PIC Conference
2025 Parent Involvement Committee Conference
HDSB parents, guardians and community members were invited to attend the 2025 Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) Conference: Getting Connected on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Elsie MacGill Secondary School (1410 Bronte St S, Milton).
2025 PIC Conference Details
This year’s conference featured keynote speaker Dr. Alex Russell, Ph.D., C.Psych., Clinical Psychologist and author of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement. Dr. Russell spoke about the role that experiencing failure plays in childhood development, emphasizing how these challenges are a normal part of growing up and are essential for children to develop into resilient, resourceful and emotionally balanced individuals.
FREE Workshops followed the keynote speaker and covered topics including mental health, artificial intelligence, preparing and planning for post-secondary programs, early literacy skills, innovative school program options and much more.
FREE Workshops followed the keynote speaker and covered topics including mental health, artificial intelligence, preparing and planning for post-secondary programs, early literacy skills, innovative school program options and much more.
2025 Conference Resources
- Motivating Children in Computer Programming
Presenter: Xin Yi Zhang - Celebrating Neurodiversity
2024 PIC Conference Details
Getting Connected Parents/guardians were invited to attend the 2024 Parent Involvement Committee Conference on Saturday, April 20, 2024.The theme of the 2024 conference was Getting Connected and featured keynote speaker Kristi Herold, founder and CEO of JAM, and best-selling author of It Pays to PLAY.
