2026 Events
The Toddle Advisory Board is pleased to host another exclusive two-day event in Amsterdam in May 2026, bringing together educators and school leaders from across the world. The event will feature a keynote session by a leading thought leader, alongside a series of inspiring workshops designed to spark dialogue, innovation and meaningful professional learning.
The International School Librarians in Europe (ISLE) Conference is an annual event for librarians and teacher-librarians working in international schools across Europe.
This New Workshop design brings together Dr. Ron Ritchhart’s seminal work on understanding how group, organizational, and classroom culture is built by leveraging the eight cultural forces with his latest research identifying the mindsets, believes, and values that drive a cultural of thinking and allow it to thrive. This workshop incorporates new, as yet unpublished, thinking routines and recent videos, which highlight how teachers a building a culture of thinking.
How can schools design assessment systems that truly support learning rather than measuring it from a distance? This meetup explores practical approaches to building clarity around learning outcomes, designing meaningful assessments, and using AI to strengthen feedback, consistency, and student progress. Leaders will share examples of assessment workflows, moderation practices, and strategies that help teachers focus on what matters most.
Join us at the Center for Development, Learning & Technology at the International School of Amsterdam for the second LAC Voices event, a one-day forum designed for the entire LAC community and for educators who are passionate about building a school-wide culture of data-informed decision-making.
Join this engaging two-day workshop that explores the developmental progression of how students understand fractions. Discover how to replace memorized rules and tricks with rich tasks, clear reasoning, and practical strategies that build lasting fluency across grade levels. Perfect for educators of grades 3-8 who are ready to rethink how fractions are taught!
GRC is growing! We are thrilled to announce our first-ever European fair, set to take place in the vibrant city of Amsterdam!
Both registered schools and candidates are encouraged to sign up in the GRC database and participate in the event.
2025 Events
The Identity Conscious Educator - Building Habits and Skills for More Inclusive Schools and Tools for Implementing an Identity Conscious Practice.
Feel prepared and empowered to strengthen your school’s mental health culture. You’ll leave this workshop feeling equipped and confident to contribute to a supportive mental health culture, reduce the risk of suicide and self-harm in your community, and lead your school through a mental health crisis.
The 2025 International School Business Management Institute by Sage Consultancy will take place from 18 to 20 September at the International School of Amsterdam, offering a hands-on development experience for international school business and operations leaders.
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.
Unlock your middle leadership potential and embark on a transformative learning journey at Amsterdam International School. This dynamic 1.5-day event is your gateway to earning a Middle Leader Certificate in Building and Leading Teams.
Engage and empower student thinking, not just deliver information. This workshop helps educators shift from a culture of "just getting through the curriculum" to fostering engagement with ideas and one another, and to be empowered to take action. Conversations and reflections will be grounded in creating and sustaining a classroom culture that values powerful thinking, deep understanding, and student ownership of learning.
Education can be transformed if we eradicate our fixation on big data like standardized test scores as the supreme measure of equity and learning. Instead of focusing on “filling” academic gaps, we must re-envision the system from the ground up—with classrooms, schools and systems built around students’ brilliance, cultural wealth, and intellective capacity. This call to action has never been more timely. By breaking down street data fundamentals: what it is, how to gather it, and how it can complement other forms of data to guide a school or district’s equity journey, author Shane Safir will offer an actionable framework for school transformation and Aaron Tyo-Dickerson will share a curated selection of technology tools and services designed to streamline your Street Data workflow.
2024 Events
The Hampstead Dyslexia Clinic presents an interactive workshop tailored for both primary and secondary educators to help understand the complex difficulties of dyslexic learners, reimagine the classroom with creative teaching methods and ultimately increase accessibility for all learners in class.
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.
2023 Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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?
2022 Events
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.
Explore, with Author Librarian John Schu, how the universal truths found in stories can change us, inspire us, connect us to others, answer our deepest questions, and help us heal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2021 Events
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 free taster workshop for her upcoming EAL series.
2020 Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Science session in her upcoming EAL series.
