1. Welcome to the 2017
Presidents,
Editors,
Treasurers,
Secretaries
Seminar

2. The Agenda
Plenary Session Role Specific Sessions World Café Plenary Session Intercouncil Collaboration

3. Specialist Council Financial Update

4. Budgeting for Service to Members
Ensure programs support professional development for members
Carefully consider executive costs
Program creation/growth/sustainability
Membership drive activities enhance grants
Budgets delimit spending, so budget thoughtfully with whole executive

7. Professional Development Program Area Update
2Learn Update:
Association has taken on
What opportunities are there for councils to promote 2Learn and to contribute?
How can we enhance members’ connection to 2Learn.ca?

9. Suggestions for Specialist Councils
Celebrating 100 years:
Suggestions for Specialist Councils

10. Want to help us celebrate?
Offer a special program for members this year in honour of the event
Acknowledge our 100th on your conference program, position paper, in council publications
Create a “history” corner on your website and link to ATA features and your own council historical features

11. Want to help us celebrate?
Consult our archives for your historical information and use in social media, publications
Have a 100 birthday party (with cake!) at your next event
Apply for a special or joint project grant to create a collaborative program or resource

12. Want to help us celebrate?
Feature 100 years branded ATA merchandise at your conference/events
Encourage past executive and honorary members to write their council remembrances from yesteryear for posting and publishing
Celebrate pioneer Alberta teachers in your area of interest

13. Want to help us celebrate?
Create a council related artifact for presentation to PEC at ARA

14. Help us celebrate our
100th year!

15. Draft Teaching Quality Standard

16. Draft Teaching Quality Standard
You’ll note a different format, competencies and indicators.
Fostering Effective Relationships
Engaging in Career-Long Learning
Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
Establishing Inclusive Learning Environments
Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit
Adhering to Legal Frameworks and Policies

17. Draft Teaching Quality Standard
We will no longer have interim and permanent levels for the TQS
The document is in draft form until signed off by cabinet. There will then be an “implementation window”.

18. Competency 3 – Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
(c) applying student assessment and evaluation practices that: • accurately reflect the learner outcomes within the programs of study;
• generate evidence of student learning to inform teaching practice through a balance of formative and summative assessment experiences;
• provide a variety of methods through which students can demonstrate their achievement of the learning outcomes;
• provide accurate, constructive and timely feedback on student learning; and
• support the use of reasoned judgment about the evidence used to determine and report the level of student learning.

19. Curriculum Re-design

28. Support for Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit

31. Resources to Support the teaching of Indigenous history and cultures in schools

32. Book an ATA Workshop Today!
Book as a series or individually
Many available in both English and French
Only $100 + GST

33. Special or Joint Project Grant
Grants Available to Members:
Special or Joint Projects− for councils only
To create a resource for members or collaborate with another council on a specific program or resource for members
See page 71 of Handbook for more information

34. Grant For Members Through Locals

35. Break out sessions
Editors Session—Sandra Bit, Supervising Editor, Publications
Emerald Ballroom
Presidents Meeting—Gaylene Schreiber, Executive Staff Officer, Professional Development
Palisades Ballroom
Specialist Council Secretaries Session—Margaret Shane, Information and Records Manager, Privacy Officer Archivist, and Cheryl O’Brien, Administrative Officer, Professional Development
Amethyst Ballroom
Treasurers Session—Didi Heer, Accountant, Subgroup Services
Robson Ballroom

36. Presidents Annual Meeting
Welcome to the 2017
Presidents Annual Meeting

37. Presidents Meeting Agenda
Life members: defining cost and council services
Council Handbook Covers: PD program area branding
Special and Joint Projects Grant
Strategic Planning Grant
Communities of Inquiry Grant
Interactions with media re: curriculum
Needs assessments
Territorial acknowledgements
New contact information listings on publications
Preservice Specialist Council Carousel
Other

38. “Awakening & engaging collective intelligence through conversations about questions that matter”
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39. “World Café is a conversational process based on a set of integrated design principles that reveal a deeper living network pattern through which we co-evolve our collective future. The conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions.”
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41. The Table Host…
One person per table is designated to be the “Table Host”
She or he remains at same table throughout the process
The Table Host :
- Facilitates the conversation by focusing on the question
- Reminds participants to jot down key connections, ideas, discoveries and deeper questions as they emerge.
- Briefly shares key insights from the prior conversation so others can link and build using ideas from their respective tables.
- Records ideas for submission at the end of the café process

42. World Café Process
You will be invited to join any table, and will engage in several progressive rounds of dialogue for minutes.
Record your own ideas and thinking by jotting down words or creating visuals on a placement provided or notes pages.
After the first conversation, all of the members of the group, except for the table host, will carry the key ideas, themes, and questions to another table.

43. Conversations 2 & 3
Conversation 2 – the host summarizes the key ideas from the previous conversation, and invites the members of the table to a) do a brief sharing of the essence of their previous conversations and b) build on those conversations.
Conversation 3 – repeats the process. The intent in each of the subsequent conversations is to listen carefully and build on each others’ contributions.

44. Café Etiquette Author: The World Café Community
Set the Context
Create Hospitable Spaces
Explore Questions that Matter
Encourage Everyone’s Contribution
Connect Diverse Perspectives
Listen Together for patterns and insights
Share Collective Discoveries
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45. Café Question Round 1 How does your council serve its membership?
What are all the ways it responds to member needs? Identify comprehensively!

46. Café Question Round 2
How does your council support engagement of its membership?
What are all the ways it encourages council members to volunteer or participate in council activity?

47. Café Question Round 3
What changes has your council made recently to support its members?
How can your council increase its relevance to members this year?

48. Creating Shared Meaning
Individually, consider what has emerged in your café conversations that has been most meaningful to you. In turn, share those thoughts with the other members of your group.

49. Concluding Comments
Thank you for ending your conversations and returning to your original seating in one minute please.

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51. Synthesizing Understanding
Share one key idea or understanding with the large group.
How might this process work be used with your council?

52. Thank you for your participation!
Next Steps:
Share new ideas with whole executive
Incorporate into a three year strategic plan
Create, build, sustain, maintain programs
Embrace change!

53. Closing notes
Collaboration and staff consultation time (at Barnett House, see reception for available staff)
PDAC registration ,
Program begins at 1900