solving and conversations that make fraction concepts visible and accessible! Along the way, we’ll make natural connections to unit fractions, equivalency, operations, decimals and percentages, helping students see how it all fits together.
Leave with practical moves, fresh ideas, and fraction cards ready to save the day in your classroom!
Join us for Natural Connections, an interactive session that brings together English Language Arts and Literature, Physical Education and Wellness, and Science curricula to life through Indigenous-focused knowledge. This experience fosters a deeper connection to Indigenous cultures, the natural world, and social emotional well-being. It is an opportunity to sample what is being offered to teachers who would like to sign up for our year long Community of Practice. You will walk away with numerous strategies, tools, and new books!
Elementary ELA consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division
Venessa Chalifoux is one of the Elementary English Language Arts Consultants. She has been teaching for 20 years in grades 1-6 with experience as English as an Additional Language Designate. She has a passion for making learning engaging and fun for students and is an avid reader... Read More →
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 →
Indigenous Learning Services Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division
Shannon is a Métis auntie and educator who is passionate about the weaving of Indigenous Knowledges and ways of knowing into K-6 curriculum. Anti-racism, the ongoing effects of colonization, and Indigenous student wellbeing are also areas of interest.
Discover how Social Emotional Learning is woven throughout the Physical Education and Wellness curriculum in this active, hands‑on professional learning experience. Educators will explore the PEW SEL Toolkit, unpack where key competencies naturally show up in movement‑based learning, and participate in a variety of games and activities they can bring directly to their classrooms. Come ready to move, reflect, and leave with practical strategies to strengthen connection, confidence, and whole‑child wellness in your PEW program this year.
