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NESA Events 2014-2015

JANUARY 23-24, 2015

NOVEMBER 7-8, 2014

OCTOBER 23-26, 2014

MARCH 20-23, 2015


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Jacobs, Heidi Hayes 7, 8, 21Knight, Jim 7, 8, 22Love, Nancy 8, 10, 22McKanders, Carolyn 6, 13Moore, John 8, 35Nash, John 8, 34Phan, Alan 6, 14Pojorn, Umaporn 8, 35Richardson, Jayson 8, 34Ross, Emily 8, 35So, Victoria 8, 35Urgel, Mitos 8, 35Watts, Dana Specker 7, 8, 22Yuen, Kari 8, 36

Anderson, Erma 6, 14Baker, Tom 7, 10, 17Boyes, Karen 7, 10, 11, 17Carter, Carol 7, 10, 18Church, Mark 7, 8, 18Collins, Kathy 6, 10, 14, 19Couros, Alec 7, 10, 11, 19Coy, John 8, 10, 20, 36Daccord, Tom 8, 10, 20DeLiddo, Emily 6, 15Detwiler, Richard 7 10, 21Doubet, Kristina 8, 10, 21Edmonds, Ellen 8, 34Espana, Carla 6, 15Garmston, Robert 6, 13

Buffalo State-SUNY(sponsor of Monday’skeynoter Alec Couros)

SPEAKER INDEX

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

INDEX OF CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

CONFERENCE SPONSORSNESA would like to thank its sponsors for their generous support:

etr educational travel(lanyards sponsor)

TieCare International(Gala sponsor)

Ruamrudee International School, Bangkok

(sponsor of audiovisual equipment)

Rubicon International(Friday morning coffee break sponsor)

The College Board(Saturday lunch sponsor)

International Schools Services(sponsor of Friday’s keynoter

Heidi Hayes Jacobs)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Index of Conference Speakers 3Conference Sponsors 3Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel Maps 5

2014 Spring Educators Conference Program At-A-Glance: Wednesday-Thursday, April 2-3 6 Special Offerings 6 Friday, April 4 7 Saturday, April 5 8 Sunday, April 6 10 Monday, April 7 11

Five-day “Adaptive Schools” Certificate Program 13AERO/Common Core Plus Workshop (3-days) 14The Literacy Initiative: Foundation Courses in Reading (3 days) 14Specialist Workshops 17

Teacher Workshops, Session 1, Friday 25Teacher Workshops, Session 2, Sunday 27Teacher Workshops, Session 3, Monday 30Teacher Workshops, Session 4, Monday 32

General Interest Workshops - Saturday Lunchtime 34Sunday Lunchtime “Book Talk” 36

Conference Exhibition 38NESA Awards / NESA History Project 392013-2014 NESA Teacher Representatives 41NESA Board of Trustees 42NESA Professional Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) 42The Foundation of NESA’s Professional Development Planning 43Ideas to Think About - Strategies to Implement 44NESA Events 2014-2015 Inside Back Cover

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HOTEL MAP

ROYAL ORCHID SHERATON HOTEL / MEETING ROOMS

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Time Event/Speaker 8:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION Welcome to Delegates: DAVID CHOJNACKI, NESA Executive Director, Athens, Greece

Keynote Presentation by the International Schools Services Guest Speaker: HEIDI HAYES JACOBS, “Leading the New Literacies: Digital, Media, Global”

Introduced by Laura Light, Director, Educational Staffing, International Schools Services 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break sponsored by Rubicon International 10:30-3:30 Specialist Four-Hour Workshops & Lunch • Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Digital-Media-Global Project Based Learning (PreK-12) • Tom Baker: Service Learning in the 21st Century Led by Nobel Peace Laureates (ES) • Karen Boyes: Exploring & Activating the Habits of Mind (K-12) • Carol Carter: Creativity, Innovation, and Risk (MS/HS) • Mark Church: Thinking Routines - Establishing Patterns of Thinking in the Classroom (K-12) • Alec Couros: Understanding Digital Citizenship (K-12) • Richard Detwiler: Administrative Assistants Strand (Day 1/2) – Keeping Chaos at Bay - Celebrating the Administrative Assistant’s Challenges and Opportunities (Day 2 is Sunday) • Jim Knight: Instructional Coaching - What It Is and How To Do It (K-12) • Dana Watts: Integrating iPads in the Middle School & High School (6-12)12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided by NESA) 1:30-3:30 Specialist Workshops continued. . . 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-5:00 Teacher Workshops, Session 1 5:30-7:30 Welcome Reception

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Panisea 2 17

Riverside 3 17Riverside 2 18Riverside 4 18

Riverside 6 19Panisea 1 21

Panisea 3 22Riverside 5 23

Exhibition AreaSee pages 25-26Sambal Terrace / Riverside Terrace

CONFERENCE PROGRAMFRIDAY, APRIL 4

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Time Event/Speaker 8:30-5:00 • Meeting of the NESA Professional Development Advisory Committee (PDAC)

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Riverside 1

PRECONFERENCE SESSIONSWEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, APRIL 2-3

5:00-6:00 • Meeting of NESA Teacher Representatives

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Riverside 7

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Pompadour 13

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Ballroom 3 14

Ballroom 2 15

Riverside 7 15

PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS

SPECIAL OFFERINGS

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 - SUNDAY, APRIL 6

FIVE-DAY ADAPTIVE SCHOOLS CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Speaker • Robert Garmston & Carolyn McKanders (Pre-sign-up was required. This course is full.)

Time The Writing Project: Foundation Course in Writing

• Erma Anderson & Alan Phan: 3-Day AERO/Common Core Plus Workshop – Strategies for Strengthening Formative and Summa- tive Assessment of Mathematics Learning • Kathy Collins: 3-Day Reading Workshop - Growing Readers Within Reading Workshop: Teach Children to Read With Power, Intention, and Joy, Grades K-2 (Pre-sign-up was required. This section is full.)• Emily DeLiddo: 3-Day Reading Workshop - Getting Reading Workshop Up and Running: Creating Lasting Structures to Ensure Your Workshop Really Works in an International School, Grades 3-5• Carla Espana: 3-Day Reading Workshop - Getting Reading Workshop Up and Running: Creating Lasting Structures to Ensure Your Workshop Really Works in an International School, Grades 6-8

Fri: 10:30-5:00Sat: 8:30-3:00Sun: 10:30-5:00Fri: 10:30-5:00Sat: 8:30-3:00Sun: 10:30-5:00

Fri: 10:30-5:00Sat: 8:30-3:00Sun: 10:30-5:00Fri: 10:30-5:00Sat: 8:30-3:00Sun: 10:30-5:00

THURSDAY, APRIL 3 - MONDAY, APRIL 7

NOTE: For coffee breaks and lunch times, please follow the main conference schedule (pp. 7-10). On Monday, “Special Offering” participants attend keynotes and teacher workshops with the rest of the conference delegates (pg. 11)

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Time Event/Speaker

8:30-1:00 Specialist Four-Hour Workshops & Coffee Break • Mark Church: Considering Opportunities, Language, and Discourse in “Thought-Full” Classrooms (K-12) • John Coy: Informational Texts - New and Improved Nonfiction (K-12) • Tom Daccord: Collect-Relate-Create-Donate - Innovative Uses of Technology in English & History Classrooms (4-12) • Kristina Doubet: Differentiating Instruction in Middle and High School - Part 1 (Instructional Strategies) • Heidi Hayes Jacobs: Flipped Professional Development - Supporting Connected Educators (K-12) • Jim Knight: High-Impact Instruction for Instructional Coaching (K-12) • Nancy Love: Making Collective Sense of Data - Item and Error Analysis (K-12) • Dana Watts: Integrating iPads in the Elementary School (K-5)10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-1:00 Specialist Workshops continued. . . 1:00-2:00 Lunch sponsored by The College Board1:30-2:30 General Interest Workshops • Ellen Edmonds: Getting to the Core - Insight On Common Core English Language Arts • Jayson Richardson & John Nash: Designing and Evaluating Your Digital Efforts • Emily Ross: AP Rigor in a Global Context • Mitos Urgel & Umaporn Pojorn: Refugee Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Fair Trade • John Moore & Victoria So: Get Updated with Atlas • Kari Yuen: The Faculty’s Role in Student Substance Abuse Prevention

FREE AFTERNOON/EVENING TO EXPLORE BANGKOK. . .

