Exam time!
Help your students get ready for the IB Final May Exams which start this year on 24 April and run until 18 May 2018. Here we provide a strategy (Plan, Prepare, Perform), top tips (from IB alumni), and...
What's on your toilet walls?
I had never really considered toilet walls as a learning environment until I was facilitating a workshop in a school recently. As I went to their staff toilet at lunchtime I was provided with the opportunity...
Distracted by technology
"Although screens are clearly with us to stay , we should now be well aware that they are far from hazard-free, as more and more evidence is indicating. According to Ofcom the average 16-24 year-old ......
Be the change you want to see
At the heart of the IB Mission is the aim of developing "young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world”. This is a lofty aim but how do we practically encourage them to take the first...
Challenges in implementing the IB
IB workshops are a great opportunity to share good practice as well as common challenges and problems in implementing the IB. We can learn much from each other. When leading IB workshops I often ask participants...
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The Ideal School Exhibition
The Ideal School Exhibition, by Julian Astle, November 2017 This paper from the RSA tells the story of individual schools who in the UK are revisiting the purpose, principles and power of education in...
What's new in 2018?
Two new sections have been added to the website: a whole section to support DP Coordinators and a series of Thought Pieces aimed at stimulating discussion and debate with your staff faculty on key issues...
Homework - what works?
Whilst research evidence supports the use of homework to extend learning the pressure is on us as school leaders and teachers to set homework that achieves the Goldilocks effect: it sould not be too easy...
We are reflective practitioners
For many a new year marks a new start, a reminder to look back over the previous year and make new resolutions for the new one that is beginning. My 12 year-old daughter has reminded me of this over the...
A Christmas present for pedagogical leaders
The IB expects us to be pedagogical leaders - but what does this mean, and what power does this concept have to transform the learning of our students AND our staff? It is rare that I come across a book...