Presentations

Building Resilient School Cultures

Together, we will reflect on our values and behaviors, deepen our understanding of the people we lead, and explore ways to accelerate productivity and amplify communication—ensuring a positive, resilient culture that holds steady in times of change.

Upcoming Live Session
Inspire Digital Creativity – Not Just Coding, but also To Play and To Think

Computational Thinking (CT)-coding education can play a key role in helping students build their problem-solving skills while nurturing them to be creators rather than just consumers of technology.

Recording
Using Literacy to Develop Self-Directed Learners

Creating a culture of self-directed learners takes careful preparation, explicit instruction, and implicit support throughout all content areas. We will explore the steps necessary to create this culture, the tools needed to continue the practice during the literacy block, and methods for students and teachers to monitor progress towards self-directed learning behaviors.

Recording
Creative Language Learning with Bitmojis

Harnessing the power of Bitmojis to promote creativity and engage learners in and out of the languages classroom

Recording
Reading for Social Justice and Transformative (Anti-racist) Education

In order to “teach for social justice” one must first be able to read for social justice. This session will push participants to reimagine the idea of reading as an act of resistance, hope, and transformation.

Past Session
Micro:Bit Everything!

This session is not only for coaches but for all educators who want to bring technology integration into their classes in an innovative and meaningful way.

Education Technology

Past Session
Language Equity:  Redefining our Language Learning Practices to Empower Multilinguals

This keynote will be followed by a panel discussion: Spotlight on Linguistic Equity in International Schools where Ceci will lead a panel of teachers of MLLs and leaders of international schools to tackle some of the big questions around linguistic equity practices in their communities. 

Diversity & Social Justice

Past Session
Effective Foundational Literacy Instruction for Multilingual Learners

Come explore how the science of reading can support emergent bilinguals in their journey to become readers and writers. An EAL teacher and a Grade 1 teacher will guide you through how we use UFLI, an explicit and systematic approach to teaching foundational literacy skills, to support the development of every reader in our classroom.

Innovation in Education ESL/Language Education/Translanguaging

Past Session