Elementary: ECSD DWPD Mini Conference: Full Schedule

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12:30pm MST

Registration Check-in (all participants please register for this session)

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm MST

CTK Foyer

Thursday February 20, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm MST
CTK Foyer

All Participants

1:15pm MST

Opening Keynote: Unity in Diversity

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:15pm - 1:40pm MST

Gymnasium

The following question drives this engagement:
How can we leverage cultural differences as a source of civic solidarity and social capital while living out our vocations as teachers and conscientious citizens? It examines this question from the perspective of lived experience.

Speakers

Berhanu Demeke

Intercultural Liaison

Berhanu is an intercultural liaison worker with Edmonton Catholic Schools. He supports the integration of newcomer immigrants into schools and life. Through interpretation/translation, needs/asset assessment and advocacy, he helps newly arrived Tigrinya and Amharic-speaking families... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 1:15pm - 1:40pm MST
Gymnasium

All Participants