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.
Finland’s education has gained international attention for the ability to produce excellent learning outcomes even though the students start school older and spend fewer hours a year in the classroom than their counterparts in most other European countries.
During shared inquiry, discussion leaders provide direction and guidance in order to get participants thinking, listening, and responding to questions and answers from others in their discussion groups.
Do you have students at different levels of language acquisition in the same class? This two-day workshop will provide practical strategies for differentiating grade level lessons and engaging all learners in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
2019 Events
Wonder Based Teaching encompasses the heart of discovery, the way of self-discovery, a child’s discovery, and the discovery of relationships. Wonder Based Teaching doesn’t just cover the surface, it teaches you how to go deeper into your teaching practice. Participants will learn the five-stage framework of Wonder Based Teaching and how they can integrate it into their teaching methodology.
Communication is key and essential to any role. It is crucial that you have strong communication skills, to help build stronger and more reliable working relationships. With the skills from this session, you will be able to go back to your office and communicate more effectively with your manager, your work colleagues and external contacts. In time, you will see how it will help you to save time and build self-confidence within your role.
In this advanced seminar, Dr. Ron Ritchhart, Principal Investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project has designed a one-day course for those interested in thinking more about how they can extend, grow and support learning at their schools.
Dr. Ron Ritchhart, Principal Investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project and Senior Research Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero, will lead this seminar, focusing on developing the kinds of thoughtful learning environments that foster powerful learning for both students and teachers.
Many of us dread having a hard conversation. It isn’t easy but it is necessary. How do we find voice around what matters? This workshop helps us acquire skills to be able to better have more humane and growth producing conversations with colleagues, parents, supervisors and others.
A four-day professional development program where educators explore learning through Making with hands-on activities, case studies, and classroom examples. The Certificate explores the educational theory, practices, and approaches to successfully integrate learning through Making in the classroom.
This regional workshop is targeted to IB PYP Coordinators and Administrators. It aims to empower users to make the most of ManageBac, become familiar with the new enhanced PYP features, and offer a smooth transition to the new user interface.
Whether you are building a relationship by passing the time of day, setting expectations, dealing with conflict, managing projects or setting performance goals, these are all conversations that take place with a wider outcome in mind; performance improvement. Join us to learn more.
This workshop explores the pivotal role of the environment in young children’s learning. Research informs us that young children primarily learn through their interactions with the social and physical world. A learning environment that supports and extends young children’s curiosity will promote learning in all developmental areas.
Our understanding and knowledge regarding brain development and neuroscience is growing at an incredible rate. This workshop will offer delegates the opportunity to explore the latest thinking, research and good practice in relation to ‘Brains, Behaviours and PSED’.
Led by world-renowned educational consultant Jay McTighe, this workshop will explore the development and use of authentic performance tasks and associated scoring tools.
The challenging new reality for educators at every level today is this: schools were not built for this moment. In this workshop, we will explore the larger questions that surround schools and education today. What does powerful learning look like in the modern world? What new lenses for our work must we create to maintain our relevance as teachers and schools? What beliefs and values about learning and schooling are now most important to stay true to? What are the amazing possibilities for classroom learning as evidenced by schools that are transforming their practice from around the world? And how do we create cultures in school communities that put learning at the center and have the agility to constantly innovate and change?
Join us in Amsterdam for this wonderful opportunity to help build on your knowledge of Veracross as well as connect with other schools who are using Veracross.
Why is it that good classroom management is often invisible? While most people do not go into teaching to become behavioral specialists, one’s skill in this area can make or break success in the classroom. This training provides teachers with the tools they need to succeed.
Participants coming to this workshop will engage in deep reflection of the culture of our classrooms and where we can bring intentionality to aspects of teaching, learning, and developing understanding that are easy to overlook in the day-to-day busy pace of schools.
This two-day workshop is designed to empower educators to manage social dynamics, conflicts and bullying within their community. Using a dynamic approach to the topics, the Owning Up curriculum gives participants concrete strategies to take their training into the classroom.
