Conference Sessions & Workshops
C2C 2020 features over 40 sessions and workshops to choose from!
Program of Sessions: Morning, October 23, 2020
All times are PDT
10:30 – 11:15 am | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Exploring Nature with iNaturalist | Neill McCallum | Richmond School District |
Empowering Students to Meet today’s Eco-Social Issues through Authentic Learning | Maureen Jack-LaCroix & Jake Hubley | Be the Change Earth Alliance |
Ecology and Colour in 1m2: A Remotely Taught Place-based Activity | Lee Beavington & Amy Huestis |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University/Simon Fraser University |
Outdoor Learning Choice Boards: Offering Choice and Autonomy for the Remote and Hybrid Learner | Alexa Charles | School District 43 (Coquitlam) |
Music Education through an Indigenous Lens | Corry Climenhage & Ellie Peters |
School District 28 (Quesnel) |
Elders’ Outdoor Education Camp | Carrie Krenzler & Kairyn Russell Janecke |
School District 57 (Prince George) |
Sharing Early Years Wisdom as a Community of Practice | Samantha Zaytsoff, Naomi Ross & Heather Broad |
Kootenay Kids Society, West Kootenay Child Care Resource and Referral |
Land Based Libraries: Our Stories Live Here | Mardelle Sauerborn | School District 5 (Southeast Kootenay) |
Student-led Learning with the Land as the Teacher | Mia Moutray | School District 91 (Nechako Lakes) |
11:30 – 12:15 pm | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Place in Your Face: Place Based Learning in the Fraser Canyon | Teresa Farrell & Paula Waatainen |
Vancouver Island University |
Indigenous Youth Working with Invasive Species | Willie Poll | Invasive Species Council of BC |
A Pedagogy in Place: Place-based Education in SD57 | Vanessa Elton | School District 57 (Prince George) |
Facilitating Outdoor, Place-based Learning through Clear yet Concise Planning and Policy Advocacy | Frances McCoubrey & Ryan Barfoot |
School District 27 (Cariboo-Chilcotin), EEPSA |
Environmental Stewardship in our Urban Forest: Walking the Talk | Bree Greve & Chantelle DesLauriers |
City of Surrey |
A Path for the Future to Reduce Fossil Fuel Emissions | Brian Pataky | School District 57 (Prince George); Al Gore Climate Leadership Group |
Stories of Place- Connecting to Community and Land through Story | Gillian Petrini, Dayna Christ Rowling & Lisa Lockerbie | Salish Sea EEPSA chapter |
An Introduction to Place-based Education in the New Curriculum | Jonathan Dyck & Laura Jackman |
EEPSA |
Risky Learning: the Significance of Practical Wisdom in Outdoor Learning | Megan Zeni & Hartley Banack | UBC Faculty of Education |
10:30 – 12:15pm | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Teachings from the Land: Exploring Ancient Technologies in Modern Classrooms | Janey Chang | Janey Chang Art + Ancestral Skills |
Honouring Ways of Knowing in a Virtual Learning Environment | Lauren Hudson | Ocean Networks Canada |
Imagining Innovative Watershed Learning Journeys: Lessons from the Columbia Basin | Graeme Lee Rowlands, Monica Nissen, Sanne van der Ros, Grace Broadfoot & Ali Giesbrecht | Wildsight |
Design Thinking for a More Sustainable Future | Katarina Smith | UBC Geering Up Engineering Outreach |
Place-Based Learning in a Pandemic: Hybrid Approaches to Facilitating High-Impact Experiences | Yvonne Dawydiak, Teresa Rowley & Patrick Robertson | UBC Faculty of Education |
Balhats/Potlach System in Dakelh Territories: Roles and Responsibilities | Francois Prince | Neyu Professional Services |
“How Do We Know?” – Taking Secondary Science Outside | Deneen Sawchuk & Sherrie Pearce | School District 57 (Prince George) |
Program of Sessions: Afternoon, October 23, 2020
1:00 – 1:45 pm | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Citizen Science in the Classroom | Christina Chowaniec | NatureKids BC |
Taking the Elementary Science Curriculum Outside | Linda Out, Monica Nissen & Megan Jamison | School District 8 (Kootenay Lake) |
Place-Based Learning as the Ecoguardian at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve | Nick Townley | TREK (VSB), EEPSA, C2C, and OCC |
Wellness Wheel | Francois Prince | Neyu Professional Services |
Integrating BC Indigenous Languages (& Culture) into your Classrooms! | Jennifer Pighin | School District 57 (Prince George) |
Ocean Literacy Stories from the Pacific Region | David Zandvliet & Lilia Yumagulova |
SFU Education |
Place-Based Mental Health: Context Responsive Teacher Intervision Groups | Shirley Giroux | School District 57 (Prince George) |
Online Approaches: Sparking Student Engagement through Online and Place-based Activities | Mike Irvine | Live It |
2:00 – 2:45pm | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Local Chapters of EEPSA: Collaborating for Change | Selina Metcalfe | School District 36 (Surrey), EEPSA, C2C |
Developing Salmon-based Educational Programs in the Shuswap | Molly Cooperman & Brenda Melnychuk |
The Adams River Salmon Society |
Conceptualizing, Theorizing and Disrupting the Individual-Collective Dialectic in Transformative Learning | Rob VanWynsberghe | UBC |
Northern Lessons – Outdoor Kindergarten | Tanya Margerm | School District 54 (Bulkley Valley) |
FPPL: Bring the Poster with You! | Sylvie de Grandpre | School District 5 (Southeast Kootenay); University of Lethbridge |
Learning in the 4 Directions: Why Ceremony is Important For Right Relationship |
Imani Miller | School District 57 (Prince George) |
Place-Responsiveness: Connecting Place, Culture and Community to our Teaching Practice | Karen Andrews | School District 82 (Coast Mountain) |
Guidelines to working with Dakelh Elders and Knowledge Holders in Education | Ruby Prince | Neyu Professional Service |
Climate Change Action in Public Education – What do the students want? | Frances McCoubrey Ella Kruus Julia Zirnhelt Aja Hinecker Carter Sampson Caitlyn McCarville |
School District 57 (Prince George) |
1:00 – 2:45pm | ||
Session Title | Presenters/Facilitators | Organization |
Inspiring Student EnvironMentors, via Songwriting and Recording, Storytelling and Video-making! | Remy Rodden & Peter Lenton | Remy Rodden Music and Song & Puffin Productions |
Connecting Kids to Place with Risky Play | Megan Zeni | School District 38 (Richmond) |
Council of All Beings: Nature Identity and Environmental Awareness | Sanne van der Ros | Independent Presenter |
Coming Back to Life: The Moral Imagination as Ethical Practice | Hilary Leighton | Royal Roads University |
Acknowledging and Repairing Relations with our Wild, Native and Medicinal Plants | Lori Snyder | Earth and Company |
Learning on the Land/Water: Territory, Culture, Community and K-12 Curriculum | Zahra Remtulla, Deanna Duncan, Vern Brown & Roberta Duncan | Nature United |
BC Tomorrow – Investigating Watershed Sustainability using Interactive Technology | Dave Ramsay & Karen Wilson | BC Tomorrow |