UPCOMING PD OPPORTUNITIES

Stratford Festival
  • Watch the trailer below to see what is on at Stratford this season. The Crucible may be good for some grade levels. Click here to reserve tickets for your group.

Shaw Festival
  • A hit musical set in magical Scotland. A heist gone hilariously wrong. A sweeping Narnia adventure. A Bernard Shaw epic. Sex. Murder. Politics. Oh, and Tennessee Williams. You'll want to sit down for this.
  • Click here to learn about the shows.

Professional Development Opportunities

CITE AGM & SOCIAL

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & SOCIAL
@CRESTWOOD SCHOOL
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Guest Speaker: Professor Daniel Scott Tysdal (University of Toronto)
Annual General Meeting  
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.      
Buffet Dinner
5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.              
Speaker: Professor Daniel Scott Tysdal (University of Toronto)
6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.     

Daniel began teaching at UTSC in 2009, and, as a member of the Department of English, he teaches academic courses on poetry, the short story, and the comic book. He also instructs creative writing courses on poetry and fiction. In 2012, the UTSC student newspaper, The Underground, named him one of their four “Professors of the Year.”
Please RSVP to Chris Jull
Your school will be charged $30 for the event to cover the cost of dinner and the speaker. 

​UPCOMING AND PAST 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

CITE AGM & SOCIAL 

​4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.  AGM Meeting 
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Drinks and Dinner
6:15 p.m. - 7:30p.m.  Matt Johnson, Guest Speaker
Come and meet other CITE members and enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of Branksome Hall's beautiful downtown campus. Director Matt Johnson will speak about the nature of story telling in the 21st century. Matt has directed two feature films The Dirties and Operation Avalanche, and is currently creating Nirvanna the Band the Show for Vice TV. 

Cost: $30 will be charged to your CIS member school. The cost covers dinner, two drinks and the speaker. To register, please send an email to CITE Treasurer, Matt Trevisan.

​CITE annual general meeting 

thursday, october 13, 2016 @CDS

cite agm with special guest

​BRENDAN MCLEOD

CITE was pleased to welcome Brendan McLeod, a popular writer, storyteller and magician to our AGM that took place on Thursday, October 13, at The Country Day School's newly-renovated facility. Thanks to all who attended! Special thanks to Sarah Hudson and The Country Day School for hosting!

REPORT ON

CITE SOCIAL WITH 

NORA YOUNG

february 2016 ​

@ St. Clement's School

The CITE Social on February 4, was a great success. CITE teachers met CIS Ontario colleagues while sampling some wine, beer, home-made gourmet food and tasty desserts. Thank you to St. Clement's School for hosting the elegant affair.

Nora Young's Presentation
Nora Young, CBC radio host of Spark, discussed the rapid technological changes in our world, and how more than ever students' critical thinking skills are imperative. Adolescents must recognize that media is constructed and question what they see. Young admitted that technology does make our lives easier and explained how it can help with communications in war-torn countries; however, Young also showed how intrusive technology has become, and she provided some interesting forecasts such as how soon social media sites like Facebook will mainly consist of video posts. She also discussed how there is a marked increase in tracking apps, resulting in the loss of our privacy. Everyone is collecting our personal data, including the government, companies and research analysts.For example, the app gigapixel can zoom in and identify one face in an image containing thousands of people. This is bad news for people who particpate in violent demonstrations! She also discussed how technological advances mean that teachers will need to keep up with the changes, how it will affect everything for studentsfrom their social interactions to changing career options. Click here for more on Nora Young.

MEDIA PD Opportunity:
Hack the classroom: Radicalizing Your Media Teaching

APRIL 9, 2016 | 8:30am - 2:25pm | OSSTF Provincial Office | 60 Mobile Drive | Toronto ON
COST $25 / PERSON
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Click here for session details! 

Click here for poster.

2016 DEPARTMENT HEADS' MEETING  WITH NEIL ANDERSeN 
FROM ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA LITERACY (ONTARIO) YORK UNIVERSITY, ONTARIO

CIS CITE English Department Leaders' meeting with Neil Andersen from the AML. Neil discussed a variety of topics related to media studies and media literacy in 21st century education. See below for a list of questions and answers, as well as other resources provided by Neil.
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​Annual general meeting
& Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize readings
Oct 29, 2015

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  • Dinner on campus (approx. $15) catered by A Portable Feast (Mrs. Misty Ingraham)
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.RSVP to Claire Pacaud if you're planning to attend the AGM, the AGM + dinner, or the whole bundle. Share a ride with a colleague!
The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant
Red Jacket by Pamela Mordecai
His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
Confidence by Russell Smith

Joseph Boyden at CITE Social & English department Heads' meeting



We were delighted to have Joseph Boyden, author of Three-Day Road and The Orenda, at our annual CITE Social to discuss what is Canadian literature and what it means to be Canadian. Thanks to St. Clement's School for hosting this event. See our picture gallery below!

Author Kate Pullinger speaks at CITE AGM

AGM Summary - guest author Kate Pullinger
Thank you to Upper Canada College for hosting the CITE AGM. It was timely that author Kate Pullinger was visiting from England and was able to attend the meeting to speak to us about her recent projects and book. If you were unable to attend, please visit the 14-18 Letter to an Unknown Soldiersite, a project commemorating the start of World War I. Over 20,000 people from all over the UK wrote a letter to the soldier. Kate also discussed the importance of the written word in modern times and showed her digital interactive novelInanimate Alice, which combines text and technology. (Episodes are available for free.) Last, Kate talked about her new novel Landing Gear, a tale of Yacub, a stowaway, whose life literally collides with Harriet’s, when he falls from a plane’s landing gear onto the hood of her car.
Click the image of Kate Pullinger to watch a video excerpt of her talk at the CITE AGM.
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Watch a video of author Kate Pullinger addressing CITE members at the Annual General Meeting, which was held at UCC on October 30, 2014. She discusses a number of her new projects that push the boundaries of multimedia and the written word.

Workshops and Professional Development

The Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking
National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute 
Humber College Summer writing workshops
U of T Summer Writing Courses
Stratford Festival Drama AQ
University of Cambridge Shakespeare summer courses
US National Writing Project for Teachers
The Columbia Teachers College Reading and Writing Project:
Stony Brook Summer Writing workshops: