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Deep Dive - The Dream of a Different School: Agency, Belief, & Collective Efficacy
Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT
Imagine High - Room 215
Step inside the Canyon Falls Middle School story—a seven-year journey rooted in a shared belief that schools thrive when students and educators experience deep agency, and true community. In this immersive Deep Dive, participants will explore how CMS intentionally designed the conditions for collaborative professionalism, creating enabling structures for increased learner agency and deeper learning. Through hands-on, interactive experiences, educators will uncover how integrated, multidisciplinary learning and the building of collective teacher efficacy lead to meaningful student impact. Participants will engage with the vision, research, and learning principles that guide CMS and see how they come alive through community structures, looping, competency-based design, and embedded reflection. Student and teacher voices, captured through authentic artifacts, video, and documentation, will anchor the experience and connect every decision back to learners. This session will equip participants with practical, transferable structures and practices they can apply to their own classroom, school, or district.
Speakers
avatar for Michelle Harvey

Michelle Harvey

Teacher Librarian, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
Michelle Harvey is a teacher-librarian at Canyon Falls Middle School, where she loves creating welcoming spaces that inspire curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of reading. She is passionate about helping students build confidence as readers, researchers, and critical thinkers... Read More →
avatar for Scott Hayhurst

Scott Hayhurst

Teacher, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
Scott Hayhurst is a Physical and Health Education teacher at Canyon Falls Middle School and has also worked as a Community Teacher and Social Emotional Learning teacher in the 7 years the school has been open. As a member of the Curricular Leader team, he works with others to develop... Read More →
avatar for Christina Hidalgo

Christina Hidalgo

Teacher, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
Christina Hidalgo is an experienced educator who has taught high school science as well as served as a special education teacher, and for the past nine years has taught middle school math and science. She is committed to building student confidence, curiosity, and capacity in mathematics... Read More →
avatar for Michael Magliocchi

Michael Magliocchi

Teacher, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
Michael Magliocchi is a Foods Teacher at Canyon Falls Middle School with a unique dual background as both a career educator and a professional chef. With 16 years of industry experience prior to entering education, Michael translates professional culinary standards into accessible... Read More →
avatar for Carson Tonn

Carson Tonn

Vice Principal, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
About to enter his 20th year working in Central Okanagan Schools, Carson Tonn has been a classroom teacher, a behaviour support specialist, and most recently the Vice-Principal of Canyon Falls Middle School. His experience helping to open CMS has solidified his passion for creating... Read More →
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Sarah Watson

Principal, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - Canyon Falls Middle School
Since 2016, Sarah Watson has been an administrator across district, middle, and secondary settings and is honoured to have worked to design learning environments that centre student agency, collective efficacy, and meaningful learning for every learner. Sarah is currently the principal... Read More →
Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT
Imagine High - Room 215
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