Registration & Tradeshow Inquiries:   Ashley Kinsman  AshleyK@mfnerc.com  
General Inquiries:   Sharon Sutherland  SharonS@mfnerc.com |  204-594-1290

Workshops at-a-Glance 

 

May 6 & 7, 2026:  Two-Day Sessions 

Two-Day Session (Off-Site) – 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Lancaster Room, Hilton Winnipeg Airport Suites, 1800 Wellington Avenue

Two-Day Session, Afternoons (Off-Site) – 1:00 pm–4:30 pm
Basic (Emergency) First Aid with CPR Level C and AED Training
Magellan Room, Hilton Winnipeg Airport Suites, 1800 Wellington Avenue

May 6, 2026: Day 1

Session 1:

  • AAC Beyond the Buttons: From Set-Up to Real Communication
  • Anishinaabemowin in Fortnite: Turtle Island Trials
  • Drone Regulations in Canada
  • Early Learning Support Land-Based Draft Document
  • PowerSchool for Administrators: End-of-Year Procedure
  • Renewing Plans: Science Curriculum
  • Responsive Classroom Morning Meetings in Your Community’s Language
  • Super 3 Information Management Model for Students
  • Understanding Student Behaviour: The Story Beneath What We See
  • Canva for the Classroom: Creating, Assigning, and Engaging Students

 

Session 2:

  • Anishinaabemowin in Fortnite: Turtle Island Trials
  • Exploring Adaptive Activities and Sport
  • The Land-Based Kit: Supporting First Nations Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing
  • Language Learning Made Easy(-ish!): Practical Programs for the Classroom
  • Manitoba Residential Schools: Resource Bundles for Nursery to Grade 12
  • PowerSchool for Teachers: Writing Report Cards
  • Renewing Plans: Science Curriculum
  • Roots of Resilience: Our Words, Our Ways
  • Unceded
  • Getting Started with Kahoot! for Education

 

Session 3:

  • Anishinaabemowin in Fortnite: Turtle Island Trials
  • Community Engagement Session – Results Report
  • Honouring Ways of Knowing: Supporting the Big Ideas of Science Through Contextualized Worksheets
  • Implementing Student-Specific Plans – Individualized Education
  • Language Learning Made Easy(-ish!): Practical Programs for the Classroom
  • PowerSchool for Teachers: Basic Training
  • Sharing Our Stories – The URIS Program & Rethink Your Drink
  • Supporting Self-Regulation in the Classroom
  • Tips and Strategies to Become an Effective First Nations Language Teacher
  • IXL Foundations 1: Essential Tools for Daily Instruction

 

May 7, 2026: Day 2

Two-Session Workshop, Afternoon (Off-Site) – 1:00 pm–4:30 pm

The Creator’s Game 
Skylight Complex, East St. Paul

 

Session 4:
  • Bombardment – How to Ease the Pressure on School Administrators to Solve All the Issues
  • Building Strong Numeracy Together: An Overview of the mRLC Numeracy Achievement Program
  • CONNECT: QuickStart Essentials for Teachers
  • Dakota Language and Dialect Origin of the Oceti Sakowin
  • Drone Regulations in Canada
  • Engaging Students in Cross-Curricular Projects in English Language Arts
  • The Interactive Read-Aloud
  • Level Up Reading with the Science of Reading-Aligned Tools
  • Night Sky Planetarium
  • Strong Minds, Calm Hearts
  • Traditional Parenting Bundle

 

Session 5:

Requests for Educational Assistants Funding from Jordan’s Principle
(Two-Session Workshop, 1:10 pm–4 pm)

  • AAC Beyond the Buttons: From Set-Up to Real Communication
  • Building Strong Numeracy Together: An Overview of the mRLC Numeracy Achievement Program
  • Friday Review as Progress Monitoring in UFLI Foundations
  • Integrating Sacred Teachings and Language into Harvesting: A Land‑Based Path to Food Sovereignty
  • Let’s Accelerate Math Learning!
  • Night Sky Planetarium
  • Pimachiowin Aki
  • PowerSchool for Administrators: Printing the Report Card
  • Tikinakan, Bundles, and Moss Bag Teachings
  • Traditional Names Mapping Project
  • Using Our Stories to Teach Math

 

Session 6:
  • Aanikoosidoon Apane Anishinaabemowin – Tiered Thinking Across Stages of Second-Language Acquisition
  • Differentiating Reading Instruction: Understanding and Teaching Through the Phases of Phonic Decoding
  • Doll and Swing
  • Email and Microsoft Teams Made Easy
  • Integrating Sacred Teachings and Language into Harvesting: A Land‑Based Path to Food Sovereignty
  • Let’s Accelerate Math Learning! Mathletics
  • Medicine for the Soul – Nagi Pejuta
  • Night Sky Planetarium
  • Online Math Tools
  • Simulate to Innovate: Exploring Arduino Circuits with Tinkercad
  • Strategies for Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

 

May 8, 2026: Day 3

Session 7:
  • AI (Artificial Intelligence) Basics for Busy Teachers
  • Basic ASL and Deaf Culture
  • Bii Giiwewidoon Anishinaabemowin (Bringing Home Ojibwe)
  • Digital Lesson Design for First Nations Education: Story, Voice, and Technology
  • The Foundational Language Acquisition Video Series: Celebrating Our Voices
  • Honouring Our Ancestors’ Language: The Denesuline Dictionary
  • Igniting Innovation: Bringing Bambu Lab 3D Printing to the Community
  • IXL Learning Foundations II: Strategies for Data-Driven Classrooms
  • Transmission of Generational Knowledge Through Language
  • Treaty Education: The Treaty Right to Feed Ourselves
  • Understanding Student Behaviour: The Story Beneath What We See
  • Walking the Land, Honouring the Work: A Journey of Summer Learning

 

 

Session 8:
  • Bii Giiwewidoon Anishinaabemowin (Bringing Home Ojibwe)
  • Digital Lesson Design for First Nations Education: Story, Voice, and Technology
  • First Nations Language Assessment
  • The Foundational Language Acquisition Video Series: Celebrating Our Voices
  • Igniting Innovation: Bringing Bambu Lab 3D Printing to the Community
  • An Introduction to AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • The Power of PowerSchool SIS for School Administrators
  • Renewing Plans: Science Curriculum
  • Tactile Book Making Party!
  • Traditional Names Mapping Project
  • Transmission of Generational Knowledge Through Language
  • Walking the Land, Honouring the Work: A Journey of Summer Learning