SWATCA 2026 - South Western Alberta Teachers Convention
Annual teachers convention for southwestern Alberta educators featuring literacy, mental health, creative writing, and education technology sessions.
Sessions (170)
Holy Spirit Breakfast
Pre-recorded: 2026 President Schilling’s Convention Address - (this is not an in-person event)
Laurie McIntosh
Mindfulness and Quiet Space
20 Stratégies à utiliser le lundi
Altered Books in Division II
ATRF Your Pension Essentials
Cultivating Curiosity: How School Gardens Grow Healthy Minds and Habits
D3/4 SS Writing Part 2: Historical Narratives and Debates (persuasive/position papers)
Embracing The Chaos - Teaching as a Neuordiverse Music Educator
Financial Wellness starts with you -- and it starts now!
Flourishing Together: Resilience and Well-Being in Education
How to Use AI to Better Your Teaching Practice
Keeping Middle School Girls Engaged in Physical Activity
Kids and Grief: Let’s Talk About Death
Lego: Making Literal BLOCK Prints - Session Fee Required
Let’s Make a Visual Journal: Learn Bookbinding Techniques and How to Promote Metacognition Through Visual Journaling (ATA Fine Arts Council)
Leveraging UNO Cards for Literacy and Math in Early Education
Lifting Literacy: A framework for a holistic approach to literacy work
My Life as a Teacher with ADHD
Outreach and Alternative Education Roundtable Conversations
Radicalization of Youth through Extremist Groups
Rise Part II: The Power of Storytelling and Song in Mental Health Education
Rising Writers: A Creative Writing Starter Kit
Teaching Concept Albums as Literature - From American Idiot to Independent Inquiry
The ‘Trick or Treat’ Horror Writing Workshop
The Arctic Experience: Goota's Journey Through Inuit Traditions
The Power of Play: Using Board Games in Classroom Settings to Inspire Learning and Collaboration
Unlocking Early Literacy
Using the Alberta Envirothon and Inside Education resources to create new meaningful projects in science 9
Young Minds Matter - Mental Health Education for Rural Schools
AI + Teachers: The Ultimate Dream Team for Student Success
Assessment and Correction of Basic Weightlifting Movement
ATRF Steps to Receiving Your Pension
Blast Off with Gizmos: Coding Adventure on Mars for Grades 4-6
Bridging the Gap for New Teachers Part 1: How to Bring University Planning into the Real Classroom
Building a Foundation for Success
Creating Super Sub Plans - From a Full Time Substitute Teacher
D3 Gr 9: Part 2 -Engaging Projects (collective rights, YCJA, charter)
Empowering Inclusive School Communities: Navigating Alberta’s Gender Policy Legislation through and Student Wellbeing and Human Rights Approach
Enhance Student Writing Starting Monday: Practical Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement and Improving Student Writing (ATA Fine Arts Council)
Exchanges: Embark on a journey that will inform, inspire and transform your teaching or leadership journey
From Squeaks to Symphonies: Launching Beginners Without Losing Your Sanity
Get Reel || Creative Writing Techniques in Popular Cinema
Hitting the Mark: Bringing NASP Archery to Your School!
Kinngait Through Goota's Eyes: A Tale of Challenges and Victories
Multimodal composition in the classroom
Nature as Teacher -- How I brought plants from the Porcupine Hills into my high school ELA classroom to experience learning from the land & symbolism
Needle Felting - Session Fee Required
Practical Strategies for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to English Language Arts Journal
Rooted in Regulation: Tools for Real Classrooms
Spectroscopy and Light
TAG youre It; Miniature Graffiti Art - Session Fee Required
Teaching is a Joke - Learning Through Laughing
Teaching Students to Write Cool Characters, Superheroes, and Themselves
Tell a Story with Masks
The Big Giant Fantasy Writing Unit
The Gendered Heart of Leadership: Emotional Labour and the Well-Being of School Leaders
Top 10 Numeracy Activities for Preschool/Kindergarten
What Really Matters in School Leadership: Lessons from the Field
Writing Modern Monsters: Creatures, Mythology, and Folklore Workshop
Engaging Futures: Exploring Youth Initiatives at Lethbridge Polytechnic
Free School Workshops: Hands-On Career Pathways with E3 & Dual Credit
15 Lessons I Learned from Retiring Teachers
6 Super Strategies for Stellar Sex Ed: Best Practices for Teaching Sexual Health
ASEBP Benefit Overview Presentation
Beyond Words: Supporting English Language Learners with Refugee Backgrounds
Bridging the Gap for New Teachers Part 2: Linking your Planning to Authentic Assessment
Building Mastery of Basic Math Facts
Come African Drum With Me!
