HDSB PA Day Agendas
HDSB PA Day Agendas
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On Professional Activity (PA) days, staff engage in professional development. Our school, along with all schools in the Halton District School Board (HDSB) have several Professional Activity (PA) Days throughout the school year. The purpose of these days is to enhance student success. Staff focus on professional development activities, participate in training or planning sessions. There are no classes for students on these days.
To learn about what schools across the HDSB are focusing on during each PA Day, visit HDSB PA Days 2024-2025
PA Day Agendas
2024-2025 School Year and 2025-2026
PA Day Agendas
2024-2025 School Year and 2025-2026
For a detailed description of what our school will be focusing on please see the following information.
Agendas Through the Year:
Agendas Through the Year:
September 3, 2024:
Topic: Provincial Education Priorities
Format: Full day, in person
Description: School teams will review effective practices, policies/procedures and resources prepared by central departments to support student and school safety. The content includes violent incident prevention, bullying prevention and intervention strategies, prevalent medical conditions, vaping resources, cellphone use and PPM128. Emergency safe schools procedures, safe schools incident reporting, accident reporting and special education health and safety procedures will be reviewed.
Facilitators: The learning will be led by principals and vice-principals and school-based staff, supported with materials and guidance from central departments including Student Mental Health and Well-Being, Safe Schools and Special Education
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations and small group work
October 11, 2024:
Topic: Permission to Feel, Honouring the Land, Review of Special Education Process and Pathways, Numeracy & Literacy
Format: Full day, in person
Description: School teams will review effective practices, policies, procedures and resources prepared by school administrators and board staff to support our school work with Permission to Feel. We will also dive deeper into our work with the Indigenous Treaty partners, and working to help our undertsanding of why we honour the land. Our Special Education Resource Team will lead us through the Special Education Process and Problem Solving Pathway.
Facilitators: The learning will be led by principals and vice-principals and school-based staff, supported with materials and guidance from various educators.
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations and small group work
November 29, 2024
Topic: Student Growth and Progress Reports
Format: Full day, in person or remotely
Description: Elementary school teams will engage in Student/Parent/Guardian/Teacher
conferences focused on Student Growth and Progress Reports.
Facilitators: Elementary programming will be led by teachers.
Learning/Delivery Method: Small group conferences with students and parents.
January 27, 2025
Topic: Assessment and Evaluation Activities
Length: Full-day
Format: In-person or remotely
Description: Elementary educators will be engaged in assessment and evaluation activities including report card writing. This is time designated by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) collective agreement.
Facilitators(s): Self-Directed Day for teachers
Learning/Delivery Method: Individual work time
February 14, 2025
Topic: Learning and Growth: Student Literacy, Mathematics and Social Emotional Well-Being
Format: Full day, in person
Description: School teams will review effective practices, policies, procedures and resources prepared by school administrators and board staff. In addition, staff will be exploring resources and software to support math and literacy programs.
Facilitators: The learning will be led by principals and vice-principals and school-based staff, supported with materials and guidance from central departments including Student Mental Health and Well-Being, Safe Schools and Special Education
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations, small group work and online self-directed modules
April 4, 2025
Topic: Emotional Validation
Format: Full day, in person
Description: Educators will learn about Emotional Validation, as well as work through the book Permission to Feel. This work helps build capacity about how to acknowledge and accept emotions without judgement, build trust, empathy, and resilience within the school community.
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations, small group work and online self-directed modules
June 6, 2025
Topic: Assessment and Evaluation Activities
Length: Full-day
Format: In-person or remotely
Description: Elementary educators will be engaged in assessment and evaluation activities including report card writing. This is time designated by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) collective agreement.
Facilitators(s): Self-Directed Day for teachers
Learning/Delivery Method: Individual work time
Topic: Provincial Education Priorities - Keeping Schools Safe and School Resource Officer Program
Format:
Full-day, in-person
Elementary and secondary schools
Description: School teams will review policy requirements and supports for safe schools regarding the Provincial Code of Conduct, violence prevention, violent incident reporting and debriefing, gender-based violence and the Provincial Model for a Local Police/School Board Protocol. The content will include the role of police in providing high-quality, age-appropriate educational public safety presentations to students on subjects such as cybercrime, human trafficking, road safety and more. Information will be provided about the role of police in the school community, to support trust building between educators, policing services, students and parents/guardians. For schools currently in the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, a summary of the program's structure and objectives will be reviewed. Suicide prevention and intervention will also be reviewed.
Staff will also review site specific routines and protocols, Emergency safe schools procedures, safe schools incident reporting, accident reporting, special education health and safety procedures and cybersafety and responsible technology use in schools. Furthermore, discussions will continue on previous learning focused on creating equitable spaces, using the resource "Unearthing Joy" by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad.
Facilitators: Learning will be led by principals and vice-principals and school-based staff, supported with materials and guidance from central departments including Student Mental Health and Well-Being, Safe Schools and Special Education.
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations and small group work
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025
Topic: Provincial Education Priorities - Tackling Racism & Keeping Schools Safe
Format:
Full-day, in-person
Elementary and secondary schools
Description: School teams will engage in learning focused on how to create supportive classrooms and schools free from discrimination in any form. There will be a particular focus on antisemitism, anti-Black racism, Islamophobia and racism towards Indigenous communities. Learning will equip educators to uphold human rights, as required by the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Ontario curriculum program planning information on the instruction of Human Rights, Equity and Inclusive Education, which is applicable to all grades and disciplines, will be reviewed.
School teams will review practices, policies/procedures and resources to support Student and School Safety using resources prepared by central departments. The content includes:
bullying prevention and intervention, duty to report children in need of protection to the Children’s Aid Society, information about child sexual abuse prevention and reporting.
Facilitators: Learning will be led by principals and vice-principals and school-based staff, supported with materials and guidance from central departments including Indigenous Rights and Education and Human Rights, Equity and Inclusive Education departments.
Learning/Delivery Method: Whole group presentations and small group work
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