SESSION 1  

Session 1A

All Ages

Employment Law Update for Christian Schools (2025 Edition)

There have been a number of recent developments in Ontario employment laws – both statutes and caselaw – including with respect to employment standards, health and safety, and caselaw. This seminar will help you understand the updates and their significance for your school.

Presenter: Adrian Miedema Partner, Dentons Canada LLP

Session 1B

All Ages

Understanding Individual Differences: Personality Style

Discover your personality style and understand the style of others for developing and enhancing relationships with coworkers, parents, and students. Growth in our understanding of ourselves, impacts our relationships which in turn improves communication, reduces conflict, and increases our ability to connect with others.

Objectives:

• Participants will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their personality style and the style of others to move toward "appreciating".
• Participants will apply their understanding of the different personality styles and their interactions to work through a scenario.
• Participants will analyze the ways personality style affects communication.

Session 1C

Elementary + Junior 

5 ways students can integrate AI into their assignments

A CEO with 4,500 employees recently said, “We stopped hiring a year ago because AI can already do all of the jobs.” How will schools prepare for this new AI-dominated job market? What jobs will even exist when your students graduate? If your schools’ mandate is to prepare students for the real world, a.k.a. “make a living”, are you doing that in this new AI world or are you teaching out-of-date methodologies?

Presenter:  Michael Clarke, CEO - Christian Ai Training

Session 1D

Infants/Toddlers + Preschool/Kindergarten + Elementary/Junior

Observation: How We Learn About Our Students

Spending time watching children play provides so much information about their interests, their strengths, and their fears. Let’s spend time exploring how to gather information, why it matters and what to do with our findings.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to enjoy watching children learn and choose a recording system for collecting this information.
• Participants will be able to see patterns in interactions with other children and recognize early warning signs of potential learning struggles.
• Participants will reflect on their observations and develop next steps to assist the growth of the children.
• Participants will learn the importance of sharing the findings and the reflections with the child’s parents.

Presenter: Kim Brucker, Early Ed Senior Coordinator, ACSI (Retired)

SESSION 2   

Session 2A

Preschool/Kindergarten + Elementary/Junior

Unlocking Learning: Supporting Students with Auditory Memory Challenges

Explore how auditory memory dysfunctions can affect students’ attentiveness and learning in the classroom. From difficulty following multi-step instructions to retaining verbal content, these challenges can often be misunderstood or overlooked. Join Matthew Turton, Educational Therapist with over 20,000 hours working with children with learning challenges and dive into practical ways teachers can recognize the signs and discuss actionable strategies to support your students.

Session 2B

All Ages

Understanding Individual Differences: Motivational Gifts

Identify the innate gifts that motivate you and recognize those gifts in your students in order to encourage their expression. Learn how to create an environment in your classroom that makes everyone feel accepted and eager to share.

Objectives:

• Participants will determine their motivational gifts.
• Participants will examine the seven motivational gifts and how they operate.
• Participants will analyze ways they can motivate each of their students according to their gifts.

Presenter:   Dr. Cindy Barnum, ACSI Early Education Senior Coordinator, Eastern Division, U.S.A.

Session 2C

All Ages 

5 ways teachers can use AI to do their important work faster, better, easier and cheaper

It’s 2025. Are you leveraging AI helping you with some of the heavy lifting? How can you leverage tech on a shoestring budget?

Presenter: Michael Clarke, CEO - Christian Ai Training

Session 2D

All Ages

Communicating Effectively with Parents and Fellow Staff

Everyday you have the daily challenge of ensuring an effective and positive / constructive communication between you, your fellow staff and all those parents and families that that attend your program or Centre. To communicate positively and respectfully it takes tact and patience and the ability to remain truly professional at all times. This webinar outlines solutions and tools for making sure that how we communicate, and handle situations will always serve the children’s best interests and that with exemplary inter-personal communication skills we will achieve the supportive and welcoming environment everyone needs and deserves.

Presenter: Michael Lewis, Motivation & Development, Michael Lewis Training

SESSION 3 

Session 3B

All Ages

One of These Days…

How often have you started a sentence with words like this? This snappy and informative presentation digs down deep and uncovers the mysteries of procrastination. We’ll examine all you need to know about procrastination, and I provide potent solutions and good advice to overcome this time wasting, unproductive, life stealing habit ! Remember, procrastinating a task squanders our valuable time and often makes things worse, but tacking procrastination, with a plan of action can be not only a productive and rewarding activity, but it can also be a truly empowering experience that can lift you up and inspire you to do more and be more.

Presenter: Michael Lewis, Motivation & Development, Michael Lewis Training

Session 3C

Preschool/Kindergarten + Elementary/Junior

Reading Disabilities: The Missing Link for Grades K through 4

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.  Come and discover with Matthew Turton, Director of Breakthroughs in Learning how to identify and improve eye tracking in your classroom.

Presenter: Matthew Turton, Director, Breakthroughs in Learning

Session 3D

Infants/Toddlers + Preschool/Kindergarten + Elementary/Junior

Teaching Young Children Self-Awareness

• Participants will review how each person is created uniquely.
• Participants will be able to identify their interests or how they learn.
• Participants will acquire tools to use with children so they can learn to express their emotions.
• Participants will learn how their feelings impact their actions.

Presenter: Kim Brucker, Early Ed Senior Coordinator, ACSI (Retired)