presents

Grasslands Public Schools

August 15 to18, 2017

CASSIX/ASBOA

Waterton Conference

#WatertonBBB2017

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

7:00 - 9:00 pm Registration Desk Open Community Centre

7:00 - 10:00 pm Wine and Cheese Community Centre

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

7:45 - 8:45 Family Breakfast All delegates and family members

Community Centre

7:45 - 8:45 Registration Desk Open Waterton Lakes Lodge

9:00 - 9:30 Welcome David Steele, Grasslands Superintendent

Waterton Lakes Lodge

9:30 - 10:00 Breaking Down Barriers Panel Linh Huynh

Waterton Lakes Lodge

10:00 - 10:30 Breaking Down Barriers Panel Darren McKee

Waterton Lakes Lodge

10:30 - 10:45 Break Waterton Lakes Lodge

10:45 - 11:15 Breaking Down Barriers Panel Lisa Franks

Waterton Lakes Lodge

11:15 - 11:45 Breaking Down Barriers Panel Betty Baxter

Waterton Lakes Lodge

11:45 - 12:00 Q&A - Breaking Down Barriers Panel Waterton Lakes Lodge

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on own

1:30 - 2:30 Breakout 1 - Breaking Down Barriers (choose one of the speakers)

Waterton Lakes Lodge & Community Centre

Linh Huynh

Darren McKee

Lisa Franks

Betty Baxter

2:30 - 2:45 Break

2:45 - 3:45 Breakout 2 - Breaking Down Barriers (choose one of the speakers)

Waterton Lakes Lodge & Community Centre

Linh Huynh

Darren McKee

Lisa Franks

Betty Baxter

3:45 - Evening on own

Conference Notes

Conference Notes Thursday, August 17, 2017

7:30 - 8:30 Family Breakfast

All delegates and family members

Community Centre

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

Scott Brandt , Grasslands Deputy

Superintendent

Waterton Lakes Lodge

9:15 - 10:30 Keynote – Shelly Russell-Mayhew Waterton Lakes Lodge

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:45 Breakouts

(Special Interest sessions & Shelly

Russell-Mayhew Workshop)

Waterton Lakes Lodge

& Community Centre

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch on own

1:00 - 5:00pm Leisure activities

Golf and Hiking

6:00 - 7:30pm Family BBQ Community Centre

7:30 - 8:30pm Family Entertainment

Ernestine Hatpin Show & Prairie

Dogs

Community Centre

8:30 pm- mid-

night

Family Dance

Riley Miller - DJ

Community Centre

Friday, August 18, 2017

7:30 - 8:30 Family Breakfast

All delegates and family members

Community Centre

9:00 - 10:00 School Division Team Planning Waterton Lakes Lodge

& Community Centre

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Deputy Minister

Dr. Curtis Clarke

Waterton Lakes Lodge

11:30- 11:45 Wrap up & door prizes Waterton Lakes Lodge

Speaker Bios

Dr. Shelly Russell-Mayhew, R. Psych., Werklund Research Professor, Werklund School of Education

University of Calgary

Speaker Biography Dr. Russell-Mayhew is a Research Professor and registered psy-chologist with a research program in the prevention and treatment of eating and weight-related issues. Dr. R-M was recently awarded the Distinguished Research Supervision Award from the Werklund School of Education (2014), a Werklund Research Professorship (2015), and the Annual Distinguished Research Lecture (2016) at the University of Calgary. She runs the Body Image Research Lab where she has successfully mentored over 50 graduate students. Shelly grew up in Brooks, Alberta and was awarded a prestigious position on the Brooks Composite High School Wall of Fame (2008). This is the award she holds most dear because it is where her pas-sion for her work began, as a student in the hallways of K-12 schools in the area. The primary objective of Dr. Russell-Mayhew’s research program is to lead and transform prevention research about weight-related is-sues like body image (perceptions, attitudes, and experiences about the body), disordered eating (e.g., unhealthy methods of weight change), weight-related disorders (e.g., obesity and eating disor-ders) and professional conversations and interactions about weight (e.g., weight bias).

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Keynote Lecture, Dr. Shelly Russell-Mayhew,

WEIGHT OF THE WORLD IN HER HANDS: An Embodied Career Journey

The current obesogenic environment and ensuing 'fat phobic' culture has resulted in public discourses that glorify thinness. Children and youth are surrounded by norms and messages about ‘healthy weights,’ which are at best inconsistent and at worst cause harm. Societal dis-courses about weight are not taken up in consistent or evidence-based ways, and actions taken in the name of health are often misleading, mis-guided, and even potentially harmful. The way ‘weight’ is taken up in educational contexts influences students’ developing embodiment.

My professional journey working with weight-related issues is influ-enced and fuelled by a deeply personal and sometimes troubled rela-tionship with my own body. No one is immune to the cultural discours-es about weight. Weight-related issues like eating disorders, obesity, body image (perceptions, attitudes, and experiences about the body), disordered eating (e.g., unhealthy methods of weight change), and pro-fessional conversations and interactions about weight (e.g., weight bi-as) impact people of all shapes and sizes. I will reflect on the personal, professional and political ‘situatedness’ of my research program as I aspire to embody the change I wish to see in the world.

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Breakout Workshop, Dr. Shelly Russell-Mayhew,

The F Word: Why Body Weight Has No Place in Schools Body weight-related issues such as obesity and physical inactivity among children and youth are popular topics of discussion in school set-tings. Obesity prevention initiatives in schools (e.g., BMI report cards) can have harmful (although often unintended) consequences for youth including anxiety, body image dissatisfaction, disordered eating, weight stigma and bullying. Because there are so many conflicting messages about body weight-related issues and health, this workshop will help differentiate between helpful practices and practices that can be harm-ful. This workshop will offer practical tips on how to address weight-related issues in schools by promoting health in an inclusive way instead of targeted approaches to ‘prevent obesity’. Together we will work through a case study and discuss how to talk about, model, and promote physical, mental and social health in your classrooms and more broadly in your school communities.

