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Professional Activity Days 2025-2026
Date: June 5, 2026
Topic 1 Elementary: Report Card Preparation and Communication of Learning Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Elementary educators will review student assessments and complete Term 2 Report Cards, and the Kindergarten Communication of Learning.
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Topic 2 Secondary: Trauma Informed Schools
Length: AM
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators
Description: Staff will engage in professional learning about trauma informed schools and best practices.
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Topic 2 Secondary: Student Achievement Plan and Implementation
Length: PM
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Review student achievement and consideration for next year school improvement planning.
Date: February 27, 2026
Topic 1: Kindergarten Educators (Teachers, DECEs)
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, EDI training, New Kindergarten Curriculum
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Staff will engage in professional learning for the implementation of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) and the new Kindergarten Curriculum, which is to be implemented in the fall of 2026.
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Topic 2: Primary and Junior Teachers (English Program)
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Literacy and Numeracy
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Staff will engage in professional learning focused on best practices for literacy and numeracy practices in the primary and junior grades.
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Topic 3: French Immersion Teachers
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Planning Authentic Learning and Engagement for All FSL learners
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), Denis Cousineau, School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Staff will engage in professional learning focused on planning authentic learning and engagement for all French as a second language learners with Denis Cousineau.
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Topic 4: Special Education Staff (Elementary and Secondary)
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Purposeful Presence and Intentional Practices
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Professional learning around best practices for special education staff, including those in specialized placements, will be shared.
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Topic 5: Intermediate Teachers
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Designing for Thinking: Planning Authentic Learning and Engagement for All
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Teachers will participate in professional learning focused on encouraging authentic engagement in their classrooms.
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Topic 6: Secondary Teachers
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Designing for Thinking: Planning Authentic Learning and Engagement for All
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Teachers will participate in professional learning focused on encouraging authentic engagement in various subject areas.
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Topic 7: Attendance Counsellors
Indigenous Education (Guest Speaker), Mental Health and Trauma-Informed Schools, Attendance Strategies and Best Practices
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Kelly Crawford (Vice President of Programs, Gakino’amaage: Teach For Canada), School administrators, School Board Staff
Description: Kelly Crawford will present information to staff on incorporating treaty education into professional practice. Board social workers will share information about trauma informed schools and best practices. Professional learning focused on best practices related to attendance strategies will be shared.
Date: January 30, 2026
Topic 1 Elementary: Report Card Preparation / Reporting to Parents / Ongoing Communication
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators / School Board Staff
Description: Elementary educators will review student assessments and complete Term 1 Report Cards, and the Kindergarten Communication of Learning.
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Topic 2 Secondary: Report Card Preparation / Reporting to Parents / Ongoing Communication
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School administrators / School Board Staff
Description: Secondary educators will review Semester 1 credit accumulation and achievement data to inform school improvement planning.
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Topic 3 Educational Assistants: First Aid Certification / Health and Safety / FASD
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Children’s Community Network, School Board Staff
Description: Educational assistants on Manitoulin Island will complete First Aid Certification. All other Educational Assistants will participate in virtual sessions focused on Health and Safety and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder.
Date: November 28, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): Tackling Racism
Length: AM
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators
Description: Led by school administrators, staff will review the OHRC “Call it out” training module. Topics will focus on addressing racism, including antisemitism, anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, and racism towards Indigenous communities. Staff will engage in discussion on the importance of creating supportive classrooms, free of discrimination of any form, as well as curriculum programming information related to addressing racism and the promotion of inclusion.
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Date: November 28, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): Artificial Intelligence
Length: PM
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Professor Christian Muise, Director Bruce Bourget, Superintendent Dan Koziar, Superintendent Adam Guilbault, Manager of Information Services Gibs Bastien, Assistant Manager of Information Services Dominic Drouin
Description: Staff will view a presentation by Professor Christian Muise (Queen's University) focused on how artificial intelligence functions and potential challenges and benefits of its use in educational settings. Information services will provide an overview of cybersafety and cybersecurity best practices and relevant legislation. Staff will also review board guidelines regarding artificial intelligence and digital literacy.
Date: October 20, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): Special Education and Student Achievement
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): Keynote / Guest Speakers with Expertise in Universal Design for Learning / School Board Staff (special education and program K-12)
Description: Educators will engage in professional learning focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Universal Design for Learning is an instructional framework intended to provide accessible teaching and learning experiences for all students. Sessions for the day will include keynote speakers and subject specific workshops from K-12, with a focus on using UDL to support effective instruction in a variety of subject areas.
Date: September 26, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): Literacy/Mathematics/Student Achievement Plan/School Improvement
Length: AM
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators/School Board Staff
Description: School teams will focus attention on the School Improvement Plan. Secondary and Elementary School administrators will work with school-based staff to develop achievable goals that will increase student achievement. Staff will consider initial school assessment data to set goals for their School Improvement Plan, and plan for the use of high impact strategies and board supported resources. Kindergarten staff will engage in role-specific training related to reading screening and best practices related to literacy and numeracy instruction.
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Date: September 26, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): School Resource Officer Program
Length: PM
Entity Hosting: School Board and Greater Sudbury Police Services
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School administrators / School Board Staff / Greater Sudbury Police Services Staff
Description: In accordance with Memorandum dated August 12, 2025: Mandatory Professional Activity Days, staff will engage in a presentation led by Board staff and a Staff Sergeant from the Greater Sudbury Police Service highlighting the Ontario North East Region Safe Schools Protocol in addition to the role of the School Resource Officer. This presentation will also provide an overview of age-appropriate educational public safety presentations that the police can deliver to students. The goal of the session will be to showcase the role of the police in the school community to support trust building between educators, policing services, students, and parents/guardians.
Date: September 2, 2025
Topic (Elementary / Secondary): Keeping Schools Safe
Length: Full Day
Entity Hosting: School Board
Presenter(s)/Facilitator(s): School Administrators/School Board Staff
Description: School staff will review prevalent medical conditions protocols/procedures. Staff will renew their yearly mandatory Occupational Health and Safety training as well as policies and procedures designed to keep students and staff safe and healthy at school.
In accordance with Memorandum dated August 12, 2025: Mandatory Professional Activity Days, school staff will review bullying: recognition and responses, child sexual abuse prevention and reporting (Erin’s Law), duty to report children in need of protection to a child welfare agency, Provincial Code of Conduct, progressive discipline, violence prevention and violent incident reporting, as well as student safety plans.