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The PDTCA Board hopes you have an amazing Convention 2025!
Emergency Procedures Calgary Telus Convention Centre
Emergency Procedures Hyatt
Human Rights Statement 
Land Acknowledgement

CALGARY TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE (CTCC) and HYATT - address

Pre-Registration will OPEN February 1, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. and CLOSE February 17, 2025 AT 8:00 p.m.

For Pre-Registered sessions please use the pre-registration link on the pre-registration page at pdtca.org. Adding the session to your Sched schedule does not mean you are pre-registered.


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Convention at a Glance Link will be available here in Mid-February
Off-Site Addresses are included.

Professional Responsibility
“On the two school days of your assigned teachers’ convention, you have a legal and professional responsibility to attend convention. If you are not able to make it safely to your assigned convention, however, your collective agreement may include impassable roads or inclement weather clauses that you can access. If your collective agreement does not include language specific to road conditions or weather, you may make use of the personal leave clauses of your agreement in most cases. Please be aware that using any of these types of leave may require you to pay substitute costs, forego a portion of your salary and benefits, or report to your school or another work location in your district. Refer to your collective agreement for more information. Should you require any additional information or if you need assistance interpreting your collective agreement, please contact Teacher Employment Services at 1-800-232-7208 or 780-447-9400.”
This information is also found on the Frequently Asked Questions page on the www.ataconventions.ca website. If you have any further questions regarding this, please contact Daniel.Maas@ata.ab.ca.

Friday February 21, 2025 11:40 - 12:40 MST
Desmos.com is more than just a graphing calculator - it also has a collection of amazing resources for use in online or face-to face learning that stimulates great reasoning and active learning among students. If you have heard of desmos, but haven't tried it out yet in your classroom, this session will give go over the basics of how to use the desmos teacher tools and go over some of the best activities in their collection so you don't have to spend hours surfing the website so find activities that match your curriculum (grade 7 - 9). Participants will need to bring their own laptop or other device so that they can participate in this active session.
Speakers
avatar for Melanie Fricot

Melanie Fricot

Melanie Fricot has taught Math from grade 1 to first year university (in Bhutan). She has spent the last decade teaching grade 6, and then grades 7 - 9 Math. She is passionate about encouraging students to be confident problem solvers in the Mathematics classroom
Friday February 21, 2025 11:40 - 12:40 MST
Macleod Hall E4 - CTCC
  Mathematics (TQS 3), Div3 (Gr 7-9)

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