Retreat Schedule

Registration opens February 1, 2024!


Thursday, May 2, 2024

9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Pre-Retreat Overview Workshop - Collaborative Response: Every Child Deserves a Team

    • Kurtis and Lorna Hewson, Lead Learners and Co-Founders, Jigsaw Learning
    • Feeling overwhelmed with the expectations being placed on teachers, leaders and educational systems to respond to the diverse needs of our learners? Ensuring success for all students is a moral imperative for all schools, but takes a highly coordinated framework of structures and processes within a school to maximize the collective capacity of the team. Come learn about Collaborative Response, an organizational mindset that involves some fundamental shifts for schools and districts, such as layering collaborative team structures, transforming how we talk about student needs, focusing on students close to meeting expectations through thoughtful organization of data and evidence and ensuring tiering of supports rather than students. Simple shifts that emerge through a focus on Collaborative Response and the good news is that some likely already exist in your building! Numerous school and district examples, as well as access to a large number of resources, will be provided for school leaders wishing to join hundreds of schools using Collaborative Response to ensure high levels of success for students and staff!
    • All participants will receive a copy of the text Collaborative Response: Three Foundational Components That Transform How We Respond to the Needs of Learners (Corwin, 2022) included as part of the registration fee.
    • This session is offered as a full day session prior to the annual Collaborative Response Retreat, happening May 3-4.
    • Breakfast and lunch will be provided.


Friday, May 3, 2024

8:00 - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am

Welcome / Keynote Address

10:15 am

Break

10:30 - 11:30 am

"Sharing our Journey" Sessions

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Focused Team Planning Time

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Panel Discussion

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

"Sharing our Journey" Sessions

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm

Focused Team Planning Time

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Panel Discussion

3:45 pm

Closing remarks for the day

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Social Gathering - onsite at the Lacombe Memorial Centre


Saturday, May 4, 2024

8:00 am

Breakfast

9:00 am

Keynote address

9:15 - 10: 15 am

"Sharing our Journey" Sessions

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Focused Team Planning Time

11:00 - 11:30 am

Team Sharing and Networking - Focused sharing of your team plan

11:30 am

Closing Remarks and Door Prize Giveaway

12:00 pm
    • Grab your snacks provided for the trip home or
    • Stay and have one-on-one connection time with Kurtis and Lorna