2025 myPITA Fall Conference Call for Workshop Proposals

Apply to present at the Provincial Intermediate and Middle Years Teachers' Association (myPITA) 2025 Fall PSA Day Conference on Friday, October 24, 2025. This conference will be delivered in person at Heritage Park Middle School in Mission, BC and online. Presenters may deliver their workshops online, in person, or twice – once online and once in person. The standard session length is 75 minutes. 

Great myPITA workshops are a combination of lecture and hands-on experiential learning, presenting relevant information, techniques, and resources, with lessons that can be immediately implemented and applied in classrooms across the province. Workshops can be about any subject or topic that is relevant to Grades 4–9 and middle school teachers.

Share your passions and expertise with others and enjoy the perks of being a presenter including: 

• An honorarium
• Complimentary conference registration
• myPITA membership for BCTF members
• Reimbursement for travel expenses for eligible presenters.

Questions or concerns, please contact:

Speaker Wrangler, Noah at speakers@pita.ca

Conference Coordinator, Kristina at conference@pita.ca

Provincial Intermediate and Middle Years Teachers Association (myPITA) 

2025 Fall Conference presenter travel expenses and honorariums

Types of Presenters

Presenters are anyone delivering a workshop.

Teacher-presenters are currently employed teachers by a BC school district or independent school and contracted by their employer to work on the presentation day.

Sponsored presenters are individuals who are paid or volunteer to deliver or facilitate workshop presentations on behalf of an organization. 

Contract presenters are presenters who do not meet the definitions of teacher-presenters and sponsored presenters. myPITA pays contract presenters a negotiated fee per workshop. 

In-person and on-site presenters deliver their workshops at a conference site provided by myPITA. 

Offsite presenters deliver an online workshop from any location not provided by myPITA, eg, home, school, etc. 

Workshop Standards

Presenters are expected to deliver workshops that exemplify best teaching practices related to the BC curriculum. Workshop sessions may not sell or promote a product or service that teachers are required to purchase to implement the concepts presented in the workshop. Presenters should not promote resources on Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) or sites that charge teachers to access their resources. 

Presenters, whether teachers or not, are expected to uphold the values of the Professional Standards for BC Educators. Presenters will not disparage another teacher, presenter, or organization’s practice or resources. 

Presentations sharing information about artificial intelligence, technology, and/or controversial and sensitive subject areas must include guidance about ethical, safety, and professional considerations and hazards that teachers should consider before implementing in their classrooms. 

Workshop Delivery Formats

75% of myPITA's Fall 2024 conference audience attended online. Preference will be given to presenters who will deliver workshops online. Online presenters may use their own professional Zoom account or myPITA will provide one for you to use. 

Presenters who deliver in-person and online workshops will, when possible, present both workshops in the same room. If it is not possible, for a presenter to present in the same room, a minimum of 30 minutes will be allotted for the presenter to transfer to an alternative location. 

Proposed Schedule

Workshops are 75 minutes. The proposed schedule for the day is: 

Session A 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Session B 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Session C 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Session D 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Conference Registration

A maximum of two presenters per workshop may receive complimentary in-person or online conference registration.

Complimentary myPITA Membership

All active BCTF member teacher-presenters will receive a complimentary one-year myPITA membership. 

Presenter Technology

Presenters are responsible for supplying a laptop with sufficient performance to present their in-person workshop. The laptop must have an HDMI or USB-C port to connect to the onsite audiovisual technology, projector, and sound system. If the laptop does not have an HDMI port, the presenter must bring a USB-C to HDMI adapter.

Offsite presenters are responsible for providing reliable high-speed internet at their own expense. 

Online presenters are responsible for creating, logging in, and updating their Zoom account at least 72 hours before their workshop presentation. Online presenters may use their own professional Zoom account to create a Zoom meeting for their workshop or myPITA will provide a Zoom meeting for you to use to deliver your workshop. 

Workshop Honorariums

Teacher-presenters are eligible for the workshop honorarium. The honorarium is paid per workshop and not per presenter. The lead presenter receives the honorarium. 

The 2025 myPITA honorarium rate is $200.00 per 75-minute workshop and $250 per half-day workshop. 

Sponsored presenters and contract presenters are not eligible for the honorarium.

Teacher-presenters who request a fee in excess of the honorarium will be classified as contract presenters. myPITA requests that the presenter request an unpaid leave of absence from their employer for the day of the presentation, on the principle that a presenter should not be paid twice.

Workshop Fees

Teacher-presenters are not paid a workshop fee. 

Contract presenters are paid the contracted and invoiced fee.

Sponsor presenters may request a workshop fee only if grant funding does not cover their presentation.

Contract presenters and sponsor presenters do not receive a complimentary myPITA membership.

Travel Reimbursement Eligibility

Contract presenters and sponsor presenters are not eligible for travel reimbursement. 

Eligible teacher-presenters may have their travel expenses reimbursed. Co-presenting presenters are required to carpool to the conference site. If eligible, the lead presenter will receive a travel reimbursement.

Travel reimbursement eligibility requirements:

• To be reimbursed for travel expenses, the teacher-presenter must deliver at least two workshop sessions from the conference site, at least one of which must be delivered in person, and the additional workshop(s) may be delivered in person or online.
• The teacher-presenter must live more than 25 km from the conference site.

Teacher-presenters who live more than 25 km from the conference site will be reimbursed for mileage.

Teacher-presenters who live more than 90 km from the conference site will be reimbursed for accommodation, mileage, and meals based on the BCTF per diem rates.