Child Protection Deep Dive: Managing Allegations
Apr
23
to Apr 24

Child Protection Deep Dive: Managing Allegations

We’re hosting a CIS Workshop on 23–24 April for In-depth training to help international educators manage allegations of child abuse against an adult. It’s a professional learning experience tailored to international school communities. The goal is to return to your school ready to support the development of a community-wide safeguarding culture. Learn more on the CIS website.

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Veracross Summit 2024
May
2
to May 3

Veracross Summit 2024

The Veracross Summit 2024 is an educational and networking summit for private and independent schools. We hope that you’ll be able to join us for an exciting and informative series of sessions and talks from experts in edtech and school administration.

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Responding to and Planning for Diversity in Today’s Classrooms
Oct
10
to Oct 11

Responding to and Planning for Diversity in Today’s Classrooms

Join us for a transformative workshop on inclusion led by renowned inclusion specialist, Shelley Moore! Shelley will set the stage by helping participants calibrate their understanding of inclusion and how it has evolved over time before shifting mindsets of how we understand, respond to and plan for the diverse groups of students in our care.

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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics
Nov
11
to Nov 12

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics

Busy classrooms are not necessarily thinking classrooms. Join Peter to experience some of the 14 thinking practices that emerged out of over 15 years of research into how teachers can transform their classrooms from a space where students mimic, to where students think. 

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7 Mighty Moves to Unlock Reading Success
Apr
3
to Apr 4

7 Mighty Moves to Unlock Reading Success

Come learn about the seven, science based, moves teacher and author, Lindsay Kemeny, made in her classroom to ensure reading success for all her students. She will share seven ways teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction. Each “mighty move” focuses on a critical area of foundational reading, from the most efficient ways to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to how to boost comprehension.

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Developing Student Agency and Transforming Classrooms Through    Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Feb
1
to Feb 2

Developing Student Agency and Transforming Classrooms Through Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

This workshop provides educators across all educational contexts, an introduction to the guiding principles of Universal Design for Learning. Utilising approaches to teaching (AtT), educators will have the opportunity to develop strategies that can be transferred to all educational contexts, creating bespoke resources and artifacts.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity and Justice (DEIJ) Advocacy Workshop
Jan
12
to Jan 13

Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity and Justice (DEIJ) Advocacy Workshop

Educators are at a crossroads and the global call for institutions to address their inequitable structures is ringing loudly. For teachers and school leaders who are hearing that call, this workshop offers knowledge and guidance for becoming a totally inclusive school.

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Cultures of Thinking in Action: An Inquiry into 10 Guiding Mindsets
Nov
30
to Dec 1

Cultures of Thinking in Action: An Inquiry into 10 Guiding Mindsets

Explore the 10 foundational mindsets needed to create a robust culture of thinking in your classroom and/or school context. These mindsets motivate and guide our actions and provide the touchstones we need as we create places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted. As we do so, we will look at the research behind these principles, the actions and data that can be used to move us forward in whatever teaching and learning environments we find ourselves.

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Multilingual Learners in the Lower School Mainstream
Nov
16
8:30 AM08:30

Multilingual Learners in the Lower School Mainstream

Do your multilingual learners need some additional scaffolding and support in your homeroom classes? Do you wonder what to do when the English Language Specialist is not in the classroom?  This one-day session will provide practical strategies that support multilingual learners in every part of the mainstream curriculum from reading and writing to maths and unit of inquiry.

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Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals
Nov
14
to Nov 15

Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals

Experienced multilinguals may sound orally proficient, but when they read complex texts or write discipline-specific papers, they may still need support to reach grade-level expectations. If this sounds like many of your students, then this workshop is for you! You will learn practical strategies for supporting these students across content areas. You will also have time in the workshop to redesign a summative assessment with appropriate scaffolds and develop a supportive daily lesson for that unit.

