BTG+2012

Bridging the Gap, our celebrated annual education conference is now in its eighth year, YIS has brought inspirational speakers from different parts of the world to help us develop our curriculum, ethos and community spirit for the 21st century.

More than just a professional development seminar for staff, BTG is a community conference that provides an opportunity for teachers and parents to listen to and explore some of the ideas that are influencing the development of education and also affecting the traditional links between home and school.

**Mission Statement** Bridging the Gap is a community conference designed to challenge YIS teachers, parents and other members of our community with the latest ideas influencing education and its practice.

__Past BTG Speakers__ 2011-John Joseph-The Brain 2010-Alan November-Technology 2009-Chris Toy & Kim Cofino-Technology 2008-Alex Kerr & David Wann-Local Issues 2007-Ian Jukes-Technology 2006-Alan Luke & Sharon Markless & Stelarc 2005-Anna Craft & Stephen Heppell

__BTG Working Group__ Leanne, Jamie, Elif, Sunita, Shane, Lynda, Julian, Monna

DATES: Friday & Saturday, 22-24 November 2012

=__BTG November 2012__= = LIVE the MOMENT =

//Offline or Unplugged?//
//Connect with yourself and your creative energy//

=__Friday__=

9:00-10:00 Provocations
Venue: Main Campus


 * Linguistic-**Poetry, think poem refrigerator magnets, words on cards and blank cards, teachers construct into a poem or poems (Susie and English dept.)
 * Logical-Mathematical-**Problem solving (Sergio & the Math dept.)
 * Musical-**Orff & djembe (Sheryl & Brad)
 * Spatial-**Aaron & Richard
 * Bodily-Kinesthetic**-The Circus-Juggling, dancing, etc (Leanne & Alex)
 * Interpersonal-**Monna
 * Intrapersonal-**Adam
 * Naturalist-**Audrey, ELC, Stephen & Science

10:00-10:30 Break
Venue: Cafeteria

=10:30-12:00 Wade Jackson= Koto music to begin session Venue: Auditorium
 * //"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can in a year of discussion."//**
 * Plato, philosopher**

The essence of creativity is growth, whether that's personal, interpersonal, team or organisational growth. Double world improv champion and clinical hypnotherapist Wade Jackson takes you through a fun-filled presentation that identifies the common barriers which kill creativity plus you'll learn simple and effective tools and strategies to enhance your creativity. We don’t live in a vacuum so we must work collaboratively if we want to thrive. The science and art of collaboration are explored and you'll learn how to bypass your critical inner voice so you can easily access your innate creative mind in a very practical fashion. It's experiential, it's fun and it works!

12:00-1:00 Lunch
Venue: Cafeteria

1:00-2:00 T.B. Perry
IB Dance Students to perform one poem Venue: Auditorium

2:00-2:15-Reflect on your creative life and set a personal (non-teaching) goal.
Venue: Auditorium

2:15-3:00-Break
Venue: Cafeteria

3:00-3:30-Ted Talks
Venue: Main Campus BTG for Students TED Talk table 25 TED Talks for Education

Cocktails & Nibbles
=__Saturday__=

=Workshops 2:00-5:00PM= Poetry || Photography || Instrumental Music || Line Drawing || Improv || Cooking || Gardening Zen Gardens Bonsai || Fiction || Photoshop ||  || Painting || Dance || Interior Design || Ikebana ||
 * Creative Writing
 * Creative Writing
 * Creative Writing
 * Creative Non-Fiction || Typography || Writing Lyrics || Corrie-Art Therapy || Improv || James MacDonald || Calligraphy ||
 * Skinny Prose ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

5:00-6:30PM Dinner
Venue: Cafeteria (Talked to Stu. He said cafeteria onto playground would be much easier for him)
 * Buffet w/entertainment**

6:30-9:00PM Photo Exhibit-PECHA KUCHA
w/Wade-improv, Tyler-poetry, Tanner

Keynotes:
= Wade Jackson (speaks English & Japanese) =

Wade Jackson is regarded as a leader in the development of human potential and improving performance. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books 'Stories at Work" and 'JOLT Challenge' and co-creator of the JOLT Challenge program.

As a consultant and keynote speaker, Wade has worked with thousands of people ranging from CEOs, senior executive teams, Universities, Militaries and not-for-profit organisations. He is also an honorary lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at the AUT University, Faculty of Business and Law and a faculty member of the NZ Institute of Management.

@http://nz.linkedin.com/in/wadejackson

@http://www.joltchallenge.com/

@https://www.facebook.com/ImprovWarrior?sk=info

@http://www.improvwarrior.com/

@http://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovBandits = T. B. Perry =

T. B. Perry is a poet and junior high school teacher living in Calgary Alberta. He has published a book of poetry, // Lessons in Falling, // and is currently completing his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

T. B. Perry is a poet and junior high school teacher living in Calgary Alberta, where he grew up as the second-oldest of six children. He has been a writer since he was a child. He wrote and illustrated his first book at the age of six: a hand-bound, limited edition, single copy picture book called // Loafy //, which chronicled the adventures of a walking, talking, unsliced loaf of bread and sold for five dollars at a rock and lemonade stand on 11A Street to an unsuspecting neighbour on his way home from work. The immediate and short-lived success of his first book lead to other endeavors, such as the beginning of his first bubble gum collection and the purchase of hundreds of one-cent candies. However, after // Loafy //, Perry found himself shackled in a writer’s block that would last for the next sixteen years (aside from school assignments and the occasional letter sent to pen pals and girlfriends). Almost two decades later, recently married and determined to find his purpose in life, Perry happened to Google Charles Bukowski while listening to the Modest Mouse song, “Bukowski.” Having always assumed that people stopped writing poetry after the sixteenth century, he was immediately intrigued by the dark truths and raw, relatable voice that inhabited Bukowski’s work, and became obsessed with reading contemporary Canadian and American poetry. He developed a bone-aching compulsion to seek out slim volumes of poetry by people he’d never heard of. Disheveled, hunched over and shaking from too much caffeine, he pawed through boxes of donated poetry books at the Calgary Crossroads Farmers Market. He haunted the poetry sections of used bookstores and the local public and university libraries. He cursed the large chain bookstores for having ten times the shelf space dedicated to Stephanie Meyer than to the entire genre of poetry. He enrolled in creative writing classes at the University of Calgary and attended poetry readings in small bookstores. He slouched silently at the backs of classrooms until, eventually, he crawled out of the University of Alberta with a Bachelor degree in Education and an insatiable hunger to teach and write. Perry had no idea that the two activities (teaching and writing) would become so inextricably woven together that his writing became deeply rooted in his experiences as a teacher. Within a few years T. B. Perry emerged, weary and in a cloud of chalk dust, from the hallways of a junior high school in Calgary with his first book-length manuscript of poetry under his arm, the manuscript that would later become known as // Lessons in Falling //. After searching tirelessly for a publishing house worthy enough (or willing) to print his book, Perry finally stumbled, slightly inebriated at a local poetry slam, upon Eugene Stickland, a Canadian playwright and founder of B House Publications. Before that year was out, // Lessons in Falling // and the “brilliant, dark…barely relieved horror of these poems” hit the presses of B House and the bookshelves of Calgary, placing #1 on the Calgary Herald Bestseller list. Today, Perry is still teaching junior high and writing poetry, and is working on his MFA in creative writing through the University of British Columbia. He and his wife have two young children, and he hopes to one day sell his books at their lemonade stand (on a consignment basis, of course) to their unsuspecting neighbours. []