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Riverside 2 20Riverside 3 20

Panisea 1 21

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Panisea 2 22Riverside 6 22

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Time Event/Speaker

8:30-9:30 PLENARY SESSION

Keynote Presentation: KAREN BOYES, “Developing Independent, Self Directed Thinkers“ 9:45-10:45 Teacher Workshops, Session 3 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:15 Teacher Workshops, Session 4 12:30-1:30 PLENARY SESSION Keynote Presentation by the Buffalo State-SUNY Guest Speaker: ALEC COUROS, “Identity, Networks, and Connected Learning” Introduced by Leah Loveless, Associate Director, International Graduate Programs for Educators, Buffalo State-SUNY

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS. . . See you in Istanbul, March 20-23, 2015!

Location Page

Royal OrchidBallroom 1 17

See pages 30-31Exhibition AreaSee pages 32-33Royal OrchidBallroom 1 19

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MONDAY, APRIL 7

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Time Event/Speaker

8:30-10:00 PLENARY SESSION Awards: - Stanley Haas/Luke Hansen Student Award Winner: KAREN GRACE HASSANIEH, American International School of Riyadh (This award is sponsored by TieCare International)

- Announcement of Margaret Sanders International Schools Scholarship Winner: MEGHNA SARAH THOMAS, Walworth Barbour American International School, Tel Aviv

Keynote Presentation: KATHY COLLINS, “In Search of Significance in Times When Everything is High Priority”10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-3:30 Specialist Four-Hour Workshops and Lunch • Tom Baker: Service Learning in the 21st Century Led by Nobel Peace Laureates (MS/HS) • Karen Boyes: The Psychology of Learning (or How the Brain Learns and Remembers), K-12 • Carol Carter: Coaching Students on Risk and Reward (MS/HS) • Alec Couros: Introduction to Personal Learning Networks & Connected Learning (K-12) • John Coy: The Secret to Teaching Writing - Seeing Ourselves as Writers (K-12) • Tom Daccord: Nurturing Creativity in the iPad Classroom (3-10) • Richard Detwiler: Administrative Assistants Strand (Day 2/2) – Keeping Chaos at Bay - Celebrating the Administrative Assistant’s Challenges and Opportunities (Day 1 is Friday) • Kristina Doubet: Differentiating Instruction in Middle and High School - Part 2 (Performance Assessments) • Nancy Love: Making Collective Sense of Data - Student-Work Analysis (K-12)12:30-1:30 Lunch (provided by NESA)12:30-1:30 Lunchtime Book Talk with John Coy: The Joy of Making Books – Idea to Publication 1:30-3:30 Specialist Workshops, continued. . . 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break 4:00-5:00 Teacher Workshops, Session 2 7:30 Gala Evening sponsored by TieCare International

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ROBERT J. GARMSTON is Co-Developer of Cogni-tive Coaching with Dr Art Costa, Director of Facilita-tion Associates, and co-developer and founder of the Center for Adaptive Schools with Bruce Wellman, now organized under the heading of Thinking Collabora-tive representing its relationship to Cognitive Coach-ing, Adaptive Schools, and Habits of Mind. Dr Garmston’s books include Lemons to Lem-onade: Resolving Problems in Meetings, Workshops and PLC’s, and Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality. [email protected]

CAROLYN McKANDERS, MA, MSW, is an inde-pendent educational consultant specializing in indi-vidual, group and organizational development. She is Director of Organizational Culture for Thinking Col-laborative - home of Adaptive Schools Seminars and Cognitive CoachingSM Seminars. Ms McKanders has 28 years of experience in Detroit Public Schools as a teacher, counselor and staff development specialist. Her expertise includes providing po-larity management training that helps organizations identify and manage competing tensions in-herent in social systems. [email protected]

FIVE-DAY ADAPTIVE SCHOOLSCERTIFICATE PROGRAM

FIVE-DAYADAPTIVE SCHOOLSCERTIFICATΕ PROGRAMTHURSDAY - MONDAY, APRIL 3-7

Support Trainer:• CAROL SIMONEAU, Adaptive Schools Training Associ-ate and Coordinating Consultant for Thinking Collabora-tive. [email protected]

> Five-day Adaptive Schools Certificate Program, Thursday-Monday ROOM: POMPADOURAdaptive Schools Schedule:• Thursday, April 3 -- 8:30-4:30 (10:00-10:30 coffee break / 12:30-1:30 lunch / 2:30-3:00 coffee break)• Friday, April 4 -- 8:30-5:00 (10:00-10:30 coffee break / 12:30-1:30 lunch / 3:30-4:00 coffee break)• Saturday, April 5 -- 8:30-1:00 (10:30-11:00 coffee break / 1:00-2:00 lunch)• Sunday, April 6 -- 8:30-5:00 (10:00-10:30 coffee break / 12:30-1:30 lunch / 3:30-4:00 coffee break)• Monday, April 7 -- 8:30-1:30 (10:45-11:15 coffee break)

NOTE: Pre-sign up was required to attend. Detailed speaker biographies and course description, including outcomes, are located on the NESA website: www.nesa-center.org/page.cfm?p=1199.

Brief Description:For international schools to effectively respond to the press for accountability and provide quality learning for all students, they must simultaneously address two perennial goals: the professional development of individual educa-tors; and the development of the organization’s capacity to learn and be adaptive. Both build the capacity for school improvement, without which reform efforts will fail.

In this Center for Adaptive Schools Foundation Training, learn how to build strong collaborative and caring work cul-tures, in which results-oriented faculties work together for continuous school improvement. Explore the latest practi-cal findings in organizational development, team learning and navigating the currents of change.


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CARLA ESPANA is a staff developer at Teach-ers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) at Columbia University. She has taught at TCRWP institutes and, in addition to national work, guides schools in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Bogotá, Colom-bia. Currently a doctoral student in Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Ms España’s research interests include bilingualism, critical lit-eracies, culturally relevant ped-agogy, multiculturalism, and arts integration. [email protected]

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Hear the latest research-based best practices for teach-ing reading inside of a reading workshop, and how to help children think deeply, talk well, and respond in alternative ways to their texts. We will balance sharing methods to teach children to read powerfully and conditions that sup-port children to read joyfully. NOTE: See the NESA web-site for a list of prerequisites! Pre-sign up was required. Only those who signed up may attend.

EMILY DeLIDDO has worked as a staff developer at Columbia University’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP) for more than a de-cade. She works with educators in Bogotá, Mexico and the Bahamas. Ms DeLiddo co-leads the TCRWP work with Queen Rania Teacher Academy in Amman, Jordan, and co-wrote the article “Becoming Jordan’s Writers: Developing Powerful Writing Instruction in the Middle East” in NCTE’s Voices From the Middle (September 2010). [email protected], www.languageisliving.com

> The Literacy Initiative: Foundation Course in Read-ing, Grades 3-5 ROOM: BALLROOM 2Getting Reading Workshop Up and Running: Creating Lasting Structures to Ensure Your Workshop Really Works in an International School (3-5)Explore the structures, routines and strategies that strengthen an upper grade Reading Workshop. Learn ways to assess language and literacy skills, and moves to strengthen plans of units of study across the year. Use

informational texts and literature to develop critical reading skills through read-alouds, mini-lessons and conferences. Examine ways to weave reading instruction across the day to support language and literacy.

> The Literacy Initiative: Foundation Course in Read-ing, Grades 6-8 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 7Getting Reading Workshop Up and Running: Creating Lasting Structures to Ensure Your Workshop Really Works in an International School (6-8) Explore the structures, routines and strategies that strengthen a middle school Reading Workshop. Learn ways to assess language and literacy skills, and moves to strengthen plans of units of study across the year. Use informational texts and literature to develop critical reading skills through read-alouds, mini-lessons and conferences. Examine ways to weave reading instruction across the day to support language and literacy.

