- Jay McTighe
New Dates to be Announced
A good essential question serves as a doorway for engaging student inquiry, helps teachers in “uncover” the big ideas of the curriculum, and lead students to deeper understanding. In this session, we will examine key ideas from the best-selling book, Essential Questions:Opening Doorways to Student Understanding (McTighe and Wiggins, 2013).
- Dr. Lucy Hoi Yin Wong
9th December 2023
This particular workshop will inquiry with educators in the area of implementing play-based learning in additional language classroom from K-2 from potential to practice.
- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas
9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th January 2024
The time has come to rethink past policies and practices so that all school leaders and teachers develop responsive mindsets and actions. First and foremost is a call for EAL specialists to shift from ‘fixers of learners’ TO ‘collaborators, consultants, and coaches’ in order to build and sustain an advocacy ecosystem where multilingual learners benefit from all teachers as language teachers.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
10th, 17th, 24th & 31st January 2024
When we think of “inclusion,” that most often refers to general education classrooms that make provisions to include a few learners with special needs. In those instances, it’s easy for think of the classroom as composed largely of “regular” or “normal” students who are joined by learners who aren’t “regular” or “normal.”
- Mark Church
13th, 20th, 27th January 2024
What is mathematical understanding and how does it develop? What types of thinking moves help students both retain what they learn and transfer it to new and unfamiliar mathematical contexts? When students make their thinking visible routinely, what insights can educators glean in order to plan further instructional moves and create ongoing mathematics learning opportunities.
- Fanny Passeport
13th, 20th, 27th January & 3rd February 2024
The Silent Way (SW) is a pedagogical approach to teaching foreign languages invented by Caleb Gattegno in the late 1950s. The language teacher using this approach strives to “subordinate teaching to learning” by reducing the teacher's talking time and increasing students’ voice because the teacher is silent (but not mute!) most of the time and therefore gives more space for the students to express themselves.
- Kailyn Fullerton
17th, 24th, 31st January, 7th February 2024
As educators, we know that developing social-emotional competencies is beneficial for our students. However, did you know that it is equally supportive for us? Actually, leading SEL researchers and organizations all advise that before incorporating SEL in the classroom, educators, leaders and other adults in the lives of youth would benefit from deepening their own SEL practices and understanding.
- Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
25th January & 1st February 2024
How can we streamline a bloated curriculum that piles relentless demands on teachers and students? This workshop will address not only the problem but a process for determining what to cut out, cut back, consolidate and create in your school setting K-12. But, there is more. It is insufficient to simply remove curriculum.
- Clare Landrigan
30th January, 6th, 13th, 20th February 2024
Assessment is an integral part of instruction when it is used to find the stories of our readers and writers. This course will focus on using formative assessment throughout your instructional model. We will explore a step-by-step process that links formative assessment and instructional planning to create purposeful, responsive small group learning experiences for students.
- Sara Ahmed
3rd, 10th, 17th February 2024
Drawing from Sara's books, Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension and Upstanders: How to Engage Middle School Hearts and Minds with Inquiry (co-authored with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels), participants will spend time unpacking social comprehension principles: exploring personal identities, listening actively, being candid, becoming better informed, finding humanity in ourselves, and facing crisis together.
- Tricia Friedman
8th, 15th & 22nd February 2024
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have quickly asked us to reimagine assessment practice, policies, and what our priorities are for digital literacy. As we continue to consider how these tools will continue to influence learning we must center equity and inclusion in our conversations.
- Carl Anderson
13th, 20th, 27th February & 5th March 2024
Every writing teacher has this question: How do I teach my students to write well? The answer? Teach with mentor texts. To help students learn how to craft their writing in effective and beautiful ways, students need to see and study mentor texts in mini-lessons, small group lessons, and individual writing conferences in the writing workshop.
- Fiona Zinn
17th, 24th February, 9th, 16th March 2024
In an article titled Pedagogical Documentation: Impossible Goal posts and Imaginary Enemies, Fiona Zinn writes about how the practice of pedagogical documentation can support the researching teacher through a collaborative process of analysis, interpretation and reflection.
- Mark Church
24th February, 2nd, 9th March 2024
For a number of years, teachers around the world have popularized Making Thinking Visible practices - namely the use of thinking routines. Early childhood educators are no exception to this phenomenon, often showing keen interest in creating a culture of thinking for very young learners.
- Kath Murdoch
24th February 2024, Doha
Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.
- Carol Ann Tomlinson
28th February, 6th, 13th & 20th March 2024
This four-session workshop is designed to guide teachers in understanding and planning for effective differentiated instruction in their classrooms. Each session will balance the need to understand the "whys" of differentiation with the need to act on the "hows" and "whats" of differentiation.
- Amparo Serra
28th February, 6th, 13th, 20th March 2024
In this first module we will understand why a shift in the educational paradigm is important and why it is necessary to understand and use conceptual learning in the classroom. We will discuss and understand the evolution from the two- dimensional educational model to the three-dimensional model developed by Dr. Erickson.
- Cathryn Berger Kaye
1st & 2nd March 2024, South Korea
We are more connected than ever before. The digital world gives us immediate access to world news, global issues, and to one another. While challenges can seem overwhelming, service learning provides a road map for our schools and classrooms to be part of significant contributions and authentic solutions.
- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March 2024
Two past paradigms in EAL account for the historical practice of English-only policies and practices in schools: (1) it was believed that ‘more and only’ English was the quickest path to English-language acquisition and (2) deficit-thinking positioned students learning English as needing to be ‘fixed’ as quickly as possible with the solution being the enforcement of English-only policies and practices.
