Name: AI as Your Planning Partner: Forward Assessment Planning with Backward Design (K-6)
Start: 2025-08-26T09:45:00-0600
End: 2025-08-26T10:45:00-0600

ECSD Elementary Summer Summit: Flourishing in Hope – Growing Toward Optimal Learning
Join us on August 26 for a day of connection, inspiration, and deep learning. With over 40 sessions featuring classroom-ready resources, high-impact strategies, and engaging lessons across all subject areas—including the brand-new Social Studies curriculum—this year’s Summit will help you start the year with confidence and purpose. Explore the schedule below and plan your path toward flourishing in your practice and fostering optimal learning for every student.

Tuesday August 26, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am MDT

Heritage Room

Session Materials

Imagine having a collaborative partner to help you plan your year, design units, and align monthly lessons to outcomes—AI can do that. In this forward-thinking session, you’ll explore how artificial intelligence tools can support long-range planning, backward design, and curriculum mapping. Discover how to generate outcome-aligned learning progressions, brainstorm differentiated tasks, and create assessment ideas with the help of responsible AI prompting. Whether you’re just getting started or ready to level up your planning game, this session will show you how to save time and spark creativity using AI as a co-designer in your teaching practice.

Speakers

Nicole Cunningham

Emtech, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Nicole Cunningham is a Consultant with the Emerging Technology team in Learning Services with Edmonton Catholic Schools. She has been an educator with ECSD for 26 years, teaching K-6 students and serving as a technology coach for Early Learning, Inclusive Education and Curriculum... Read More →

Joel Kristiansen

Emerging Technology Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Joel is part of the Emerging Technology team at Edmonton Catholic Schools. Joel has worked in ECSD for over a decade, spending most of his time in K-9 schools teaching design, robotics, and collaborating with teachers to integrate makerspaces into their subject area.

Leanne Hemphill

Curriculum and Assessment, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Leanne is a tech enthusiast and Assessment & Reporting consultant! Her passion lies in revolutionizing how assessments are conducted, making them engaging and insightful for all. When she's not diving deep into assessment strategies, Leanne can be found gliding through the water with... Read More →

Alyson Gabucci

Curriculum and Assessment Consultant, Edmonton Catholic School Division

Alyson Gabucci is an Assessment & Reporting consultant at Edmonton Catholic Schools. She is passionate about eating, mainly salty carbohydrates, working out because of those salty carbohydrates, and you can often find her with her nose in a book either learning more about assessment... Read More →

Tuesday August 26, 2025 9:45am - 10:45am MDT
Heritage Room

K-6

ECSD Elementary Summer Summit

Nicole Cunningham

Joel Kristiansen

Leanne Hemphill

Alyson Gabucci

Attendees (16)

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