ERMA ANDERSON is a former high school physics and mathematics teacher. She has worked with the National Science Teachers Association, the Coun-cil for Basic Education’s Schools Around the World project, Modern Red Schoolhouse, Educational Field Studies, Kidsnet, school districts, and states. Cur-rently she is a science/math-ematics consultant with various groups including the Office of Overseas Schools. Ms Ander-son was awarded the Finis En-gleman Award, NESA’s highest honor, in 2011. [email protected]

ALAN PHAN is a former middle school mathematics teacher in public schools in California and Washing-ton, DC. He has also worked in international schools in Mexico, Belgium, England and Spain. At present, he is pursuing his doctorate at the University of Bath in England, and is the Middle School Principal at the Ameri-can International School-Chen-nai in India. He continues to teach mathematics to students and teachers in his administra-tive role. [email protected]

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THREE-DAY"SPECIAL OFFERING"WORKSHOPSFRIDAY - SUNDAY, APRIL 4-6NOTE: For coffee breaks and lunch times, please follow the main conference schedule (pp. 7-10). On Monday, April 7, “Special Offering” participants attend keynotes and teacher workshops with the rest of the conference delegates (pg. 11). Detailed speaker biographies and course descriptions are located on the NESA website: www.nesacenter.org

> AERO/Common Core Plus: Strategies for Strength-ening Formative and Summative Assessment of Math-ematics Learning ROOM: RIVERSIDE 1The AERO Common Core Plus Standards emphasize the growing importance and impact of formative assessment practices and the inclusion of assessment of the Mathe-matical Practices. This three-day workshop will examine how assessment of the AERO Common Core Plus Math-ematics Standards is an integrated and dynamic part of the teaching and learning process and how the value of any assessment is only as good as the use of the assess-ment data.

KATHY COLLINS is a former first grade teacher in Brooklyn, New York. She works with teachers to de-velop high-quality, effective literacy instruction in the elementary school grades. The author of Reading for Real: Teach Children to Read With Power, Inten-tion, and Joy in K-3 Classrooms and Growing Readers: Units of Study in Primary Classrooms, Ms Collins has worked close-ly with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. [email protected]

> The Literacy Initiative: Foundation Course in Read-ing, Grades K-2 ROOM: BALLROOM 3Growing Readers Within Reading Workshop: Teach Children to Read With Power, Intention, and Joy, K-2


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TOM BAKER is the Head of International Program Development at the PeaceJam Foundation, the world’s largest youth development organization led by Nobel Peace Laureates. He has 35 years of ex-perience as a school leader and teacher in the US and internationally in Finland, Tanzania, Thailand, and Norway where he was Head of School at Oslo International School from 2009 to 2013. [email protected], peacejam.org

Detailed speaker biographies and course descriptions are located on the NESA website: www.nesacenter.org

Tom Baker

Friday, April 4 ROOM: PANASEA 2> Service Learning in the 21st Century Led by Nobel Peace Laureates (ES)PeaceJam is the world’s largest youth development orga-nization led by Nobel Peace Laureates. Students study the lives and work of the Laureates, build age-appropriate awareness of global issues, develop leadership and 21st century skills, and create service projects addressing root causes of community and world problems. Learn best practices in service-learning and global issues in educa-tion and gain training to implement the PeaceJam Juniors (ages 5-11) program.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: PANASEA 2> Service Learning in the 21st Century Led by Nobel Peace Laureates (MS/HS)PeaceJam is the world’s largest youth development orga-nization led by Nobel Peace Laureates. Students study the lives and work of the Laureates, build age-appropriate awareness of global issues, develop leadership and 21st century skills, and create service projects addressing root causes of community and world problems. Learn best practices in service-learning and global issues in educa-tion and gain training to implement the PeaceJam Leaders

(ages 11-14) and Ambassadors (ages 14-19) programs.

NOTE: It would be helpful for participants to have an inter-net device at both workshops.

KAREN BOYES, CSP, is an expert in effective teach-ing, learning and living. She turns research into prac-tical and simple-to-use techniques that create suc-cess. She is the Founder of Spectrum Education, an author, publisher of Teachers Matter Magazine and an Affiliate Director of the International Institute for the Habits of Mind. [email protected], www.spectrumeducation.com

Karen Boyes

Keynote: Monday, April 7 ROOM: ROYAL ORCHID BALLROOM> Developing Independent, Self-Directed ThinkersTeachers make every other profession possible and, in a dynamic teaching environment, deciding what to include and leave out of the curriculum is important. We will ex-plore five important keys for teaching: 1) Understanding how the brain learns; 2) Teaching contextualized content; 3) Hook learners with authentic learning; 4) Never work harder than your students; 5) Assessing for Learning.

Friday, April 4 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3> Exploring & Activating the Habits of Mind (K-12)Efforts to teach powerful thinking will prove futile unless the school environment shows signs that the development of intellectual and cooperative decision making are the school’s basic values. We will examine the introduction and implementation of the Habits of Mind into a school and how to sustain long term use of some key habits through development of a school-wide culture.


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KEYNOTE SPONSORED BY BUFFALO STATE-SUNYMonday, April 7ROOM: ROYAL ORCHID BALLROOM> Identity, Networks, and Connected LearningWe are currently exiting the age of the personal comput-er and entering a new mobile reality. Learners now have the technical ability to learn anywhere, anytime, and with anyone. This keynote will outline our new technological reality, feature examples of how social media and mobile devices can transform learning environments and guide participants in examining the potentials and pitfalls of 21st Century learning.

Friday, April 4 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6> Understanding Digital Citizenship (K-12)Problem-solve issues such as cyberbullying, sexting, and student access to inappropriate content in an era where access to information is ubiquitous, and digital messages are easily spread. Via information sharing and activities, we will develop strategies for dealing with and understand-ing such issues through a positive framework that moves toward the development of learner digital identities.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3> Introduction to Personal Learning Networks & Con-nected Learning (K-12)Social Networks often get the bad rap of ‘time-wasters’, but many are built on passion, kindness, transparency, and collaboration. Learn how educator networks are trans-forming practice through Personal Learning Networks; explore the most commonly used tools and techniques to support teaching and learning through social media; and

KATHY COLLINS is a former first grade teacher in Brooklyn, New York. She works with teachers to de-velop high-quality, effective literacy instruction in the elementary school grades. The author of Reading for Real: Teach Children to Read With Power, Intention, and Joy in K-3 Classrooms and Growing Readers: Units of Study in Primary Classrooms, Ms Collins has worked closely with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University. [email protected]


Kathy Collins

Keynote: Sunday, April 6 ROOM: ROYAL ORCHID BALLROOM> In Search of Significance in Times When Everything is High PriorityEvery school year or new administrator seems to usher in fresh initiatives, new mandates, and higher expectations. While this creates opportunities for learning and engage-ment, it can also lead to teacher burn-out and cynicism. Ms Collins suggests some enduring truths we can hold on to in these times of constant change -- to help keep us grounded and enable us as educators to keep children front-and-center.

> The Literacy Initiative: Foundation Course in Read-ing, Grades K-2 (April 4-6) ROOM: BALLROOM 3This session required pre-sign up. Only those who signed up may attend. Description is on page 14.

ALEC COUROS is a Professor of educational tech-nology and media at the Faculty of Education, Univer-sity of Regina, Canada. He has presented nationally and internationally on topics such as openness and social media in education, networked learning, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. His courses help current and future educators understand how to take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. [email protected], http://couros.ca

Alec CourosMARK CHURCH works with educators throughout the world striving to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms and schools. He is currently a con-sultant with Harvard Project Zero’s Making Thinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives worldwide. Mr Church is co-author of Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners. [email protected], www.visiblethinkingpz.org

Friday, April 4 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2> Creativity, Innovation, and Risk (MS/HS Counselors, Librarians)Learn how to engage students to explore and create as learners and doers. Build skills to go beyond “curriculum delivery” into content creation, discovery, and ownership, as students connect their learning to their personal and professional skills, perspectives, and passions. Redis-cover the classroom as a thriving environment that fosters both strategic and adaptive thinking skills.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: PANISEA 3> Coaching Students on Risk and Reward (MS/HS Counselors, Librarians)Schools continue to focus on the development of students’ analytical skills at the expense of their practical skills. Ex-plore tools to help students develop early the imagination, vision, creativity, and wherewithal to take risks emotion-ally, socially, academically, and professionally. Learn how to emphasize the soft skills students need to succeed and lead by showcasing what they know, and what they can do.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: BALLROOM 1> The Psychology of Learning (or How the Brain Learns and Remembers), K-12Just because you taught the information does not mean your students have learned it. Understanding the learn-ing process is key to effective teaching. Explore effective classroom environments, student engagement strategies, the many ways the brain learns and remembers and how to bridge the gap between teaching and learning.


