About Chapters International
About Chapters International
About Chapters International
About Chapters International

Upcoming In-Person & Online Workshops

Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

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.

Jay McTighe

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 Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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.

Anne Van Dam

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. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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.

Jessica Vance

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

Increase the Level of Student Engagement in Your Writing Workshop!

- 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

Online Workshop: Differentiation in Action (In Mandarin)

- 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.

Jim Knight In Person tag

The European Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute

- Jim Knight

17th - 21st April 2024, Paris

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

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

Translanguaging: An Asset-Based Approach for Schooling Multilingual Learners

- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

23rd, 25th, 30th April & 2nd May 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.

Dr Lucy Hoi Yin Wong

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 In Person tag

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 In Person tag

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.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

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.

Dr Ron Ritchhart In Person tag

Cultures of Thinking in Action: Exploring 10 Guiding Mindsets

- 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.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

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.

Dr Ron Ritchhart In Person tag

Cultures of Thinking in Action: Exploring 10 Guiding Mindsets

- 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.

Clare Landrigan

Every child deserves the opportunity to become a lifelong reader, and books are the teacher’s tool to make that happen. This course will show you how to redesign your book spaces, reorganize your books, and reimagine how these spaces can work together across the entire school to make each teacher’s book supply seem endless in the eyes of a reader.

Kailyn Fullerton

Online Workshop: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Elementary Classroom

- Kailyn Fullerton

18th, 25th September, 2nd, & 9th October 2024

Connection before content. As educators, we know that when our students feel safe, seen and inspired that learning naturally follows. However, with so many curricular expectations on our plate, it can feel overwhelming to consider how to fit in the intentional instruction of social-emotional competencies.

Dr Ron Ritchhart In Person tag

Cultures of Thinking in Action: Exploring 10 Guiding Mindsets

- 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.

Carl Anderson

Power Up Writing Instruction In Your Clasroom

- Carl Anderson

5th, 12th, 19th and 26th October 2024

In this four-part webinar series, Carl Anderson will discuss methods and strategies that will help you get better at key aspects of writing instruction. You’ll learn about these four aspects of teaching writing, each of which is essential for helping your students grow as writers: Setting assessment-based writing goals for students.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Formative Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom: An Online Workshop

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th October 2024

While there is a great deal of conversation in schools about formative assessment, it is relatively rare to see it implemented in classrooms as it ought to be if the goal is to improve teaching and learning. This 4-part webinar will explore formative assessment as a powerful tool that, when used correctly, enhances student achievement, professionalizes teachers, improves instruction, and builds student agency.

Kath Murdoch

Online Workshop: Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning (K-8)

- Kath Murdoch

10th, 23rd October, 7th, 20th November 2024

There has been growing interest in 'personalized learning' for many years now. Increasingly, schools are making arrangements to provide more opportunities for learners to learn to be self-directed and to have their needs and interests met through the curriculum.

Mark Church In Person tag

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in how teachers can best build a culture of thinking in their classrooms, nurture students as powerful thinkers and learners, and foster student engagement. Within the busy pace and high demands of schools, it seems even more important that these goals do not get lost.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

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.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

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.

Jim Knight In Person tag

The Asian Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute

- Jim Knight

20th - 24th November 2024, Singapore

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.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Creating "Everybody Classrooms": When Inclusion Means Everyone

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

15th, 22nd, 29th January & 5th February 2025

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.”

Kath Murdoch

Critical to the success of any journey of inquiry is the degree to which the learner is able to both access information and process and communicate ideas. As we inquire, most of the information we encounter is in the form of some kind of text.

Jim Knight In Person tag

The Asian Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute

- Jim Knight

12th - 16th February 2025, Dubai

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. Virginia Pauline Rojas In Person tag

Translanguaging: An Asset-Based Pedagogy for Multilingual Learners

- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

21st & 22nd February 2025, Doha

The aim of this two-day workshop is three-fold: (1) to look at the ways in which translanguaging pedagogy scaffolds learners’ academic achievement and second language acquisition; (2) to provide specific translanguaging tools to be used so multilingual learners can do what previously was thought they could not do in classrooms; and (3) to discuss the use of translanguaging within the context of ten content and language integrated learning (CLIL) principles.

Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas In Person tag

Translanguaging: An Asset-Based Pedagogy for Multilingual Learners

- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

1st & 2nd March 2025, Shanghai

The aim of this two-day workshop is three-fold: (1) to look at the ways in which translanguaging pedagogy scaffolds learners’ academic achievement and second language acquisition; (2) to provide specific translanguaging tools to be used so multilingual learners can do what previously was thought they could not do in classrooms; and (3) to discuss the use of translanguaging within the context of ten content and language integrated learning (CLIL) principles.

Zaretta Hammond In Person tag

How do we leverage culturally responsive teaching to increase a sense of belonging in the academic community of learners for all students? To ensure all students, especially those historically marginalized, are ready to learn deeply, we have to help students not only feel a sense of belonging on a social level but also have a sense they belong to the academic community.