Creating coherence across your school
How do you, as a school leader, develop high levels of coherence across all sections of your school? This is a pertinent issue for IB schools that run a single IB programme alongside other national and...
Establishing an international school
I have just finished co-editing a book on how to establish a new international school from the start. It covers all the main aspects from vision, values and curriculum through to finances, governance...
What is the IB about?
I have just returned from leading an Administrators workshop in Dubai. This is the opening speech I was asked to give to all of the 500 workshop participants. In it I tried to go to the heart of what...
Make an impact
What is schooling all about? Sometimes we can get so involved in delivering the curriculum and assessing student learning that we lose sight on what we are doing it for. "It's not all about schooling...
New IB Products - Workshops
The 2017 IB Workshops and Services Catalogue is worth looking at. If you want to reignite excitement into your IB programme(s) why not consider their new suite of workshops of 'What is an IB Education?'...
Our Global Context
At the heart of the IB is a mission to create a better and more peaceful world. The centrality of this theme permeates everything the IB does and it is represented in all IB diagrammes by the importance...
Personalised PD - a note from the US
Workshops maybe a thing of the past as professional development becomes more personalized. This blog is an appendix to Making PD Days Work. In the previous blog (14 August 2017) I looked at how we can...
Beginning of year assemblies
Those first assemblies of the year allow you to set the tone for what comes after. Why not run a series of assemblies focussing on the attributes of the IB Learner Profile? They are a chance to focus...
Making PD Days work
How do we make sure that our professional development days at the beginning of a new school year have maximum impact? Professional development is essentially about professional learning. So how do we...
How am I going to inspire learning?
Before we jump into the business of a new school year - with all its hectic schedule - I find it helpful to take a step back and to think what I really wish to accomplish in the coming year. In his book...