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Creativity Masterclass - Including Special Focus on Woodwork in Early Education
Nov
9
to Nov 10

Creativity Masterclass - Including Special Focus on Woodwork in Early Education

Pete Moorhouse is an Early Years creative consultant and artist educator who will present the Holistic Creativity Framework, which looks at the individual capacities children need and the facilitating factors that we can provide to help enable children's creativity to flourish.  Participants will be introduced to a monitoring tool for how we can best observe young children’s creative development and explore the teacher’s role in facilitating creative investigation and exploration. A special focus will be placed on woodwork as an exceptional media for both engaging children and encouraging creativity. Participants will, in addition to learning how to establish woodwork provisions, explore woodworking themselves through hands-on and minds-on exploration.

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How to Talk to Children About Race: A Parent Workshop
Nov
2
7:00 PM19:00

How to Talk to Children About Race: A Parent Workshop

Despite the common belief that children “don’t see race”, research shows that racial awareness starts as young as three months old. It's never too early to begin having open conversations with your child about race. We will share strategies and resources that will help us feel more equipped to talk about race with the children in our lives. Learn how to approach these conversations with empathy and compassion. This workshop is designed for parents and caregivers of children ages 0-10.

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Understanding Culture and Identity and Its Impact in the Primary Classroom
Oct
11
9:00 AM09:00

Understanding Culture and Identity and Its Impact in the Primary Classroom

How does our own culture and identity impact the way we teach? How do we make our classroom a learning space where every child feels a strong sense of belonging? In our ever increasing globalized world, understanding and celebrating cultural differences has never been more essential. Are you interested in making your classroom instruction and learning community more inclusive and culturally responsive but not sure how to start? This one-day workshop will focus on strategies and tools to help!

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LGBTQ+ Safety, Equity, & Belonging in Schools: A Deep Dive on Vulnerability & Accountability
Sep
28
to Sep 29

LGBTQ+ Safety, Equity, & Belonging in Schools: A Deep Dive on Vulnerability & Accountability

Join Emily on a deep dive into the what, why, and how of LGBTQ+ safety, equity and belonging in schools. You will take away foundational knowledge about LGBTQ+ child development, vocabulary and key concepts, as well as a framework for considering decision-making. Participants will be supported to develop an individualized LGBTQ+ equity commitment plan, specific to your role, context, and priorities within international education.

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Education and Sustainability Leadership Summit
Apr
22
9:00 AM09:00

Education and Sustainability Leadership Summit

Designed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership www.cisl.cam.ac.uk and Sustainability Education www.sused.org this one-day  Education and Sustainability Leadership Summit (ESLS) at ISA offers the opportunity for strategic engagement, intense reflection and collaboration around leadership, approaches to teaching and learning, curriculum design and infrastructure, led by an experienced, expert faculty drawn from the worlds of sustainability, education and development.
The day, World Earth Day, will bring together students, teachers and leaders from national and international systems of education, with policy makers, leaders in business and industry and climate experts. Together, we will confront the systems failures that have led us to the current climate emergency and embrace the imperative of education and leadership to shape a pathway to a better, more peaceful and more sustainable future. This inaugural one-day summit will create networks of agency and connected action and will be followed by a three-day programme of focused, reflective engagement later in 2023-2024.

The Education and Sustainability Leadership Summit (ESLS) at ISA follows on from successful programs in Asia (UWC South East Asia), Africa (Bishop’s, Cape Town), Europe (Berlin Brandenburg International School) the UK (Dollar Academy, Scotland) and the Middle East (Jerusalem American School).

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We All Support Children: Learning from Speech and OT Specialists to Improve Student Support in the Homeroom
Mar
24
8:00 AM08:00

We All Support Children: Learning from Speech and OT Specialists to Improve Student Support in the Homeroom

We all support children! Many schools and families have access to external support services from Speech & Language and Occupational Therapists. Join us to learn from these specialists what the most common student concerns are, how to identify the need for external support services and what tips and strategies you can use in the classroom to further enhance the support students receive.

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The Power of Progressions: Untangling the Knotty Areas of Teaching & Learning Mathematics
Mar
22
to Mar 23

The Power of Progressions: Untangling the Knotty Areas of Teaching & Learning Mathematics

As more K-6 teachers look to add high-yield tasks to their repertoire, the struggle to make it all work becomes real. Let’s examine how problem-based lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit and how we can harness their power to move student thinking forward. We’ll identify strategies and explore some tasks that help us find a healthy balance between application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.

