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Developing Minds 2025
For the Love of Critical Thinking
Overview
Developing Minds is back with an exciting lineup of speakers and a new conference format. Join us to incorporate more critical thinking in your classroom, listen to expert presentations, and share ideas and resources with colleagues during our roundtable sessions.
Topics range from AI to talking about controversial and sensitive issues in classrooms. The conference is open to teachers, student teachers, and education professionals, K–12 and post-secondary levels.
Included with your ticket:
- Spend your PD-day learning from and exchanging ideas with education professionals
- Moderated rountable discussions to hone your teacher practice
- Free breakfast and lunch
- Access to post-conference social to keep the conversations going and network
- Entry into attendee raffle, chance to win from a prize pool worth $1,000 total
In joint partnership with:
About Developing Minds
Recent changes in the BC education curriculum established 'Critical Thinking' as a core teaching approach throughout K-12 classrooms. Students benefit from a rich community of inquiry that promotes deeper understanding of curriculum content and equips them with valuable life skills. School systems already using this approach have documented success using a number of outcome metrics.
Critical thinking skills transfer readily from the classroom into post-secondary education, and beyond. Not only do they enhance learning outcomes but students also gain a competitive advantage in the job market by acquiring skills in critical, creative and collaborative thinking frequently sought by modern employers.
The Developing Minds conference seeks to open up discussion among provincial education stakeholders keen to explore how teaching critical thinking in K-12 classrooms transfers into post-secondary education for student benefit.
Simon Fraser University presents a day of roundtable discussion and keynote presentations on teaching critical thinking within BC’s education system, with a focus on connecting creative thinking with critical thinking skills in the classroom. Attendees will hear from keynote speakers with direct experience, and then collaborate to build a provincial framework of reference.