Registration Fees:
$65 per person for member schools
$110 per person for non-member schools
SESSION 1 - 9:15-10:15 AM
Session 1A
All Ages
Employment Law: Updates for Christian Schools
This seminar will update Christian school administrators on human rights issues, wrongful dismissal cases and amendments to employment standards and occupational health and safety laws.
Presenter: Adrian Miedema, Dentons Canada LLP
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Session 1B
Kindergarten + Elementary
Full Steam Ahead
Do you struggle to come up with resources and approaches that help to foster and support STEAM curriculum for your students? This funshop will introduce you to a lot of ideas that will use free or low cost materials and resources that will support the needs and curiosities of the school-age children in your programs. Ideas such as electrical circuits, coding, engineering, and creative art activities will be explored.
Presenter: Alan Thomson, Digital Literacy Facilitator
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Session 1C
Kindergarten + Elementary
Reading Disabilities: The Missing Link
The number one cause of reading difficulties often hides behind confusing symptoms and frequently continues into adulthood. It's difficult to detect, often misdiagnosed and many times the child doesn't even know there's a problem. Poor Eye Tracking leads to slow reading, skipping words, reversing letters, avoiding reading, poor coordination and more.
Presenter: Matthew Turton, Breakthroughs in Learning
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Session 1D
Kindergarten/Preschool
Action, Activity and the Bible
This session will
provide some "starter seeds" for bringing Bible lessons alive with everyday items and
easy activities you'll be able to use right away.
Presenter: Diana Loach, Christian Educational Ministry
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SESSION 2 - 10:25-11:25 AM
Session 2A
Toddler + Kindergarten
How to Calm Down: Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
A Guide to Supporting Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with big feelings. Attend this
webinar to learn strategies at each age to support children with self/co-regulation skills,
as well as self-calming strategies for when teachers are overwhelmed!
Presenter: Christian Gogos, Assistant Director N'sheemaehn UTSC
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Session 2B
All Ages
The Power of Passion: How to Re-ignite your Career and Purpose
As with all careers, there are many changes that affect us and new challenges that can distract from our original excitement and enthusiasm for our work. Our work has a greater purpose and meaning in the lives of the children and parents we touch daily. And like all careers there can be burn out and creative / emotional fatigue. This is all about you and revitalizing and renewing your passion for your career.
Presenter: Michael Lewis, Motivational Leader
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Session 2C
Kindergarten + Elementary
How Memory Works and How to Develop It
Memory is perhaps our most important cognitive skill, critical for all forms of learning. Many struggling learners will have problems with at least one of their memories. Matthew
Turton will share about six different types of memory, how they impact learning and daily
life and what you can do to develop these critical skills.
Presenter: Matthew Turton, Breakthroughs in Learning
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Session 2D
All Ages
For the Bible Tells Me So: Is it Still?
Young learners need to see how issues of Faith integrate into everyday situations. Together, we'll look at how to bring Bible truths into basic teaching situations and
practical application.
Presenter: Diana Loach, Christian Educational Ministry
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SESSION 3 - 11:35 AM-12:35 PM
Session 3A
Toddler + Kindergarten
Re-Introducing Families in a Post-COVID Climate
For the past few years, relationships have taken a back seat to safety. How can we extend compassion to new parents who brought their children into the world during COVID and make their child's first introduction into the world a positive one?
Presenter: Christian Gogos, Assistant Director N'sheemaehn UTSC
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Session 3B
All Ages
How to Make Things Right When Things Go Wrong
When things are said, feelings are hurt, and healing isn’t optional supervisors and managers must take on the pivotal role of mending fences and building bridges. But
where to start? And what questions must be asked and answered before, during and after an issue or incident. Rebuilding trust and working through anger means being skilled and patient, firm and understanding and above all… caring enough for wounded
parties to heal and move on.
Presenter: Michael Lewis, Motivational Leader
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Session 3C
All Ages
Getting Back to Fun: Art, the Great Outdoors and Science!
How do we "recapture" the amount of fun we had with the children we had pre-March 2020? In this funshop, Alan will share ideas and activities from his presentations over the last 20 years
that will help to get FUN back on track, and help to inspire the return of awe and amazement in our learning environments.
Presenter: Alan Thomson, Digital Literacy Facilitator
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Session 3D
All Ages
Bullying: How to Create a School Environment So We All Feel Safe!
Explore how to create a school environment so that we are all safe!
Explore how to create a school environment so that we are all safe!
