Events & Meetings
Fall Conference
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Every year CESBA holds two provincial conferences, allowing members (and others) to get together to network, learn and discuss issues of interest to adult and continuing education administrators. The second conference is generally held in the late fall. It runs for two days with a pre-conference day including workshop sessions for specific program areas. |
Fall Conference 2008
Report back later for information on our 2008 conference.Fall Conference 2007
CESBA’s Fall Conference 2007 took place at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel on Thursday and Friday, Dec 6 and 7. The theme of this year’s conference was Exploring Your Potential.
This year, as in the past, we offered 8 networking sessions and 30 workshops. Keynote speakers were the Hon. Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education, and Ruth Sirman, from CanMediate.
In total, 251 delegates attended the conference, and by all accounts had an enjoyable and enlightening time.
View a slide show of some of the conference highlights. 
The following presentations were made available by their presenters, and may be viewed by following the links:
Fall Conference 2006
The CESBA Fall 2006 Conference was held at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in downtown Toronto on Wed, Dec 5 and Thurs, Dec 6. It was a very successful conference, recording the largest number of delegates in attendance in the history of our conference.
The Honourable Kathleen Wynne, Minister of Education, was the opening keynote speaker. Minister Wynne identified new investment funding of two million dollars to be directed at creating and providing supports for adult education in Ontario. The Honourable Mike Colle, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, was the closing keynote speaker and announced the availability of pilot funding for school boards for ESL/FSL projects. The luncheon speaker on Wednesday was Dr. Charles Ungerleider, Director of the Research and Knowledge Mobilization Unit of the Canadian Council on Learning, who spoke on adult education from a national perspective.
The CESBA Fall 2006 Pre-conference was held on the Tuesday. View information on the pre-conference.
See the conference brochures in English or French to view the workshops presented at the conference.
View a slide show of photographs taken during the conference.
Dr. Ungerleider’s presentation on Canadian Participation in Work-Related Adult Learning is available as an Acrobat file here.
Below are some of the presentations from workshops at the conference.
The CESBA Fall 2005 Conference, held at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Toronto, had the theme The Changing Landscape: New Ideas - New Directions. The conference was a tremendous success, with more than 220 attending the main conference, and over 180 at the pre-conference workshops.
The Hon. Gerard Kennedy, Minister of Education, presented the opening keynote address on Thursday, Dec. 8. The Hon. James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, spoke at the Thursday lunch. The closing address, on Friday, was provided by the Hon. Mike Colle, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
See the conference brochures in English and French to view the workshops that were presented.
Some of the workshop presenters have provided their workshop presentations. These can be viewed in PowerPoint by clicking the links below:
View a slideshow of the Fall 2005 Conference.
The pre-conference, held on Wed, Dec 7, Included one-day sessions with the Adolescent Alternative Education workshop, Literacy Basic Skills Managers' workshop, the Not-for-Profit workshop, and the Personal Support Workers workshop.
View a slideshow of the Fall 2005 Pre-Conference.
Past Conference Programs
Download or view past conference brochures in Adobe PDF format
Fall Conference 2006 (1784 KB)Conférence d’automne 2006 (1762 KB)
Fall Conference (English) 2005 (799 KB)
Conférence d’automne 2005 (799 KB)
Fall Conference 2004 (377 KB)
Fall Conference 2004 French Version (387 KB)
Fall Conference 2003 (198 KB)
Fall Conference 2002 (88 KB)
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