CAROL J. CARTER is a student success speaker and author of over 30 books that promote success skills and critical thinking in K-12 and college stu-dents. For the last 12 years, she has been the presi-dent of LifeBound, which provides success resources for fifth through twelfth graders and academic coach-ing training for professors, edu-cators, parents, and students. [email protected]

Carol J. CarterMark Church

Friday, April 4 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4> Thinking Routines: Establishing Patterns of Think-ing in the Classroom (K-12)In Harvard Project Zero Making Thinking Visible projects, thinking routines are used regularly to help make students’ thinking visible and as a tool for deepening students’ un-derstanding. However, the real power of thinking routines is to establish patterns of thinking in the classroom. Learn about how teachers are working with thinking routines to transform their classrooms into cultures of thinking.

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4> Considering Opportunities, Language, and Discourse in “Thought-Full” Classrooms (K-12)While keeping expectations high and serving all students well, what might it look like as we shift our thinking from covering the curriculum bullet-points to connecting them? Moving beyond simply using thinking routines, how might we critically examine the language and discourse patterns of classrooms committed to becoming thought-full places of learning for both kids and teachers?


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KRISTINA J. DOUBET is an associate professor in the College of Education at James Madison Uni-versity in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and Mathematics Education where her scholarship fo-cuses on assessment and differentiation. She works with K-12 schools and districts implementing initia-tives in Understanding by Design and differentiated instruction. She also serves as consultant and faculty member for the Association for Supervision and Cur-ricular Development (ASCD). [email protected], https://sites.google.com/site/kjdoubet/


RICK DETWILER has worked as head of five inter-national schools over the past 25 years, including three headships and one principalship at four NESA schools. He and his wife, Sandi, an ESL teacher, also support NESA as international consultants for Mason Associates, helping to place struggling teens in therapeutic educational programs. Currently Mr Detwiler is working with NESA on its Board Development Proj-ect. [email protected]

Rick Detwiler

> 2-DAY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS STRAND: Friday & Sunday, April 4 & 6 ROOM: PANISEA 1Keeping Chaos at Bay: Celebrating the Administrative Assistant’s Challenges and OpportunitiesThis participatory strand is based on a list of topics com-piled from Administrative Assistants in the NESA region. • Day 1: Consider the Admin. Assistant’s role and strat-egies for dealing with the job’s challenges; coping with stress. • Day 2: Explore opportunities to make the job more do-able; multi-tasking more effectively; p.d. and performance appraisal for Admin. Assistants; resource sharing for es-tablishing networks among the group. Please bring a lap-top/tablet/smartphone to access readings -- not required, but it will make your life easier!

Kristina J. Doubet

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: PANISEA 1> Differentiating Instruction in Middle and High School - Part 1 (Instructional Strategies)Learn to systematically implement differentiation by 1) assessing and responding to students’ backgrounds, in-terests, and mindsets; 2) informally checking for student understanding during instruction; 3) using a variety of in-structional strategies; and 4) applying multiple measures to document student understanding at a unit’s end. Part 1: Glean strategies to build a community of learners and to monitor student grasp of learning goals. Explore how to use these results to tailor teaching to students’ differing readiness and interests as revealed by formative assess-ment.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4> Differentiating Instruction in Middle and High School - Part 2 (Performance Assessments)In Part 2, examine ways to design differentiated perfor-mance assessments to capture the attention and under-standing of students with differing readiness, interest and learning-profiles. Emerge with practical strategies for put-ting these new ideas to work.

Recognized as an international expert in curricu-lum design and 21st century learning environments, HEIDI HAYES JACOBS works with schools, educa-tion organizations, software developers, and media groups. Author and editor of eleven books, her cur-rent release with Solution-Tree is a four-book series on Contemporary Perspectives on the New Litera-cies: Digital-Media-Global. heid i@curr icu lum21.com, www.curriculum21.com

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

KEYNOTE SPONSORED BY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS SERVICESFriday, April 4 ROOM: ROYAL ORCHID BALLROOM> Leading the New Literacies: Digital, Media, GlobalThree new 21st century literacies require integration in curriculum and teaching. Do you seek to engage faculty and students in DIGITAL LITERACY activities? How do we help students critique and create MEDIA that prepares

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3> Collect-Relate-Create-Donate: Innovative Uses of Technology in English & History Classrooms (4-12)In Leonardo’s Laptop, Ben Shneiderman outlines the framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate (CRCD), for designing student-centered learning opportunities using computers. It prepares young people for a 21st century world where innovation, creativity, and collaboration will be more highly prized than retention and repetition. Learn in-novative ideas and exciting projects that incorporate Web 2.0 platforms, tools and apps purposefully into ELA and social studies classrooms.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5> Nurturing Creativity in the iPad Classroom (3-10)Via a collect-relate-create-donate framework, explore cre-ative educational uses of the iPad and ways to employ it as a portable media creation device (eg, audio, video, and screencasts, digital reports, collaborative publications). Cultivate a set of non-subject “evergreen apps” – like iMovie, Book Creator, Doodlecast and others. Bring an iPad and download Explain Everything and Book Creator in advance.

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2> Informational Texts: New and Improved Nonfiction (K-12)Today’s informational texts are yesterday’s nonfiction. Un-der the new Common Core standards, there is a renewed emphasis on these texts. Explore the process, creativity and originality of some recent informational text and its connections to traditional elements of storytelling. Learn how students can use quality informational text as models to create their own interesting and dynamic texts.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2> The Secret to Teaching Writing: Seeing Ourselves as Writers (K-12)One of the strongest indicators of how students feel about writing is how their teacher feels about it. Deepen your sense of who is a writer and what good writers do. Ex-amine how standards of perfection and feelings of doubt inhibit writing. Discover ways to see yourselves as writers, means to model strong writing techniques, and how to be more effective and confident teachers of writing.


most importantly, extend your learning about this vital topic beyond the workshop.

NOTE: Participants are invited to bring their devices (lap-tops, tablets, etc.) to both workshops

JOHN COY is the author of the picture books Night Driving, Strong to the Hoop, Vroomaloom Zoom, Two Old Potatoes and Me, Around the World, Hoop Ge-nius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball. He has received a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award for best first picture book and an American Library Association Notable des-ignation, among other honors. [email protected], www.johncoy.com

John Coy

TOM DACCORD is an international educational tech-nology speaker, instructor, and author. He has pro-duced online courses on Web 2.0 and iPad integra-tion, 21st century school leadership and classroom assessment and has organized a series of sold-out “iPad Summits” in the US. Mr Daccord was invited to Singapore by the Ministry of Education as “Outstand-ing Educator-in-Residence”to support 21st century learn-ing. [email protected], edtechteacher.org

Tom Daccord

> Mr Coy will also present a lunchtime “Book Talk”, Sunday, April 6. See page 36.


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ual assessment items or questions, identifying strengths and needs. In error analysis, we dig deeper into frequently missed items to uncover confusion and misconceptions. Explore how to take critical next steps after item and error analysis.

Sunday, April 6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6> Making Collective Sense of Data: Student-Work Analysis (K-12)Through a data simulation, you will experience how to make sense of data via in depth analysis of student work. You will dig into student work samples, using a protocol for first experiencing cognitive empathy by doing the task yourself and then by analyzing student work for evidence of the knowledge and skills required by the task. Explore how to take critical next steps after student work analysis.

Dana Specker Watts

DANA SPECKER WATTS is an international edu-cator and Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) who works with the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. A full-time doctoral student through the CASTLE program at the University of Kentucky, Ms Watts is the author of iPads for Learning (available free at iBooks store) and a COETAIL instructor for Buffalo State. [email protected], www.danawatts.com

Friday, April 4 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5> Integrating iPads in the Middle School & High School (6-12)Explore age appropriate apps that enhance learning and discuss methods for evaluating apps that move learners into using the higher order thinking skills in Bloom’s tax-onomy for learning. Review opportunities to create mean-ingful ways to integrate iPads into your curriculum with specific attention to the IB learner profile. Review cross-curricular applications as well as a multitude of curriculum specific applications.

