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This workshop will discuss the benefits of creating Student Profiles to help educators better understand the students at their schools. Student Profiles consist of student academic data, teacher comments, personality/career inventories, and surveys. The workshop will mainly focus on surveys and personality/career inventories. The surveys focus on student self-reflection and are divided into four parts: Interests, Talents, & Traits, Academics, Dreams & Goals, and Extracurricular & Work Experience. The personality/career inventories are primarily scientific or well-respected: Big Five, DISC, and RIASEC Holland Codes. The MBTI is also included primarily as an interest grabber for students due to its familiarity and widespread use, even though it is not scientifically supported.

Outcomes:
The Student Profiles workshop aims to help educators understand the value of using personality inventories and surveys to gain a deeper understanding of the students they teach. The session will mainly focus on Student profiles for secondary students, but the profiles can be modified to work with upper elementary students as well.

This workshop will be designed for school leaders, administrators, counseling staff, and teachers in general in international schools to address the critical issue of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue among counselors, safeguarding teams and leaders. It will explore how these conditions affect counselors, safeguarding teams and leaders' well-being and their professional efficacy, and provide actionable strategies for leadership and for personal empowerment to support and mitigate these challenges effectively.

The workshop will explore the understanding Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue, the Impact on Counselors/safeguarding teams/leaders and Schools, the consequences for Students and School Environment, the leadership’s Role in Prevention and Support and some ideas on how to develop a Comprehensive Support Systems.

Outcomes

1. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of what vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue are, including their symptoms, effects, and underlying causes. The context is specific for International Schools.
2. Attendees will develop and implement effective strategies and practices to prevent and manage vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue within their counseling teams in International Schools.
3. The attendees will explore the  development of a Comprehensive Support System for counseling teams in International Schools.

In this session, attendees will observe a discussion focused on providing student perspectives of the conference theme, "Small Steps, Big Impact." The conversation will involve questions such as, "What are the biggest challenges facing this generation's students?", "What are the 'small steps' that you think are most needed in schools today?", and "What is one small action from a teacher that has had a big impact on you as a student?" Attendees will first observe the students' discussion and then have an opportunity to discuss their reactions to what the students have shared.

Outcomes:
Session participants will gain an understanding of student perspectives on the conference theme, reflect on key takeaways, and be able to apply this knowledge to their own context in education.

In this engaging and practical workshop, participants will learn how to create and/or revive a culture of service within their school, drawing from a real-life success story. The session begins with storytelling, where participants will hear how one school successfully revitalized its service culture by aligning it with the school’s mission and existing practices.

Participants will explore the process of involving teachers in identifying current practices, redesigning a service guide to clarify expectations for both teachers and students, and creating a unified language and vision that resonates with the entire school community.

The interactive portion of the workshop includes an activity where participants will receive an envelope containing key questions to consider when building or reviving a service culture in their own school. Before opening the envelope, participants will write down their questions on post-it notes and share them within their group. The group will then compare their questions to those in the envelope, fostering discussion about common themes and differing perspectives.

Following this, groups will conduct a SWOT analysis to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to service learning in their schools. Together, participants will brainstorm three actionable steps to take back to their school to enhance or create a culture of service.

The workshop concludes with a group discussion, providing an opportunity to share insights and refine action plans. Participants will leave with practical strategies and a clear vision for fostering a service-oriented culture that is deeply rooted in their school’s mission, culture, and practices.

Outcomes:

1. Participants will learn how effective leaders assess and understand the current state of service learning within their school context.
2. Participants will discover how leaders draw on their observations and reflections to create a vision for service learning that inspire and motivates their team
3. Participants will build reflective practice skills, allowing them to continuously evaluate and enhance their approach to service learning within the school context.
4. Participants will leave the workshop with ideas on how to create and sustain a service learning culture that aligns with their school's mission and existing practices.
   

We all share a common goal – student growth. HMH and NWEA are here to help international schools achieve that goal through the best curricula, the best tools, and the best interim assessment-- MAP Growth. Join your fellow international educators to learn more about our connected system of support for teaching and learning.

Outcomes:
You will explore how MAP Growth,

1. Connects to the largest set of instructional content providers, giving you flexibility in curriculum choices
2. Puts data at your fingertips for a more complete picture of student growth and achievement
3. Is integrated into the HMH Ed platform to provide cross-curricular reports and insights, all in one place

As Generative AI tools continue to integrate within our online learning experiences and processes, educators may be starting to feel lost in deciphering what constitutes a learner's organic efforts from Generated AI outputs. This structured job-alike workshop allows for open discussion of individual scenarios in which educators have struggled and/or found success in navigating this potential paradigm shift in HOW we expect learners to learn.

Outcomes:
Participants will gain insight through a variety of shared experiences from teachers and administrators on the complex dance between traditional organic learning processes, using Generative AI as a tool to enhance learning, and an evolving gray zone of what constitutes authenticity.