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The Power of Making Thinking Visible
Feb
9
to Feb 10

The Power of Making Thinking Visible

When used powerfully, Visible Thinking Routines not only provide teachers with a set of practices to engage students, but help advance a broader goal to create classrooms where students’ thinking is visible, valued, and actively promoted. Join us for more than just a great workshop and engage in transformative learning in a supportive environment that leads to actionable outcomes for improving student engagement and learning!

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Learning that Matters: Unlocking Methods for Trans/Interdisciplinary Unit
Jan
26
to Jan 27

Learning that Matters: Unlocking Methods for Trans/Interdisciplinary Unit

Ever feel like your transdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary units are filled with forced fits? Are you sometimes grasping for straws just for the sake of calling a unit trans/interdisciplinary?

And what about approaches to learning (AtL)? Perhaps you’ve even identified focus skills for units and learning experiences…but sometimes it still feels like these skills live on paper and posters only. How can you bring them to life with students?

These questions are far too important to ignore. If students don’t leave us with conceptual understandings and skills that allow them to self-navigate and self-adjust for life…well, then, what is education for?

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Humanizing the Workplace with Marjon Bohré
May
19
7:30 PM19:30

Humanizing the Workplace with Marjon Bohré

In this interactive lecture, we will dive into what is necessary to humanize the workplace, why it can seem risky to show up and let yourself be seen, and how it is actually courageous to be vulnerable. You will walk away with new insights, and some practical tools to apply in the workplace on the road to more humanness at work.

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Motor Remedial Teaching Workshop 2022 (Dutch)
Apr
1
8:30 AM08:30

Motor Remedial Teaching Workshop 2022 (Dutch)

This one-day course equips attendees with the skills to run a Motor Remedial Teaching (MRT) programme. The training focuses on screening and testing students, organising small MRT groups with individual attention and programme developed for each student, evaluating the results of the training and playground activities.

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Motor Remedial Teaching Workshop 2022 (English)
Mar
31
8:30 AM08:30

Motor Remedial Teaching Workshop 2022 (English)

This one-day course equips attendees with the skills to run a Motor Remedial Teaching (MRT) programme. The training focuses on screening and testing students, organising small MRT groups with individual attention and programme developed for each student, evaluating the results of the training and playground activities.

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Creating Cultures of Thinking
Mar
4
to Mar 5

Creating Cultures of Thinking

Dr. Ron Ritchhart is currently the Director of the Worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project, having served for 25 years as a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero. This seminar will focus on developing the kinds of thoughtful learning environments that foster powerful learning for both students and teachers.

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Enriching World Language Instruction - beyond intermediate level
Feb
4
2:30 PM14:30

Enriching World Language Instruction - beyond intermediate level

If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then join Beth Skelton online for this World Language workshop in her upcoming EAL series.

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Enriching Arts and Design Instruction for Secondary EAL Students
Feb
3
2:30 PM14:30

Enriching Arts and Design Instruction for Secondary EAL Students

If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then join Beth Skelton online for this Arts and Design workshop in her upcoming EAL series.

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Enriching English Language Teaching for Secondary EAL Students
Feb
2
2:30 PM14:30

Enriching English Language Teaching for Secondary EAL Students

If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then join Beth Skelton online for this English Language and Literature session in her upcoming EAL series.

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Enriching Humanities Instruction for Secondary EAL Students
Jan
28
2:30 PM14:30

Enriching Humanities Instruction for Secondary EAL Students

If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then join Beth Skelton online for this humanities (individuals and societies) workshop in her upcoming EAL series.

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Enriching Mathematics Instruction for Secondary EAL Students
Jan
26
2:30 PM14:30

Enriching Mathematics Instruction for Secondary EAL Students

If you are interested in practical, easy-to-implement strategies, supports, and scaffolds to ensure that all students can comprehend your lessons and share their understanding orally and in writing, then join Beth Skelton online for this mathematics workshop in her upcoming EAL series.

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