Leadership
Leadership Top Tips
This page presents a reflective Top Tip checklist about leadership. It could be a useful reflective activity to use at the beginning or end of a school year, or as you approach a major leadership project....
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Sense Perception
As human beings we rely on our senses, yet how reliable are they in providing us with knowledge and truth? It is through our senses - what we hear, see, feel, smell and taste - that we make sense of the...
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New IB Products - Workshops Free
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?'...
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Our Global Context Free
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...
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Personalised PD - a note from the US Free
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...
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Word clouds
Word clouds are an online tool. They are also referred to as text clouds or tag clouds.A word cloud is a way of visualizing words. They are graphic representations of word frequency in a document. The...
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Beginning of year assemblies Free
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...
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Reflective
Relating to or characterized by deep thought; thoughtful as in "a quiet, reflective, astute man" The IB describes this attribute as (a) thoughtfully considering our ideas and experience, and (b) working...
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Making PD Days work Free
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...
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How am I going to inspire learning? Free
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...