BC Teachers of English Language Arts Wants You!
Call for October 2025 Conference Presenters!!
Conference theme: Gather Around: Story As Resistance, Story As Hope
Date: October 24, 2025
Location: Thomas Haney School in Maple Ridge
Proposals due by April 1, 2025 (please contact us regarding extensions)
BCTELA Conference Presenter Proposal
Presenters pay only their BCTELA membership fees; the conference fees are waived in gratitude.
The membership fee will be charged when you register for the conference, using the special code emailed by our conference committee.
We would be delighted to help you with your proposal, whether you have questions or are seeking collegial feedback. Just contact us here: https://bctela.ca/contact/.
We especially encourage submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other voices that have been historically under-represented and marginalized. Thank you again!
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2024 Conference Sharing!
Some of our presenters have generously shared their slides and handouts with you. Please remember that these are for your own use, not for sharing or using with a wider audience. If you would like to share something from the resources below, please contact the creator directly to seek permission. You may even think about to inviting them to present their own material too!
Please note that these resources are created and owned by third parties and may have been updated or altered since the resource was last reviewed. It is important that teachers use their professional judgement when assessing any resource for its applicability to the curriculum, their classroom and educational context, and the needs of their students. BCTELA receives no financial benefit from use of these external resources.
Thank you for your professionalism in how you receive and utilize these resources.
Sandra McAuley:
Lit circles BCTELA for teachers
book club discussion group notes
Podcasting 101 by Shannon Tong
Exploring Intersectional Identity Through Story: Developing Classroom Practice by Joaquin Muñoz, Nikki Yee, & Sara Florence Davidson
Being and Belonging Workshop Presentation -Jen Barsky
Assessment Is Relational -Kyle McKillop
Cracking the Concrete -Kyle McKillop
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2023 Conference Sharing! 
The following presenters are sharing their slides/documents with you!! Thank you all!! As they get sent to use we will update this site weekly!
These resources are shared for your professional learning and growth! Please feel free to use them to inform your practice. They are not to be used for monetary gain. If you would like to use any of these resources for purposes other than your own professional growth, please contact the creators to ask their permission.
Robin Pawlak, Writing & Editing Workshops:
Robin Pawlak Teacher Resources
Sarah Miller:
Reading with Courage Resources (A “shared” Google Folder set so that anyone with the link should have “viewing access” to all the things, which they can then download/copy and edit/customize as they see fit.
Jer Bergstrom, Navi Gosal, James Kim, Niki Robinson, Kyle McKillop: EFP Workshop
Kyle McKillop: Assessment Is Relational
Kyla Hadden: BCTELA ELA Resources
Liisa House & Jessica Deitcher: Circle of Care
Faye Brownlie: BCTELA Intermediate 2023 Faye Brownlie
2022 Conference Presentation Sharing!!
Thank you presenters who have sent us your slides/handouts to share with our members!!
Shannon Daly
Carrie Ellis
Liz Schulze
Media Matters-Literacy Critical Thinking
Tobey Steeves, Bobbi Loo, Carol-Anne McMillan, Mark McLean, Robyn Ilten-Gee
[activity] ethics in Serial {Sept. 18, 2020} (1)
[activity] ethics in Serial {Sept. 18, 2020}
[NM11] Acknowledgement for Serial {2022}
[plateauing] BCTELA chat re. New Media {October 2022} (1)
[schedule] program of studies {Feb 2022} (1)
[schedule] program of studies {Feb 2022}
[syllabus, p. 1] New Media 11 [JPAS] {January 2022} (1)
[syllabus, p. 1] New Media 11 [JPAS] {January 2022}
BCTELA 2022 – Intro slides BCTELA chat re. New Media {October 2022}
BCTELA Presentation Oct 21 2022
Counternarratives and Hamilton
Social Media Activism Handout ProD 2022A
Faye Brownlie, Gretchen Vogelsang, Michelle Miller-Gauthier
Weaving Poetry & Indigenous Literature
2020 Reboot!
The wisdom & generosity of BC ELA Teacher Amrita Kalsi keeps getting mentions so we decided to re-post the content from her 2020 BCTELA conference presentation!
Here you go BCTELA friends!!!
Eng 12 -8 Final Summative Options
Scroll below to find presenter slides and docs from our 2021 Conference!
Thank you to the presenters for their generosity in sharing their practices and their presentations!!
Click Here: BCTELA 2021 Conference Brochure
Alison Atkinson – Investigating Identity- Podcasts
Robyn Ilten-Gee, James Francom, Marc McLean – New Media Critical Digital
Gurjot Bains – Poetry Living While Alive
Kristie Ward – Shaking Up the Summative by K.Ward (Shareable) & Summative Standards Based Rubric Sample
Kelley Inden – (most of these are word docs and clicking the link will lead to a window asking you to save them on your computer. Then you will be able to view them) – Teaching Creative Non-Fiction BCTELA, Writing CNF Rubric 2 per page checklist CNF, Basic Definition of Creative Non, Creative non-fiction prompts, Editing and Revision How, Editing and Revision Sheet, List and Links of CNF, Three Column CNF Assessment, Works shared by participants BCTELA 2021 Writerly Moves
Drea Laj – Theme Based English Courses
Faye Brownlie – BCTELA Middle Mosaic-Brownlie 2021
Faye Brownlie – Equity Picture Books Social Justice
Michelle Miller-Gauthier – Story Workshop to Strengthen Oral & Written Lang
Vera Sutton – CREATIVE JOURNALS -Vera Sutton
Barb Turney, Antje Von Seydlitz, Sandra McAulay – Antje and Faye collab lesson; Water Walker Resource List
Hello, For some reason the registration page is not showing up on my laptop. It says the Site Cannot Be Reached. I do not know how to change the Proxy settings. If you have any tips, that would be great. I will keep trying in case there was an internet problem.
Hi Krista!
Have you tried the instructions we posted in our social media? If you don’t follow us on FB or Twitter, here is what we posted (its a pain, but might work). If nothing works, we can register you from within the site, but that’s a last resort because you have to give us your credit card info. Potential Registration Trouble Solutions:
Some district wifi connections block the website. If you seem to run into trouble registering from a school computer, try again at home or using data instead of school wifi and use Chrome as your browser.
1. Clear your cookies from computer/browser and try again
2. Open the link up in incognito mode (control + shift + n if using google chrome browser)
3. Try opening it using different internet connections (home wifi, school wifi, or if you have data, try that).
4. It seems to work best using google chrome as a browser
We are also noticing that sometimes the website takes 5 or so minutes to load—it shows a wheel constantly spinning. If this is the case, allow it 5+ minutes to load up.
Good grief right?
https://www.bctelaconference.ca/