David Vandergutten

This is the Sched site for the uLead 2026.

Welcome to uLead 2026. We are thrilled you will be joining us at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel for our annual school leadership conference hosted by the Council for School Leadership of The Alberta Teachers’ Association.

If you have any questions during the event, we will have uLead team members throughout the venue wearing red and black plaid. The registration desk will also have our team available throughout the conference. This table can be found just outside of the Van Horne Ballroom, where all of our keynote presentations are taking place.

If you need a digital map of the facilities, you can click here

In order for our team to best determine room allocations for breakout sessions would ask that delegates log in (top right corner of this page) and select sessions that they are interested in attending.

Finally, if you are interested in earning University credits for attending uLead, please visit the uLead website

SD42 Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows

Assistant Superintendent

About me

Apple Distinguished Educator Class of 2004. David Vandergugten M.Ed, is a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence 1997 recipient and is the Assistant Superintendent in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, British Columbia.

David has taught at all levels of the public school system and has been a Provincial Technology Facilitator and speaker throughout Canada. In 2002 David created the Wireless Writing Program, one of the first one-to-one laptop programs in Canada.

Currently David co-leads a district wide grade 6/7 program that incorporates iPad technology and 21st Century Skills to facilitate student work in research, inquiry and action on real-world issues.

My Speakers Sessions

10:45am MDT

Mobilizing Inquiry-Based Learning at Scale: Lessons from Maple Ridge’s 1:1 Journey D C Coleman (Conference Centre)David Vandergutten • Yas Mann • Shawn Lennie

uLead2026 - The Summit of Educational Leadership