Deeper Learning Canada: Full Schedule

Save The Date! July 2nd - 4th 2026

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

9:00am PDT

Deep Dive - Leading the Shift: Fostering Cultures of Collaborative Innovation

Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT

This Deep Dive invites participants into the experience of collaborative innovation, not as a concept to discuss, but as a culture to inhabit. Through circle processes, thinking materials, visible thinking routines, and shared documentation, participants will engage in learning that models how communities grow agency, efficacy, and trust. Together, we will surface the cultural stories shaping our classrooms, schools, and districts and explore what stories we want to be living into next. Participants will learn by doing, first through uncovering values and beliefs about teaching and learning, then through experiencing pedagogical moves that are grounded in the OECD Principles of Learning, the First Peoples Principles of Learning, and Shane Safir’s agency framework. We will make the learning visible through intentional debriefs that connect beliefs and values to action. Change theory, including Kotter’s model, will be woven in to support sustainable, people-centered transformation rather than initiative overload.
Educators will leave with practical facilitation moves, inquiry structures, and design principles they can immediately adapt to foster collaborative professionalism, teacher leadership, and community-connected, action-oriented learning, regardless of your job title or context. Part of the time will be spent creating an actionable plan for fostering student and teacher agency and distributed leadership in schools or districts. Integrated Disciplines: This Deep Dive is designed for all educators (regardless of grade level or content), teacher-leaders, building administrators looking to foster innovative cultures, and district-level educators and administrators looking to transform their district. Collaborative Care: This Deep Dive will be relational and consist of collective learning experiences. Inspired Authentic Learning: through purpose-driven design that invites both educators and learners to take meaningful action and embrace risk-taking.

Speakers

Kevin Dent

District Educator, Central Okanagan Public School District #23

Kevin Dent loves conversations about learning, particularly how learners make sense of ideas, work through uncertainty, and grow through productive struggle. He supports students and educators in developing joy, confidence, and agency in their learning and holds a deep belief that... Read More →

Lindsey Stevens

Learning and Innovation Educator, Central Okanagan Public School District #23

Lindsey Stevens is an educator and district-level instructional leader from Kelowna, British Columbia, with a passion for learning that makes a difference. Her work focuses on inquiry, learner agency, and collaborative professionalism, supporting educators to design responsive, community-connected... Read More →

Kristi Langlois

District Educator, Central Okanagan Public School District #23

Kristi Langlois: Kristi Langlois is a district-level teacher leader from Kelowna, B.C., with over 20 years of K-12 classroom experience. Throughout her career, she has championed student agency, equity, and Indigenous learning while fostering meaningful professional collaboration... Read More →

Friday July 3, 2026 9:00am - 11:30am PDT
Imagine High - Room 142

Deep Dives & Advisory

9:45am PDT

Den Talks - When the Land Becomes the Teacher

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:45am - 11:15am PDT

Imagine High - Room 142

This Den Talk will be a facilitated conversation reflecting on a completed year-long on-the-land learning journey with a Grade 6/7 class called Desert Trails and Lake Tales. What began as a simple question, “What do you think about doing some on-the-land learning?” quickly showed that the reality is this kind of learning is hard. Staying in the classroom and doing what is familiar is easier. Choosing to learn on the land required time, coordination, support, some stress, and a willingness to sit with uncertainty. Grounded in the First Peoples Principles of Learning, this session invites educators into an honest discussion about what shifted when land, relationships, and community became central to learning.

Rather than presenting a polished program or model, this session will share stories, student voice, and teacher reflection to explore how learning grew through a “yes, and…” mindset. Participants will be encouraged to engage in a guided conversation about how resourcing learning through people, place, and Indigenous support structures made the hard work possible, what tensions arose along the way, and what educators notice when learning is allowed to unfold through lived experience rather than predetermined outcomes.

Speakers

Beth Bastedo

Teacher, School District #74 Gold Trail

Beth Bastedo is a Grade 6/7 teacher who designs interdisciplinary, land-based learning experiences grounded in the First Peoples Principles of Learning. Her current year-long project, Desert Trails and Lake Tales, connects students to local land, community, and story through seasonal... Read More →

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:45am - 11:15am PDT
Imagine High - Room 142

Workshops & Den Talks