SESSION 7

KE’ALOHI REPPUN / PARIS PRIORE-KIM Shared Leadership TPS - Hibiscus Garden Divisions No More: Principal Partnership For Systems Change - junior school (K-8) and high school (9-12) Principals at the Punahou School in Honolulu Hawaii, Dr. Paris Priore Kim and Dr. Emily McCarren, have successfully led broad scale changes in their institution. This session will offer a reflection on the elements that make their partnership work and a discussion of the insights and lessons learned from cross-divisional work that has led to system-wide change in complex schools.

HARVEY ALVY Leadership TMS - Meeting Room 1 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: A Template for 21st Century School Leaders - President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is only 272 words. Yet that short extraordinary speech captures many of the attributes we expect from exemplary school leaders. These attributes include: communicating with clarity, promoting core values, focusing on the mission, displaying humility, modeling collaboration, and fostering hope. During this interactive session, presented by the co-author of Learning from Lincoln: Leadership Practices for School Success (ASCD, 2010), participants will analyze the speech with colleagues, and use it as a template to reflect on their own, unique, school leadership journey. Critical workshop goals include affirming and celebrating that journey, and considering ways to refresh one’s skills for the challenges ahead.

DARREN BREWS Marketing TMS - Meeting Room 5 Accomplish More With Less - International School Marketing and Communications - The international school market is becoming more competitive every day, and the effective utilization of resources has become an art unto itself. This presentation will focus on cost-effective strategies that have worked for us at M’KIS and may spark a debate of where the future of international school marketing is heading.

PETER BURNSIDE Teacher Engagement TMS - Meeting Room 10 Teacher Engagement in International Schools - What does teacher engagement look like in international schools—and what are the factors that drive or hinder teacher engagement? In this session I present the findings from my study on teacher engagement in EARCOS schools and suggest a model for developing a teacher engagement strategy.

SUSIE CLIFFORD / CRAIG COUTTS Leadership TMS - Meeting Room 3 Leadership Pathways - Leadership Pathways focus and generate conversations about leadership development. With our focus on leading for learning, the Leadership Pathways provide growth pathways for skills, knowledge, understandings and dispositions. Designed to be by from emerging leaders to highly experienced leaders, the Leadership Pathways support and develop leaders who have an increased impact on the ‘right’ areas.

ELSA DONOHUE / SANDRA SEADSTEDT / DAVID CHOJNACKI Chair-Head Relationship TPS - Ballroom 1 The Board Chair/Head of School Leading Together: Ginger and Fred on the Dance Floor - A real, dynamic and supportive Board Chair- Head of School relationship is essential to the success of a Board of Trustees that is committed to best practice in governance. The presenters will share their own journey in developing such a partnership and the challenges/opportunities they met along the way. The session will be grounded on recent work done by Rick Detwiler and David Chojnacki, who have been researching the topic.

MARC FRANKEL / ABIGAIL DELESSIO Future Strategy TPS - Function Room 8 A Fresh Approach to Making Strategy - Strategy for international schools has never been more urgent in importance nor daunting in complexity. A school’s strategic domain lies within a space bounded by the future of education (particularly international education) on one side, the future of each school’s locality (economically, demographically, socially, and politically) on another side, the school’s economic model on the third, and the competitive private school environment nearby. All four are (increasingly) fluid, meaning that the landscape onto which we plot strategy is itself undulating and unstable. Dynamics such as these call for a new design-thinking approach to strategy and this session will walk through ways to keep boards and administrators on a stable footing while preparing for futures that will look little like the past or present. Join us for fresh thinking on the strategy-making front.

LEE ANN JUNG Assessment TPS - Function Room 6 Assessment, Grading, & Feedback: Digging Deeper - For those who have been on the path to reforming assessment and grading practices, we will dig deeper into your priorities. In this interactive and adaptive session, meet and collaborate with others on the journey to heathier assessment and grading. Participants will engage in an activity to generate their top priorities for questions and concerns to address. We will use small and large group dialogue to construct an understanding of the challenges ahead and share with one another those solutions, processes, resources, and connections that have been helpful on this journey.