Div 3 Poetry
Engaging Social Studies Projects - Gr. 9-12
Exploring Inuit Games: Tradition, Skills, and Community
Fibre Arts: Stitching in a Collaborative Learning Session - Session Fee Required
Financial Wellness: How and What do Teachers Get Paid
Fix the Barriers, Fix the Behaviors: Adaptive Band Hacks That Actually Work
Gore Makeup
Inclusive Classrooms in Action: Belonging, UDL, and Strength-Based Strategies
Indigenizing Curriculum: The Animal Kinship Project
Low Equipment, High-Engagement Games for All Group Sizes
Mixed Media Landscapes - Session Fee Required
Multigenre Writing Projects: Incorporating Creative writing in the ELA classroom
Pickleball in Schools: Learn to Play, Learn to Teach
Press Pause - Yoga Nidra for Teachers
Rap Battle Strategy
Re-engage Students and Improve Cognition Starting Monday: Utilize Influential Psychology to Increase Engagement (ATA Fine Arts Council)
Short & Sweet, Why Word-Economy Needs to be in Every Writer’s Toolkit
Sky Science can be fun!
Survival Tips for New and Struggling Teachers
The Deadly Dinner Party: Writing a Murder Mystery 101
The Power of Scientific Modeling in Elementary Science Education
Understanding Student Behaviour Through the Lens of Needs and Skills
Unlocking the Power of the IPP to Transform Assessment Practices
Visible Mending - Session Fee Required
12 Profound Teaching Practices I Learned from Colleagues and Friends
AI in the High School English Classroom
ASEBP MyRetiree Presentation
Basic Fact Mastery for Junior High Without a Calculator
Bridging the Gap for New Teachers Part 3: Communicating with Students, Parents and your Education Team
Clapping Games in Elementary Music
Code of Conduct: Navigating the Alberta Teaching Profession's Process (K-12)
Developing Creativity using the Five Senses
Div 2 and 3 - Epic end of year projects - what to do in June? 8 Epic Events, Greatest Canadian debates, World Fair, moments in CDN history...
Games & Activities for Adolescent Self-Regulation and Wellness
Get 'em Moving! Dynamic and Inclusive Activities for PE
I’m Walking on Sunshine: Bringing Assessment to Life with the Walking Curriculum
Inclusive Sexual Health Education: Making sex ed work for all your students
Leap into Learning with Online Math Simulations for Grades 1-3
Mini Masterpieces for Mini Museums - Session Fee Required
President Schilling: Unplugged
Questions School Leaders ask TEMS
Resume Building for Students
Shakespeare Remix: Romeo & Juliet
Small Shifts, Big Impact: Micro-Actions for Teacher Well-Being
Speak Up: Performance Activities to Build Your Students’ Confidence
STIM en action : Relier les métiers spécialisés, les mathématiques et les sciences
Watercolor Explorations - Session Fee Required
Why do we choose the foods we do?
Women and Other Underrepresented Composers for Wind Band
SWATCA Social
University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education Alumni Breakfast
Andrew Stobo Sniderman & Douglas Sanderson
Ace Your Next School Performance: Production Techniques You Will Actually Use
Be An Upstander: Finding Hope in Complex Times
Bored to Board
Can You Hear Me Now?
Décoder l’ébauche du nouveau curriculum d’études sociales 7-9 année
EcoSchools in Alberta: A Curriculum Linked Framework for Environmental and Climate Action
Emotional Regulation and Art Therapy
Failure in Coding
Gender Inclusive Language in French
I Survived ISIS: One Woman's Story of Escaping ISIS and Surviving the Yazidi Genocide
Leading With Fun - Games and Activities for Building Morale
Mind your Mindfulness - Skills for Emotional Intelligence
Mindfulness in the Early Learning Classroom
Mitigating Risks in a Digital World
Nature Nurtures: Teaching Beyond the Classroom Walls
Primitive Reflexes, Reading, and Readiness
Responding to Teen Mental Health and Death by Suicide: One Teacher’s Story
Robot Bootcamp
STARRY NIGHT PERFORMANCE
Suicide Prevention: Supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth
Supporting Elementary Teachers with GSD-inclusive Practices
The Agile Teacher — Hiring Guidance and Career Development
The Language Café: Stirring Up Engagement and Learning in Secondary Students
Unlocking the Galt Museum and Archives: Enhancing Student Learning and Teacher Growth
Using Fields to Go Places!
What Is In That Box
What’s New in Books? The 6-12 Edition
ARTA and the ARTA Benefit Plans – Looking Ahead to NEW ADVENTURES Presented by Alberta Retired Teachers’ Association
Brains Over Bots: AI-Resistant Approaches for Authentic Learning
Creating EAL Inclusive Schools and Classrooms Through the Language Friendly School Program
Dealing with Volatile Situations
Dungeons, Dragons, and Desks: Bringing Role-Playing Games into the School
Executive Function in Action: Tools for Teachers, Success for Students
Exploring the New Curriculum Through MakeCode Arcade Games
Helping Students with Mental Health Needs Focus on Learning
L’orthographe lexicale en un coup d’oeil (1ère-6e année)
Micro:bits Across the Curriculum
Poetry In Voice: Canada's Poetry Recitation Competition
Serious Learning, Playfully Done
Tame Your Inner Critic: Tools for Peace, Joy, and Effective Thinking
Teaching Environmental Law: Bridging Policy and Practice
The Power of Patterns - Making and Modifying Models
Unblocking Flow: Building a Toolkit Against Burnout
What's New in Books? The K-5 Edition
Witness Blanket: Voices of Residential School Survivors
Women in Leadership Roundtable
The 2026 University of Lethbridge High School Honour Band