Webinars, Presentations & Resources
- HCOS Connect 2026
- HCOS Connect 2025
- HCOS Connect 2024
- Understanding Anxiety Amidst COVID-19 Webinar
- HCOS Connect 2023
- Wired for Connection Webinar
- Workshop Recordings for Families
HCOS Connect 2026
Keynote
Practice Matters: Forming Faith in Our Kids
AJ Crocker
- Slide Deck
- Slide Deck with Speaker Notes
- AJ Crocker's Practice Matters Books Available on Sora
- Practice Matters: Books & Resource List
Foundations-Focused
Laying the Foundation: Five Practices for Faith Formation in the Elementary Years
AJ Crocker
Shepherding the Heart: A Christ-Centered Approach to Emotional Wellness in the Home
Shya Harvey
From Pixels to Presence: Cultivating Regulation, Connection, and Spiritual Grounding in a Digital Age
Alison Isaak
Parenting with Presence at Every Age and Stage
Barb Egan
Innovations-Focused
Built to Last: Five Practices for Faith Foundation in the High School Years
AJ Crocker
Shepherding through the Shift: Anchoring Teens in Identity and Truth
Shya Harvey
Cultivating Resilience in Teens: Navigating Neurobiology, Digital Stimulation, and Spiritual Grounding for Emotional Well-being
Alison Isaak
Parenting with Presence at Every Age and Stage
Barb Egan
HCOS Connect 2025
Recommendations
See below for links from the HCOS Learning Commons, where you can borrow e-books and audiobooks from Dr. Mattatall’s recommended reading list.
Books
- The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising, Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents (2024) by Lisa Damour (e-book, audiobook)
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024) by Jonathan Haidt (e-book, audiobook)
- The Mediatirician’s Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen Saturated World (2024) by Michael Rich, MD (e-book, audiobook)
- 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier (2024) by David Yeager (e-book)
- Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2024) by Richard Reeves (audiobook)
Research Reports
- The Girls’ Index (2023) by Lisa Hinkelman
- The National Reading Panel Report (2000)
Paper
Ehri, L.C.(2022). What teachers need to know and do to teach letter-sounds, phonemic awareness, word reading, and phonics. The Reading Teacher, 0 (0). 1-9. doi: 10.1002/trtr.2095
Video
Jealousy, Jealousy by Olivia Rodrigo
Websites
- Balanced Literacy Diet
- Florida Center for Reading Research (go to "FCRR Student Center Activities")
- University of Florida Literacy Institute
- Ontario Literacy
- Timothy Shanahan’s Reading Research website
Keynote Presentation
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Creating a Successful Plan for Grad
Numeracy Development in K-9 Students: Building Strong Mathematical Thinkers
- Kelowna Slide Deck
- North Slide Deck
- Abbotsford Slide Deck
- Nanaimo Slide Deck
- Mathematical Thinkers Handout
- Numeracy Development Links
HCOS Connect 2024
Welcome!
4 Stages of Parenting
Calm Parenting
1000 Conversations
Understanding Anxiety Amidst COVID-19 Webinar
Recorded April 2, 2020
A big thank you to Julie Bohni (Registered Clinical Counsellor) for sharing about how we are wired, and strategies to deal with anxiety in these tumultuous times.
Description of session: To say these are unprecedented times seems like an understatement. Never before has our world socially distanced in an attempt to shrink the spread and impact of a virus. But here we are…all encouraged to stay home…and feel uncertain? Anxiety is a normal response to uncertainty, but what do we do with our worry and ruminating negative thoughts? Join Julie Bohni, a registered clinical counsellor, to understand our brain’s response to stress and anxiety. As well, gain practical insight and tools (for ourselves and teaching/parenting) to gain awareness and develop strategies to cope with anxiety during this COVID-19 time.
Links from session or tools within HCOS for families
- Learning Commons Stress Management Resources
- Learning Services “Hello Anxiety” Expression of Interest form for online Therapy groups
- Well-Being BC
- SoraApp - digital books on the topic of anxiety (Please log in to Sora first before clicking this link)
- Psalms 91
- Tenth Avenue North - By Your Side (Offical Music Video hosted on YouTube)
Slides from Presentation
HCOS Connect 2023
Welcome!
The Power of Story ~ Sigmund Brouwer
The Best Laid Plans... Don't Matter ~ Dan Duncan
Creating School Strategies for Unique Brains ~ Dan Duncan
Building Resilience in Ourselves and Our Children ~ Katy Kwon
Guiding Curriculum Choices with Q&A ~ Cynthia Duncalfe
HCOS Learning Commons: Resourcing You for Success ~ Cynthia Duncalfe
Graduation 101 ~ Brad Lemon
Wired for Connection Webinar
A big thank you to Julie Bohni (Registered Clinical Counsellor) for sharing about how we are wired, and strategies to deal with anxiety in these tumultuous times. See the handouts below.
Part 1 - Recorded May 21st, 2020
Handouts:
Part 2 - Recorded June 4th, 2020
