Opening remarks by Cynthia
Guests: Anthony Tait and Joy Lambright from IB
Introductions- several newly authorized schools
Approve agenda
Jim and Karen motion- approved
Brenda – new ventures
Hodder books/ Learning Curve in Australia.
Have planner for DP too
Julie- Oxford University Press products
Explore the World of Professional Development
PPT will be available on our website
Work with the “rock stars” of the research world
Workshop categories-
Professional Development process for workshops
Use data points from feedback from teachers around the world
What do you want from professional development?
High satisfaction with PD
171 countries 70% female 45% masters
new workshops
Head of school, 2nd most important piece of program
Online PD –growing rapidly has improved.
Joy – PD in North America
April 7-9 PD in Bethesda, MD
Informal PD
DP Advantage – can purchase and it give PD ( good as a district) – based on school size … $2,000 for 10 hrs of coaching and up to 20 users.
ToK for parents – free!!
Discussion of how to make these products available to schools without such cost. It is hard to get $2,000.00 out of a budget. How can we make this more affordable to schools.
Workshop providers
American Museum of History is hands-on for PYP an MYP
Same with ISTA- hands on
Looking for locations for workshop 2 yrs ahead
2019-2020 looking for area
District workshops- PD needs for district or group of schools
Deadlines for apps are not hard deadlines
In school workshops – can do it with 20 participants
Educator network- can apply to be workshop leader
Readers of app are now educators. Month of online training, then face to face workshop, still have mentor through IB.
60 different roles for teachers
IB educator and leadership certificates
School enhancement services- optional
self- guided on demand – tier 1 ( 3 tiers)
consultancy for authorized schools-
Results extra- deeper dive into data and results helping to adapt teaching
curriculum connections – PYP, MYP – tailored to your school 12 mo service
PYP Building Quality Curriculum- subscription will be on year as well.
Idea to have districts/ regions together to provide less expensive training.
Roundtables will count as training in future. Will need a PD plan for schools.
Even professional organizations trainings will count.
Delicious lunch
Donation to scholarship fund from IB Source and Hodder and Learning Curve
IB source – talk
new book sets for PYP-
The barefoot librarian – she finds great books for PYP
Ed Trob – create I B materials
Website as a space for teachers to share without clunkiness of OCC.
Business meeting:
Met September 16th- minutes Darren approve Jen for 2nd- approved
J Velo - about $130,000.00 dollars – most in money market
. Akron schools do a direct deposit - can others? Makes life easier for Jim.
Bring PD we want.
April 26- figure out what we want for next year. Discounted rate for some of those services from IB as a group.
Used to be leaders meeting in MD. Not anymore. Day before regional conf in Orlando.
Nate- Lot of schools that went through authorization visits. Send Nate email if anything has changed. Have Ohio IB.org for 5 years
Eric – scholarships are ready to go. Just need to send out apps.
PD scholarship for teachers or IB Coordinators / admin
Student world conference
College fair - no on idea of buying an hr of suburban college fair.
What about something identifying kids as IB Diploma so the students can be noticed?
Couple more things come up
Lead the way- continuum roundtable- Feb 24th – here at Graf center
75.00. Who is audience for this? Typically administrators.
March 1st – Akron “ACTION”
Spoken word poet April 10th - late morning – Brittany Duck – still waiting to hear from her. How are we doing registration for this presentation. 40 kids for $100.00.
All Cuba trips were at least a week unless you fly into Havanna. All the same length.
What kind of PD do we want for next year? No “another approaches to learning”.
There are individual session on approaches to learning.
Have you seen any really good presenters. History one was really good. Round tables that aim towards cat 3 for low cost … as round table.
“What is an IB education? suite”- can look at it as a way to do offerings for our school.
If there is a working group that you want.. plan out something we can deliver in our schools. What can we do hear that is cost effective that will help our IB school?
Ideas for PD to move forward:
PLC what do you do with IB teacher mtg
Course outlines- writing parties to get them updated- add approaches to learning- on OCC teacher checklist of these are the approaches to learning and to teaching, some is subject specific, some general, reflection tool, self guided model
Discussion of how to incorporate : international-mindness through school/ program (getting outside of your building)
recruiting strategies
Tok – good ideas/ making it work in non period/ make TOK form the best it can be! He grades the presentation but it is the form that goes with, the document needs to be the best it can be. All they see is the document.
Best skills and practices- day to day, test sign ups, fee collections,
Bio – penpals across the world sharing about Bio- put it on OCC
map in hall QR codes to link to school with penpals
association
IB twitter - 10 things you can do…
ToK across the curriculum – Heather Michael in the fall
Doreen Conko – EE
Can we get them to have EE question before they leave? Read around it this summer. How do we train supervisors?
100.00 Kettering
Coffee mugs and coffee- principal… kids write them cards
lunch at Jerome, Coffman – none