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.

1:00pm PDT

Conference Kick-Off with Ron Berger, Kiva Morgan-Hall & The Melawmen Collective

Thursday July 2, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

RON BERGER

Ron Berger is a respected international keynote speaker who inspires a commitment to quality, character, and a citizenship in students. He is the Senior Advisor at EL Education, a nonprofit school improvement organization that partners with public schools and districts across America, leads professional learning, and creates open educational resources.

Ron is the author of best-selling education books, including: An Ethic of Excellence, A Culture of Quality, Leaders of Their Own Learning, Transformational Literacy, Management in the Active Classroom, Learning that Lasts, and We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture. He taught at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he did his graduate work. He founded and directs the website Models of Excellence: The Center for High-Quality Student Work, which holds the world's largest collection of beautiful K-12 student work. Ron was a public school teacher and master carpenter in rural Massachusetts for over 25 years and received the Autodesk Foundation National Teacher of the Year Award.

KIVA MORGAN-HALL & THE MELAWMEN COLLECTIVE

The Melawmen Collective is a Contemporary Indigenous alternative music group from Ashcroft, BC, known for fusing hip-hop, rock, folk, and soul with ancestral wisdom and modern urgency. The Collective uses their music and art workshops to create connections between people through stories, history, music, and art, focusing on themes of cultural identity, historical consciousness, and community well-being. "Melawmen" means "medicine" in the Secwepemc language, reflecting their mission to heal, share, and connect communities through creativity.

Speakers

Kiva Morgan-Hall & The Melawmen Collective

The Melawmen Collective is a Contemporary Indigenous alternative music group from Ashcroft, BC, known for fusing hip-hop, rock, folk, and soul with ancestral wisdom and modern urgency. The collective uses their music and art workshops to create connections between people through stories... Read More →

Ron Berger

Director. Keynote Speaker., EL Education

Ron Berger is a well-known national and international keynote speaker focused on inspiring a commitment to quality, character, and citizenship in students. He is the Senior Advisor at EL Education, a nonprofit school improvement organization that partners with public schools and districts... Read More →

Thursday July 2, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Imagine High - Theatre 158

All Attendees

9:00am PDT

Student Voice Summit

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT

Imagine High - Theatre 158

Speakers

Carter Mochinski

Student, Central Okanagan Public School District #23 - George Elliot Secondary School

Carter Mochinski is a passionate change maker and a highly involved youth community leader. He is most passionate about making change in reducing inequalities, specifically for those with neurological divergence, differently applied persons and inequalities in climate action, while... Read More →

Finny Bicycle

Student, School District #33 Chilliwack - Imagine High Integrated Arts & Technology Secondary

Finny Bicycle is a grade 12 student at Imagine High. He has been profoundly impacted by his experience with project based real-world learning, and would like to share his insights. He plans to become a high school social studies teacher and integrate his teaching with different subjects... Read More →

Saturday July 4, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Imagine High - Theatre 158

All Attendees

11:30am PDT

Deeper Learning Closing with Dr. Leyton Schnellert

Saturday July 4, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT

Imagine High - Theatre 158

DR. LEYTON SCHNELLERT

Dr. Leyton Schnellert is an Associate Professor in UBC's Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute of Inclusion and Citizenship. His scholarship attends to how teachers and learners can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education. Dr. Schnellert is the Pedagogy and Participation research cluster lead in UBC's Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) and co-chair of BC's Rural Education Advisory.

His community-based collaborative work contributes a counterargument to top-down approaches that operate from deficit models, instead drawing from communities' funds of knowledge to build participatory, place-conscious, and culturally sustaining practices.

Dr. Schnellert has been a middle and secondary school classroom teacher and a learning resource teacher K-12. His books, films, and research articles are widely referenced in local, national, and international contexts.

Speakers

Dr Leyton Schnellert

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education - University of British Columbia

Dr. Leyton Schnellert is an Associate Professor in UBC's Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute of Inclusion and Citizenship. His scholarship attends to how teachers and learners can mindfully embrace student diversity and inclusive education... Read More →

Saturday July 4, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Imagine High - Theatre 158

All Attendees