| Ashley Seaman | Y.A.Y Improv for Wellness & Belonging | This workshop uses improv to practice empathetic communication, collaboration and mindfulness for students to achieve a greater sense of belonging and joy. Students learn meaningful tools in interacting and communicating with others as well as being in a safe spaces to take creative risks, explore spontaneity and embrace the unexpected all while having fun. Through play, games and exercises, students collaboratively create character, story, comedy and joyful connection with their peers. Through a workshop series, schools may work toward building a showcase to perform in front of an audience. Suitable: Grades 3-12 |
| Archi[kid] Inc. | Play, Explore, DESIGN | These workshops use architecture, math, geometry to build on the design process and develop conceptual ideas into 3D models. Fundamental tools such as patterns, growth, geometric shapes and measurements are used to make connections to real-life examples. Students are exposed to different materials, large scale models, sketching and writing to incorporate a full sensory experience. For elementary grades, students become familiar with the basic concepts and characteristics of shapes, how to explore and play with them to create something new. More advanced students are engaged in experimentation using observation, questioning, creativity and more importantly design thinking. Facilitators will also share jobs and careers using math literacy and design. Workshops are also delivered in French. Suitable: Grades 1-12
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| Applefun Puppetry | Puppetry Workshops | Professional puppeteer, Mike Harding, leads elementary students through the process of making puppets and creating an original performance of their own creation. This workshop series includes puppet making, story development, practice and presentation. Students learn various puppeteering techniques. Younger students will be guided by their teacher regarding themes and scripts. Older students use their own voice and creativity to develop their unique stories for script and storytelling. Taking inspiration from what is around them, students use supplies that are readily available to make the puppets. Students enhance their language development, social and listening skills, and their self-confidence through creating, handling and performing with their puppets. Serving: Kindergarten - Grade 6 |
| Anthony Lue | Turning Tragedy into Triumph: The Story of a Para-Athlete | Virtually, Anthony Lue, a para-athlete in cycling, speaks to students about resilience, maintaining a positive attitude and overcoming obstacles in the face of stark adversity. In 2009, an accident at a scrap metal yard left him paralyzed from the waist down. But though his body was broken, his incredible spirit remained intact and the will to live. Anthony shares the importance of overcoming challenges, goal setting through sports, teamwork, and seeing life in a new way despite a disability and striving to achieve mammoth goals in life. Virtual sessions only. Serving Grades 4 - 12. |
| Angela Aula | Inuit Culture and Art | Workshops share art, music, traditions of Inuit culture from Inuit artist, Angela Aula. Students learn traditions, ways of life and experiences while making connections to the land and Indigenous perspective. Topics covered include Inuit history, language teaching, art, and murals. Suitable: Kindergarten; Grades 1-12 |
| Alzheimer Society of Toronto | Dementia Specific Education | Alzheimer's Society offers dementia training to those who wish to receive foundational knowledge in working with older adults in their careers in various settings. Three programs are: U-First!®, Gentle Persuasive Approaches, and Dementia Foundations. Students will have a greater understanding and knowledge of dementia and be able to provide meaningful support to those living with dementia. Program ranges from half to full day. These programs are for adult students wishing to complete their Personal Support Worker (PSW) certification. Suitable: Learners 18+
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| Alter Eden | Minogin Gitigaanis Society- Akiwi Kikinonowinan | Outdoor and virtual experiences involving ceremony and reconciliation, connecting to land, water and plants across the seasons as seen from an Anishinaabe perspective. Traditional knowledge and language passed down from generations of Anishinaabe living on the land forms the basis of the program designed for all students. Indigenous youth peer leaders guide the program’s half-day workshops to be relevant and interesting for all ages. Each workshop is customized to the school’s location within Tkaronto and the grade of students participating. Workshop titles: Taking Nibi's Temperature, Ojibwe Wood Cookies, Orange Flower Memorial, Seed Paper Making, Building a Bee House; Bee Education; Indigenous Learning for School Staff. Suitable: Kindergarten, Grades 1-12; Staff
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| Alpha Rhythm Roots | African Musical Journey | Guinean music, dance, traditions and culture are explored in these African drum circle and dance sessions. Presentations discuss the Guinean percussion orchestra, manufacturing and origins of instruments and history alongside live demonstrations of the instruments played in Western Africa. Performances bring history alive through full traditional outfits, drumming and dancing to the entire school. Workshops provide students the opportunity to participate in collective drumming and dance that develop teamwork, memorization, hand coordination and creativity. Students learn a full orchestra rhythm and/or choreographed dance routine. All sessions are available in English and French. Suitable: All students; staff; parents/caregivers. Suitable but not limited to Black History Month. |
| ALPHA Education | Addressing Anti-Asian Racism | These virtual and/or in-person workshops focus on the successes, contributions, excellences in Asian communities as counter narratives to discrimination, exclusion, oppression and racism. Students will examine causes, consequences, and changes in historical and current racism and its intersectionality and explores positive and negative power dynamics. Suitable: Grades K-12.
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| ALPHA Education | ALPHA Project | ALPHA engages staff and students of diverse backgrounds to foster awareness of an often overlooked aspect of WWII history, in the interest of furthering the values of justice, peace, and reconciliation, both for survivors of the past and for those who shape the historical narratives of the present and future. Curriculum resources, in-school workshops, international guest speakers, professional learning sessions, assembly presentations; and conferences are all available to enhance understanding and critical analysis of the events of WWII in Asia.
