Archive for the 'Professional Development Opportunities' Category

Educating for Today and Tomorrow: Arts, Ethics and Learning in the 21st Century.

Friday, May 13th, 2011

This three-day conference, to be held November 4-6 in Atlanta, Georgia, will focus on teaching and learning in schools and in environments other than schools such as online forums, museums, and other arts venues.  In collaboration with the Woodruff Arts Center, the Museum of Design Atlanta and the Atlanta International School, the conference will feature [...]

May 12 @4pm: Education & Technology PD Session

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

SERG PD Session with Neil Stephenson: Education & Technology When combined with good instructional design, emerging technologies and their accompanying “participatory cultures” provide great promise in creating engaging and authentic learning experiences for our students. Many of the current theories around learning and technology speak of the potential of interest or passion based learning cultures, [...]

Little Warriors: Awesome Training Opportunity

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Little Warriors is a local organization with an important mission: educating the public on the perils of childhood sexual abuse  and on ways to recognize it and act responsibility. They offer a training program for those of us that work regularly with children and the workshop qualifies for 3 Category A Credits through the National [...]

Canadian Art Gallery Educators Symposium in Calgary

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Attention visual arts educators! This conference is a great opportunity to network with your national colleagues right here in Calgary! The symposium is Aril 30-May 3 and registrations are on now at: http://www.cageart.ca/events.html They are accepting proposals on their symposium topic:  Creative Partnerships: How Art Galleries Collaborate. Attend the conference for free by presneting on your experiences!  

Youth Storytelling Scholarship

Friday, March 4th, 2011

TALES, The Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling is pleased to announce the launch of TALES Youth Storytelling scholarship. In 2011, TALES will hold its annual retreat at Sylvan Lake where they will celebrate Cultural Connections in Storytelling from the evening of Fri, Apr 19-lunchtime May 1st. The winner of the 2011 scholarship will recieve: one-year admission [...]