JOIN A NEW GENERATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION LEADERS

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SET YOURSELF APART You’re passionate, driven and ready to lead. Will you take your passion for international education beyond the classroom?

YOU HAVE OPTIONSWhether you’re already an IB teacher or coordinator or you’re a teacher in a national system, five new specialized IB leadership workshops give you the perfect opportunity to take the next step in your professional growth.

Participate in just one leadership workshop or attend them all. Enroll online or attend face-to-face events at venues offered around the globe. However you choose to engage, you will deepen your understanding of how to lead in an IB context and expand your leadership portfolio.

These leadership workshops are all about intercultural awareness with a laser focus on developing your individual leadership capabilities. You will be challenged and supported as you move beyond your own experience and draw on a complex blend of local and global contexts to become successful in leading international education wherever you go, wherever you work.

IB leadership

workshops are all about

intercultural awareness

with a laser focus

on local context

Workshop snapshots

Understanding leadershipBuild your own leadership platform.

This workshop aims to identify, test, and critique the assumptions upon which your own style, definition and understanding of leadership are based.

Leading with a clear vision and strategy Continue to refine your vision.

The objectives of this workshop are to introduce and clarify the value and strength of a good vision and mission, and to enable you to develop a strategic plan.

Leading through an understanding of culture and contextDiscover how to engage with a diverse global community.

This workshop explores the concept that leadership is context driven. It will enable you to investigate leadership issues in different IB contexts.

Leading for effective teaching and learningCreate a culture of inquiry.

This workshop will provide opportunities for you to explore theories of learning and instructional design principles underpinning the IB programmes.

Leading an effective professional learning communityPromote inquiry, collaborative learning and critical thinking.

School leaders play a central role in creating and sustaining school cultures that embrace professional learning. In this workshop, you will investigate different approaches to developing IB-focused professional learning communities.

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IB leaders are responsible for establishing and maintaining organizational cultures, systems, relationships and processes that have direct and positive impacts on student learning. Learn how to become an effective IB leader grounded in your own personal leadership style yet able to adapt to any culture and context. Discover how to create a culture of innovative learning and inquiry that molds students into global citizens who are curious about the world and open to the idea that “other people with their differences can also be right.”

Throughout each workshop, you will learn how to:

• understand cultural and organizational factors that contribute to effective leadership practices.

• model and support professional inquiry throughout the school community.

• become a reflective, strategic leader of people with different values, beliefs and expectations, capable of building communities of learners who are also motivated to create a better world through education.

• identify strategies that are culturally appropriate, relevant and adaptable in any context.

• innovate, develop, communicate, promote and evaluate new ideas and practices that lead you to respond in creative, positive ways.

• challenge previously held assumptions and build individual and institutional knowledge and understanding.

SET YOURSELF APART DISCOVER YOUR OWN LEADERSHIP PLATFORM

Create a culture of innovative

learning and inquiry

Develop 7 capabilities every leader needsGlobally and locally engaged, IB leaders are adaptive and able to inspire others to create a better world. Receive high-quality IB support as you become a leader grounded in professional inquiry. Strengthen your leadership capabilities in these essential areas:

These IB workshops will

help you develop the

most effective leadership

approaches, drawing upon

best practices

START ON A LEADERSHIP PATHEnroll in Understanding leadership, where you will begin to build your leadership platform. This is the only workshop not available online. If you prefer to start online, choose another leadership workshop to begin. Then you can continue to build your leadership portfolio as you participate in the rest of the series.

Visit www.ibo.org/en/workshops, enter the workshop title to find out when and where it is offered and to register.

Leadership Grounded in Research, Flexible in PracticeResearch findings link effective school leadership to improved student learning. However, effective leadership practices are determined, in part, by cultural and organizational factors, making their definition an imprecise business. Given the span and diversity of the IB World School community, school leadership cannot practically follow a single model; context, therefore, is a key determinant of effective leadership practice. Use these workshops to guide you as you develop effective leadership approaches, drawing upon best practices and interpreting them for appropriate application in your own distinctive context.

www.ibo.org/en/workshops © International Baccalaureate Organization 2015International Baccalaureate® | Baccalauréat International® | Bachillerato Internacional®

About the International BaccalaureateThe International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation that places students at the center of teaching and learning. Four education programmes guide students aged 3 to 19 in developing the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills needed to live, learn and work in an increasingly globalized world. Founded in 1968, the IB currently works with more than 4,000 schools in 148 countries and serves more than 1 million students. With the goal of creating a more harmonious and peaceful world, IB educators stimulate inquiry, encourage balance and offer activities that tap into deep reflection.

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