Staff and students are inspired to make connections between these important historical events and the atrocities of war that continue in the present. Through experiential learning, students are enabled to connect what they learn in classrooms with local, Asian, and world events as contexts for their application of what they know, do, and value. It is also learning that is personal and creative as students engage in interdisciplinary historical inquiry on the complexities of war, security, power, and identity to understand how our world works today as part of being responsible citizens who advocate for peace and humanity over violence and war. |
| Alair Homes | Building Together | These 2 hour sessions delivered by a variety of professionals aims to introduce students to careers in construction as an expansive field and industry. This program will show students various roles that exist (i.e. supply chain, management, leadership, entrepreneurship, finance, HR, plus all of the hands-on trades), moving towards building new understandings of construction and who belongs within the industry. These sessions will move through icebreakers, building of a product, and deepening understandings of construction. Suitable: Grades 6-8 |
| Aisha Nicholson | West African and Afro-contemporary Dance | Students will engage in building historical understandings of West African and Afro-Contemporary Dance before engaging in techniques. In these 1-hour sessions, students will learn from Artist, Curator, and Choreographer, Aisha Nicholson, whose practice is rooted in Caribbean, West African, Contemporary and Afro-contemporary dance styles and movement. Sessions will include a focus on endurance, musicality, strength, groundedness, posture, flexibility, and overall development of dance styles. All dancers are welcome to gain a greater understanding of technique, release energy, and appreciate the dance form. Suitable: Grades 9-12.
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| Agscape | Teacher Ambassador Program (TAP) | Through various virtual or in-person interactive STEM-focused activities, grade 4-12 students learn about the importance of agriculture and food systems, while developing a 21st century mindset in these free workshops. Certified facilitators, in both teaching and agriculture, deliver a choice of fifteen (27) topics, offered in English or French: healthy eating, agriculture and food: past, present and future, food processing, local food, food security, food safety, business and marketing of food, climate change, environmental initiatives, agriculture in Canada, conventional and organic agriculture, animal health and welfare, biotechnology, technology and innovation, and career in agriculture and food sectors. Offers available in English and French. Suitable: Grades 4-12 |
| Agincourt Community Services Association Inc. | The Community Healing Project and YOWs | The Community Healing Project supports the development of mental health literacy and resiliency to trauma of youth who have been exposed to and affected by community violence. It is a community-based project that focuses on, building the capacity of youth to act as peer supports to one another in understanding mental health, accessing mental health services and counselling.
Agincourt Youth Outreach Workers (YOWs) work with youth ages 12 to 21 and their family with support; referrals; and liaison supports between schools and the agencies that offer the relevant services and students who are in need of community services. If presentations are delivered, it will be reviewed prior with TDSB PSS staff.
Serving: Grades 7 - 12 students living in Scarborough, referred by Caring & Safe Schools, Professional Support Services, or local schools' Principals or Guidance Counsellors. |
| Across U-hub | SHARP Student Leadership Development | SHARP 8-week program uses peer and adult mentors to engage secondary students in regular conversation and expressions of Self-awareness; Hope; Appreciation of cultures; Resilience and Peer networking (SHARP). Anti-Asian Racism and experiences of 'Asian hates' is addressed, along with community-building, self-efficacy, communication skills, and various other student leadership and peer support skills. Students develop their potential through self-exploring tools, examining their historical and cultural roots, discovering their strengths, making connections to their past and present selves, to visualize their future in practical ways. Bold personal goals are set through deepening their understanding of race, personality, ability and ethnicity. Within this self-exploration journey, they are not alone, but are accompanied with a group of peers and mentors. Serving: Grades 9 - 12, referred students of East Asian descent, Newcomers, ESL/ELL learners |
| Accelerate Auto Canada | Breaking Down Barriers in Careers in the Automotive Industry | Hear from Black industry professionals who provide interactive presentations on the exciting career opportunities in Canada's automotive industry while breaking down perceptions and stereotypes associated in the industry for Grades 6-12 students. In these in-person or virtual presentations, students learn of the different pathways available in the industry, various jobs and career opportunities, and how to access employment and co-op placements. Students will also hear from industry professionals who share their own journeys and paths to success. SPE and SHSM certifications are available. |
| Abrigo Centre | Healthy Relationships | Workshops, in-person or by video-conferencing, promote healthy relationships and help students to make informed choices toward a sense of well-being. They emphasize the importance of cultivating self-care and safe and meaningful relationships in students' lives. Topics include: healthy relationships, friendship relationships, boundaries, consent, intimate partner relationships, bullying, and conflict resolution. Workshops utilize videos, small group activities, scenarios and discussion to inform the learning. Suitable: Gr. 6-12 |
| 13845257 Canada Inc. | Ahmad Jabbir Motivational Presentation | Ahmad Jabbir shares his personal journey of overcoming the lasting effects of bullying, academic pressure, and other significant challenges. Through his story, he demonstrates how he developed positive mental health and wellness strategies that helped him build resilience and maintain a healthy mindset. The presentation includes 7 mental fitness interactive activities exploring connection to nature, the power of meditation, importance of talking about our feelings, the value of giving, seeking discomfort, celebrating small wins, and setting goals that push their boundaries. By the end of the session, students will have gained practical strategies to support their mental health and enhance their ability to navigate and overcome challenges in their own lives. Suitable: Gr. 6-12 |