Presenter: Mollie Sitwell, Plan to Protect
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PRESENTER BIOS
Adrian Miedema
Lawyer for Dentons Canada LLPSession 1A
Employment Law: Updates for Christian Schools
Adrian Miedema is a partner with the global law firm, Dentons Canada LLP, in Toronto. He has more than twenty years of experience practising employment, health and safety and human rights law. Adrian is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in the area of Labour and Employment Law, listed as “repeatedly recommended” in The Canadian Legal Expert Directory as one of Canada’s leading lawyers in the area of Occupational Health and Safety, and also listed in Legal 500. He advises and represents employers in a wide range of sectors and industries. Adrian is the co-author of three books on employment law topics and has been an adjunct professor of Employment Law at Western University.
Alan Thomson
Digital Literacy Facilitator
Session 1B
Full Steam Ahead
Getting Back to Fun: Art, the Great Outdoors and Science!
Alan Thomson has worked in child care and before and after school age programs for 30 years, as both a front line staff and a supervisor. He believes simple programming is the cornerstone of a successful program. Everyone can remember themselves or a child who liked to play more with the box than the present that came in it. In his fun shops Alan likes to explores creative ways to get the most “use of the box” in simple, low cost, and creative ways.
Christian Gogos
Assistant Director, N'sheemaehn UTSC
Session 2A
How to Calm Down: Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Re-Introducing Families in a Post COVID Climate
Christian is the Assistant Director at N'sheemaehn Child Care Centre at the University of Toronto. She has a diploma in ECE as well as a certificate in adult education and staff management, and is working toward her undergraduate degree in child and youth study through Mount St. Vincent University. She is passionate about how Early Childhood Educators can create peaceful, warm, and kind environments for children and families and is very excited to be here with you today!
Diana Loach
Christian Educational Ministry
Session 1D
Action, Activity and the Bible
For the Bible Tells Me So: Is it Still?
Diana Loach is a Family Ministry Animator. Serving in various capacities for over 40 years in children and family ministries, she is excited at the possibilities of current trends brought about because of the pandemic. Diana’s favourite moments in ministry are watching for “lightbulb moments” as people realize how much they are loved by God or a Biblical truth. During the Christmas lockdown of 2020, Diana rediscovered her joy of Crepe Paper flower artistry. She is married to Jeff Loach, Pastor at St. Paul’s Nobleton.
Matthew Turton
Director, Breakthroughs in Learning
Session 1C
Reading Disabilities: The Missing Link
How Memory Works and How to Develop It
Matthew Turton is the Director of Breakthroughs in Learning. At 11 years old, while struggling to overcome his own learning disabilities, Matthew already knew what he wanted to do with his life – he wanted to help other people know they weren’t dumb. He became an Educational Therapist, an International Best Selling author, a husband and a father. Matthew has logged over 15,000 hours working with children and adults with learning disabilities and will share his experiences and what it’s like on both sides of learning disabilities.
Michael Lewis
Motivational Leader
Session 2B
The Power of Passion: How to Re-ignite your Career and Purpose
How to Make Things Right When Things Go Wrong
Michael Lewis is one of Ontario’s most experienced speakers having spoken and
presented around 6000 times in a career spanning just over four decades. Born, raised, and educated in London, Ontario with a BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1980, he is passionate about positivity and sharing common sense success strategies for personal and professional growth and development. His enthusiastic and ebullient presentation style has delighted, and inspired audiences and he speaks sincerely from the heart. He often says, “I love what I do and do what I love and if you love what you do, then life is a joyous experience!”. Since 1994, Michael has presented hundreds of seminars, workshops and team building sessions and now, webinars, to the childcare community all across Ontario. He loves inspiring excellence in educators and supervisors as they do such important work daily in educating, empowering, and fostering the hearts and minds of children. Before, during and through the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael has seen educators as the lamps that light the way ahead and it is a privilege and honour to provide solutions and motivation to a proud and important profession.
Mollie Sitwell
Plan to Protect
Session 3D
Bullying: How to Create a School Environment So We All Feel Safe!
Mollie Sitwell the Program Lead for Training for Plan to Protect® and is an effective educator, a seasoned facilitator, and a life-long learner. Mollie works tirelessly at making a meaningful difference in the lives of those she is blessed to know and meet. Driven by her love for people, she enjoys the on-going relationships that she has with many colleagues and students – past and present. As a workshop facilitator, Mollie is excited to draw from her rich experiences, education, and acquired knowledge base to help other people and organizations move forward during this unprecedented time. Educationally, Mollie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, and a Bachelor of Education degree from Queen’s University. She is a certified teacher with the Ontario College of Teachers and has recently earned a Human Resources Post Graduate Diploma from Loyalist College. She is also slowly working at attaining her Masters in Theological Studies through Tyndale University and Seminary. Mollie, and her husband Craig, have raised three amazing daughters into adulthood. Just over a year ago, she and Craig moved to Toronto to live with and care for her aging mother. One of the many benefits of this is that she now lives walking distance from her one and a half year old granddaughter, whom she sees several times a week!
