Unlock the power of a Concept-Based Inquiry approach in your school or classroom to engage students as learners capable of building understanding and making meaning for themselves. 

During this workshop, you will explore:

•How can we design learning to achieve synergistic thinking between the factual and conceptual levels?

•What instructional strategies support conceptual thinking?

•What does Concept-Based Inquiry look like in the classroom?

•What role does the classroom environment have in fostering a culture of conceptual thinking?

The global majority of people are multilingual, including the vast majority of students who attend our schools.   Students deserve schools where they are seen, valued, and loved and do not have to leave their multilingual selves behind.  As international educators, we have to lovingly interrogate our own understandings and mindsets about language and language learning. 

During this workshop, participants will:

•Understand multilingualism and how it intersects with language acquisition and identity 

•Reflect on mindsets that have shaped understanding of multilingualism and how that has shaped programs and systems

•Gather translanguaging pedagogical practices to implement

A positive school culture requires a holistic, human-centric approach. Head, Heart, and Hands Model encourages active participation, a balance of all voices, and a focus on relationships. Due to the pandemic, the “heart” has received more consideration, but it is attention to all three elements that enable schools to succeed today and thrive to sustain a healthy culture. Hands, Head, and Heart Model is an approach with an objective to elevate connections and collaborations which include opportunities for critical thinking and reflection which directly impact student learning.

During this workshop, participants will:

•Explore the “Heart, Head and Hands” approach to leadership to elevate a school’s effectiveness and collaboration.

•Self reflect on your own leadership style using the “Heart, Head and Hands” approach.

•Develop a toolkit of  “Heart, Head and Hands” strategies for each element. 

When we are all bombarded with different trends regarding various curriculums in education, leaders are seeking to facilitate and build pathways for students to find their own place in the world and their purpose. It is a challenge to benchmark high standards within our team and for the students, and equally model a high level of passion, to engage and inspire excellence. Leaders need to provide new opportunities to broaden thinking and promote inquiry-based learning. And most of all, we need to build a culture of continuous improvement striving for continued excellence.

During this workshop, participants will

•Be introduced to the basic principles of Backward Curriculum Design

•Have opportunities to discuss provoking and engaging questions that leads to a sustained inquiry process

•Develop an understanding of important conceptual or philosophical issues in curriculum design.