British Columbia
School Superintendents
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11 am – 2 pm
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Professional Development Committee Meeting
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4 – 6 pm
6 – 8 pm
7 – 9 pm
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Early conference registration (Upper Lobby, Empress)
Membership Committee Meeting
Professional Development Committee Meeting
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All sessions at the Victoria Conference Centre, Level 2
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7 – 8:30 am
7:15 – 8:15 am
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Registration
Breakfast
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8:30 am
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Conference opening and welcome
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8:45 - 11:30 am
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PLENARY 1: Valerie Hannon
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10 – 10:20 am
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Nutrition Break
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11:30 am – 1 pm
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Lunch (Crystal Ballroom, Empress)
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1:15 - 4 pm
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PLENARY 2: Andy Hargreaves
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4 pm
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Conference Day One ends
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BCSSA Member-only events
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4:30 pm
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Annual General Meeting and President’s Reception
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All sessions at the Victoria Conference Centre, Level 2
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7:15 – 8:15 am
8:30 – 9 am
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Breakfast
TBA
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9 – 11:30 am
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PLENARY 3: TBA
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10 – 10:20 am
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Nutrition Break
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11:30 am – 1:00 pm
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Lunch (Crystal Ballroom, Empress)
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1:15 – 2:30 pm
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PLENARY 4: Carla and Eden Robinson
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2:45 pm
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Conference close
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Conference Presenters
VALERIE HANNON is the director of strategy for The Innovation Unit and has led its work in developing its role as an innovation intermediary, designing methods and approaches to build the innovative capacity of organizations in the public services. Formerly deputy director of education in Sheffield, she has worked in a broad range of local authorities, and was an advisor to the Local Government Association.
Before joining local government she was a senior research fellow in the University of Sheffield and a teacher. Valerie’s interests include the contribution of other sectors (particularly the creative, cultural and third sectors) to the transformation of public services in the 21st century; the role of leadership; and international approaches to these issues.
ANDY HARGREAVES is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Before this he was founder and co-director of the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). His doctorate is from Leeds in England where he also taught in several universities. His most recent books are Sustainable Leadership, with Dean Fink (JosseyBass/Wiley, 2006), Change Wars, edited with Michael Fullan (Solution Tree, 2008) and The Fourth Way with Dennis Shirley (Corwin, in press 2009).
CARLA ROBINSON was raised in the coastal communities of Bella Bella and Kitamat, British Columbia and is a proud member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Upon graduating from Mount Elizabeth Secondary School in Kitimat, B.C. Carla studied Mass Communications at Carleton University and later received an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario.
As the host of CBC Television’s monthly educational program, News in Review, which is sent out to subscribers in various school districts and public library systems, Carla is a familiar face to many Canadian students.
She is also the host of Absolutely Canadian and The First People’s Edition of Absolutely Canadian on CBC Newsworld and CBC-TV. Carla also regularly fills in to host CBC Newsworld’s arts and entertainment program, The Scene and various news programs. Carla has anchored many news programs on CBC Newsworld over the past 11 years including CBC Morning and The National Special Editions.
Carla started at CBC-TV in 1997 from British Columbia where she first filed reports for CBC's Midday and for CBC's native current affairs series All My Relations. Prior to that, Robinson was a local reporter for BCTV News and the host of a weekly current affairs program on Rogers Cable called Pressure Point.
Carla has written for national magazines such as Aboriginal Voices, The Rez and Dreamspeaker, a quarterly newsletter for First Nations communities. She has also worked for several government departments, including Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and has taught disadvantaged Native youth for Junior Achievement Stay In School.
Carla has earned several awards for her work, including the 1995 Norman Jewison Award for Journalism for Native Canadians.
Currently, Carla lives in Brantford, Ontario with her husband Drew Hill and their two young children.
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EDEN ROBINSON is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and named a notable book by The Globe and Mail. Her most recent novel is Blood Sports.
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