Family Entertainment & Dance

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DJ Music by Riley Miller https://www.millzskillz.com/

Speaker Bios

Up until she was 14, Lisa Franks was an "able-bodied" athlete who participated in karate, basketball and baseball. On April 18, 1996, just after Frank's fourteenth birthday, she woke up in the middle of the night unable to move her legs. By the end of that day she had lost function of her arms as well. Franks was diagnosed with an arteriove-nous malfunction, a condition that caused clusters of blood vessels to prevent blood from properly passing by her spinal cord. After an emergency eight-hour operation, Lisa woke up to find that she was completely paralyzed and in an intense amount of pain. A model of perseverance and resilience, Lisa immediately focused on regaining independence. Her remarkable athletic career includes setting world records in wheelchair racing in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, and marathon events. She won six Paralympic gold medals and a silver before switching to Wheelchair Basketball where she was part of a world championship team and competed at a third Para-lympic Games in her new sport. Speaking of her life as a young university student Lisa said "When I'm racing I race and when I'm in school I study. You just have to stay focused.”…"I don't understand it when people say I am con-fined to a wheelchair. The only thing that holds you back is your-self and your imagination." Lisa completed a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineer-ing at the U of S and is employed in Saskatoon.

Speaker Bios

School trustee and board chair Betty Baxter, Sunshine Coast District, was originally from Brooks. She has lived in BC since heading to UBC as a teen-ager and more recently, has lived on a farm in Roberts Creek, raising Canadi-an Horses since 1995. She completed her bachelor's degree in Physical Educa-tion in 1975 from UBC and obtained a Master of Arts degree in Psychology of Sport from University of Alberta in 1989. Betty has travelled the world as an international athlete in the 1970s and 1980s, including time as a profes-sional volleyball coach in Oslo, Norway in 1989-90. Since that time, she has operated a small business offering services in adult education, mediation, respectful workplace and leadership training. Always engaged in community leadership, she has recently joined the board of direc-tors of her local credit union. Betty played volleyball at the University of British Columbia as an under-graduate and was a member of the T-Birds team that won the National Inter-university Sport title in 1972-73 and again in 1973-74. In 1974 she was named BC’s University Athlete of the Year. A member of the national vol-leyball team, Betty was captain of the team that represented Canada at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and the world championships in 1978 in the former Soviet Union. She began her coaching career at the University of Alberta in 1977. In 1980, she coached the University of Ottawa to a silver medal in the CIS National finals and was named Interuniversity Coach of the Year for the 1979-1980 season. In 1979 Betty became full-time Head Coach of the National Volleyball Pro-gram, the first female, and the first Canadian, to achieve this position. She coached the national team until January 1982 when she was fired after months of speculation about her sexual orientation. She has since been an outspoken advocate for lesbian and gay issues in sport and the community. A strong believer in developing equity in sport, Betty is a co-founder of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and the National Coaching School for Women. She was a board member and spokesperson for the 1990 Vancouver Gay Games. As a player/coach Bet-ty capped off an impressive career with a gold medal win in volleyball at the 1986 San Francisco Gay Games and a silver medal at the 1990 Van-couver Gay Games.

Speaker Bios

Darren McKee is originally from the O-Chi-Chak-KoSipi First Na-tion in the Interlake region of Manitoba but completed his formal schooling in Saskatchewan. Darren has a B.Ed. (with Distinction) and an M.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. He has worked as a classroom teacher, an in-school administrator, a superintendent, and a director of education. Darren served for many years with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, as superintendent, director, executive director, and as-sistant deputy minister. In 2011, he became the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan School Boards Association. Darren has pre-sented at several national and international conferences on leader-ship and Aboriginal education and currently sits on a number of national boards and councils, including C21 Canada and the Canadi-an Education Association. Darren was one of the presenters who worked on behalf of the Treaty Commissioner’s office in Saskatchewan to help Saskatche-wan teachers better understand the treaties. He has seen education from almost every possible vantage point; student, teacher, admin-istrator, trustee spokesperson, and parent, and believes that “Education can lift a person to realize great opportunities and fulfil-ment; it can also be used as a powerful weapon to remove the iden-tity and spirit of entire cultures.”

Speaker Bios

Linh Huynh's family arrived in Canada in 1980 as part of the mass exodus of boat people fleeing Vietnam. Her journey to Canada as a child opened her eyes to what is possible if one lives intently and fearlessly. She has traveled to over 40 countries; crafting a life of daring and wonder, filling it with extraordinary experiences that include: cooking at 24 Sussex Drive, meeting the Dalai Lama, com-pleting an Ironman triathlon, winning a national writing contest, cy-cling across Spain and most recently achieving a running feat that no other Canadian woman had accomplished. In the past few years, Linh has been on an ambitious journey to rep-resent Canada in some of the world’s most extreme races. It started in 2011 when she won a writing contest through CBC, who then sponsored her to compete in the Antarctic Ice Marathon. She was a contributing writer to the CBC’s Live Right Now website for months leading up to the event and raised thousands of dollars for the Chil-dren’s Wish Foundation. In 2013, she completed the North Pole marathon. She then turned her focus to the 4Deserts, a series of 250 km self-supported, 7 day races throughout the hottest, driest and windiest deserts on earth. In November 2014, she became the 1st Canadian woman to complete the 4Deserts series and by doing so in one calendar year became the 8th woman in history to complete it as a Grand Slam. Linh delivers her message with a hilarious yet humble perspective along with a zest for life that will leave you feeling inspired to break down your own barriers.