Professional Development Resource Library

Join us as we examine blended learning tools in flipped or semi-flipped classes to enable IB maths students to learn effectively in a remote environment.

Join two CAS educators as they share their process for supporting CAS during remote and hybrid learning.

Participants in this session will develop a deep understanding of the role of the predicted grade in the IB assessment model both historically and in the current reality and develop means of more accurately predicting in the future.

Participants will develop a plan for increased alignment with IB expectations that will lead to a more focused internal assessment process that supports better outcomes.

Participants will gain an understanding of how the IB awarded scores in May of 2020 and how that helps as a guide for supporting the class of 2021.

This collaborative webinar will begin by reviewing the new Economics Syllabus. It will consider what changes have been applied to both content, pedagogy and assessment.

As educators and students plan for an uncertain year of in-person, remote or a hybrid model of learning, it is imperative to build an adaptive curriculum.

Join the conversation as we discuss the challenges and viable solutions in teaching remotely.

The PYP Exhibition, the MYP Personal Project and the Diploma Extended Essay are three milestones in an IB students educational experience.

Key things to get right if you’re running a TOK department for the first time We’ll consider structuring the course, resourcing your department, and how to engage both your students and the other members of the DP faculty.

Join Rini Ghosh, a DP Coordinator and Language teacher, for a discussion on using Managebac effectively for teaching languages, sharing resources and collaboration, both during remote learning and in person classes.

Academic Honesty has become even more important since the shift to remote learning. Having the right mindset about how to enforce it, as well as how it is approached in the online classroom, can help both students and teachers.

Join the ManageBac Support team as we review best practices and new tools for distance and remote learning on ManageBac. We’ll be demonstrating how to schedule online lessons, organise lesson plans, and keep in touch with your school community.

¡Ven a conocer nuestras últimas actualizaciones, el mapa vial del producto para 2020 y más! ¡Estamos entusiasmados de compartir detalles sobre nuestros portafolios actualizados y la integración de eCoursework, planificación de unidades colaborativas en tiempo real, cobertura de estándares ampliada, nuestras aplicaciones iOS y Android recientemente lanzadas, y nuestra nueva integración con Pamoja!

Are you interested in flipping your classroom and/or applying a blended approach? If so, this webinar is for you. Zena will cover strategies that can help you get started.

Learn more about ManageBac’s integration with IBIS and how to create a painless and streamlined exam registration process each year for your IB Diploma students!

Las demandas académicas de un estudiante de IB son tremendas, pero también deseamos apoyar a los estudiantes en sus capacidades de reflexión profunda y relevante.

"Learn how to leverage the documented curriculum and student data by walking through a curriculum and student data cycle to develop a clear understanding of the needs of students at each grade level.

Learn how to leverage the documented curriculum and student data by walking through a curriculum and student data cycle to develop a clear understanding of the needs of students at each grade level.

Creating a unit template that meets the needs of your process and pedagogy is key to a successful process. Over the years, we have learned that a relevant and current unit template can be one of the major success factors for a curriculum process.

As we move our professional development conversations and workshops online, we are all adjusting and learning new skills and techniques. Just as classroom instruction is adapting and changing, so is facilitating meaningful and tailored remote PD.

Join the conversation with other early years educators and learn how a clear understanding of phonological awareness can aid a teacher's ability to support families in a remote environment.

During COVID-19 every school had to make immediate shifts to their process. Join Aaron as he shares the story of the Sixth Form School of the Singapore International School of Bangkok (SISB).

This interactive webinar invites current and aspiring school directors, heads, vice principals, programme coordinators and teachers to explore how the IB Learner Profile can be used to develop school culture for remote learning. Take the opportunity to reflect on what matters the most and what has been learned.

Join Nick as he explores new ways to support students with CAS during remote learning. He will share ideas and personal experience that guide students in adapting their experiences on creativity, activity and service. By pointing out best practices, teachers will walk away with new ideas on how to identify good experiences, especially adapting to the new teaching realities.

With the advent of more remote learning models, we review all the ways you can use ManageBac to keep students and parents up to date with latest school news, how to provide feedback in a meaningful way, and our new Presentation Mode and chat systems!

This workshop will explore some principles and strategies that can be used to assist students in identifying not only "what" they are learning but most importantly "how" they are learning, providing the basic foundation to help students become self-regulated learners. Participants will have the chance to discuss and apply these principles to their personal circumstances.

