PA Day Agendas

Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025

Provincial Education Priorities - Keeping Schools Safe and School Resource Officer Program

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. 

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

Provincial Education Priorities - Tackling Racism & Keeping Schools Safe

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:

Provincial Code of Conduct, violence prevention, bullying prevention and intervention, duty to report children in need of protection to the Children’s Aid Society, progressive discipline, violent incident reporting, gender-based violence, sex trafficking, the Provincial Model for a local Police/School Board Protocol, information about child sexual abuse prevention and reporting and the School Resource Officer program.

Whole school kick off for Learning for Sustainable Futures - with speaker Judy Halpern 

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 

Topic: 

• Teachers and DECEs will meet with families  for Student Led Conferences to communicate and share observations to date, Student Strengths and Next Steps.

• Educational Assistants will be collaborating other Milton schools on this day to learn

Format: 

• In person

Description: 

• Student Led Conferences aim to communicate and share observations to date, Highlight Student Strengths and acheivement

• EAs will be learning about ways to support neuro-diverse students, strategies to support all students in schools,  stay physically safe when dealing with difficult situations and sharing and collaborating with other EA teams from across Milton

Facilitators: 

• Educational Assistants will have a number of guest speakers presenting and sharing knowledge specific to their daily work

Topic: 

• Reporting, Assessment and Evaluation

Format: 

• Hybrid

Description: 

• Teachers and DECEs will work on assessing work and prepare for February Report Cards. They will have the opportunity to plan moving forward to be responsive to student needs moving forward.
• EAs will work on planning for Term 2 to best support the students of Viola Desmond.

Facilitators: 

• N/A

Learning/Delivery Method: 

• Self Directed

Topic: 

• Teacher Professional Development. 

Format: 

• In person

Description: 

• School Improvement

Facilitators: 

• School Administration and Lead Teachers

Learning/Delivery Method: 

• Whole group and small group

Topic: 

• Cyber Security and Generative AI

Format: 

• Whole group and Independent Modules

Description: 

• The whole group parts of the Professional Development day will focus heavily on the importance of Cyber Security and Generative AI, both for teacher use and for student use, to ensure that HDSB guidelines are followed and that safeguards are in place to keep students and data secure and to remove the risks associated with the use of these digital tools. The remainder of the day will focus on School Improvement goals and in school work as well as a three part module on Cyber Awareness for all teaching staff. 

• Education Assistants will be off site on the PD day for regional training on a variety of topics pertaining to their work with students and their needs based on their assignments.

Facilitators: 

• Administrators

Learning/Delivery Method: 

• Whole group learning, live virtual learning, self paced modules

Topic: 

• TBD

Format: 

• TBD

Description: 

• TBD

Facilitators: 

• TBD

Learning/Delivery Method: 

• TBD