Teachers ask hundreds of questions every day. But how many truly engage all students, not just the few with hands always raised?

In this interactive, classroom-focused workshop, we take a fresh look at questioning as one of the most powerful and often underused tools in a teacher’s toolkit. You’ll explore how to design and deliver questions that invite every student into the learning, sparking curiosity, deepening thinking, and increasing meaningful participation.

Together, we’ll unpack practical strategies that help questions do more than check for understanding. You’ll learn how to frame questions that encourage students to think out loud, build on one another’s ideas, and feel safe contributing whether they’re confident, quiet, hesitant, or still finding their voice.

Designed for both new and experienced educators, this workshop focuses on realistic, ready-to-use techniques you can apply immediately to boost engagement and use questioning to build deeper learning.

Our success as teachers isn’t measured by how much content we deliver. It’s measured by what students actually remember and can use. So why does learning fade so quickly?

In this engaging, hands-on workshop, we explore how the brain remembers (and forgets) and what that means for everyday classroom practice. You’ll learn how small, intentional shifts in formative assessment can significantly improve retention, understanding, and student confidence with only a small changes to your teaching practice.

Together, we’ll translate brain-based learning research into simple, practical strategies that strengthen memory, deepen connections, and support retrieval when it matters most. The strategies are modeled and experienced during the session, allowing you to see learning from the student’s perspective.

You’ll learn how small, intentional actions in classroom practice can significantly improve retention, understanding, and student confidence with only a small changes to your teaching practice.

Designed for both new and experienced educators, this workshop equips you with ready-to-use engagement practices you can apply immediately. This helps to create classrooms where students remember those important concepts long after they leave your classroom.

Much of teaching is about helping students build skill over time whether in problem solving, writing, or performance-based learning. One of the most trusted frameworks for supporting this growth is the Gradual Release of Responsibility, often known as I Do, We Do, You Do. But in today’s classrooms, this familiar model deserves a fresh look.

In this practical, classroom-focused workshop, we explore how Gradual Release can be intentionally designed to promote deeper understanding, stronger classroom routines, and true learning independence. You’ll see how modeling, guided practice, and independent work can be structured to support all learners not just those who grasp concepts quickly.

The session also includes a thoughtful, teacher-centred look at AI in the classroom. Rather than replacing good instruction, you’ll learn how AI tools can support lesson design, scaffold practice, and strengthen mastery-based learning while keeping student thinking and teacher judgment at the centre.

You’ll leave with clear structures and ready-to-use strategies you can apply immediately to help students move confidently from supported practice to independent mastery.

Every classroom includes learners with different strengths, interests, and ways of making sense of ideas. Some benefit from visuals, others from discussion, movement, writing, or creating. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps teachers plan for this variability from the start without turning teaching into an unrealistic set of demands.

In this practical, hands-on workshop, you’ll explore how UDL creates equitable opportunities for success by offering flexible ways for students to access learning, stay engaged, and demonstrate understanding. You’ll learn simple strategies for presenting content in multiple ways, building meaningful choice into lessons, and providing motivating options for showing learning.

Grounded in real classroom examples, this session makes UDL feel concrete and achievable rather than theoretical. You’ll see how small, intentional design choices can significantly increase participation, persistence, and confidence while maintaining high expectations for all learners.

You’ll leave with clear ideas and ready-to-use strategies you can apply immediately to help reach every learner.

One of the most effective and often overlooked classroom management strategies is student engagement. When lessons are intentionally designed, students are more focused, more involved, and far more likely to learn. The good news? You don’t need to reinvent your teaching to make that happen.

In this practical, hands-on workshop, you’ll explore the BOPPPS lesson design framework a simple yet powerful model that helps lessons flow smoothly, engage students early, and keep learning front and centre. Together, we’ll unpack each element of the model: Bridge-in, Objective, Pre-test, Participation, Post-test, and Summary, and examine how they work together to create purposeful, interactive, and memorable lessons.

Through concrete classroom examples, you’ll see how BOPPPS supports attention, formative assessment, and meaningful closure. Designed for both new and experienced educators, this workshop provides a clear structure and ready-to-use strategies you can apply immediately to create lessons that are more engaging, organized, and effective.

Science teachers know student engagement matters.  But engagement alone isn’t always enough. For learning to truly stick, students must have opportunities to own the most important ideas: to explain them in their own words, practice applying them, and retrieve them when it counts.

In this practical, classroom-ready workshop, you’ll explore a set of active engagement strategies designed to move students beyond passive note-taking and into meaningful sense-making. Using tools such as Peer Instruction, Mini-Whiteboards, Voice-Over Video, and Retrieval Practice, you’ll learn how to structure lessons so students regularly discuss, articulate, and rehearse core scientific concepts.

The strategies are modeled and experienced during the session, allowing you to see learning from a student’s perspective. You’ll discover how small, intentional instructional shifts can significantly increase participation, strengthen scientific language and reasoning, and deepen understanding of test- and exam-relevant material.

Designed for both new and experienced science teachers, this workshop offers practical tools you can apply immediately to improve retention, confidence, and active thinking in science classrooms.