St. Joseph's Morrow Park CSS - PA Day Information

PA Day Agenda St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS

June 28, 2024

Time	Description
8:30am-9:45am	Building on the presentations from the previous PA days, teachers will discuss how to best present and implement topics related to the skilled trades in their respective courses.
9:45 am -10:30 am	Celebration of Mass
10:30 am-12:00 pm	Staff may continue with their work from this morning and then move into discussing the various types of experiential learning experiences they can provide for students in their courses for the following school year and how they will implement them
12:00pm-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm	Prep/Planning Time

PA Day Agenda St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS

June 27, 2024

Time	Description
8:30am-8:45am	Welcome, Prayer, Land Acknowledgement
8:45am-11:15pm	Building on the presentations from the previous PA days, staff will work in their respective departments to develop lessons and start planning for how they will continue to implement universal design for learning and differentiated instruction for students next year. Staff will also work on how they monitor student achievement and how they implement different types of assessments. They will discuss the types of high impact strategies they will use and implementation strategies for grade 9 students in particular to help with their transition to high school. This will form the basis for our SIEP for the next school year.
11:15 am-12 pm	Prep/Planning Time
12 pm-1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm	Graduation Ceremony

PA Day Agenda St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS April 8, 2024
Times	Topics
8:30-8:40	Prayer Land acknowledgement
8:40-9:10	Principal led session and discussion: Case Studies - Workplace Violence
9:10 -9:50	Video giving an overview of the new Health & Safety Reporting System followed by a Principal led discussion comparing the current reporting system to the new one
9:50 - 10:05	Break
10:05 - 11:00	Principal led presentation and discussion: Proactive Responses to Supporting Student Behaviour: Knowing yourself and your students Behaviour and Communication Escalated Student Behaviour De-Escalation Strategies Documentation to Support Staff and Students
11:00-11:40	Lunch
11:40 - 12:20	2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion includes a video that has built in pauses for discussion (principal led).
11:40 - 12:20
12:20 - 12:55	Principal led presentation on suicide prevention
12:55 - 1:10	Break
1:10 - 1:45	Principal led session on accessing Resources to Support Staff and Student Mental Health and Well-Being.
1:45 - 2:33	Planning and Evaluation Time

PA Day Agenda St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS February 1, 2024
Time	Description
8:00-8:30	Welcome and Light hospitality
8:30 – 8:45	Prayer Introduction of the New TCDSB Land Acknowledgment Reflection
8:45 – 9:20	Differentiated Instruction: staff will review materials in advance of the presentation and the principal will lead a presentation and discussion about DI.
9:20 – 10:00	Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship: the principal will lead a presentation and discussion about skilled trades and apprenticeship.
10:00 -10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:00	Literacy across the curriculum: the principal will lead a discussion and sharing session on literacy strategies used in all subject areas.
11:00-11:40	Lunch
11:40 – 2:33 (including 15 min break)	Monitoring Student Achievement: principal led discussion with all staff regarding the School Improvement and Equity Plan. Topics will include: midpoint check related to school goals, discussions about implementation of de-streaming strategies in Gr 9, discussion about implementation of high-impact instructional practices in mathematics and related subjects

PA Day Agenda St. Joseph’s Morrow Park CSS

November 17, 2023

Retreat Outline

9-9.30am – Mass in the chapel

9.30-9:45 am -– teachers and staff get settled in for the day.

We will then move into our two working sessions:

Deacon Robert Kinghorn will lead both sessions for this day.

The topic of his presentation is “Holiness on the Street” which elaborates upon the comment from Pope Francis in his Apostolic Exhortation, “On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World” where he reminds us that holiness is not that we have never sinned, but that we can weep for our sins.

In the presentation to the teaching and support staff, he will share many of his learning experiences over his 17 years of ministry on the streets and discuss the fundamentals of pastoral ministry which are built upon the four pillars: “Show up, Listen, Don’t Judge, Don’t Fix.” These basic gospel principles can be applied in all circumstances of personal and professional life, and also underpin our faith life as people of the Beatitudes. Each session will include small and large group discussion.

9:45 - 11:00 – Session #1

11:00 – 11:20 - Break

11:20 – 12:20 - Session #2

12:20 – 1:00 – Lunch

1:00 -1:45 - Group Discussion and reflection with staff

1:30 – 2:33 - Prep time

PA DAY AGENDA ST. JOSEPH’S MORROW PARK CSS

October 6, 2023

8:30-8:45	Prayer Land acknowledgement Faith development - Walking with Christ with Minds of Justice and Peace
8:45 – 9:15	School Improvement and Equity Planning (SIEP) - Part 1 Review the school’s SIEP goals with the entire staff. Brief overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The aim of UDL, is to provide access to the curriculum for all students, and to assist educators in designing products and environments to make them accessible to everyone, regardless of age, skills, or situation. (Learning for All, Kindergarten to Grade 12)
9:15-9:30	Break
9:30-10:30	All teachers: will work through a presentation and discussions related to supporting Literacy across the curriculum. will have a brief overview of changes to the Gr 9 de-streamed language curriculum. incorporating UDL to create equitable learning opportunities will be explored. discussions will focus on how all curricular areas can support the new language curriculum.
10:30 - 11:00	SIEP Part 2 - Supporting Student Needs In small groups teachers will identify focus students who will benefit from additional interventions and strategies to support them (applies to any student with or without an IEP). Addressing the question: How will UDL inform instructional strategies used?
11:00-12:00	Lunch
12:00 -1:00	High Impact Instructional Strategies Focus on high impact instructional strategies through the lens of the 2021 Gr 9 de-streamed math curriculum. Staff will choose their focus by engaging through the use of a Choice board and share their learning with the larger group.
12:00 -1:00
1:00-1:15	Break
1:15-1:45	SIEP Part 3 - Focus on Assessment Small Group Work Discussion of assessments used to inform language/math learning. Addressing the questions: How will student learning be tracked? What constitutes success?
1:45 -2:33	Planning and Prep Time