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How do we develop student agency?
Being challenged is a key aspect of developing learner efficacy and student agency. All learning involves change and having to do things in new ways. It is important that students recognise that success...
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Creativity, Activity, Service in 10 slides
A quick introduction to Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS). This set of slides is part of the '10 slides' series intended to introduce teachers and students to key aspects of an IB Education. They can...
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Welcome to the IB School Leadership site. This website is intended as a one-stop shop for Heads of School and IB programme coordinators. This site contains everything you need to become an IB World School...
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“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself” – Chinese Proverb "Agency is the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative—the opposite of helplessness." (IB) Student agency refers...
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Do we need to rethink how we lead in these complex times? Free
In a visit to one of the schools in our family the Head of School recommended this fantastic article. He is using it as the basis of his leadership development programme for his leadership team. It is...
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A teaching thought each week Free
I work for a community of schools. Each Monday I send each school a short 'teaching article' for them to share with their staff. They are intended to provoke reflection and hopefully give busy teachers...
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Reflection
Reflection is not an extra activity but a different way of learning. A simple definition of reflective practice is to think back over something that you have done, analyzing what happened - what went...
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Although COVID is, thankfully, behind us, online teaching has become a more integral part of education, whether we like it or not. The goal of this section of the site is to provide strategies and examples...