During shared inquiry, discussion leaders provide direction and guidance in order to get participants thinking, listening, and responding to questions and answers from others in their discussion groups.
2018 Events
Move towards a model of technology integration coaching, where subject and grade level teachers in your school are supported to become self-directed in the ways they use technology to transform student learning.
Join us at the International School of Amsterdam for a wonderful opportunity to come together as teachers to share best practice, discuss issues and angles on teaching art, exchange teaching ideas and practical advice on how you approach this course.
A four-day professional development program where educators explore learning through Making with hands-on activities, case studies, and classroom examples. The Certificate explores the educational theory, practices, and approaches to successfully integrate learning through Making in the classroom.
This workshop will enable participants to help young people explore the impact of hate speech, exclusion and discrimination. Working with the toolbox will help create a community of lifelong learners who value inquiry, critical and creative thinking and act with integrity and compassion.
This two-day workshop will explore the how-tos of having effective writing conferences with students. Participants will learn new ways of thinking about writing conferences, and practical conferring strategies that they will be able to put into practice as soon as they return to their classrooms.
Explore design thinking conceptually and practically as the foundation for learning experiences in a makerspace / maker-centered learning program, but also for other curricular subjects as well. Through hands-on activities, reviews of various design thinking models, and deep dives into classroom examples.
Interdisciplinary teaching and learning can be seen as a challenge for many teachers and schools. This workshop is designed to develop participants’ understanding of the principles and practices that underpin MYP interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
This two-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.
This interactive workshop will help teachers identify the features of academic language used in different content areas and will demonstrate instructional techniques that scaffold language development through video clips, modeling, and participant participation.
This two-day course equips attendees with the skills to set up and run the 4 Stage Attention Autism programme. Targeting the teaching of attention, communication and social interaction skills, the training focuses on the practical aspects of intervention, working in a team and offering an irresistible invitation to learn.
Join us in Amsterdam for a two-day Music Teacher Job-Alike. This is the perfect event for networking, sharing ideas, resources and inspiration. There will be the opportunity to take part in sessions on World Drumming, Marimba, Gamelan, Choirs, etc,.
The Amsterdam Google Educator Certification Bootcamps offers two days of training produced by AppsEvents in partnership with the International School of Amsterdam. The bootcamp will run AppsEvents’ Google Educator Level 1 and Level 2 certification preparation courses as well as a special G Suite strand for non-teaching staff.
Explore the elements of rich mathematical tasks through exemplification, analysis and development by experiencing tasks first hand and putting yourself in your students’ shoes so that you can explore, reflect and share their experiences with different approaches to task design. Join us and leave enthused by new ideas and armed with resources, inspiration and ideas to take back to your classrooms.
Our world is changing, and we as teachers must prepare our students for the future, for the unknown… During this workshop we will discuss how we will prepare them for tomorrow by sharing the importance of teaching using the conceptual level in teaching and learning.
Led by researchers Edward P. Clapp and Andrea Sachdeva, this two-day interactive workshop session will begin with a full-day introduction to the framework for maker-centered learning developed by the Agency by Design research project at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero.
To equip K-12 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using mobile technology to enhance learning.
In this advanced seminar, Dr. Ron Ritchhart, Principal Investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project has designed a one-day course for those interested in thinking more about how they can extend, grow and support learning at their schools.
Dr. Ron Ritchhart, Principal Investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project shares his research on developing the kinds of thoughtful learning environments that foster powerful learning for both students and teachers.
2017 Events
CIS has enlisted a team of child protection experts to educate and support leaders, counsellors and teachers in preparation for the global implementation of core Accreditation Standards for Child Protection. Schools will gain a broad understanding about building a robust safeguarding
CIS has enlisted a team of child protection experts to educate and support leaders, counsellors and teachers in preparation for the global implementation of core Accreditation Standards for Child Protection. Schools will gain a broad understanding about building a robust safeguarding programme.