In this breakout session Jennifer will go deeper into suspending certainty, one of the 5 facets from her book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work, What does it mean to stop and listen and not become defensive? How does one benefit from being more curious and inquisitive? Self-assessments, discussions and video will be used in this breakout - all to grow one’s understanding of the facet, build one’s skill set and stretch us at our edges.

This workshop is intended for all school leaders (All Educators/Adults who work in schools) to explore their own leadership lens and leadership practices within their educational communities (big or small). This workshop will allow participants to gain insight into alternative leadership philosophies and reflect on their own practices. The workshop will be broken up into themes/outcomes with participants engaging with activities, prompts, and discussions throughout.

Outcomes:
Explore core concepts of Manitoba education (selected from Manitoba Indigenous Education Policy Framework): Authentic Involvement, Putting Students at the Centre, Understanding of World Views, Values, Identities, Traditions, and Contemporary Lifestyles Inclusive and Culturally Safe Learning Environment, Reflect upon and connect personal educational values to education in Korea. Navigate and Explore key components of the Leadership Lens Dissect Educational Leadership Core Dispositions: Values, Beliefs, Attitudes (Creating Leadership Glasses)

This lecture will be a demonstration of how I have significantly reduced administration and communication tasks by creating an automized form submission and response system. It will also touch upon how to troubleshoot with ChatGPT to figure out how to customize automations. After this brief lecture, I will engage the participants in a discussion to help them to start automating their own systems to increase productivity and workflow.

Outcomes:
Understanding how to use ChatGPT to code in Google Docs, Forms, Gmail, and Sheets to automate repetitive tasks. Using forms to generate customized email responses based on answers.

In “Using AI to Support MTSS,” participants will learn practical applications for using AI to facilitate a multi-tiered support system. This session is not a “what is AI” session, but rather a way to take the tools that we have, choose the best ones, and put them into action. During the session, tips will be shared for using AI to write behavior plans, which tools to use to support teachers in differentiating instruction throughout the PK-12 school, how to generate behavior reflections for students, using AI to support restorative practices, and how AI can help to document student progress and supports provided. We will explore a variety of AI tools that are useful for school leaders, teachers, and students and have time to utilize these tools to put MTSS plans into action. 

Outcomes:
Participants in this sessions will learn about: 

• Different AI tools and options, including which are optimal for MTSS in schools
• Using AI for behavior interventions and restorative practices
• Using AI for academic interventions and differentiation
• Using AI to support documentation of student support systems

The future of school and work is evolving, and so must our approach to assessments. How do we meaningfully assess students when GenAI can write a paper with them in just a few minutes? In this session, we’ll discuss new approaches to assessment which are more meaningful, relevant and transferable for students heading into a transformed, dynamic, AI enhanced workplace.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for this session.

Schools are in an ongoing process of self-evaluation and improvement, and the majority of those improvement efforts ultimately impact students - hopefully for the better.  But how often do we involve students in the change management process?  When we do, how impactful are their contributions?  

This session will explore practical strategies for giving students not just a voice, but genuinely meaningful roles in designing and implementing change. Student co-presenters will share their firsthand experiences with how this approach is used at Seoul International School, which has led to a greater sense of student ownership over improvement initiatives and investment in ensuring that changes are implemented successfully.

Outcome:
Introduction to principles / stages of change management, strategies for including students in these principles / stages, insight into the benefits from a student perspective

Quality curriculum is a foundational element of quality teaching and learning. In this session, we will briefly discuss the key components of building a quality unit of instruction. You will then have time to review your own units of instruction and create a single-point rubric to support meaningful feedback for curriculum writers.

Outcomes:

1. Review key components of a quality curriculum unit
2. Develop a single point rubric to support curriculum review

DSLs and Child Safeguarding Team members will be able to meet, share ideas, and collaborate to discuss our roles in child safeguarding and current challenges we are facing.

Outcomes:
Share child safeguarding resources, network with people in similar roles, discuss potential scenarios and or issues that are relevant to child safeguarding.

As AI seeps into every aspect of our lives, and gets better and better at seeming human, what impacts are ahead of educators, and what should we keep in view? This high-level session takes a broader view, discussing the ethical implications of AI, the evolving relationships between humans and machines, what we might see in the next 10-20 years, and the importance of human connection, empathy and culture in an educational environment.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for this session.

Participants will learn about, and practice, research-informed strategies to enhance their own or others' wellbeing. When practiced, these strategies can greatly enhance a person's wellbeing and better position leaders to support others. These strategies are practical and research-based. Participants will have the chance to try some of these strategies during the workshop.

Outcomes:
Participants will 

1. learn about and practice a range of strategies to enhance their own wellbeing
2. learn about the research that supports why these strategies work
3. understand the practical application of these strategies in a work context
4. make a personal plan to move forward in their work with a greater sense of wellbeing.