Presentations

In this presentation, we will give an overview of all the interlocking parts that combine to make our individualized approach to learning a unique experience within the Beijing bilingual school context.

This session will explore the dynamic role of AI in education, demonstrating how it can make lessons more engaging, personalized, and effective.

In this interactive session, Todd (Shiding) will share a hands-on example from his own classroom: a custom-built ChatGPT bot designed to support students through the IB Mathematics Internal Assessment (IA) writing process.

Participants will explore student projects that tackle real-world challenges, from urban mobility to climate action, and learn how to guide learners through the Project-Based Learning (PBL) cycle using mathematics as a lens for problem-solving, analysis, and advocacy.

Hear how a traditional ICT classroom was modernised into a STEM learning space for students. In addition to rigorous planning and processing, there were multiple challenges and obstacles in developing the space particularly through pedagogy, shareholders, school culture and expectations vs reality.

Extinguishing the Garbage Fire is a provocation for educators to set the bar higher for student participation in digital space. Currently, school worry about Digital Citizenship in the context of keeping kids safe, but rarely are thinking about the fact that the internet is real for young people and their interest activity there should be leveraged positive civil society.

Online learning is here to stay. Whether for a typhoon day or an ongoing pandemic, schools need to be prepared to pivot. This session will explore changes that the American International School of Guangzhou made in communication and learning.

In this presentation, I will share a curation of apps, mapped to the ISTE teacher and student standards and the SDG’s.

This one-day workshop helps anyone in a school community - from aspiring leader, classroom teacher, or school leader to the Chair of the Board - understand what it takes to move from big ideas to concrete steps. 

Learn about what makes Midland unique: place-based courses, experiential learning opportunities, the jobs program, outdoor leadership, our 10-acre organic farm, and our natural horsemanship program set on a working cattle ranch. Midland combines all this with rigorous college preparation AND students getting sufficient rest and leisure time. What systems do we have in place to make this work? Find out by joining this session!