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. 

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.

Current research shows, time and time again, that movement and exercise have a positive impact on student cogniiton, learning and self regulation at all ages. What exactly is the research saying and how do classroom teachers combine more movement into the school day without impacting their programme?

Join Dr. Lynne Kenney and Wim van Gelder for two days of engagement in practical applications of the latest research from the fields of neuroscience, kinesiology, cognitive science and neuroeducation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

The Centre for Development Learning & Technology at the International School of Amsterdam is proud to be hosting the Appsevents European Google for Education Bootcamp on 17 November 2022 and Summit on 18 & 19 November 2022. It will be a truly world-class Google Professional Learning event.

Sometimes you need something that’s made just for you. Bringing our expertise to your school and working with our partners from various fields, we support you to intentionally design the experience of your school.

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.