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5> Integrating iPads in the Elementary School (K-5)Explore age appropriate apps that enhance learning and discuss methods for evaluating apps that move learners into using the higher order thinking skills in Bloom’s tax-onomy for learning. Review opportunities to create mean-ingful ways to integrate iPads into your curriculum with specific attention to the IB learner profile. Review cross-curricular applications as well as a multitude of curriculum specific applications.

Please bring an i-Pad to both workshops.

Friday, April 4 ROOM: PANISEA 3> Instructional Coaching: What It Is and How To Do It (K-12)Researchers have conducted studies to define instruction-al coaching and describe how coaches should act to have maximum positive impact on teaching and learning. Learn about this research and the practical “nuts and bolts” of instructional coaching and how it fosters good teaching. Explore the content while discussing videos of instruc-tional coaches working in schools and collaborating with teachers.

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: PANISEA 2> High-Impact Instruction for Instructional Coaching (K-12)Which teaching practices show the greatest potential to improve student learning and engagement? Researchers at the Kansas Coaching Project at the University of Kansas have developed High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching. Learn the framework’s high-yield teaching strategies, known as the Big Four. Receive resources to promote the Big Four in your school, including observation forms and coaching checklists.

them for future careers and college? Do you want to GLO-BALIZE your classroom? Dr Jacobs shares her newest model to identify the literacies and defines where they in-tersect via dynamic projects using web 2.0 tools.

Friday, April 4 ROOM: BALLROOM 1> Digital-Media-Global Project Based Learning (PreK-12)Help learners create QUALITY 21st century media projects and use web resources to revise dated content, skills, and assessments aligned to the CCSS. Develop project-based assessments via new media formats, video podcasting, and open source software to meet the CCSS standards. Examine interdisciplinary focus areas such as sustainabil-ity, media literacy, and globalization. Time will be provided to design and work on your curriculum with feedback.

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: BALLROOM 1> Flipped Professional Development: Supporting Con-nected Educators (K-12)How can we apply the flipped classroom concept to our own PD? Explore a model based on upgrading traditional purposes and approaches to PD. Key is when and how to use SPS (shared physical space) and SVS (shared virtual space). How can a school create a powerful web presence for professional learning communities and use online re-sources? Leave with a refreshed action plan for PD spe-cifically for your school setting.

*NOTE: Please bring a laptop or tablet to each workshop.


JIM KNIGHT is a research associate at the Univer-sity of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the president of the Instructional Coaching Group. His book, Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction, was the Cor-win Press 2012 Book of the Year. Dr Knight’s newest books are High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching and Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction. [email protected], www.instructionalcoaching.com

Jim Knight

Nancy Love

NANCY LOVE is Program Director at Research for Better Teaching. An expert in data use and collabo-ration, she has worked with schools to develop Data Coaches and high-performing Data Teams. She led the design and implementation of the NSF-funded Using Data Project and authored, A Data Coach’s Guide to Improving Learning for All Students: Un-leashing the Power of Collaborative Inquiry, among other publications. [email protected], www.rbteach.com

Saturday, April 5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6> Making Collective Sense of Data: Item and Error Analysis (K-12)Through a data simulation, you will experience how to make sense of data by conducting two kinds of analysis. In item analysis, student performance is examined on individ-


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TEACHER WORKSHOPSSESSION 1

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 4:00-5:00> Teaching 21st Century Digital Early Learners, PreK-5 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6Discover creative ways to incorporate technology into your preschool-elementary classroom. Using a variety of media devices (iPad, Smart Board and Elmo Document Camera), to engage students interactively, enhance and support instruc-tion. Introducing a selection of iPad Apps (English, Arabic, Math, Art), sites and software to show how easily they can be integrated into the class to enrich and enhance the curriculum. KATERINE ALBARELLOS, Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Safat, Kuwait

> Video Games in Education: MinecraftEdu and the World of Humanities, 6-9 ROOM: PANISEA 1Using virtual learning environments (educational video games) to supplement student learning can cause significant in-creases in student engagement, understanding, and constructivist interactivity. This workshop will present both Minecraft-Edu and a Humanities-themed virtual learning environment, and will start attendees on the path to using these resources in their own teaching practice. ERIC WALKER & DAVID REMPEL, The American International School of Kuwait, Salmiya

> Third Culture Kids–EdKids: The Children of Educators in International Schools, PreK-12ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2The idea of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) is well researched, but EdKids, the children of international school educators, have largely been ignored. This presentation explores research on this group of kids, and gives educator parents and schools insight into what they can do to assist them. GEETHA G., GEORGE BACH & KEVIN HALL, American International School-Chennai, India

> Brain Games, 1-12 ROOM: PANISEA 2This workshop offers various brain games to make teaching more engaging and better suited to the growing brains of stu-dents. Enjoy some of the games with us while adding resources to your teaching techniques. This is a fun and interactive session; be ready to be engaged! DANIA KARAME, American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon

> Creating Cognitive Hooks, 6-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5Differentiation, drawing on previous knowledge and active learning, are the highlights of this interactive workshop. Help your ELL students thrive with amazing learning activities and by drawing on knowledge of their L1. JOANIE LANG, Inter-national School of Islamabad, Pakistan

> Using the “Flipped Classroom” Method in Social Studies Classrooms, 6-12 ROOM: PANISEA 3This workshop will provide a practical overview on how social studies teachers can use the Flipped Classroom method to create an engaging classroom environment. It will specifically focus on in-class strategies to stimulate higher-order think-ing and ideas to keep students accountable with their video assignments. SCOTT MULLER, American School of Kuwait, Hawalli

> Dropping the F-Bomb in Class, 2.0: Using Facebook in Education, 9-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3This workshop will explore ways teachers can use Facebook as a learning management system (lms) while still keep-



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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 4:00-5:00> Jazz IT Up! Dynamic Presentations to Engage Learners, 6-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3This session will provide examples of how to integrate technology in our educational approach, and focuses on facilitat-ing classroom collaboration. Learn about tools such as Socrative, Prezi and Camtasia that stimulate the imaginations of students and connect with them inside and outside of the classroom. ANAS SHUMMALI, Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Safat, Kuwait

> Play Based Learning, PreK-Lower Elementary ROOM: PANISEA 1The aim of this workshop is to explore the importance of play in the lives of young children. It focuses on how educators can make links to curriculum outlines and learning outcomes through a balance of open-ended play and adult supported work in small groups. MAYADA LOWMAN, American International School of Kuwait, Salmiya

> Spider Web Discussions, K-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2If you want students who think critically, work collaboratively, behave ethically, ask and answer high-level questions, sup-port their ideas and evaluate and assess their own work, then try Spider Web Discussion. It asks students to lead and assess and teachers to observe and coach. ALEXIS WIGGINS, American International School-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

> Mini-Earth in the Classroom, K-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4Learn how to build a self-sustaining fish jar or “mini-earth” with minimal resources to enliven science teaching at every grade level. Students or teachers can build these jars that can last a school year with no special care. We will also dis-cuss lessons and resources that use these systems to teach many concepts. PAUL EID, American Community School, Amman, Jordan

> Facilitating Student Leadership in the Digital Age, K-12 ROOM: BALLROOM 1Educators can create digital frameworks designed to facilitate and coordinate student leadership and organize large projects. We will explore how Google-apps and Facebook can be molded into a project management system to help men-tor student leaders, track progress, facilitate collaboration, bolster communications, provide avenues for feedback and archive documentation. ERIK WILENSKY, Cairo American College, Egypt

> The Learning Brain: Growth Mindset and Effective Effort in the Classroom, 6-10 ROOM: VANDABased on the research of Carol Dweck, the growth mindset theory argues that all students can get smarter through hard work and dedication. By adopting this mindset, students will come to embrace challenges as learning opportunities. This workshop will give teachers practical methods to create this kind of classroom environment. JARED PEET, American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon

