Jumpstart to Teaching 2025 is a full-day orientation for new CISVA teachers, happening Monday, August 25, 2025, at St. Matthew’s in Surrey from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

Faith Development Day 2025 will take place on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, where we will once again gather to reconnect as a whole family and grow in our understanding of the Gospel and God’s call to build the Kingdom, in our area of education.

Introduction to CISVA Learning Support Help Centre Website workshop will take place on Monday, September 8, 2025, via ZOOM.

Developed by KAIROS Canada, a coalition of Christian churches and organizations committed to social justice and reconciliation, the Blanket Exercise is an interactive workshop that invites educators to experience the history and legacy of colonization in Canada from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.

Cornerstone #1: Categorical Designation Workshop will take place on Monday, September 22, 2025.

High school learning support teachers will continue working toward a common vision of relevant learning for CISVA students with diverse needs. 

This session offers a focused revisit of student portfolios as part of the CISVA Communicating Student Learning (CSL) framework. We will clarify the purpose of portfolios, consider practical approaches for gathering and reflecting on student learning over time, and explore connections to learning standards and proficiency development. Sample ideas and tools will be shared to support classroom use.

This training focuses on problem solving and decision making when managing a student who presents risk behaviours. It prepares staff to prevent and de-escalate medium to high-risk behaviour, and it includes practical skill development to address a broader range of behaviours and emotions.

Teacher leaders nominated from each CISVA secondary school will engage in a series of professional learning sessions focused on strengths-based assessment and reporting aligned with BC’s redesigned curriculum and Student Reporting Policy.

High School Faith Team Meeting #1 will take place on Friday, October 3, 2025 from 9:00am - 3:00pm.

Join fellow Education Committee members, priests, and principals for a day of connection, learning, and faith-filled leadership. Archbishop Smith, our new shepherd, will celebrate Mass and offer the keynote address.

The Challenge of Leadership course is a locally developed course intended for individuals who seek to meet the criteria to become potential administrators in the CISVA.

This repeat session offers another opportunity to revisit key concepts from the May workshop. Participants will clarify proficiency, explore ways to make assessment tools more student-friendly, and experiment with using AI to generate draft rubrics from calibrated success criteria.

This training focuses on problem solving and decision making when managing a student who presents risk behaviours. It prepares staff to prevent and de-escalate medium to high-risk behaviour, and it includes practical skill development to address a broader range of behaviours and emotions.

Teacher leaders nominated from each CISVA secondary school will engage in a series of professional learning sessions focused on strengths-based assessment and reporting aligned with BC’s redesigned curriculum and Student Reporting Policy. The series emphasizes clarifying proficiency, connecting assessment to learning standards, and creating clear, consistent tools that support student growth.

This half-day workshop will provide newly appointed principals and all CISVA teachers new to grades Kindergarten - 3 with information and directives for recognizing child abuse indicators, and the appropriate responses for dealing with such situations.

This training focuses on problem solving and decision making when managing a student who presents risk behaviours. It prepares staff to prevent and de-escalate medium to high-risk behaviour, and it includes practical skill development to address a broader range of behaviours and emotions.

This Pro-D session invites the Elementary Assessment Advocates to take the next purposeful step in rubric development—moving from classroom-generated and AI-enhanced success criteria to proficiency language that reflects province-wide calibration as articulated in the BC K–12 Literacy and Numeracy Learning Pathways.

This session will address the best practices in inclusive education, Ministry based policy, orders, and protocols, Competency Based IEPs, and assessment practices that support diverse learners. CISVA updates and news will also be a focus.

High school learning support teachers will continue working toward a common vision of relevant learning for CISVA students with diverse needs.  This group regularly meets with the goal of fostering systematic and effective strategies, resources and methods of supports to meet the needs of diverse learners. 

EFDFs meet three times a year to gather information, network with colleagues from other CISVA elementary schools and share experiences and resources that will help support staff members’ faith development needs and assist in the realization of the faith-based goals from the School Growth Plan. 

This training focuses on problem solving and decision making when managing a student who presents risk behaviours. It prepares staff to prevent and de-escalate medium to high-risk behaviour, and it includes practical skill development to address a broader range of behaviours and emotions.

High School Faith Team Meeting #1 will take place on Friday, October 3, 2025 from 9:00am - 3:00pm.

High school learning support teachers will continue working toward a common vision of relevant learning for CISVA students with diverse needs.  This group regularly meets with the goal of fostering systematic and effective strategies, resources and methods of supports to meet the needs of diverse learners. 

This training focuses on problem solving and decision making when managing a student who presents risk behaviours. It prepares staff to prevent and de-escalate medium to high-risk behaviour, and it includes practical skill development to address a broader range of behaviours and emotions.

This session will address the best practices in inclusive education, Ministry based policy, orders, and protocols, Competency Based IEPs, and assessment practices that support diverse learners. CISVA updates and news will also be a focus.

High school learning support teachers will continue working toward a common vision of relevant learning for CISVA students with diverse needs.  This group regularly meets with the goal of fostering systematic and effective strategies, resources and methods of supports to meet the needs of diverse learners. 

EFDFs meet three times a year to gather information, network with colleagues from other CISVA elementary schools and share experiences and resources that will help support staff members’ faith development needs and assist in the realization of the faith-based goals from the School Growth Plan. 

This workshop will highlight applicable ministry and CISVA policy, ministerial orders and FISA best practice guidelines for file management, retention and transfer. This session will review ministry direction and provide practical ideas for local decision making.  

High school learning support teachers will continue working toward a common vision of relevant learning for CISVA students with diverse needs.  This group regularly meets with the goal of fostering systematic and effective strategies, resources and methods of supports to meet the needs of diverse learners. 

On this special day, CISVA educators will come together to be introduced to the faith theme for the 2026–2027 school year. Rooted in Scripture and Catholic teaching, the new theme will be unpacked through prayer, reflection, and dialogue.

High School Faith Team Meeting #1 will take place on Friday, October 3, 2025 from 9:00am - 3:00pm.