They’re back: OTF Connects webinars
OTF is pleased to announce our newest series of excellent OTF Connects webinars. Over the coming weeks and months, OTF’s newest series of webinars will feature tips and tools to support you on your teaching and learning journey, across divisions and subject areas.
Our easy-to-use webinar platform provides you with free, effective professional learning accessible–from a distance–across multiple types of devices. You will leave each session with strategies and tools you can transfer to your own learning context. Registration for each webinar is limited, so sign up early to avoid disappointment.
December/Décembre
L’intelligence artificielle générative: la révolution en action pour le personnel enseignant—2ème partie*
(In French only. Get more information and register.)
Date: le 9 décembre 2025
Heure : 16 h 30 à 18 h
January/Janvier
Elementary Money Math Made Simple
(en anglais seulement)
Date: January 22, 2026
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
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Explore the world of money through some practical approaches that align with the financial literary strand in Mathematics. Join the Bank of Canada Museum for this informative presentation and learn all about saving and spending, budgeting and investing and calculating and converting change. You’ll be provided with multiple entry points into financial literacy and money for Grades K-6, including interactive lesson plans, activities, and even an escape room!
Meet your Presenter
Heather Montgomery is a long-time museum educator who has a passion for inquiry-learning and making economics fun. She designed the Bank of Canada Museum’s successful on-site school programs and has worked on many lesson plans including learning about bank notes, money and math, and inflation.
It Starts with Words…Commemorating the Holocaust
(en anglais seulement)
Date: January 22, 2026
Time: 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
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January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In this webinar you will be guided through Liberation75’s new 3-module classroom-ready student program, Surviving the Holocaust, By Chance Alone: Max Eisen’s Story. Designed to support Holocaust curriculum in Ontario classrooms, this program can be integrated into a variety of grades and subject areas. Participants will be introduced to both student and teacher resources that are included in the program.
Meet your Presenter
Melissa Mikel recently earned her Doctoral Degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in rural Ontario, before serving as Director of Education with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto for sixteen years. In this capacity, Dr. Mikel created and implemented extensive programming on topics of the Holocaust, antisemitism, and racism for thousands of students, educators, law enforcement personnel, and other professionals from diverse sectors across Canada. She is currently the director of scholarships for the 30 Birds Foundation and works as a consultant with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and Liberation75.
Favoriser les connaissances financières à tout âge : à la découverte du monde de l’argent, de la finance et de l’économie
(In French only. Get more information and register.)
Date: 29 janvier, 2026
Heure : 16 h 30 à 18 h
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