Beginning Teachers May 2025: Full Schedule

1:00pm MDT

Backwards Design Meets Copilot: Planning with Purpose (and a Little AI Help) LIMITED

Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT

Curious about how to harness the power of Microsoft Copilot to streamline your planning? In this practical session, we’ll explore how Copilot can support your backwards design process—from outcomes to assessment to learning experiences. You’ll get a clear idea of division approved ai tools, when it makes sense to use them, and how to guide Copilot with both conversational and structured prompts. Whether you’re mapping out a unit or brainstorming lesson ideas, you’ll leave with time-saving strategies and real examples that keep pedagogy front and center (and AI in the sidecar). Come ready to learn, laugh, and maybe let Copilot do a bit of the heavy lifting!

Speakers

Joel Kristiansen

Emerging Technology Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Joel is part of the Emerging Technology team at Edmonton Catholic Schools. Joel has worked in ECSD for over a decade, spending most of his time in K-9 schools teaching design, robotics, and collaborating with teachers to integrate makerspaces into their subject area.

Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm MDT
Room 2a

7-12

2:15pm MDT

Year-End Assessment & Reporting - 7-12 LIMITED

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT

Room 2a

Session Materials

The last month of school means summer break is close...but so are final report cards! This session will provide tips for wrapping up assessments. It will also walk through the steps that need to be taken in PowerTeacher Pro to finalize your gradebooks. You will also be provided with resources to support this process.

Speakers

Alyson Gabucci

Curriculum and Assessment Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Alyson Gabucci is an Assessment & Reporting consultant at Edmonton Catholic Schools. She is passionate about eating, mainly salty carbohydrates, working out because of those salty carbohydrates, and you can often find her with her nose in a book either learning more about assessment... Read More →

Kiara Smyth

Curriculum and Assessment Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Kiara is passionate about assessment and getting students engaged in the process of learning! With a high school humanities background, she also loves to talk literature and current events. Outside of work, her favourite activity is traveling the world, but when she's closer to... Read More →

Thursday May 29, 2025 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
Room 2a

7-12

Beginning Teachers May 2025