List of Presentation Slides and Resources
*To access breakout session recording, please email claudine.cortes@cass.ab.ca.  

Watch Santiago Rincón-Gallardo’s Leading Change in Alberta: Mobilising Hearts, Heads, and Hands. You can access his presentation slides here.

Watch Tannis Topolnisky and Kim Hyksha on Community Engagement – Diversity, Differences & Dialogue. You can access their presentation slides here.

The CASS Resource Library  is growing and includes numerous “made in Alberta” resources designed for system leaders that will support “pre learning” prior to the  conference.  One example are CASS learning guides, which are intended to apply research, deepen understanding and enhance professional practice within the Alberta context. Learning guides have summarized recent CASS “Alberta Stories of Practice”  and include:

• Ministerial Order on Student Learning
• CASS Community of Practice – Workplace Wellness
• Assurance Framework: From Theory to Action
• Assurance Framework: Approaches to Strategic Planning and Reporting 
• Assurance Framework: Stakeholder Engagement
• Assurance Framework: Local Context and Measures
• Assurance Framework: Creating a Data Culture
• Workplace Wellness: “Why a Workplace Wellness Plan”?
• Workplace Wellness: What, Who and How…
• Workplace Wellness: Measuring Impact
• The online Guide to Relationships and Learning with the Indigenous Peoples of Alberta will offer additional learning focused on Ensuring First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education for all.

Workplace Wellness Resources are compiled here: https://cass.ab.ca/resources/wellness/ and include a Planning and Implementation Guide and Playbook  based on the CASS Workplace Wellness Framework.

Role-Alike Summaries for Curriculum, Assessment and Technology, Inclusive Education, Human Resources, Workplace Wellness and First Nations, Métis and Inuit from the 2021 Summer Learning can be accessed at https://cassprospective.ca/  

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