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Every teacher teaching the New K-6 Social Studies Curriculum, will be entitled to one release day this year. This day is specifically for working collaboratively on the new social studies curriculum.

The collaborative team can decide how to best use this time, whether it's to develop unit plans, create shared resources, or align curriculum maps. Teams can be from the same school, or created from different schools. This is a great opportunity to get a head-start and share best practices with your colleagues across the division.

To utilize the release day, each teachers will have to fill out the release day form (also posted on the New Curriculum website) at least two weeks in advance. After the collaborative day, they will need to submit any materials they create to M-A so she can add them to the grade specific scope and sequence documents to be shared with all the social studies teachers in the division. 

• To book your subs in Easy Connect, 

  • select: Curriculum and Instruction 

  • In the Additional Info section, please add: Social Studies release day 

2025/2026 Sessions:

• Oct 8, 2025 (cancelled)

• Feb 25, 2026: 

2024/2025 Sessions:

• Oct 8, 2024: New Curriculum architecture, Math and Literacy

• Feb 26, 2025 : New Social Studies Curriculum, KUSPs and the Wicked Problem. 

Kindergarten: Overview & How-To Guide
Grade 1: Overview & How-To Guide
Grade 2: Overview & How-To Guide
Grade 3: Overview & How-To Guide

Gr 4-10: Step-By-Step guide 

LS Video Tutorial: Summary Analysis

HLAT - Everything You Need to Know & How To Do

LS Video Tutorial: Summary Analysis

LS Video Tutorial: HLAT Analysis

September 2025 edition

CESD EAL Benchmarks 2.0 slide deck

CESD Supporting EAL students slide deck

CESD EAL website 

Supporting EAL Learners in CESD 2024-2025

CESD EAL Support Plan (with registration links to sessions)

EAL presentations with The Consortium:

• Intro for Administrators: presentation recording & slides. 

  • • • Creating a welcoming environment 

      • Compiled multicultural book list 

      • Name Stories

      • EAL intake checklist

      • EAL Favourites Reading List  

      • EAL Funding Information

• EAL for Classroom Teachers:

  • • EAL for classroom teachers- What do I do? (recording of session)

    • Slide presentation- What do I do? Where do I begin?

    • Building Vocabulary- prefixes, roots and suffixes

    • Root words

• Strategies for Classroom Teachers:

  • • Strategies for Classroom Teachers (recording of session)

• EAL Benchmarks for Classroom Teachers:

  • • Benchmark 2.0 for teachers (recording of session)