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Conference Email
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Association of Teachers of English of Nova Scotia

A Day with Trevor MacKenzie: Exploring Inquiry in the English Language Arts Context  

Provincial Conference – Friday October 24, 2025

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Registration

  Registration Limit: 80 
No refunds after Friday October 10, 2025

  Registration Information

Conference Fee (NSTU Members) 
$100.00
Substitutes 
$90.00
Pre-Service Teachers 
$90.00
Retired Members 
$90.00
Other Affiliates 
$125.00
s per NSTU Operational Procedure 14 E. IV.: receipts of payment and attendance will not be distributed until the conference has concluded.

 

 Location

Lighthouse Arts Center, 1800 Argyle St, Halifax, NS B3J 3N8

 

  Conference Schedule 

8:50 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
 Housekeeping & Introductions  (Welcome from the NSTU/ATENS) 
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
 Morning Session A 
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
 Break  (provided) 
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
 Morning Session B 
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
 Lunch  (on your own) 
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
 Afternoon Session C 
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 Annual General Meeting  (AGM)

    Keynote

Trevor MacKenzie

Trevor MacKenzie is a part-time high school teacher in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research, consultancy, and authorship have reached all parts of the world as he works with schools, districts, organizations, and ministries/departments of education in a variety of contexts. Policy advising, curriculum development, professional development, and systems change are Trevor’s areas of expertise.

  Agenda

Friday October 25, 2024  

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Capacity: 80
  Morning Session A  • Inquiry Mindset Questions Edition

Trevor MacKenzie facilitates learning from his recently released fourth publication, Inquiry Mindset Questions Edition. Question Routines are designed to help teachers leverage student-generated questions to help plan next steps in learning. These routines call on students to sort, organize, justify, and revise their questions and in doing so, help them become more competent questioners themselves. Mr. MacKenzie will demonstrate strategies to plan for curiosity through the lens of provocations, facilitate learning of the ten high impact Question Routines from the publication, and examine how these routines align with inquiry teaching and learning and curricular standards. 

A focus of the day will also be on student-centered assessment strategies with a lens on supporting learners in understanding where they are in their learning and where they need to go next in their learning. Mr. MacKenzie is an educator in British Columbia, Canada, who teaches in a public school system world renowned for its rich formative assessment practice and competency focused standards. Powerful co-design and feedback structures will be shared from the ELA setting thus providing sensible and time effective strategies to support student growth in the classroom. 

 
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
 Break 
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Capacity: 80
  Morning Session B  • Inquiry Mindset Questions Edition
Morning Session continued.  
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
 Lunch 
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Capacity: 80
  Afternoon Session C  • Inquiry Mindset Questions Edition
Morning Session continued. 

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Conference Contact
Liam Timmons
 
Conference Email
atensconference@nstu.ca

 

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