SESSION 4

GAVIN AILES Wordpress TMS - Rose Garden WordPress, a Viable Alternative Platform for your Website - Gavin’s most recent work experience was as a project manager working for a website design and build company specializing in WordPress. ISY are in the process of moving platforms to WordPress and in this presentation Gavin will be giving a topline overview of the platform, showing how it can be used with little prior experience.

SCOTT BROWN Child Protection TPS - Ballroom 1 Incorporating Child Protection Safeguards into Your Recruitment (For Overworked Administrators) - This session is intended for school leaders who want to incorporate child protection safeguards into their recruitment, but don’t know where to start and already squeezed for time. You will leave this session with a strategies and resources to take back to your school in preparation for teacher recruitment that is efficient and safe.

BILL ELMAN Parent Administrators TMS - Meeting Room 1 Administrators as Parents: The Burden of Omniscience - A forum for parent directors and other administrators to discuss how to negotiate the difficulties of having one’s own children taught by faculty in remediation or some other kind of professional distress. I have no clear answers, but plenty of questions. We meet to benefit from the collective wisdom of our peers.

JIM HARDIN / CAROLE NICKLE / SCOTT WILCOX Change TPS - Hibiscus Garden ASIJ 7.0: A New Operating System at One of the World’s Oldest International Schools - New research on student learning and change leadership, emerging technological drivers, and the projections of essential workplace competencies by groups like the World Economic Forum and the OECD signal that schools are at the cusp of a transformative era of change. How does a 117-year-old school, known for its tradition and academic reputation, navigate the complexity of this modern landscape? Join a team from The American School in Japan to learn how we’re refocusing the direction and updating the operating system of one of the oldest international schools in the world.

JEFFREY HOLCOMB Wellness TMS - Meeting Room 4 Data-Driven Wellness for Students and Faculty - This year we piloted weekly student and faculty wellness surveys to track general wellness over the course of the year. For students, the surveys specifically track sleep, causes of stress and created an avenue for student disclosure. For faculty, the surveys tracked factors that caused and relieved stress. This session will share logistics of setting up this process, relevant impacts of the process, and reflections for future implementation.

SCOTT HOSSACK / CALEB LOTT (AD Institute) Concussions TMS - Meeting Room 5 Getting Ahead of the Game, an International Schools Holistic Management of the Invisible Injury: Concussions - Concussions may be the only injury that occurs that temporarily affects students’ ability to learn. This presentation is one international school’s holistic approach to managing this type of injury focusing on sustainable community education, management and evaluation, return to learn process and the return to participation process.

PATRICK HURWORTH Advancement TPS - Function Room 9 Building an Advancement Program from the Ground Up! - Beginning an advancement program in a school from scratch can be daunting. The International School of Beijing has recently developed this function in its school and will present some successes, frustrations and lessons learned along the first 18 months of the journey.

BLAIR LEE / PETER ROW / CHRIS BOYLE / NATHAN BURTON Effective Meetings TPS - Function Room 10 Building Organizational Health Through Effective Meetings - Learn how to use Lencioni’s The Meeting Advantage model to build an effective structure for meetings. DAIS used technology and Lencioni’s principles to focus meetings on the important. You will walk away from this session with our meeting template and how to modify it to help your organizational health.

ELLEN MAHONEY SEL TPS - Function Room 2 Choosing the Path Forward: Adapting Your School to Meet the Social Emotional Learning Needs of Your Students - “The promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning is not a shifting educational fad; it is the substance of education itself.” This is the 2019 declaration from The Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. Even if leaders are only in the beginning stages of thinking through a social-emotional learning initiative in their school, odds are they already have many of the working parts needed to be successful. (Read more on Whova App)

ADAM OLENN Marketing TPS - Function Room 1 Ready, Action! Making Video the Best Tool in Your Kit - Learn the principles of filmmaking from a school marketing perspective, with guidance on technical, artistic, and budgetary considerations. You’ll learn how you too can make videos that look and sound great on whatever budget your department can afford.

AzRA PATHAN / JULIE OLSON Inclusion TMS - Meeting Room 10 Leading Inclusion - This workshop will provide an overview of the complexities of leading your school into Inclusion. While nurturing relationships and building capacity, we will share systems and structures at the heart of building inclusive practices among all stakeholders in your school community. Come hear about ISKL’s journey to Inclusion; our successes and challenges may benefit you as schools become more inclusive.