SESSION 5

DAVID CHADWELL Curriculum TMS - Meeting Room 10 Curriculum Documentation and Review That is Adaptive and Flexible - Curriculum documentation and review must respond to the needs of teachers and optimize flexibility, accessibility and choice. By freeing curriculum from laborious processes and fix cycles, teachers are empowered to develop curriculum in authentic and meaningful ways while still providing administration the structure they need. Come learn about how this can be done.

CARLENE FIRMIN Peer Abuse TPS - Ballroom 2 / 3 An interactive Case Study Exercise to Understand Peer-Abuse in Schools - This workshop will involve attendees taking part in an interactive case study exercise to improve how they understand and respond to peer-abuse in international school contexts. Participants will be guided to consider family, peer, school and neighbourhood factors that offer sources of protection and risk, and reflect on those that are most pertinent to an international school setting. Through this process they will identify points of learning for their own settings and actions they can taken back to develop safeguarding and practices within their setting.

MARC FRANKEL / ABIGAIL DELESSIO Gender Diversity TPS - Function Room 8 The Future is Female - Available data demonstrates an undeniable link between gender diversity and organizational performance. In a recent update to a Zenger Folkman survey, women ranked higher than men in 13 of 16 leadership competencies, and a recent survey by Peakon found that women-led organizations are more likely to have engaged, inspired and satisfied employees. Still, it is estimated that globally it will take 217 years to reach gender parity. This workshop will focus on the need for systemic breakthroughs as opposed to incremental change. Through large and small group work, attendees will identify ways to meaningfully impact D & I, and defines ways in which women can be more effective champions for one another. The workshop will offer opportunities to practice skills essential to achieving gender parity: becoming a “Why Not” challenger, conceptualizing new futures, and identifying shortcircuit pathways to advancement.

RODERICK FRASER / RACHEL WESTGARTH Global Competence TMS - Orchid Room Turning Global Competence into Global Confidence with Round Square - Round Square offers schools an international values-based learning programme for students through access to collaborative partners, practical resources, and real-world experiences. In this workshop Round Square’s leadership team will explore outcomes of a 2-year independent research study that has identified the most effective methods of developing global competence in students.

RICHARD GASKELL International School Market TPS - Function Room 10 The Pathway from International Schools to Higher Education - The international schools market is currently educating 5.8 million children, over 90% who are on the pathway to higher education overseas.

PATRICK HURWORTH / ELSA DONOHUE Student Surveys TPS - Hibiscus Garden Improving Practice Through Student Survey Data - How can student survey data be used responsibly to help teachers reflect and improve practice? The International School of Beijing will share a narrative describing the implementation of its professional growth pilot scheme of which anonymous student surveys of teacher practice is an integral component. This session will also describe how the pilot scheme moved to whole school practice; the successes and the lessons learned.

LEE ANN JUNG Assessment TPS - Function Room 6 Healthy Grading Practices for Students with Learning Differences - Assigning fair and meaningful grades to students with learning differences is a difficult task faced by every teacher. Very little guidance can be found in policy or the field of special education to help teachers with this challenge. In this session, participants will learn about the move to standards-based grading for all learners. Participants will learn to use a 4-step Differentiated Assessment and Grading Model for grading and reporting achievement of students with learning differences in a way that is fair, meaningful, and legally defensible. The model is appropriate for students with disabilities, language learners, and those receiving intensive intervention.

KEVIN KREMBS / JOHN EVERETT SEL TMS - Meeting Room 1 A Culture of SEL: From Idea to Implementation - This workshop will provide an overview of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) journey HKIS has embarked on in the Middle School. We believe SEL is everywhere and the responsibility of all members of a school community. Attendees will walk away with a greater knowledge of SEL and become inspired to make changes in their school. This workshop will also provide an opportunity to share your school’s SEL journey with other attendees.

JOHN LITTLEFORD Marketing TPS - Function Room 7 The Most Effective Way to Market Your School and Build a Culture of Charitable Giving - The first goal of this session is to promote this important dialogue: If we could start with a blank slate, what faculty compensation and benefit system would we build and why? How would it serve the school’s mission and financial sustainability? How would it attract, retain and reward faculty who will advance a school’s mission and vision? We will show several salary system models and the messages that they send. The second goal of this session will outline for heads and boards a range of approaches that schools are using to recruit, compensate and reward heads, including providing various incentives. (Read more on Whova App)

DAVID LOVELIN Wellness TMS - Meeting Room 2 Work Life Balance...Solution or the Problem? - Take back your life and promote balance with your faculty and staff. Come hear how one high school principal is walking the walk to promote a more balanced and healthy lifestyle. How many emails are you reading/sending/answering daily? How often are you on your phone in the evenings? How do you disseminate information? Are your faculty sending emails at all times of the day/night? Do you have a life outside of the school? During this session I will share tools that have helped to create a positive work/life balance for our faculty and administrative team.

