As more schools refer to students learning English as MLL’s and less direct support is provided, teachers require new strategies and lines of thinking to support their language learners.

On tonight's panel:

Valentina Gonzalez @ValentinaESL
Melinda Miller
Carol Salva @DrCarolSalva

Inclusive assessment is about more than evaluating students. It is an approach to teaching and assessment that helps students learn and grow.

On tonight's panel:

Radhika Bhatt
Rola Tibshirani @rolat
Derrick Schellenberg @Mr_Schellenberg

The Not Just a Green Summit was a successful learning experience that continues, and we are thrilled to have the organizers and some of the presenters here to share a bit about this event that keeps on giving.

On tonight's panel:

Erika Sandstrom @GreenScreenGal
Tricia Fuglestad @triciafuglestad
Celeste Endo @celyendo
Amanda Fox @AmandaFoxSTEM
Jessica Winston @mzjwinst

Promoting the power of visual literacy and how it connects to DigCitSDGs. Noa Daniel welcomes:

Leanne Lavender @LeeanneLavender
Katie McNamara @KatieJMcNamara
Ivy Yan @Ivy_TwoBirdsEdu

Focus is the thinking skill that allows people to begin a task and maintain their attention. It helps them manage distractions and sustain the effort and energy they need to complete a task or reach a goal. We are talking about a tool to help with that called Focusable on tonight’s OnEdMentors.

Gathered for this week’s conversation:

Brian Lamb @blambroll
Sara Candela @scandela9

Pedagogical documentation is a way to capture student learning, but how they do that in the early years can teach educators of all grades a lot about assessment as, of, and for learning. In this episode, Noa Daniel (@iamnoadaniel) welcomes a dynamic panel of educators to talk about pedagogical documentation:

Michelle McKay @MsMichelleMcKay
Klara Redford @kindyfriends
Dianne Riehl @DianneRiehl
Marcia Nicole @lspyredu

Another OnEdMentors season begins with a panel exploring the idea of mentorability and its role for preservice and practising educators.


Host Noa Daniel welcomes:

Teri Rubinoff (@TeriRubinoff)
Victoria Black (@victoriagblack1)
Carol Doyle Jones (@caroldoylejones)
Tracy Crowe (@tracy_tcrowe)

A lot has evolved at The Mentoree this year. This is our state of The Mentoree episode - a chance to look back at how we’ve evolved this year and some thoughts on where we want to go next.

Tonight's panelists:

Teri Rubinoff @TeriRubinoff
Christine Chin @MmeChinFSL
Marcia Nicole @Ispyredu

Some educators retire, and they actually cease work. Others find the freedom to work in new ways with more autonomy over their time and their direction. The term rewirement has become more popular, and we have committed and retired educators here to talk about their retirement gigs.

Tonight’s panelists include:

Doug Peterson @dougpete
Karen Friedman @KarenFriedman
Peter LeBlanc @LeBlancPeter
Kathy Lott @kathylott

Education is a provincial government responsibility in Canada. In Ontario, education is governed principally by the Education Act and its regulations which set out duties and responsibilities of the Minister of Education and of school boards, school board supervisory officers, principals, teachers, parents and students.

Education is paid for by Ontario's taxpayers through both property taxes and government grants. The amount of funding that each school board receives is based on a provincial funding formula which includes a range of factors that reflect the circumstances of each board. Education is the second largest portion (after Health) of the Ontario government's budget.

Tonight's panelists include:

Stephen Hurley @stephen_hurley
Jason Lay @jlay02
Michael Foley @mrmichaelfoley