The Time Has Arrived = Structured Math + Structured Literacy - 2 day event
About this Event
DAY 1 (October 22) - STRUCTURED LITERACY
DAY 2 (October 23) - STRUCTURED MATH
2 EXCITING DAYS OF STRUCTURED MATH AND STRUCTURED LITERACY PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS - WITH FOLLOW UP virtual SESSIONS for Math and Literacy.
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. We cannot guarantee quality of online sessions or the recordings. We will live-stream the event via zoom link provided a few days before event. LINK CANNOT BE SHARED. Interaction with online attendees will be limited. Workshop will focus on in-person attendees.
ATTEND ONE OR BOTH DAYS - ONLINE (RECORDINGS AVAILABLE) OR IN-PERSON
Agenda
🕑: 08:45 AM - 09:00 AM
OCTOBER 22 Day 1 Welcome to MTS PD Day
Info: Welcome to our 2 day MTS PD Day even from Dr. Valdine Bjornson (President)
🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Oct 22 Day 1 - Manitoba Human Rights Commission -Right to Read Report
Host: Manitoba Human Rights Commission
Info: Manitoba Human Rights Commission will outline the final report about the right to read. Karen Sharma (Manitoba Human Rights Commission Director) will review the final report of the MHRC Right to Read Report
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Oct 22 Day 1 Dr. Amy Desroches - Dyslexia and Cognitive Psychology Research
Host: Dr. Amy Desroches
Info: With follow-up sessions
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Oct 22 Day1 Conversation to Classroom: Sunrise SD’s EY Literacy Journey
Host: Trevor Reid
Info: Sunrise School Division’s early years literacy journey began with collaborative conversations to build a shared vision for improving student outcomes. This led to changes in classroom practice and the creation of a divisional literacy committee to guide and support the work.
Classrooms now reflect an approach that combines explicit instruction in foundational literacy skills with opportunities for student choice and engagement. Screening tools, diagnostics, and ongoing progress monitoring are used to inform instruction and support each learner’s growth.
With literacy support teachers in every school, educators receive ongoing coaching and collaboration. This cohesive, structured, and student-centered approach ensures all Sunrise students are supported on their path to becoming confident, successful readers.
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:45 PM
Oct 22 Day 1 Differentiating ELL from SLD - Language + Literacy Unite
Host: Dr. Valdine Bjornson
Info: Teaching middle years + multilingual learners is both rewarding and complex. As students continue to develop academic language and literacy skills, it can be challenging to determine whether a learner is experiencing typical language development or may need additional support. This session invites educators into a thoughtful and supportive conversation about understanding students more deeply. Educators will be introduced to practical classroom strategies that can be used immediately to support instruction and guide conversations with support teams. Kim Hewlett Plurilingual Education Consultant and Dr. Valdine Bjornson Divisional Reading Clinician
🕑: 08:45 AM - 08:50 AM
OCTOBER 23 Day 2 Welcome MTS PD Day
Info: Welcome to our 2 day MTS PD Day even from Dr. Valdine Bjornson (President)
🕑: 08:50 AM - 09:15 AM
Oct 23 From the Science of Reading to the Science of Mathematics Education
Host: Dr. Anna Stokke
Info: From the Science of Reading to the Science of Mathematics Education: Why Math Deserves its Own Evidence Revolution: The science of reading is reshaping literacy instruction across much of the English-speaking world, although these changes are in the early stages in much of Canada. Mathematics has not received the same attention, but a substantial body of research on math learning points to the same instructional principles that underpin the science of reading. They share details about work underway at La Trobe University in Australia, where evidence-informed mathematics teaching is gaining attention, following on the heels of successful reading reforms. They stress that evidence-informed mathematics instruction benefits all students, but particularly those who struggle the most, and make the case that math deserves the same urgency and scrutiny as reading.
🕑: 09:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Oct 23 Day 2 Dr. Benjamin Solomon Getting Math Right
Host: Dr. Benjamin Solomon
Info: Evidence-Based Foundations for Assessment and Instruction
We’ll introduce foundational math assessment practices supported by rigorous evidence, including curriculum-based measurement; principles of effective math intervention within the context of the instructional hierarchy; and review major instructional myths in math that have been shown to result in student anxiety and struggle.
Follow Up:
Instructional Decision-Making in Math: Classwide and Individual Screening and Progress Monitoring
Designing Classwide Fluency Routines to Build Foundational Mastery
Intensifying Instruction in Math: Using the Science of Learning to Design Intervention
🕑: 12:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Oct 23 Day 2 Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden
Host: Dr. Amanda Van Der Heyden
Info: The frameworks of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Response to Intervention (RTI), the Science of Reading and the Science of Math are all logically and empirically connected, grounded in the same science. The connecting thread is the science of learning. Learning is not something that magically emerges as a result of student discovery. Rather, learning is an outcome that is engineered by teachers when they use the science of learning to plan and deliver their instruction. MTSS is a structure to improve learning at scale by bringing more effective instruction to students. This session will detail key scientific findings pertinent to assessment, instruction, and MTSS in math. Attendees will take away tactics to try right away in their own settings and web-based resources to start their own work to adopt science-based math instruction within their MTSS structures. Free print and video resources will be provided.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Oct 23 Dr. Stephanie Bugden - Dyscalculia
Host: Dr. Stephanie Bugden
ON DEMAND Day 2 Marilyn Zecher M.A., CALT prerecording
Host: Marilyn Zecher
Info: Why Some Students Struggle with Math and What We Can Do
About It.
Difficulties with math can be caused by many factors: a lack of
effective instruction resulting in unfinished learning, missed school
during crucial concept delivery, and especially challenges based on
learning disabilities- either identified or not. There are many
neurocognitive processes which can impact the acquisition of and
memory for concepts and skills. We will identify some of these
reasons and suggest specific ideas for addressing them. We have
believed in some specific strategies for years, some of which have
been challenged and are now being validated by research. Additional
strategies to mitigate deficits are coming to light even today. This
presentation will review some of the reasons we see struggles and
ways we can support all learners to become successful. Part of our
focus will be on the Science of Learning and how we can utilize it to
foster independence in mathematics.
Dr. Benjamin Solomon - FOLLOW UP SESSIONS 2026-27 online
Host: Dr. Benjamin Solomon
Info: 1.Instructional Decision-Making in Math: Classwide and Individual Screening and Progress Monitoring
2. Designing Classwide Fluency Routines to Build Foundational Mastery
3. Intensifying Instruction in Math: Using the Science of Learning to Design Intervention. DATE TBD
Dr. Amy Desroches - FOLLOW UP SESSIONS 2026-27 - blended
Host: Dr. Amy Desroches
Info: Neuroscience in Education - What we can learn from the neuroscience to inform our structured literacy practice.
Dr. Valdine Bjornson -FOLLOW UP SESSIONS 2026-27 STRUCTURED WRITING - blended
Host: Dr. Valdine Bjornson
Info: AI + Grammar INFUSED with Content. Using AI to leverage our ELA time with content area topics. The best way to support our LD students, and all students, is to combine literacy skill development using content area themes which provides repeated exposure to vocabulary and written composition skills (grammar). Come prepared to use AI, identify specific Curriculum topics for your context, and ready to write! Dr. Bjornson will describe a Grammar Residency which supported grade 4 + students with written composition from words to sentences to paragraphs structure and syntax. The grammar instruction is infused with content area themes of participating classrooms using AI. This session is a workshop geared to create materials as we proceed through the scope and sequence of this Structured Writing initiative. Follow-Up sessions offered
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
CAD 6.73 to CAD 204.09