The Anne Frank Foundation will host a two day multiplier event in Amsterdam as a forum for educators and educator trainers to get to know the methodology and materials from their new international project Stories that Move – Toolbox against discrimination.
Discover how to work less, but better by using the technology at your fingertips. Walk away with advanced learnings and timesaving tips across all Microsoft Office programs. This isn’t your typical learning class and will turn you into a shortcut power user.
This 2-day workshop shares principles, practices, and tools developed by the Pedagogy of Play project, a collaboration between the International School of Billund, the LEGO Foundation, and Project Zero (PZ) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The Autumn 2016 session will provide training in coach models for literacy support and development.
Join fellow educators for an inspiring and innovative 2-day event that will give you new ideas and strategies for supporting the development of balance and wellness for students and teachers in international schools.
An interactive, four-day introduction to the WIDA English Language Development standards framework and assessments, this WIDA Institute will help schools to build capacity for a systemic approach to using WIDA resources to serve multilingual learners.
A conference for international school admissions office staff with global admissions specialists sharing best practices and innovative ideas for process and procedure; data digging and sustaining professional relationships and partnerships.
This is a fantastic opportunity for classroom and music teachers to learn the basics of African and Caribbean drumming, singing and moving, and to update instructional approaches to the World Music Drumming curriculum.
The Google Educator Certifications showcase your knowledge and application of innovative tools and techniques to engage learners and promote a 21st century collaborative learning environment. Become a Certified Educator and join a new network of collaboration.
The workshops will focus on one key world theatre tradition (Kathakali from Southern India), but each session will draw links and parallels to one other traditions across the world (Kecak, Rakugo and Commedia dell’arte). At the end of each session links to other world theatre traditions will be made, cultivating curiosity and opening up choices for life-long learners, and research.
Presented by Kathy Short, this event will provide a critical examination of accuracy, authenticity and representation in children’s literature. Learn how to talk with children around issues of culture and how you can address misconceptions and stereotypes within your classroom and your school.
Dr. Ron Ritchhart, Principal Investigator for the Cultures of Thinking Project and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education will lead this seminar which is suitable for teachers, assistants, administrators and school leaders across grade levels and subject areas. Ron’s research focuses on understanding and developing the kinds of thoughtful learning environments that foster powerful learning for both students and teachers.
2016 Events
The number and variety of international schools around the world is increasing at a remarkable rate. As it does so, the role of the teaching assistant in their classrooms is also undergoing change and expansion.
To gain the skills and confidence in leading Forest School sessions for children, young people and adults in an outdoor environment.
To equip K-12 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using mobile technology to enhance learning.
An initiative to prepare international school communities for the implementation of newly adopted Accreditation Standards for Child Protection.
This workshop by Chamberlain International Schools will provide strategies to keep learners engaged to help students with organisation and memorisation and improve thinking skills.
In this workshop, we’ll explore a set of practical and proven design tools for developing quality performance tasks based on Jay McTighe’s recent e-book, Core Learning: Assessing What Matters Most. Such tasks provide more than simply another method for measuring learning – they embody the most important goals of the Standards while engaging students in meaningful learning of them.
The Destiny Doctor will be back to join the European Team to share tips and tricks about Destiny, eBooks, eTextbooks, and much more! Mark your calendars! We will be sending out more details in the Fall but wanted to be sure to share the dates with you now. Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions and we hope to see you at the workshops!
This two-day event is designed to equip K-5 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using iPads to enhance learning. and examples of the power of iPads for learning. Whether you’re an experienced user of iPads in the classroom or an iPad newbie, you’ll find sessions that challenge, motivate and provoke new ways of thinking about the capacity for ipads for instruction, assessment and documentation of student thinking and learning.
This two-day event is designed to equip K-5 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using iPads to enhance learning. and examples of the power of iPads for learning. Whether you’re an experienced user of iPads in the classroom or an iPad newbie, you’ll find sessions that challenge, motivate and provoke new ways of thinking about the capacity for ipads for instruction, assessment and documentation of student thinking and learning.