Join Michael Dunn, as he walks through: The big changes that the new syllabus will bring, and how this will impact on your running of your TOK department. We’ll consider integrating the course with the rest of the DP, marketing your TOK department, and what makes a truly brilliant TOK course. The webinar will link to the new TOK coordinator’s guide (part 2), published by ManageBac in association with theoryofknowledge.net

For any teacher who has ever wondered what their class sees when they log into ManageBac, or wants a deeper understanding of how students and parents can use the system to its full potential, this workshop is for you. We’ll review both views, the similarities and differences from the teacher view, and how to introduce new users to ManageBac each year.

In this webinar, Ali, father of a 4 years old daughter, will share his experience with online learning. We will discuss the time spent facing the screen, the tasks that we had to do, the content of the synchronous sessions and how his daughter developed new skills during the 15 weeks of online learning. Examples and videos will be shared and for sure we will not forget to discuss agency and assessment.

Join three educators as they share their process for supporting the conversation around equity and discuss ways they are addressing equity in their school curriculum and culture.

In this workshop, we will explore what racial microaggressions are and the harmful effects they have on individuals and communities.

In this discussion, we will explore how pervasive racism is and the biological and functional consequences it imposes.

Join us as Kimberly Burkhalter, from Teaching Tolerance, provides insight into the Social Justice Standards.

If these skills are so important we cannot leave them to chance, how do we then effectively teach these skills in a planned and strategic manner?

Join us, as we explore the common shifts schools make in their templates to maximize the impact of their curriculum planning process.

In this webinar, we will explore the advantages of using ManageBac to document your non-IB curriculum and the steps in a process for documenting your curriculum.

In this webinar we will explore how to develop strong enduring understandings and essential questions for unit plans.

This webinar will walk you through how to clearly articulate and identify your content and skills in addition to providing tips and tricks.

Language is not learned in isolation, meaning that all teachers of English Learners (ELs) should consider themselves teachers of both language and content.

Language is not learned in isolation, meaning that all teachers of English Learners (ELs) should consider themselves teachers of both language and content.

This webinar will examine how social media (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) can serve as a platform for students to create original narratives and arguments with which members of the entire school community can interact.

Explore how to use Atlas to inform your planning for the professional learning needs of your school or district.

Join us for a conversation about facilitating meaningful and tailored remote professional development.

In this webinar, we will share practical tips for reviewing curriculum to set goals and document both what will, and what will not, become a priority for online instruction.

The webinar will explain how epistemic inquiry is based on 4 big questions about knowledge. What exists? How do things happen? How do we come to know? What should we do with this knowledge?

Michael Iannini will provide guidance on how to lead a team virtually and provide practical tips for how to facilitate a virtual meeting.

Únase a nosotros siguiendo el trayecto de una profesora en su esfuerzo para promover que sus estudiantes de CAS realicen reflexiones más profundas y relevantes en su servicio de proyecto educativo.

Our panelists of teachers share their tips of strategies, lessons learned, and ways they are continuing to facilitate learning in a virtual classroom.

As we enter a new landscape for schools and teachers are shifting their classrooms online, it is important that educators build in opportunities to collaborate, share, & connect with each other.

Join our panelist of teachers discuss strategies, lessons learned, and ideas about differentiation in a virtual classroom.

Our panelist of teachers will share their tips and strategies about shifting their early years classroom to a virtual environment.

As we enter a new period of learning, our hope is to bring together educators and leaders from across regions, to discuss what is working, what has been learned so far and plans for moving forward. Join us as we have several leaders share their current strategies and then open up the virtual floor to ask questions and share ideas.

Several leaders share their current strategies around supporting teachers virtually with morale, resources and coaching for remote learning.

Several leaders share their current strategies around differentiating the curriculum and learning in a remote environment.

Join us as we have 3 leaders share their current strategies on assessing students during a remote learning environment.

This webinar aims to give an overview of theories of learning and a cognitive framework for understanding them in order to inform and improve our delivery.

Governance and Strategy experts, will identify the questions you need to be asking and also provide insight into some of the actions school boards and leadership teams can be taking.

This webinar will provide an overview of service learning requirements and types of service options. Explore the connection to the other core elements. Consider the needs of each school's context when developing the service learning programme.

This webinar provides an overview of language development requirements and language options. Explore the connection to the other core elements. Consider the needs of each school's context when developing the language development programme.

