Thursday 20th October
Keynote - Sam Price: DEI (09.00 - 10.00)
What does a truly inclusive school culture look like and how do we get to this point?
This session will look at how to create a culture within your school community where everyone feels a true sense of belonging that enables them to be their authentic selves. We will explore how to measure your starting point and on-going progress through regular audits and stakeholder feedback. A complete review of the educational experience your school offers will enable you to reflect on whether the diversity within your school body is able to have true agency. The aim is for this session to provide a helpful guide and prompt reflective thinking and questions in a safe space.
Location: Grand Salon
Coffee (10.00 - 10.30)
Location: Terraza
Sharing session - DEI (10.30 - 11.30)
The sharing sessions will consist of each of around five or six schools giving a five minute presentation of something that they have been doing related to the topic, followed by a short round of questions.
Location: Grand Salon
Exhibitor presentations 1 (11.30 - 12.00)
Kognity, Max Valencia - Teacher wellbeing and self management using Kognity
My goal as a Kognity representative is to showcase the potential of education technology for the benefit of teaching and savings for schools. Therefore, during the last five years I’ve been dedicating my career to exploring ways to improve academic results and teacher wellbeing at international schools all around the world. My background in journalism has helped me gather information in over 20 countries about best practices using our learning system. I’m really excited to share some of my findings with all of you.
- Saving time through the use of automatically graded formative assessment
- Analysing class statistics for better lesson planning
- Support and inspiration using our curriculum aligned content
Max is a Venezuelan born journalist and communicator who has been representing Kognity in 20 countries and collaborated with over 150 IB schools. He currently specialises in developing economies with difficulties implementing new technologies.
Location: Conference 2
EquipMySchool, Stuart Rickard - Let’s stop using spreadsheets for our overseas procurement!
Spreadsheets are boring and rapidly becoming outdated in the modern world where there is an app for just about everything. So why are we still using them to coordinate the overseas orders in our International Schools? Procurement is such a small part of your responsibility, so why does it take up so much of your time each year? Let me walk you through how the EquipMySchool Procurement Portal works and discuss the ways it will save everyone in school time, allowing your teachers to get back to doing what they do best and all without using a spreadsheet!Stuart Rickard, alongside Helen Cox, founded an International School supply company, called EquipMySchool.com, 14 years ago with a simple mantra: always keep your promises. A born digital native, Stuart has an intrinsic understanding of software, hardware, systems and processes; he loves ice cream and evenings in with a roaring log fire and his family of four. Fourteen years later and the “.com” part of the company name is finally making sense. He's here to tell you why.
Location: Grand Salon
Optimus Education, Victoria Baxter - Impactful professional development: a practical approach
Learn how to create an effective strategy for your staff professional development. Areas covered include:- The research: what do we know about effective CPD?
- Personalising training: making CPD relevant to teachers’ needs – not one size fits all
- Evaluating impact: how can you do it reliably and consistently.
All attendees will receive a booklet, ‘Professional Development toolkit for leaders.’
Victoria has been working for Optimus Education for six years, supporting schools across the globe and within the UK with their professional development and school improvement strategies.
Location: Cine
Oxford International Consultants, Simon Hulme - “Now, more than ever, standing still is moving backwards”
In this presentation we will demonstrate and show examples of our work with many of the leading Independent Schools in the UK and some of the best British Schools in Latin America to transform them into brand leaders. In addition, we will provide details of our fundraising work with schools and explain how we have now begun to facilitate exchange opportunities and interchange between our network of UK schools and our partnership schools in Latin America.Oxford International Consultants have implemented communications, marketing and development strategies for schools in the UK and all over the World for over 20 years. Simon has worked in Latin America for nearly 20 years in the education and charity sectors specialising in school management, development and fundraising.
Location: Conference 1
Exhibitor presentations 2 (12.00 - 12.30)
GL Education, Sarah Abad Murillo - Student wellbeing: the missing piece of the data jigsaw
As education moves out of the pandemic, the lasting effect on students is still there for all to see. Research has shown that student success is underpinned by wellbeing, and the last two years have required a greater focus on wellbeing than ever before. Whereas once before teachers may have mainly focused on their fragile learners, now there is a need to get a complete understanding of all students’ context and needs. During this session, GL Education will outline the ‘three a’s’ of the data triangle, that being attainment, ability and attitude. The session will explore how we can use this data triangle, with an emphasis on wellbeing, to help every student meet their potential and thrive within the ever-changing school environment. The session's objective is to equip schools with the principles of data triangulation and an appreciation of the importance of the wellbeing component in their analysis.Sarah is an experienced Assistant Head in primary education and an education consultant specialising in EY & primary education now working with academies and trusts, to support their assessment strategies from EY through to KS5. Sarah joined GL Education in 2019 bringing her expertise and knowledge of education to help schools and MATs with their assessment practices. Sarah gives advice, training and insight to schools both in the UK and internationally, on how to get the most from standardised assessments to better understand students’ potential, attainment and potential barriers to learning.