> A Beginner’s Guide to Using Technology to Promote Literacy in Young Children, PreK-2ROOM: PANISEA 3This workshop is for PreK-2 teachers who want to learn simple and effective ways to develop their students’ literacy skills



ing their private online presences private. We will also examine how putting your class on Facebook can enhance col-laboration with your colleagues. If possible, please bring an Internet enabled device. TOBY AICKIN, American School of Bombay, Mumbai

> Numeracy: Assess and Progress, K-5 ROOM: VANDAAn equation for differentiated Mathematics Teaching and Instruction: Measure and add up student assessments. / Divide into equal ability groupings. / Subtract wasted efforts. / Multiply your results. JOSEF KAUFHOLD, Qatar Academy, Doha

> The Poetry Cafe: An International Showcase of Student Expression & Achievement, K-12ROOM: BALLROOM 1The Poetry Café is a showcase of student expression and achievement through language arts and technology integration. Students can create and submit (upload) videos in which they recite, illustrate, interpret, animate, etc, original poems or published poetry. The Poetry Café is open to all K-12 teachers. Learn more about us and how to participate. MELISSA STANEK & STUART FLEISCHER, Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel, Even Yehuda

> The One Pointed Mind: How Meditation Psychology Impacts Teaching and Learning, K-12ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4‘One-pointed’ means a state of unified focus, like a laser. Recent studies show a mind one-pointed produces an improved state of well-being (physical and mental), resilience, and memory. Through classroom/curricular design and lesson deliv-ery, learn the impacts one-pointedness has on the neural development and emotional well-being of students. STEVEN LAWRENCE, The American International School of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

> Listening As If Your Life Depended On It, 8-12 ROOM: CALANTHEThis hyper-interactive workshop is a set of strategies used in foreign language classes to get the greatest amount of learning from short video clips. It involves note-taking, note-swapping, note revision, risk-taking, collaborative and indi-vidual research. Other disciplines may find applications. Language of presentation: English. TIMOTHY COBLE, American School of Doha, Qatar


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using technology. Observe a demonstration of how integrating technology can be an important tool to help achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). JESSICA CHRIST, American School of Kuwait, Hawalli

> Creativity Comes Alive, K-8 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5See how student work can come alive using fantastic (and free) apps! Watch magic happen when art students use Morfo and Aurasma to bring their self-portraits to life in augmented reality. Gain advice and reflections from a teacher who had a blast learning along with her students. AMY GARRETT, American School of Bombay, Mumbai, India

> Intelligent Improvisation: How to Use Improvisation to Teach Skills and Boost Learning Across the Curriculum, K-12 ROOM: PANISEA 2This workshop will provide improvisational techniques that can be adapted across the curriculum to make instruction come alive. I combined my acting and teaching experience to leverage the power of play and to enhance children’s confi-dence, creativity and critical thinking. Learn how to apply these techniques in your class! MARY PETROUTSA, American Community Schools of Athens, Greece

> Coaching in the Classroom, K-6 ROOM: CALANTHEHow can you get the best out of your students (and colleagues)? Strategies will be shared that demonstrate coach-ing techniques to help build rapport, resolve conflict and lead to student achievement. Engagements include: matching and mirroring; responsive behaviors (pausing, probing, paraphrasing); acknowledge, summarize, shift thinking. HARISH KANABAR, Qatar Academy, Doha

> Reinforcing Mathematics Skills through Activities, Loops and Networks, 6-10 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6Students need regular reinforcement of skills such as working with expressions, integers, factoring and symbol manipula-tion. Four activities will be presented to expand your tool chest of activities to reinforce these skills. ROBERT ANDRE, International Schools Group, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia


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> i2flex: A Model for Web-facilitated Innovation In and Out of the Classroom, 5-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 7Learn about i2flex, a new, web-based model for teaching that facilitates independent and guided learning to maximize higher-level face-to-face classroom interaction. View concrete examples from flipped and online classes, and walk away with a set of instructional design considerations, techniques and tools to help transform your teaching. LABRINI RONTO-GIANNIS, AMALIA ZAVACOPOULOU & MARIA AVGERINOU, American Community Schools of Athens, Greece

> Third Culture Kids Explained, 6-12 ROOM: BALLROOM 2Third Culture Kids, or children who have been raised in a culture other than their own, fill our international school class-rooms everyday. As teachers, we must learn about this TCK culture, attempt to understand their lives and cultural identi-ties, and develop strategies to teach TCK’s effectively. LINDSAY PEAK, Qatar Academy, Doha

> Using Toys in the Science Classroom, K-12 ROOM: BALLROOM 3Learn an easy and fun way to teach science concepts using toys and how you can make science students’ favorite class using guided discovery. Practical demonstration: Teach first class levers, scientific method and how to balance an equa-tion in one simple lab. ROBERT MACE, American International School of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

> Establishing an Organic Garden in Schools, K-6 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6We will share our experiences establishing and running a school gardening program highlighting its value to the school community. It encompasses an organic garden, gardening club, and tunnel greenhouse. We will demonstrate how stu-dents learn about various aspects of gardening including soil composition, planning, composting and pest control. ROZ EZRA & NAOMI KVIATEK, Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel, Even Yehuda

> Strategies to Promote Discourse and Engagement in Math, 3-8 ROOM: PANISEA 2Research agrees that social interaction increases the ability to learn ideas and to integrate them well into their existing cognitive structures. Therefore, students need to work and talk together. As teachers, we need to provide structure to these discussions. Learn strategies that will allow this social interaction to occur. CAROL & ALAN LITTLE, American School of Doha, Qatar

> Reading Incentive Program in the Digital Age, K-5 ROOM: PANISEA 1Examine ways to encourage students to read through reading incentive programs. We will look at necessary elements of a successful program. The process and story line of the KAS Reading Ranger reading incentive program will conclude the workshop. Participants will be free to use all the Reading Ranger material. MELANIE & DONOVAN DORNING, Karachi American School, Pakistan

> Morning Meeting and You, K-8 ROOM: PANISEA 3This workshop will give you a taste of what Morning Meeting is about. We will talk about the structure and uses, and will then move into an actual morning meeting. Resources will be shared followed by discussion. Bring activities or resources to share with others. AMY SWENSON, The American International School of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia


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> Get Engaged! The Power of Accountable Talk and Book Clubs, K-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2We will explore the use of accountable talk and book clubs to promote student engagement for all learners in any content area. Learn about different types of book clubs and take away a toolkit of resources for building accountable talk in your classroom. MEGAN McCRINDLE, American International School-Chennai, India

> Essential Skills: Linking Critical Thinking to Technology, 5-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5Developing critical thinking skills doesn’t have to take second place to technology integration. Critical thinking and tech-nology can be used together to inspire students to take their learning to the next level. This workshop provides a plat-form that includes links to a wealth of on-line resources useful for developing critical thinking skills using Web 2.0 tools. KATHRYN HALL, American Community School, Amman, Jordan

> Using Blogger to Encourage Independent Student Writing, 4-12 ROOM: BALLROOM 1During parent conferences, many parents expressed a wish that their kids practice writing at home. My students have created their own personal blogs. Participants will set up an account on Blogger, learn how to add photos and videos, and create their own posts. We will view shared and individual blogs. CAROLYN JEZIORSKI, Cairo American College, Egypt

> Fun With Phonics, PreK-2 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3How do you make phonics fun and relatable for young learners? This workshop gives you a framework for presenting the alphabet as a set of characters with their own quirky personalities that work together to build words. Find out how to make digraphs, long versus short vowels, etc. Fun and accessible for your students! KAY GOWAN, The Universal American School, Khaldiya, Kuwait

> Effective Use of Grammar Glossing Sheets, 6-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4Grammar glossing sheets are a list of grammar rules teachers expect students to use effectively in their writing. Partici-pants will actively engage in a writer’s workshop that incorporates the glossing sheets with a mini-lesson and peer review to see how they can work in the classroom. ERIN JOHNSON, American School of Kuwait, Hawalli

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understand how to use big ideas to frame instruction; identify big ideas standards in the Common Core and connect them to their current practice; and, review strategies that develop big idea thinking skills. DARYL STEVENS & LISA (Andrea) COOKE, Saudi Aramco Schools, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

> Visible Thinking In Action, PreK-5 (presented in Arabic)ROOM: BALLROOM 1

Please bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone. AHLAM ABDEL ALIM, Qatar Academy, Doha

