Dr. Vriend shares that stress is healthy and has fewer negative outcomes. We are rethinking stress. The balancing beam overestimates the bad and underestimates our ability to cope. Balancing is being realistic with expectations. Better coping opportunities. Aggressive state can be an overreaction. The nervous system is on overdrive: flight-responsive avoidance or withdrawal, anxiety, anger aggression, irritability, and body hyperactivity. Ideas to empower students include being involved in the plan. Listen to learn about managing emotions to differentiate between normal stress responses and trauma.

David McFall is a principal of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School in Gatineau, Quebec. How do we rethink schools? David sees the school through the students' eyes. He is an instructional leader focusing on project-based learning, play-based learning and community connections for educators and students' learning. Edutopia Links highlight the school's learning approaches. https://www.edutopia.org/school/pierre-elliott-trudeau-elementary-school

Jennifer Nieradka, a behaviourist Analyst with #OCSB @ocsbABA, shares Functions of Behaviour, reducing challenging behaviour through behaviour strategies and a skill-based approach. Listen to learn more about the 7 dimensions of #ABA to address behaviour that is observable, based on research. Goals have to be practical and meaningful for the students. The importance of the De-escalation plan to prioritize safety, relationships, Happy, Relaxed and Engaged in preventability as a starting point. Focus on the environmental variables for the learning context and identify the skills. #compasion #dignity #respect

Dr. Lyn Sharrat is a widely published researcher and author. She focuses her time and efforts on increasing each student’s growth and achievement by working alongside leaders and teachers to put FACES on their data, taking intentional action to make equity and excellence a reality for all students. Dr. Lyn Sharratt shares the importance of providing learning to everyone by ensuring where students are in our care in order for them to grow and lead.

Tom D'Amico, the Ottawa Catholic School Board director of education, shares that Iterative improvements are important to set yearly goals and improve yearly to continue learning. Transformative learning is important to challenge the status quo that is not serving everyone; the goal and the outcome are equality and social justice. Ethical leadership is important to have trust, support the dignity of every human being and create conditions to have a platform for all voices.

Livia has so much passion for leading with joy. Self-awareness is the foundation, and it is important to understand who you are, bringing strengths to anchor your values and beliefs. Believe in ourselves and meaningful connections, be compassionate leaders, and discover challenges as opportunities. Atomic interactions, small interactions of kindness, recognizing everyone, insightful reflections and emotional contagiousness for making a difference in people's lives.

Kim Lockhart shares the importance of the Science of Reading in a second language. The phonemic awareness of reading through all subjects in French and seeing learning through the Science of reading. Explicit instructions and explicit systematic instructions. Beefing up tier 1 instructions to the whole class is important. As educators, we need to give students more opportunities to practice.

The deep learning movement fosters all learners contributing to the common good. The progressions contribute to deep discussions used for peer assessment and self-assessment. The progressions are a way to anchor reflective conversation—a pedagogical transformation of a classroom culture where each student's voice is heard. The educators are adapting to the learning environment for stimulating learning through the 4 elements. Educators are learners who embed the experience to adapt when lessons are not working. They listen to the pros and cons, constantly observing and assessing themselves and their students. It is a continuous state of reflection. The educators admit that they don't know it all and that it is fine to be a co-learner, co-constructor, and co-designer to build authentic students' voices and agency. It is a messy shift for professional accelerations.

Sean Kelly is a superintendent of Intermediate and Secondary Student Success at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Sean shares the importance of building relationships through listening for deep learning. He emphasizes the importance of giving opportunities to educators to be creative and passionate by highlighting the process and the next steps. Leaders need to recognize what needs to be prioritized for the benefit of the schools and the system. When leaders are creative, they bring everyone else with their creativity.

With the learners, give them a chance to ask questions & listen to understand than to respond! The curriculum goes hand in hand with building relationships & connections with the students. "Your story is the Soul in each lesson," centering students' voices & stories. Building with them learning based on their voices by tailoring & tweaking activities & tasks, is a vulnerable part of education, not just how, but the WHY.
Getting to the why of learning tasks, what are the connections between the task to move students forward?

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