SESSION 2

VANESSA ALLEPUz Marketing TMS - Meeting Room 5 Using Digital Marketing to Attract Interest to Your School - Using Busan Foreign School as a case study, we will explore some of the digital marketing components I have found most useful for the purpose of increasing school brand awareness, building traffic to your desired media channel, and generating interest in your school. Expect many concrete and down-to-earth tips.

WARREN APEL / WES PRzYBYLSKI Data Management TPS - Hibiscus Garden Measuring Progress: Our School’s Journey Towards Data-Informed Decision-Making - Like many schools, ASIJ was collecting data and underusing it. We stored it in silos and shared it in pieces. Join a team from The American School in Japan to learn how we’ve unified our systems to better collect, store, and analyze data. We’ll share the tools and techniques that ASIJ’s teachers and school leaders are using to create personal data dashboards, design feedback systems, and climb the ladder of inference. We’ll also share how we’re using data to measure progress and ensure our strategic decision-making is as datainformed as possible.

GLENN DAVIES Distributed Leadership TMS - Meeting Room 2 Creating the Conditions for Learning in Your Organisation - 21st Century distributed leadership can be described as a group activity and is highly dependent on building capacity within our teams. Utilizing the experience of Simon Sinek and Jeff Weiner, and exploring the reframing leadership theories of Bolman and Deal, we will identify the conditions that create a learning organization.

MYONG EISELSTEIN Stakeholder Perceptions TMS - Meeting Room 1 The Importance of Perceptions - The perceptions of students, teachers, parents, and community leaders can have a significant impact on the school community. This presentation will delve into why school leaders should be mindful of the perceptions of each stakeholder group and what to do with the information.

DENNIS HARTER / ELLIOTT BOWYER Experiential Education TPS - Function Room 8 Experiential Outdoor Education in the Middle School - International School Bangkok has recently implemented an Outdoor Education program focused on experiential education and leadership and character development of students. We will share the key criteria and learning goals that drive the decisions we make for our students, along with hopeful next steps. We hope that session participants might consider their own students and schools to reflect upon how experiential education in the outdoors may serve as their community.

CHRIS JANSEN Change TPS - Function Room 10 Igniting Emergent Change - We are familiar with well-planned and programmed change management. However sometimes individual people get to the point where they see an issue that inspires or aggravates them so much that they just have to do something to respond to this immediate need in their context. This self-organising emergent change can be extremely powerful and yet the process by which it happens can seem ambiguous and perhaps risky. In this workshop we will use the phrase ‘Determined collaboration around a compelling purpose ignites possibilities’ to understand why such change occurs and how it can be impactful. (Read more on Whova App)

CAROL KORAN Neuroscience TPS - Ballroom 2 / 3 The Brain and Learning: What Teachers and Students Need to Know - If learning is truly a collaborative endeavor, then it only makes sense that teachers and students should have a mutual understanding of how the brain learns and processes information. The challenge for teachers is to determine not only which current neuroscience research is valid for their context, but how to translate this knowledge into strategies and approaches that will have the greatest impact on student learning. In this presentation Carol will explore the basics of brain-based learning, the role of nutrition and sleep, stress and its effect on learning and the unique qualities of children’s brains as they grow from primary to middle and high school.

ELLEN MAHONEY Global Mobility TPS - Function Room 2 Surveying the Landscape: Common Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities in International School Transition Support - In an effort to better understand the transitions support landscape in international schools, Sea Change Mentoring and Globally Grounded partnered to conduct an independent research project. Building on the important work of Barbara Schaetti, Council of International Schools, and Doug Ota, our research provides a deeper understanding of the transitions-support practices, challenges, and opportunities that the international school community faces. Join us as we share our findings and discuss the implications for how schools and organizations can improve the way they care for young people impacted by global mobility and how this kind of support is a learning and well-being issue.

CRAIG ORTNER Leadership TPS - Function Room 1 Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned From the Law - I will save you three years and six figures and explain everything I learned in the law that is applicable to the world of education. Highlights include: Ask the right questions, be responsive, don’t talk to police, think like a lawyer, but don’t act like one.

