British Columbia's Provincial Outreach Program for the Early Years
Mandate: increase K-3 educators’ capacity to support all primary English literacy learners.
From literacy to behaviour support and more, BC POP Conference 2025 showcases over 20 virtual sessions highlighting evidence-based practices to support the diverse needs of your K-12 learners. Visit https://t.co/nuQBA3p4wL to register or for more info.
Rock Your Literacy Block
Ready to build a literacy block that actually works? Lindsay Kemeny brings the research, routines, and real-talk this October!
Save the Dates: October 14 & 21, 2025
#RockYourBlock#FoundationalLiteracy#POPEYProD
Want to teach in a way that sticks? Join Zach Groshell this September to dive into cognitive load, student thinking, and what explicit instruction really looks like.
Save the Dates: September 16 & 23, 2025
Our fourth and last session of the “Before You Do That”: Building Classroom Communities Where Literacy Learners Thrive series is this Wednesday. See you there!
Literacy Leaders: Universal Screening is More Than a Checkbox! POPEY led New Westminster administrators to harness powerful data not just to identify risk—but to unlock student strengths, pinpoint needs, and drive responsive, real-time instruction.
We will have our third session of the “Before You Do That”: Building Classroom Communities Where Literacy Learners Thrive series tomorrow! 👩🏼🏫 See you there!
Our second session of the “Before You Do That”: Building Classroom Communities Where Literacy Learners Thrive series is this Wednesday! 👩🏼🏫 Register here: https://t.co/RzU44WCc6A
Our first session of the “Before You Do That”: Building Classroom Communities Where Literacy Learners Thrive series is today! See you online at 3:30pm 👩🏼🏫
If you haven’t registered yet, send us an email at [email protected] to register.
We have a new series starting this week! POPEY’s very own Jacquie Anderson will be guiding us as we look closely at Responsive Classroom ™ practices to help us build strong classroom learning communities that have belonging, agency and an academic growth mindset at the centre.
Our “Building Strong Readers” series with David Fainstein has concluded. Thank you again to David for all his insights and expertise on early literacy screening, data, and instruction! 👨🏻💻 The session recordings have now been posted here: https://t.co/E2uqJfdcxv
POPEY was in the Arrow Lakes School District again! We focused on building vocabulary with students in different classes. In grade 2/3 in New Denver, we brainstormed descriptive words for photos of Slocan Lake and then wrote one descriptive sentence for each image.