Participants
All British Columbia public and independent school K-8 educators, school and district administrators, district literacy leads, directors, and superintendents.
Registration cost is FREE thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre.
Deadline: Friday, October 4th for all participants
Program Focus
- Grounded in EDIDA frameworks and work
- Differentiated instruction
- Based in best-practice multiliteracy and multimodality pedagogy
- Delivered through the progression of literacy stages (Introduction to Multiliteracies and Multimodalities, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Transitional, Fluent, Bringing it altogether) and big ideas
- Modeling best practice literacy instruction using explicit scenarios, case studies, exemplars and examples, anchor texts, and delivered by expert(s) in the area.
Culturally Responsive AI integration for teaching and learning, and planning and assessment practices - Repository of Resources (OER)
Skills and Competencies
- Expand educator expertise in critical literacy instruction
- Network with professionals across the province
- Become familiar with critically responsive resources (i.e., AI tools and Generative AI)
- Build metacognitive reflexivity and responsivity to provincial, local and personal contexts
- Gain greater understanding of the progression of multiliteracy competencies
*Successful completion will result in a collaborative school board and University of British Columbia certificate and faculty written letter of support.
Information for Literacy Leads
Literacy leads will support the program by:
- Onboarding stakeholders from their district/school team, following up with implementation in classrooms, and providing updates about team successes
- Leading their literacy team through sessions
- Coordinating collaborative meeting spaces for synchronous sessions and asynchronous discussion forums and online conversations
- Providing feedback to the facilitators to ensure responsive execution of content
- Participating in synchronous online meetings, please see schedule below for meeting dates
- Participating in focus groups and data collection
- Coordinating sharing of literacy learning journey at July 3rd celebration
Synchronous Online Dates
| Date | Time (PT) | Module | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 17 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module One | Prioritizing and Positioning Multiliteracies |
| November 7 | 3:45 – 5:00pm | Literacy Leads Meeting | For Literacy Leads Only |
| November 21 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Two | Emergent Literacy |
| January 9 | 3:45 – 5:00pm | Literacy Leads Meeting | For Literacy Leads Only |
| January 23 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Three | Early Literacy |
| February 6 | 3:45 – 5:00pm | Literacy Leads Meeting | For Literacy Leads Only |
| February 20 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Four | Transitional Literacy |
| April 10 | 3:45 – 5:00pm | Literacy Leads Meeting | For Literacy Leads Only |
| April 24 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Five | Fluency |
| May 8 | 3:45 – 5:00pm | Literacy Leads Meeting | For Literacy Leads Only |
| May 22 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Six | Bringing it Together |
| July 3 | 3:30 – 5:00pm | Module Seven | Share-out and Celebration (In person at UBC Vancouver Campus AND hybrid) |
*Participants must attend all sessions and contribute to all asynchronous follow-up activities.
A partnership between UBC and West Vancouver Schools.