> Differentiation for Deeper Learning with Google Apps, K-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5This workshop will present how to use various Google Apps to differentiate instruction and deepen student learning and engagement. FADY TABBARA, American International School Dhaka, Bangladesh

> Feel It, Sing It, Play It!, PreK-5 ROOM: BALLROOM 3“Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand.” In this session participants will experience the Orff approach to music education through singing, saying, moving, and playing. SANAE YAMAURA, American School of Doha, Qatar


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> Please, May We Do Problem Solving Today?, 2-5 ROOM: PANISEA 1This workshop will present a strategy to use with students for solving math problems. Attendees will participate in problem solving and comparing traditional strategies to bar modeling. The use of this strategy can turn problem solvers into math success stories. LAURA WAITE, American International School-Chennai, India

> Planning Thematic Units in Social Studies/History, 9-12 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3Learn about the research and our personal experience with shifting from Chronological to Thematic planning and units in Social Studies/History. We will compare both types of units and look at how the culminating assessments allow students to truly demonstrate their understanding. TELL SHAPPLEY & PAUL KEENE, American International School-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

> Expanding Oral Language Complexity, K-3 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 1We will examine the development of complex syntax in young children with a focus on increasing the quantity and quality of our verbal interactions with them (during play, book reading, snack time). Most applicable to early elementary with a focus for assistants who spend time talking with children. KATHY ADAMS, Cairo American College, Egypt

> Integrating the Dramatic Arts into the Common Core, 6-12 ROOM: BALLROOM 2As more schools turn to the Common Core, words like creativity and engagement are increasingly becoming part of classroom culture. This interactive workshop, geared toward humanities teachers, focuses on integrating movement and creativity into existing curriculum. It will be divided into three parts featuring warm-up activities, tableaux, and shadow plays. CONNIE RUDD & LORA HAWKINS, American School of Kuwait, Hawalli

> Innovation in Student Centered Exploratory Programs, 6-8 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2This workshop will describe the process at Lincoln School to establish an exploratory class program and the development of innovative experiences focused on student interests. We will explore the project approach and how to tie in several strands or goal areas to help teachers extend and enrich their classes. PETER HENNIGAR, Lincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal

> Engaging Students Through Critical Dialogue, 5-12 ROOM: PANISEA 2Paideia Seminar, as defined by the National Paideia Center, is a collaborative, intellectual dialog facilitated with open-ended questions about a text. It is a method for sustainable learning as it develops skills that allow students to achieve not only in the classroom, but also in our global society. GRETCHEN BADE & MICHAEL SIMMONS, American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon

> Purposeful Instruction: Frameworks for Teaching Big Ideas, 4-10 ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4A variety of instructional frameworks and strategies promote big idea thinking across the content areas. Participants will


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MITOS URGEL is the Executive Director of the WEAVE Foundation (Women’s Education for Ad-vancement & Empowerment), supporting refugee women on the Thai-Burma border in education, health and income generation. Ms Urgel earned a degree in Rural Development Studies at Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines. She is currently a member of the Network of Ad-visers for the Global Fund for Women (GFW). [email protected]

GENERAL INTERESTWORKSHOPS

UMAPORN POJORN is responsible for WEAVE’s overseas support marketing. She has been involved in WEAVE’s work to advance the rights and dignity of refugee women and children for eight years. Her parents are Karen from Burma, and she is pas-sionate about alleviating hu-man suffering and the poverty of displaced ethnic minorities. [email protected]

As Director of International Implementation at the College Board, EMILY ROSS is responsible for lead-ing implementation efforts for a variety of external programs as well as managing internal departmen-tal activities. Prior to joining the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program three years ago, Ms Ross worked at International Baccalaure-ate Americas for five years as Regional Head of Professional Development. [email protected]

> AP Rigor in a Global Context ROOM: RIVERSIDE 5The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program (AP) continues to evolve, emphasizing essential 21st century skills and critical thinking in a flexible format to meet differ-ent schools’ needs. Learn about program updates and the AP Course Redesign; the AP Capstone Program, an inno-vative multi-modal diploma credential; the AP International Diploma; and resources for implementing the program and enhancing classroom teaching and learning.

> Refugee Women’s Economic Empowerment Through Fair Trade ROOM: RIVERSIDE 6Learn how conflict and displacement have affected the lives of Burmese women and children and how a local NGO -- WEAVE -- supports and strengthens development efforts of women’s organizations along the Thai-Burma border. WEAVE empowers women to become self-reliant, enabling them to actively participate in their family and community life. WEAVE will be selling handicrafts in the exhibit.

JOHN MOORE, a Partner at Rubicon International, has led technology initiatives in Taiwan, China, Ja-pan, Thailand, Western Europe and other regions in the education and corporate sectors. He is skilled in bringing together diverse groups to focus on common strategic objectives. Mr Moore has taught at the university level and has presented on organiza-tional strategies and technology project management. [email protected]

VICTORIA SO earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She taught ESL and worked in the Offices of Bilingual Education and Internation-al Programs in the D.C. Public Schools. Through Teach For America, Ms So taught in the St. Louis Public Schools. Her professional experiences span from the US to Jordan, Egypt, and Hong Kong, with Arabic and Cantonese proficiency.

> Get Updated with Atlas ROOM: RIVERSIDE 2Discover the depth and diversity of your curriculum con-nections with Rubicon Atlas! Customize your personal Curriculum Dashboard in Atlas to access the reports most critical to your curriculum process. Explore ways to dis-cuss and share curriculum work with colleagues. Then, take the time to examine the connection of your curriculum to key academic standards.

JOHN NASH is an Associate Professor in the De-partment of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky where he is also a director of CASTLE and the director of the Laboratory on Design Thinking in Education (dLab). He teaches courses on design thinking, school technology leadership, and school reform. His research focuses on the methods to design and proto-type innovations in education. [email protected]

JAYSON RICHARDSON is a Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) (www.schooltechleadership.org) and an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. He researches leadership, technology, and international development and teaches in the nation’s only program dedi-cated to the leadership side of school technology integration. [email protected]



SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1:30-2:30Detailed speaker biographies and workshop descriptions are located on the NESA website: www.nesacenter.org

ELLEN EDMONDS is Senior Director of Consul-tant Services for William H. Sadlier, Inc. With over 20 years in education, she has provided leadership, professional development and consultation on cur-riculum and instruction, read-ing, mathematics, science, as-sessment, and early childhood. Ms Edmonds has worked ex-tensively with Reading First and Early Reading First proj-ects nationally. [email protected]

> Getting to the Core: Insight on Common Core Eng-lish Language Arts ROOM: RIVERSIDE 4The Common Core State Standards have required shifts in how reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary are taught. Best practices for introducing new ELA concepts, skills, and procedures include: comprehension and development of key ideas, written expression organization, and clarity of language. Key instructional goals include: deepening student knowledge with ELA tasks involving reasoning, organization, and expression and taking students to the cognitively complex CCSS level with writing tasks in real-world contexts.

> Designing and Evaluating Your Digital Efforts ROOM: RIVERSIDE 3This session is a School Technology/Design Thinking jump starter to explore real problems of practice around tech-nology integration. Explore key concepts, engage in deep conversations and gain leadership strategies to use when leveraging technology to transform students’ educational experience. Use tools and techniques to foster, measure, and monitor technology integration, and design technology evaluations that meet the needs of a variety of stakehold-ers.


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SUNDAY LUNCHTIME"BOOK TALK"

KARI YUEN is a Senior Prevention Specialist and Regional Officer at FCD. She has worked in wilder-ness therapy programs for teens and young adults struggling with substance abuse and other behavior-al disorders. She is involved in Bridging the Gap, which helps individuals transition from treat-ment facilities into home envi-ronments. Ms Yuen is pursuing a Masters in School Counsel-ing and Clinical Mental Health. [email protected]


> The Faculty’s Role in Student Substance Abuse PreventionROOM: PANISEA 1Explore the faculty’s role in effective substance abuse pre-vention planning. Topics will include: • Student substance use and attitude trends • Issues facing Third Culture Kids • Common language to promote prevention • Recognizing risk factors and warning signs of student use • How to talk with kids about alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs • The social norms approach to prevention • Sustaining prevention practices and culture in school.

