2009, Block 2: Friday 2:00-3:15

This session will provide information on how to implement a community read in an IB World school based on a similar program at Baker Middle School. Presenters will discuss the positive impact a community read can have on raising awareness of global issues, uniting students, staff, and community members, and encouraging action.

In this session, participants will experience and learn how to utilize an easily accessible method to stimulate internationally-minded thinking in their schools. The method uses visual imagery drawn from a variety of sources and is designed to help participants engage in novel forms of thinking about the problems and issues facing the population of the world today.

Join practitioners from Wildwood World Magnet School as they share their recent experience teaching attributes of the IB Learner Profile to students through children’s literature. Students learned through books by identifying attributes that the story characters personify through their actions.

Although our bodies are more alike than different from the neck down, those parts that are different by gender make all of the difference! The same is true from the neck up: we are more alike than different anatomically. However, once the brain is actively working, brain imaging shows that female and male brains are wired quite differently.

Summit School District is on the journey to become a fully authorized IB district with all schools implementing the PYP, MYP, and/or Diploma Programme.

Education in the 21st century must prepare students to engage with and adapt to a complex and rapidly changing world.

This session will provide a brief overview of IB Americas’ professional development services. Participants will learn more about the variety of workshops offered in North America and in Latin America. New developments will be highlighted with a focus on Level 3 workshops, including subject specific areas of interest, pedagogy, learning theory, and areas of scholarly inquiry.

In 2008, the IB celebrated its 40th anniversary; looking to the next forty years, the IB has been focusing on how to sustain the capability to meet the growing global demand for IB programmes, while adhering to our mission and without relinquishing our high standards of quality and rigor.

This unique session will impart the amazing history of Madam Dura Kamara, who built a school in her village in Sierra Leone as a means to avoid the return of civil war in her country. She will share both her story and the work being done to support the school by the McNally IB students.

As we work to integrate TOK questions and issues into the content area courses, one of the challenges we face is trying to help subject area teachers overcome the fears that arise from their lack of previous experience in considering these issues.