SESSION 9

Nel Capadona / Chris Capadona Effective Marketing TPS - Function Room 9 Meetings Matter! Maximizing Collaborative Time with Your Staff - Admit it, not every school leader runs an effective meeting. We propose a fundamental shift in how educators think about meetings: they could potentially be the most important venue where learning can take place. Practical tools will be presented to show how meetings can become a strategy in school improvement.

David Coleman / Marc Montague Accreditation TMS - Meeting Room 4 Putting it all Together: Seamless Systems Development for International School Accreditation - Preparation for an accreditation visit requires proven protocols to maximize effective collaboration and encourage cooperation among all stakeholders. In this session, participants will learn how to design the critical systems necessary to facilitate involvement while ensuring a consistent, efficient, and meaningful experience for all. From committee assignments and meeting schedules, to strategic evidence collection and website design, to crafting the report while maintaining a singular voice, this workshop covers the do’s and don’ts of setting up a successful school accreditation.

Genevieve Ermeling / Anne Love / Billy Thomas / Lisa Hawkins School Change TPS - Function Room 6 The Ripple Effect: How Might We Empower Teachers to Lead Change? - Administrators often hear about innovative teaching practices or inspiring learning opportunities from passionate faculty. By examining the journey of bringing Design Thinking to Concordia and using it for human-centered design, participants will learn a process that allows innovation and effective practices to flow through an entire school community.

Angela Hollington / Celeste Krochak EAL TMS - Meeting Room 1 From ‘EAL’ to ‘BML’ a school’s paradigm shift in its teaching of English Learners - Using the latest research on how the mother tongue supports students in international schools to learn English, this presentation will demonstrate how our school changed its model of teaching ‘EAL’ to a literacy inclusion model. We will explain the process, the research which led to the change and the benefits to our students and teachers.

David Hoss / Lisa Wan PLC TPS - Hibiscus Garden Building Collaborative, Personalized Learning Communities within Elementary Schools - As we consider a personalized approach within the early learning years (K-2) we know there needs to be a balance between providing a defined set of prerequisite skills that students must know and opportunities for personalized learning. In this session we will walk you through a plan that the Singapore American School has developed to move personalized learning forward for our youngest learners to prepare them for one of the most transformational times in human history.

Kedra Ishop University Admissions TMS - Meeting Room 5 Trends in U.S. University Admissions--What They Mean for the EARCOS Community - American-style universities have always had a strong connection to EARCOS member schools. Understanding the important trends and emerging practices in U.S. college admissions is essential for EARCOS school leaders. This interactive session, featuring a seasoned global higher education enrollment leader, will focus on the issues most important for EARCOS school leaders to understand in order to support their students’ college & career aspirations.

Ann A Laurenson Wellness TMS - Meeting Room 2 Sharing Responsibility for Learning, Health and Well-Being - Agency for adults. Voice, choice and ownership for teachers, building learning communities where teachers take the lead. What is the secret to building a learning community where everyone can make a difference?

Ellen Mahoney SEL TPS - Function Room 2 It Starts With Us: Developing Social-Emotional Competencies in Faculty and Leadership - The number of international schools embracing Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is sharply increasing. Schools are investing in SEL curricula and programs that teach teachers how to employ proven SEL pedagogy. However, research suggests that there is a critical gap in teachers’ professional development in SEL: the development of their OWN social and emotional competencies. How can we expect students to develop SEL competencies if there are inconsistencies in the modeling of such competencies by the adults around them? Join us as we discuss the latest Social and Emotional Competencies research, consider which competencies faculty and administrators need to develop, and what effective professional learning might look like in this space.

Jon Nordmeyer ELL TPS - Function Room 10 Assessing English Language Learners: Turning Data into Action (Repeat) - Twenty-first century international schools serve increasingly diverse transnational communities. Multilingual students are not only learning a new language but learning in a new language. Effective assessment practices help educators understand what learners can do, while empowering teachers to build on student assets so they can scaffold both language and content learning.

Julie Olson / Azra Pathan School Change TMS - Meeting Room 3 Managing Large Scale Change: Holding it All Together - How do leaders keep a steady forward movement amidst rapid and extraordinary change? We will share the ISKL story of 2018-19 school year--unprecedented growth in faculty and students; the enormous undertaking of joining together on one campus; establishing new routines and processes for virtually everything in the ES; the implementation of inclusion. Keeping the precarious balance of a healthy school culture close in mind throughout the year, we will share strategies, structures and stories of ways we managed change and attended to culture, capacity and learning.