> The Joy of Making Books: Idea to Publication ROOM: CALANTHEThis session will follow the path of a book from idea to draft through multiple revisions and rejections to finished book. We will explore all of the people that work together to make a book, and we will also discuss ways to take your idea and turn it into a book.

SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 12:30-1:30

JOHN COY is the author of the picture books Night Driving, Strong to the Hoop, Vroomaloom Zoom, Two Old Potatoes and Me, Around the World and Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball. He has received a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award for best first picture book and an American Library Association Notable designation, among other honors. [email protected], www.johncoy.com


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NESA AWARDS

NESA AWARDSStanley Haas/Luke Hansen Student Award: In the spirit of Dr Stanley Haas, the late executive director of NESA, and Luke Hansen, a remarkable student who died in an accident, this award recognizes middle school students at NESA member schools who are a credit to themselves and their schools and who have consistently and significantly contributed to the welfare of others. Three finalists receive cash awards of $500 each. The top finalist attends NESA’s Spring Edu-cators Conference (with an accompanying adult) and briefly addresses conference delegates. This year’s (2013-2014) winners are: Karen Grace Hassanieh (American International School of Riyadh), Hayden Leever (American School of Doha) and Olivia Wright (American International School of Kuwait). As the winner, Karen is here in Bangkok, at NESA’s invitation, to accept the award. Application deadline: December 1

Margaret Sanders International Schools Scholarship: The late Margaret Sanders established a scholarship fund to help graduates of international schools attend college. Four scholarships of $4,000 are granted to applicants who demonstrate, through school activities and community involvement, persistence and motivation, resourcefulness, and ac-ceptance of other cultures and points of view. NESA submits one regional candidate from among its member schools for consideration by the Margaret Sanders Foundation. This year’s NESA candidate, Meghna Sarah Thomas from the Wal-worth Barbour American International School in Tel Aviv, was one of the four winners! Application deadline: December 1

NESA Community Service Awards: Funds raised through a charity raffle at each Spring Educators Conference are matched up to $1500 by the NESA Board and are available for grants toward student service projects sponsored by NESA member schools. Grants range from $500-$750 depending on that year’s raffle income. NESA Teacher Reps will be selling raffle tickets at the Spring Educators Conference -- check out the great prizes in the exhibition area and support worthy community projects at NESA schools!

Finis Engleman Award: Dr Finis Engleman was an outstanding educator of international stature and the moving force behind the birth of NESA. The NESA Board of Directors established this award, which is bestowed on an individual or group that has provided outstanding and sustained service to the NESA region and beyond. At the 2013 Fall Leader-ship Conference in Kathmandu, the Board presented this year’s award to Dr Teresa Arpin, President of Transformation Systems.

For more information about NESA awards, please visit: www.nesacenter.org/page.cfm?p=352.

The program for the 1979 conference on Rhodes, the earliest in the NESA Center archives.

NESA HISTORY PROJECT

This year, NESA celebrates the 40th anniversary of its an-nual conference for teachers, now known as the “Spring Educators Conference”. To commemorate this important milestone, the “NESA History Project” was launched last Fall — a collection of memories posted on the NESA website in blog form. It is important for us to document our history as a way of fostering a sense of continuity and educating newer NESA members about the extraordinary region in which we live and work.

To read ‘NESA memories’ contributed by international educa-tors (like you!) past and present, and to learn how to submit your own memories, visit the “NESA History Project” page under the “About NESA” tab: www.nesacenter.org.

Buffalo State, SUNY Leah Loveless Brandon Kawa Diana Reinsmoen

Endicott College Sue Collins

etr educational travel Greg Godar

FCD Educational Services Kari Yuen

Follett International Wendy Gutenkauf

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bryna O’Neill

International Schools Services Laura Light

Lehigh University Jill Sperandio

Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) Jorge Navarro

R.I.C. Publications Rik Nitert

Sadlier Publishing Co. William Dinger, Jr. Ellen Edmonds Berj Jamkojian Nada Baghdadi

SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd. Shayama Nafik Veerapong Eamsakulrat

Search Associates Ray Sparks

Space Camp Turkey Beth Mitchell Gencel

TieCare International Lance & Linda Roberts

Village Camps Ed Ivy

WEAVE Mitos UrgelUmaporn Pojorn

Goragot Khetmas

CONFERENCE EXHIBITION

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ABA - An IB World School, Muscat, Oman Meredith HarbordAl Bayan Bilingual School, Hawalli, Kuwait Tahani HashemAmerican Community School of Abu Dhabi, UAE Sarah RobisonAmerican Community School, Amman, Jordan Lisa MancusoAmerian Community Schools of Athens, Greece David NelsonThe American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon Robert IyerAmerican Embassy School, New Delhi, India Charu Gulati, Cecilia ShrivastavaAmerican International School-Chennai, India Jeremy WilletteAmerican International School Dhaka, Bangladesh Michael Birdwell, Jackie JohnsonThe American International School of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Denise SullivanThe American International School Kuwait, Salmiya Jeff LowmanThe American International School of Muscat, Oman Sharon McGowanAmerican International School-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Alexandra SchellenbergerAmerican School of Bombay, Mumbai, India Karen FishThe American School of Doha, Qatar Mary Edward, Stephanie MoyAmerican School of Dubai, UAE Joseph JaureguyAmerican School of Kuwait, Hawalli Jaime Osborne Bahrain Bayan School, Isa Town Peter DuckettCairo American College, Egypt Carolyn JeziorskiInternational College, Beirut, Lebanon Nawal HaddadInternational School of Islamabad, Pakistan Anne RayInternational Schools Group, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia High School Abeera Atique Dhahran Elementary/Middle School Caroline Brackmann Yanbu International School Sonal Modi Dammam Academy Ashton du Toit Jubail Academy Marca BondurantKarachi American School, Pakistan Wasima HusainKodaikanal International School, India Raja Sen Lahore American School, Pakistan Julia WolfendenLincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal Allison O’Sullivan, Sam DavisModern English School Cairo, Egypt Christine FlakeThe Overseas School of Colombo, Sri Lanka Ann Hudson Pinewood International School of Thessaloniki, Greece Linda KainzQatar Academy, Doha Walter Gammon, Lee WongRobert College, Istanbul, Turkey Maria OrhonSaudi Aramco Schools, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Jonathan DupontSchutz American School, Alexandria, Egypt Rory EubankThe Universal American School, Khaldiya, Kuwait Harish SharmaWalworth Barbour American Int’l School in Israel, Even Yehuda Melissa Stanek

TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES

2013-2014 NESA TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES


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SPRING EDUCATORS CONFERENCETHE FOUNDATION

OF NESA’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING:PROMOTING EXEMPLARY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

NESA BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PRESIDENT: Kevin Schafer, The American International School of Muscat | Sultanate of OmanVICE PRESIDENT: Rose Puffer, International School of Islamabad | PakistanTREASURER: Brent Mutsch, American School of Dubai | United Arab EmiratesSECRETARY: Harold Fleetham, Lincoln School | Kathmandu, Nepal

DIRECTORS AT LARGE:John Gates, Walworth Barbour American International School | Even Yehuda, IsraelAndrew Hoover, American International School-Chennai | IndiaCraig Johnson, American School of Bombay | Mumbai, IndiaDeborah Welch, American School of Doha | QatarBea Cameron (Ex Officio), Office of Overseas Schools, US Department of State | Washington, DC

NESA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Gail Seay (PDAC Chair), American School of Doha, QatarKim Bane, American International School-Chennai, IndiaJean Beyer, American Community School, Amman, JordanJohn Carey, Saudi Aramco Schools, Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaRenee Couturier, American International School-Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaMichelle Kuhns, American School of Dubai, UAEMishka Mourani, International College, Beirut, LebanonEmily Sargent-Beasley, Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel, Even YehudaStacy Stephens, The American Embassy School, New Delhi, India

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CONTACT US:Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA)

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Tel : +30 210 600-9821www.nesacenter.org

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SPRING EDUCATORS CONFERENCENESA Events 2014-2015

JANUARY 23-24, 2015

NOVEMBER 7-8, 2014

OCTOBER 23-26, 2014

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