09:45 - 12:45 10:00 - 18:00 11:00 - 11:15

KEVIN LYNCH Storytelling / Marketing TMS - Meeting Room 3 Turning Buses Into Storytellers: Building a School’s Brand Through Storytelling - Shanghai American School has 166 buses and each tells a unique story about the school. This is just one example of how SAS employs storytelling in creative ways to strengthen our culture, lengthen our institutional memory, and differentiate ourselves in the second most competitive education market in the world.

RAMI MADANI Learner Profiles TPS - Funtion Room 9 To What Extent is your School Meeting its Mission? A Systematic Approach to Embedding Life-Worthy Skills in Teaching and Learning - We all believe in the value of embedding essential, life-worthy skills and dispositions in our students. Some schools refer to these as School-wide Learning Results, a Graduate Profile, or the Learner Profile. This session focuses on top ranking skills and dispositions, provides simple, research-based indicators for each, and shares resources that help leaders plan so that teachers teach and assess each indicator. It will empower school leaders to concretize and demystify lifeworthy learning in their schools and provide them with tools, processes, and strategies to support their teachers to do the same. (Read more on Whova App)

ELLEN MAHONEY Student Mentoring TPS - Function Room 2 Relationship-based Learning: International Schools’ Use of Mentoring to Deepen Student Learning - All around the world, we are seeing international schools increasingly embrace mentoring as a mechanism to foster students’ sense of belonging, to connect them to real-world learning opportunities, to strengthen teacher-student interactions, and to improve school climate altogether. In fact, as more educators understand that there is no separation between Social and Emotional Learning and academic rigor, schools are finding that mentoring is a perfect context for this kind of learning to take place. Join us as we explore the latest research, the most common implementation pitfalls, and the incredible opportunities mentoring affords schools. We will look at the examples of The American School in Japan, Singapore American School, Western Academy of Beijing and Beijing City International School and hear directly from them about their mentoring program experiences.

MARTA MEDVED School Change TPS - Ballroom 1 Governing and Leading the School Through a Dynamic Transformation - Western Academy of Beijing has embarked on a multi-year journey of educational innovation in order to become a school where personalized learning is happening across the whole educational continuum. This session is aimed at the school leaders and board members and focuses on how board - leadership interactions and levels of trust have been dynamically changing throughout different phases of WAB’s transformation: from the initial process of ideation, through the implementation and into the consolidation phase of parts of the innovation strategy. The session will also touch upon different governance and leadership models and their potential advantages and disadvantages in the various phases of change.

TED MOCKRISH / IAN SUTHERLAND Professional Growth TPS - Function Room 1 Using a Definition of Learning to Anchor Teacher Professional Growth - This 2nd session operationalizes a definition of learning with a new approach to teacher professional growth. The Model focuses all teacher professional growth through a common a definition of learning, creates a common language of learning, and hence a common culture, for all adults and students in a school community.

NATHANIEL RUDD Professional Development TMS - Meeting Room 4 Incentivized Online Staff Training - How do you get your staff to really want to be trained, especially when it is so hard to get them together at once? Learn what qualities, features and incentives to consider when looking for a system for managing staff training.

DAVE SHEPHERD Giving Programs TPS - Function Room 4 Establishing a Culture of Philanthropy through Annual and Regular Giving - An annual and regular giving programme is often referred to as the bedrock of fundraising activity. It is, however, as much about the intangible benefits as it is about the financial benefit. This workshop will prepare you with the knowledge to implement a comprehensive giving programme; evaluating the programmes, donor segments and giving methods that will work best for your circumstances. We will look at some of the key metrics and data points and, finally, review some of the myths and trends in annual and regular giving, including the role of volunteers, technology and leadership giving.

DARREN SKOV Effective Learning TMS - Meeting Room 5 There’s More to it than Meets the WHY (and how) - In schools/education, there should be little that we do without a compelling WHY. Of course HOW we do things is always under the microscope. This interactive session reveals that WHEN can be just as important as how & why if our hope is effective learning.

09:45-12:45 (AD Institute) LTC 510 - Legal Issues IV (social media, transgender, event management & security) TPS - Meeting Room 6 Presenter: Douglas Killgore

10:00-18:00 International School Leadership Program University of San Francisco / Washington State University

11:00 - 11:15 TRAVEL TIME TMS - Meeting Room 7