Manitoba Teachers for Students with Learning Disabilities

09/04/2026

08/29/2026

Welcome to Cedar School! Join Liv, Tom, Gus, and Bell as they learn on the land and explore Mi’gmaw teachings with their teacher, Miss Sam, and the school’s Mi’gmaw Elder, Jen. With charming illustrations and simple storylines, this decodable series engages students as they practise their reading skills. Each book includes a pre-reading review of non-decodable words, and many of the books introduce special words related to Indigenous teachings. Talking Together prompts facilitate discussions led by the reading teacher.

08/28/2026

Exciting Announcement for 2027 - 2 day event with MTS PD Day!

HOLD THE DATES FOR 2027

Thursday October 21 2027 - Kim Lockhart - French Immersion and Structured Literacy

Friday October 22 2027
- Dr Stephanie Stollar Effective Literacy Instruction

Stephanie:

https://www.stephaniestollar.com/

With 30+ years of experience as a school psychologist, professor, and literacy consultant, Dr. Stephanie Stollar makes sense of literacy research so educators can get meaningful results in their classrooms.

Kim :
https://www.solutiontree.com/kim-lockhart.html

Kim Lockhart is a classroom teacher, reading remediation specialist, university course instructor, and literacy consultant with over 25 years of experience in both elementary and post-secondary education. As a French Immersion educator, she launched a grassroots science of reading movement within her school after completing her Structured Literacy training. Her leadership quickly expanded beyond her school as she organized a district-wide science of reading book club, facilitated “lunch and learn” sessions to discuss journal articles, and hosted monthly “Listen and Learn” podcast discussions, all aimed at inspiring and supporting educators in adopting evidence-based literacy practices.

08/28/2026

Please join us for October 22 (Thursday before MTS PD Day) focusing on Structured Literacy.

Dr Kin Hewlett Pluri-lingual Education Consultant
Dr Valdine Björnson , Reading Clinician


Differentiating ELL from SLD-language and literacy unite

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Is a middle year English learner experiencing typical language development or is additional support required? This session will invite participants to think deeply and thoughtfully about how to understand our students and discuss practical responses.

Dr. Kim Hewlett, an educator with the Pembina Trails School Division in Winnipeg, won a grant from the Province of Manitoba's Teachers' Idea Fund. Her funded project focused on creating a multilingual/plurilingual library to better support, represent, and engage language learners in the local school community.

Plurilingual education programs in Manitoba emphasize validating a student's entire linguistic repertoire—encouraging them to use all of their known languages to learn and connect, rather than treating those languages as isolated systems.

Dr Valdine Björnson is highly recognized for her advocacy and specialized training for intervention programming supporting students and adults with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia

OCTOBER 22 and 23 (Structured Literacy and Structured Math) TWO DAY EVENT!

08/28/2026

October 22 (Thursday before MTS PD Day) focusing on Structured Literacy.

Sunrise School Division - EY Literacy Journey

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From Conversation to Classroom: Sunrise’s Early Years Literacy Journey

Sunrise School Division’s early years literacy journey began with collaborative conversations to build a shared vision for improving student outcomes. This led to changes in classroom practice and the creation of a divisional literacy committee to guide and support the work.
Classrooms now reflect an approach that combines explicit instruction in foundational literacy skills with opportunities for student choice and engagement. Screening tools, diagnostics, and ongoing progress monitoring are used to inform instruction and support each learner’s growth.
With literacy support teachers in every school, educators receive ongoing coaching and collaboration. This cohesive, structured, and student-centered approach ensures all Sunrise students are supported on their path to becoming confident, successful readers.




Trevor Reid – has 30 years’ experience in education as a 9 – 12 Teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal and is currently the Superintendent of the Sunrise School Division.
Natalie Hlady has 30 years’ experience in education as an early years Classroom Teacher, Student Support Services & is currently a Program Leader in Early Years Literacy.
Jody Wielgosh has 31 years’ experience in education as a K – 12 Teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal and is currently a Divisional Principal.
Chris Gusberti has 24 years’ experience in education as a 9 – 12 Teacher, Assistant Principal and Principal and is currently a Divisional Principal.

OCTOBER 22 and 23 (Structured Literacy and Structured Math) TWO DAY EVENT!

08/28/2026

October 22 (Thursday before MTS PD Day) focusing on Structured Literacy.

Dr Amy Desroches - U of Winnipeg researcher about Reading difficulty

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More information about Amy:

Dr. Desroches uses EEG/ERP and cognitive behavioural tasks to examine the development of reading and language. In the recent past, honours students working with Dr. Desroches have worked on projects related to spoken word and/or written word recognition in monolingual and bilingual children and adults. She also has ongoing collaborations that examine the role of reading ability in legal decision making, the role of visual attention processing during reading development, emotion processing and aging, and how reading and math abilities co-develop. https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/psychology/faculty-staff/amy-desroches.html

OCTOBER 22 and 23 (Structured Literacy and Structured Math) TWO DAY EVENT!

08/28/2026

Please join us for MTS PD day !

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-time-has-arrived-structured-math-structured-literacy-2-day-event-tickets-1732687848999?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios



Our local researcher who studies math difficulty : Dr Stephanie Bugden will present about dyscalculia


More information about Stephanie:

Research Interests:
Dr. Bugden's main research interest is numeracy in children. This includes what leads some children to excel in math while others struggle, and the cognitive and neurological mechanisms associated with individual differences in numerical and math development.

https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/psychology/faculty-staff/stephanie-bugden.html

Research Interests: Dr. Bugden's main research interest is numeracy in children. This includes what leads some children to excel in math while others struggle, and the cognitive and neurological mechanisms associated with individual differences in numerical and math development.

08/28/2026

Join us for MTS PD Day !
Dr Anna Stokke will be our Math day opener
Manitoba Teachers for Students with Learning Disabilities



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More information about Dr Stokke

Anna Stokke is a mathematics professor at the University of Winnipeg and Co-Director of the Science of Mathematics Education Lab in the School of Education at La Trobe University. She is a leading advocate for evidence-informed mathematics teaching and for ensuring all students have access to high quality math education.

She holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Alberta, and her mathematics research is in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a recipient of the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada's highest award for post-secondary teaching excellence and educational leadership.
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Professor Stokke has given math education keynote presentations nationally and internationally and has given more than 200 media interviews on math education. She hosts the popular podcast Chalk & Talk, which has topped education podcast charts around the world

https://www.annastokke.com/

OCTOBER 22 and 23 (Structured Literacy and Structured Math) TWO DAY EVENT!

08/28/2026

Please join us for MTS PD Day


Headliner: Dr Amanda Van der Heyden Re: Math and MTSS

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For more information about Dr Van der Heyden

Universal screening in math with Amanda VanDerHeyden

https://www.annastokke.com/transcripts/ep-50-transcript

“Amanda is a researcher and an expert in using screening measures and research-based methods to improve math instruction in schools. She has also built screening measures that are used in schools all over North America, and she's a founder of SpringMath.

In this episode, Amanda discusses the value in using universal screening to identify students at risk of academic difficulties and how this fits into effective math instruction. She emphasizes the importance of using validated research-based screeners, screening at multiple points throughout the school year, and ensuring that screening is paired with responsive interventions.

She also shares resources for finding reliable screening tools and cautions against using imprecise or oversimplified screening measures. This is a practical conversation that I think will be helpful to teachers, school leaders, and anyone interested in making sure every student gets the support that they need in math.”

OCTOBER 22 and 23 (Structured Literacy and Structured Math) TWO DAY EVENT!