JENNIFER LE VARGE / MONITA SEN Leadership TMS - Meeting Room 2 Self-Censorship in Leadership: Towards An Understanding of Implicit and Explicit Theories and Releasing Your ‘Voice’ - Have you ever been in a leadership meeting and wanted to state your perspective on the issue at hand, but instead remained silent? Self-censorship can erode transformative leadership and hinder innovation yet leaders often self-censor for a variety of reasons, both explicit and implicit. This session will encourage participants to explore their own self-censorship habits and implicit voice theories, discussing strategies for self-reflection and steps leaders can take to release their personal voice as well as honour others’ voices in school-wide decisions.

10:00 - 12:45 07:30 - 15:15

JOHN LITTLEFORD Compensation TPS - Function Room 7 Mission-Based Faculty and Head Compensation: Recruiting, Retaining, Supporting and Rewarding the Best - 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. Whether or not one believes in performance related pay for heads, the trend is for more competitive and creative compensation regardless of school size. A head support subcommittee of the board should annually benchmark the head’s compensation and provides for a process that makes heads and their families feel valued.

DAVID MUNRO / EILEEN RUETH TMS - Rose Garden Modern School Challenges - Schools have seen a dramatic shift in the challenges students face; heightened student anxiety, suicidal ideation, sexual misconduct among peers, drug and alcohol issues, student’s submitting fraudulent college applications. Join us in a hands-on collaborative exercise sharing strategies and resources to help us engage with these challenges collectively.

JON NORDMEYER EAL TPS - Function Room 10 Collaboration to Support Multilingual Learners: NCPA and WIDA - Nansha College Preparatory Academy (NCPA) uses an innovative approach to coplanning and co-teaching to ensure that effective EAL teaching happens every day. Important ingredients in the NCPA recipe for success are 1) integration of WIDA assessments and instructional resources and 2) leveraging students’ native Chinese to build literacy in English while unlocking content learning.

ADAM OLENN Marketing TPS - Function Room 2 Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk About - Shopping for an education for your child costs about the same as a new luxury car every year, except that the stakes are much higher. That’s why traditional product marketing has less impact, and why word of mouth remains the dominant marketing tool for most schools. Learn how to design a program of experiential marketing that makes word-of-mouth work for you far beyond your enrolled families.

WILL RICHARDSON School Change TPS - Ballroom 2 and 3 Making Change Happen: A Process for Moving from Old to Bold - While every school is different, there are a series of consistent steps that schools must take in order to create change that is relevant and sustainable. In this session, we’ll take a look at a process that has been repeated over and over by those schools who have decided to shed the ineffective practices and structures of traditional schooling and create cultures and classrooms where modern learning flourishes.

JENNIFER SPARROW Leading Change TPS - Function Room 9 Leadership Actions for Different Types of Change - Not all change is created equal. Some changes require a certain set of leadership strategies while other changes require a different approach. Unfortunately, many school leaders do not take the time to analyze the type of change taking place to drive what strategies they will use. This workshop will begin by helping leaders develop an understanding of different types of change and how this should impact the leadership strategies they use. Participants will then focus on one or more changes underway in their context to determine what strategies they should start, stop, and/or continue using.

JIM SWEENEY / JANE MARTUNEAC KANG / JAMES HONEY Learning Communities TMS - Orchid Room Building Learning Communities: A Transformative Process - Transforming a school from single-cell, traditional classroom teaching to dynamic, relevant Learning Communities requires a dramatic shift in pedagogy. The orchestration and management of this change by the academic leadership team has resulted in collaborative teaching teams that create authentic, individual learning opportunities for the students within the Learning Communities.

JAMES WARNOCK Adult Professional Culture TPS - Function Room 4 What Leaders Can Do to Build Strong Adult Professional Culture - Our learning at Research for Better Teaching, supported solidly by research, is that there will be no sustainable improvement in student results and no elimination of achievement gaps until leaders and teachers succeed in strengthening key norms of behavior between adults. This workshop will share and explore 12 observable norms of interaction between adults we find to be central to the culture of a school that gets results for students. Handouts will be provided to support further participant reflection on the degree to which these norms of strong adult professional culture are observable in their schools.

10:00-12:45 (AD Institute) LTC 901 - Introduction to International School Athletic Program Administration Presenters: Scott Hossack & Catherine Tanco-Ong

11:15 - 11:30 TRAVEL TIME TMS - Meeting Room 6