Location: Conference 2
Oxford University Press (OUP), Maria Angélica Araya - Oxford International Curriculum
OUP is proud to have a reputation for providing world class resources for centuries, up until now mostly focusing on providing resources for teachers and students. Education today, however, is not the same as education even 20 years ago, and our research tells us that students today need far more than simply the acquisition of knowledge, to be successful participants in the modern world. That’s why we are delighted to present our vision for the future of education, through the Oxford International Curriculum.Maria Angélica holds a Bachelor´s degree in teaching English as a foreign language from Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Her teaching experience ranges from teaching young learners to adults. María Angélica joined Oxford University Press in 1995. Since then, she has been working as Senior Educational Consultant, revising and promoting appropriate materials for schools, as well as preparing and delivering presentations and workshops. In 2017, she was appointed International and British Schools Educational Consultant for Latin America. In this new position, she is in charge of providing academic support to schools following international curriculums as well as bilingual schools.
Location: Grand Salon
Finalsite, Emily Lowit - How Finalsite helps schools maximize enrolment, engagement and retention
Your website is your front door to the world and needs to attract, engage and recruit new families and faculty. This session will give you an overview of the latest digital tools and services from Finalsite - the leading website provider to schools in 115 countries. With 20 years of experience working with international schools, Finalsite helps schools streamline and optimise their digital presence in order to maximize enrollment and retention.As Finalsite's International Business Development Representative, Emily has worked with schools in over 50 countries to provide insight and advice as they explore and plan website redesigns. Emily serves as the first point of contact as schools evaluate their current website and digital resources in order to develop a plan of action for improvements and project goals.
Location: Cine
Lunch (12.30 -13.30)
Location: Lighthouse restaurant
Discussion forums - Transforming pedagogy, DEI, Sustainability (14.00 - 15.00)
The discussion sessions will be moderated talks around key issues related to the relevant conference theme with the idea of identifying challenges and opportunities for schools.
Transforming pedagogy - Nicky Thody (with a bit of help from Alan Downie)
We all understand the world is changing and with it, the educational landscape. Schools need to adapt and change to be relevant to our communities. Whether you are on a journey of reimagining learning or taking the first steps into this new world, you need structure, support, guidance, coaches and friends. Above all you need a structure to work in.
This will be an open discussion facilitated by Nick and Alan to help us make sense of the issues Zhao presented. We will share journeys, discuss what is happening in the region and explore possible directions for the future.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Claire Harvey and Helen Semple (via Zoom)
Schools Inclusion Alliance is a collaboration between Independent schools and inclusion experts. We have come together because we know that a commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential to a high performing school in every way.
In this session, we will reflect on where you are on the inclusion journey, share what is working and identify the key challenges that you are facing.
Sustainability - Harry Hildebrand, Daniel Kasnick, Jen Wood and Briana Castilla
This will be a discussion forum related to Education for Sustainable Development. The main activity will be a Spectrum role play addressing big questions, such as:
- Sustainability: Is it the responsibility of the Science department or the whole school?
- Student voice: Voice or no voice in school policy?
- Should the UN SDGs drive and guide action in schools or are there too many of them for schools and should they be used at all?
- Does ESD take away from what students really need to learn at school?
Location: Grand Salon
Coffee (15.00 - 15.30)
Location: Terraza
Workshops - Transforming pedagogy, DEI, Sustainability (15.30 - 17.00)
Transforming pedagogy - Nick Thody
A practical, interactive workshop to support schools on their journeys. We will start from where you are individually and build out from there using an innovation framework. We will explore and frame the challenges, ideate and reimagine our schools - curriculum changes, assessment changes, and pedagogical changes.
After the conference, if you want to continue, Nick, together with the innovation hub, can provide you further support and coaching.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Claire Harvey and Helen Semple (via Zoom)
We know that together we are stronger, and so SIA is a place to get trusted support, guidance and a platform for us to all come together and share our best practice and help each other be better.
We will take the challenges that you have identified or barriers that you are facing and work through them collectively in the search for strategies and solutions.
Sustainability - Harry Hildebrand, Daniel Kasnick, Jen Wood and Briana Castilla
Students leading climate change action in LAHC Schools. The first part will be a presentation of Greenstock International Matucana 2022 - a recap of a student led project (from the week before - very fresh). We will then address the following themes:
- Skills sharing - what are the benefits for students who are given opportunities like this?
- Obstacles root cause analysis - what are the obstacles in schools that limit student leadership opportunities and how can we overcome them?
Location: Grand Salon
Free evening (17.00 onwards)
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