In part 1 of 3 of the Service Learning webinar series, we answer: What is service learning, and why do it? We discuss similarities and differences of service learning, community service, and community engagement; instructional pedagogy and curriculum integration with the community; why all schools need a service learning program; and the 5 Stages of Service Learning.

In part 2 of 3 of the Service Learning webinar series, we review how to use service learning standards and benchmarks on Atlas, formative and summative assessment examples, UN global goals and finding meaningful connections, and partnership goals and impacts.

In part 3 of 3 of the Service Learning webinar series, we discuss why all schools need a sustainable service learning framework and how to achieve it.

In this session, we will examine elements of high-quality unit plans and break down ways to approach unit planning in a way that is practical, approachable, and tangible.

This webinar will offer ideas, tips and guidance for using the learner portfolio to enhance learning and support students.

Stefana Stefansson shares her own experience making and adjusting a curriculum based on the relevant IB literature with a focus on mapping out a flexible yet rigorous curriculum articulation.

This webinar will look at how to build clarity into a somewhat intangible concept so that it can be more explicitly taught and evaluated so as to support progression in international mindedness.

Join us for a webinar with Adrian von Wrede-Jervis as he explores: -Identifying the purpose and impacts of planned units -Philosophy of assessment -Current trends in reporting assessed learning.

Join Ali Ezzeddine and the FariaPD team as they examine the role of Agency in the Enhanced PYP.

A webinar for experienced practitioners or those new to Exhibition, join Sonya terBorg in walking through the expectations of the PYP Exhibition as it relates to the Enhancements to the PYP.

In this webinar we look at the similarities in the reading standards in PreK and Kindergarten involved in early years language and literacy skills development.

In this webinar we discuss a series of reflective questions that encourage teachers to examine and align their values and beliefs with their actions and the intended environment.

This webinar will discuss strategies that can leverage this most powerful element in learning and offers a way to build a curriculum that is conceptual and connected. Too ambitious? Tune in to see.

The webinar will explore the various approaches that could be taken to not only meet IB requirements but also make skill progression a considered aspect of your programme. It will start from first principles and advocate that the documentation mirrors rather than overshadows pedagogical philosophy.

This webinar will explore what the research tells us about change management in schools and how it can be applied to support PYP coordinators this academic year and beyond.

This webinar will lead you through the creative process, providing you with multiple examples of how you can record student’s ideas, as well as facilitate inquiry based learning.

An open discussion on the trials and successes we have encountered during the creation of a school garden space, as well as a reflection on the effects of integrating gardening and composting practices into a school curriculum to foster environmental change.

During this first part of a three part series, we will discuss the various components of a comprehensive and inclusive program that is designed to meet the unique needs of your school community.

During this session we will discuss acculturative stress as it pertains to the international school communities, as well as how to recognize, pre-empt and alleviate exam stress.

Discussions around where to start, next steps, and the decision of whether to custom build your own program or purchase a tailored program will be the focus of this webinar.

A team of PYP educators and coordinators will share different approaches developing and refining a POI.

Sarah Plews will share a contextualized narrative of how her school is implementing an aligned Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction model.

In this webinar, Julie and Mary will share their process of developing and implementing the professional learning plan for the Diocese of San Diego.

In this webinar, we will focus on instructional practices and assessment guidelines that will help upgrade the PE program of a school.

In this webinar, we will review several template examples from Catholic schools and look at ways a map can include customized categories.

This session will give leaders strategies for building powerful curriculum partnerships in order to secure buy-in.

In this webinar we will explore the Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum, changes and enhancements Wayne RESA has made to the curriculum as well as how to access it via Atlas.

Learn how one district navigated Standards Based Grading to create better communication and better understanding of student learning for teachers, parents and the students themselves.

Durham Academy shares the essential elements of leading change, including the lessons they’ve learned from their process so far, and the value of insisting on a collaborative curriculum mapping process.

This webinar will focus on how 1 school uses Concept-Based Curriculum to explicitly target and develop 21st century competencies.

Novi CSD shares the approach and progress of their district over the last 6 years as they have implemented a comprehensive strategics plan to create a district-wide guaranteed and viable curriculum.

This webinar will discuss the underlying philosophy and use of the transcendentals of truth, beauty, and goodness embedded within the Catholic Curriculum Standards.