Regina+Public

=The Quick and Dirty= 20,000 students 1300 teachers 2300 employees in schools 10 high schools, 50 elementary schools Key issues: student learning, professional development/support, changing demographics and declining enrollment, building school-based leadership teams, aging infrastructure and teacher workforce, funding shortfalls =The Burning Questions=
 * Suggested Issues/Topics for Conversation**

How can ICT be used to design, “deliver” and evaluate effective programs of professional learning?

How to overcome the tendency of teachers and admin to view PD as perks, flavour of the month and top-down, sit-and-get, pull-out events?

Assessment literacy among teachers, how to foster and grow it?

Overcoming the tendency of educators to view assessment for learning as the "enemy"?

How to work with admin to prevent good ideas from becoming Flavours of the Month?

Building authentic PLCs—not housebroken, top-down or counterfeit versions?

ICT to support student learning?

Aboriginal education Integrating (infusing) First Nations and Métis content and perspective into curricula and across curricula? Anti-racist, multicultural (anti-oppressive) education for teachers and schools?

Ways of organizing consultant teams by purpose and function rather than curriculum subject areas—with the focus on student and teacher learning?

How do school systems address the increasing diversity of students?

How can urban and rural consultants support one another?

With the inclusion model for at-risk/high need students, what is the role of the LRT and how is his/her expertise helping to support classroom teachers and students?

In a rapidly changing technological society, what PD models and school/classroom settings are making a difference in student learning?

In what ways are teachers encouraged/supported to grow professionally in order to better meet the growing demands and diversity of the classroom?