RENEE REHFELDT Professional Development TMS - Orchid Room Practical Steps to Genuine, Job-Embedded Professional Learning - Job-embedded professional learning has high impact for student learning and community wellbeing. How can we make this truth reality? Learn practical strategies for a year-long approach to job-embedded, meaningful professional learning, facilitated by your staff. Take away an overview of differentiated options plus a simple design for authentic, school-managed courses.

12:45 - 14:00 13:45 - 17:45 07:30 - 17:00

WILL RICHARDSON School Change TPS - Ballroom 1 10 Principles for Schools of Modern Learning: What Reimagination Looks Like - Based on a combined 50+ years of working with schools around the world, this session builds on the collaborative effort of Will and his colleague Bruce Dixon to identify the characteristics of schools that are successfully navigating a relevant, sustainable change process. We’ll not only look at the qualities of these schools, but we’ll also discuss jumping off points, places for further inquiry, and ways to enlist others in the school community to engage in the work.

TOM SCHIMMER Assessment TPS - Function Room 6 Grading From the Inside Out - The development of a standards-based mindset is the oft overlooked but essential first step for long-term grading reform. Based on his recently released book of the same title, Tom will outline how to take a standards-based approach to grading, even when a traditional grading and reporting paradigm exists. The non-negotiable grading true north of accuracy and confidence will be featured, as well as the three essential practices that serve as the cornerstone for developing a standards-based mindset will be explored.

KEVIN SKEOCH / SONIA BLANFORD / FRANK VINK / CHERIE MAR School Change TMS - Meeting Room 4 That’s Not My Job! Roles, Responsibilities and the Management of Change. How One Successful International School Reshaped Itself - How to move from good to great? High impact approach to inclusive change that improves commitment, wellbeing, student outcomes and staff retention.

JENNIFER SPARROW Innovation TPS - Function Room 9 Scaling Innovation - Understanding how innovation scales (spreads) across a system can help leaders target specific strategies to lead this type of change. This workshop will begin with developing an understanding of how innovation scales and then will focus on several practical leadership strategies to help make sure practices spread across the system. Participants should come with an innovative change they are leading to use as a case study throughout the session.

DAVID TRAJTENBERG Professional Development TMS - Meeting Room 10 Using Online Portfolios to Support Teacher Professional Development - Learn how one school leader uses e-portfolios to capture, communicate, and reflect on the professional practice of teachers in a school community.

JAMES WARNOCK High Expertise Teaching TPS - Function Room 4 The “Big Rocks” of High Expertise Teaching - Teachers make countless instructional decisions every day but which ones have the biggest impact on student performance? This workshop will explore the “big rocks” of high expertise teaching, i.e., the strategies and skills that have the largest effect size on students and their academic growth. Our work at Research for Better Teaching in this area directly connects with the research of Robert Marzano and John Hattie in highlighting what makes the biggest difference for students and their learning.

SALLY WEN / JAMES LEUNG Supervision TMS - Rose Garden A Journey to Establish a School-wide Professional Growth and Evaluation Process (PGEP) - Establishing an effective appraisal or evaluation system has been a challenge for many schools. Concordian has an opportunity to creatively merge teacher evaluation and the needs of professional development into one system--a PGEP (Professional Growth and Evaluation Process) system was established after several years of trial and adjustment.

12:45-14:00 Lunch Meeting for Heads of Small Indonesian Schools (Matthew Gaetano, Head of School, Surabaya Intercultural School)

12:45-14:00 LUNCH

Where to Eat lunch The Pacific Sutera - Café Boleh Restaurant (Level 2) and Foyer of Hibiscus Garden (Level 1) The Magellan Sutera - Five Sails Restaurant & Al-Fresco Restaurant (Both in Level 1) TMS - Meeting Room 9

12:45-14:00 ACAMIS LUNCH MEETING Ferdinand Restaurant, The Magellan Sutera Resort

13:45-17:45 (AD Institute) LTC 508 - Legal Issues III (Hazing, constitutional Law, etc.) Presenter: Douglas Killgore TMS - Meeting Room 6