Changing Tides:
Charting Our Course Together
Registration is now open
Connecting Leaders is the BCPVPA’s major conference held around the provincial non-instructional day in October. After a two-year hiatus, it will be revived in 2018 as an annual regional conference with a focus on a major leadership theme connected to the BC education transformation initiative.
The 2018 conference will be held in Nanaimo, October 18-20 and features both Dr. Simon Breakspear and Roy Henry Vickers.
February 4 Update:
Conference at a glance (subject to change)
Thursday, October 18
- 5 pm • Registration
- 6:30 pm • Wine and cheese • Visit exhibitors
Friday, October 19
- 7 am • Registrations • Visit exhibitors
- 7:30 to 8 am • Continental breakfast
- 8:15 to 8:25 am • Opening and introductions
- 8:30 to 10 am • Simon Breakspear, keynote
- 10 to 10:30 am • Break • Visit exhibitors
- 10:30 to 11 am • Flash chats
- 11 to 12:15 pm • Feature BC with 8 breakout sessions
- 12:15 to 1:15 pm • Lunch • Visit exhibitors
- 1:15 to 2:15 pm • Simon Breakspear, keynote
- 2:15 to 2:30 pm • Break • Visit exhibitors
- 2:30 to 3:45 pm • Feature BC with 8 breakout sessions
- 3:45 pm • Social time
- 6:30 to 7:30 pm • Dinner with 3 Ignite sessions, followed by entertainment with Charles Demers (to 8:30 pm)
Saturday, October 20
- 8 to 9 am • Breakfast • Visit exhibitors
- 9 to 10 am • Roy Henry Vickers
- 10 to 10:30 am • Break • Visit exhibitors
- 10:30 to 11:45 am • Candy Palmater and closing
March 1 Update:
Breakout sessions feature
Comox Valley
- Charles Schilling
- Kyle Timms
- Jennifer Hedican
Coquitlam
Gayle Bedard
Kamloops/Thompson
- Cale Birk
Nanaimo/Ladysmith
- Anne Tenning
Sooke
- Pam Gerrits
- Kerry Arnot
- Frances Krusekopf
- Sue Tonnesen
Surrey
- Iram Khan & Shelley Brett