- Clare Landrigan
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March 2024
A classroom library is the heart and soul of a classroom community. Books serve as an additional teacher in the room when we design this space to support our readers and writers. A classroom library makeover can make all the difference!
- Julie Stern
6th, 13th, 20th & 27th March 2024
The Ultimate goal of all learning is transfer - the ability to apply our learning to new situations, ones that we have previously not encountered. Are you already familiar with conceptual learning and want to take your practice to the next level with authentic assessment of transfer?
- Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
7th, 14th, 21st March 2024
How can we create a living breathing curriculum responsive to the learners in our care? How can support a culture of collaboration between teachers to develop a pathway of engaging learning experiences both vertically and across the school year? Mapping is curricular collaboration. Mapping is learning architecture as a faculty lays out and reviews curriculum both vertically and across the school year.
- Kath Murdoch
16th & 17th March 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria
Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.
- Mark Church
16th & 17th March 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria
The use of thinking routines and other Making Thinking Visible practices has gained popularity in classrooms throughout the world. A question that often comes up is “But how do I do this in mathematics?” To even begin to answer this question, we must first explore what the “this” actually is.
- Dr. Lucy Hoi Yin Wong
16th, 17th, 23rd March 2024
How do we implement inquiry? This three days, 12 hours practical workshop aims to offer you practical strategies which support your teaching in an inquiry-based way.
- Anne Van Dam
6th, 13th, 20th April & 4th May 2024
Join us for an insightful online workshop that goes beyond the surface of learner agency. Throughout this transformative journey, participants will explore the profound connection between children's identities, rights, and the educational environments we shape for them.
- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas
9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th April 2024
Effective collaboration requires us to embrace a new way of working to push past the traditional roles and responsibilities of content and language teachers of multilingual learners.
- Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs
11th, 18th, 25th April 2024
How can leaders directly improve the conditions for teaching and learning? We have a genuine opportunity to reconsider format decisions in our schools to address new challenges and open possibilities regarding the structural ecosystem. There are four program structures can be designed to work together providing opportunities for responsive curriculum.
- Kath Murdoch
12th & 13th April 2024, Shanghai
In the inquiry classroom, we aim to nurture learners who see themselves as capable, curious, resourceful individuals with a strong sense of agency. There is growing evidence of the importance of nurturing the kinds of dispositions and skills associated with agency.
- Jessica Vance
13th & 20th April 2024
The inquiry process is a teaching practice that is used as a framework for teaching and learning with the students in our classrooms, but what happens when leaders use this philosophy to design, lead & inspire their teachers?
- Carl Anderson & Matt Glover
13th & 20th April 2024
Student engagement is critical to learning. We know that when students are engaged, it has a huge impact on whether students retain and reapply what they learn in the future. However, all too often, students aren’t that engaged in writing, and write mostly out of compliance, or don’t write that much at all.
- Dr. Lucy Hoi Yin Wong
13th & 14th April 2024
Differentiation is not new. Research reveals that differentiation is not well-understood or consistently and thoughtfully applied. Many teachers recognise the need for differentiation; fewer teachers fell equipped with a clear understanding of how to do it well.
The Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute is a focused and intensive professional development opportunity based on 20+ years of research. It provides a big-picture view of instructional coaching and includes an exhaustive learning opportunity covering five coaching areas presented in Jim Knight’s bestselling books and research.
- Dr. Lucy Hoi Yin Wong
20th April 2024
This particular workshop will inquiry with educators in the area of implementing play-based learning in additional language classroom from K-2 from potential to practice.
- Dr. Lucy Hoi Yin Wong
28th April 2024
The integration of literacy text into student inquiry is an indicator of a good practice in an inquiry-based additional language classroom. For example, a story book as part of a unit of inquiry with a particular social studies emphasis to support students conceptual understanding of the unit of inquiry.
- Jay McTighe
3rd & 4th May 2024, Amman Jordan
For twenty-five years, the award-wining Understanding by Design® framework has been used world-wide to develop effective and engaging curriculum. Join UbD co-author, Jay McTighe, to explore a set of key educational questions: What is understanding and how does it differ from “knowing”?
- Holly Clark
6th May 2024, Los Angeles
In this immersive day of discovery, we will delve into the transformative potential of AI for our classrooms and schools. This day will be segmented into three focused areas of study, interspersed with ample hands-on exploration time.
- Dr Ron Ritchhart
31st May & 1st June 2024, Perth
The Worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project at Harvard Project Zero has been investigating what it takes to build school and classroom cultures rich in thinking for over two decades. This research has informed the work of schools, museums, families, and organizations around the world.
- Dr Ron Ritchhart
13th & 14th September 2024, Doha
The Worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project at Harvard Project Zero has been investigating what it takes to build school and classroom cultures rich in thinking for over two decades. This research has informed the work of schools, museums, families, and organizations around the world.
- Kath Murdoch, Trevor Mackenzie & Alice Jungclaus
20th - 21st September 2024, Hawaii
This workshop brings together three globally renowned educators who, over 2 days, will invite participants to take a deep dive into approaches to inquiry based learning. Trevor, Kath and Alice have all worked around the world in a range of settings and bring unique perspectives on the ways in which inquiry can be activated for powerful teaching and learning.
- Dr Ron Ritchhart
5th & 6th October 2024, Barcelona
The Worldwide Cultures of Thinking Project at Harvard Project Zero has been investigating what it takes to build school and classroom cultures rich in thinking for over two decades. This research has informed the work of schools, museums, families, and organizations around the world.
The Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute is a focused and intensive professional development opportunity based on 20+ years of research. It provides a big-picture view of instructional coaching and includes an exhaustive learning opportunity covering five coaching areas presented in Jim Knight’s bestselling books and research.