BC TEAL 2025 Annual Conference

Your Three Wishes Granted: 1) Multi-level, CLB-aligned materials 2) Emerging learner & literacy support 3) Occupational training

Roberta will walk attendees through the grants ( and the application process) provided through Pro Literacy, and how they give adult learning programs free access to easy to use solutions for online and in class learning.


Mobile Learning Fund Grants, which are available year round, give programs access to:


1) A results driven English learning platform used to upskill English language learners to prepare them for real world taks, increase civic engagement, fill in-demand jobs and advance in the workforce.
2) A fun and engaging app to help learners make gains in reading, English, math, work,life, health, digital and financial literacy.
3) A high-school equivalency test prep platform ( with the Canadian Adult Education Credential) that can be understood and easily utilized by learners at a foundational skills level.
4) A weekly online news source with easy-to-read global current events stories and a plethora of Canadian articles that build EAL learners reading language, and media literacy skills.


The goal is to continue building capacity among literacy and language programs by supporting the adoption of digital learning solutions, helping all types of learners who may...
•have very busy lifestyles with work/ and or parenting, etc.
•not be able to regularly attend classes.
•be on a waiting list.
•need to make faster gains.


Grants provided through the National Book Fund assist literacy, EAL and basic education programs by providing quality print materials through New Readers Press to enable a better serving of students.

In recent years coaching has emerged as a growing and effective source of support for students and educators (Aguilar, 2013; Kristjánsson, et al., 2018; Kristjánsson & Mohan, 2023). In this first session of a two-part workshop, we will take a brief look at different types of coaching along with key benefits, principles, and practices of a strength-based coach approach for teaching and personal / professional development.  By the end of this session, participants will:

• Understand foundational principles of coaching as they apply to teaching
• Recognize the potential of effective coach approach questioning for transformative shifts in thinking  
• Appreciate how the top strengths they bring to teaching might be leveraged in their own coach approach to teaching and learning

Workshop activities will include:

1. Introduction and warm-up - (10 minutes)
   • Think-Pair-Share activity
2. Coaching Overview (10 minutes)
   • Listening to the presenter
3. Coach Approach vs Traditional  Teaching (10 minutes)
   • Sample Coaching questions re teaching
   • Individual reflection and group interaction  
4. Strength awareness exercise (10 minutes
   • Reflect on and identify top strengths they bring to teaching from a core strengths profile
   • Personal reflection as response to a coaching question about how these might be leveraged to bring about a desired aspect of change in their teaching settings.
   • Q&A (5 minutes)

In recent years coaching has emerged as a growing and effective source of support for students and educators (Aguilar, 2013; Kristjánsson, et al., 2018; Kristjánsson & Mohan, 2023). In this first session of a two-part workshop, we will take a brief look at different types of coaching along with key benefits, principles, and practices of a strength-based coach approach for teaching and personal / professional development.  By the end of this session, participants will:

• Understand foundational principles of coaching as they apply to teaching
• Recognize the potential of effective coach approach questioning for transformative shifts in thinking  
• Appreciate how the top strengths they bring to teaching might be leveraged in their own coach approach to teaching and learning

Workshop activities will include:

1. Introduction and warm-up - (10 minutes)
   • Think-Pair-Share activity
2. Coaching Overview (10 minutes)
   • Listening to the presenter
3. Coach Approach vs Traditional  Teaching (10 minutes)
   • Sample Coaching questions re teaching
   • Individual reflection and group interaction  
4. Strength awareness exercise (10 minutes
   • Reflect on and identify top strengths they bring to teaching from a core strengths profile
   • Personal reflection as response to a coaching question about how these might be leveraged to bring about a desired aspect of change in their teaching settings.
   • Q&A (5 minutes)

In this session, I invite managers and instructors to discover the latest advancements in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) within Avenue's learning resources. Recent AI developments and the upgrade to Moodle 4.5 have introduced innovative features designed to enhance the educational experience. WE are currently examining our options. We have deployed several AI features on our CanAvenue resource and will be using our experiences with this  with the Moodle 4.5 upgrade in March 2025.  Moodle 4.5 offers us the new opportunities such as a flexible AI subsystem that allows organizations to choose if, how, and where they want to integrate AI tools into their Moodle site. This subsystem supports integration with various AI providers, including OpenAI and Azure AI, enabling functionalities such as text generation, course content summarization, and image generation. These capabilities streamline content creation, allowing educators to generate text and images directly within Moodle's editor, thereby saving time and effort. Additionally, AI-generated content is tagged for transparency, and descriptions for generated images are automatically added, making it easier to create inclusive, accessible learning materials. When enabled by their instructor, learners can also use AI tools within Moodle to create content and summarize text, with all actions logged for review and continuous learning improvement. This session will provide an overview of these new AI-powered features and demonstrate how they can be effectively utilized to enhance both teaching and learning experiences. In May, there will be functioning and future AI integrations presented at this session.  

We want to take teachers on a detailed tour of the new updates to the Avenue course-builder, e-Portfolio and Binder. The new course-builder is there to help the instructors to create their own classroom. During the session we will provide some tips and tricks to customize the Avenue courseware, so it makes the course page more user friendly and fast. 


Topics covered include symptoms of a large course, using the Course Builder, creating a Sandbox Course/New Course, moving course content, using the Sharing Cart and Mass Actions Blocks, using Export/Import, using Back-up and Restore, removing topics, removing blocks, and large media files/YouTube streaming.

We have added more activity types that can be auto-collected to the e-Portfolio with tags, and these will empower teachers to create even more PBLA aligned material that can create e-Portfolio artifacts automatically for them. 


We will also demonstrate several activity and resource types that teachers can leverage for things like Inventory Sheets, Skill-Using Tasks, and Assessment Tasks. Guiding teachers through the process to set up these materials and demonstrating in real-time the time-saving potential inherent in the Avenue e-Portfolio through the use of sample students and the artifacts created during the session.