Block 3: Friday 3:45 to 5:00

What happens to a school community when a school begins the journey towards being an authorized IB World School offering the Primary Years Programme? This session will focus on the multiple factors that are necessary to create action that leads to effective change.

The session will explore a discussion-based model guiding students to consider concrete service projects aligned with the values expressed in the foundational documents. Presenters will demonstrate assessment directed at deepening student reflection upon the effectiveness of their project choices and indicate a portable model to be aligned with local communities.

Come join the IB Middle Years Programme Regional Manager in a presentation and conversation. This session will review changes to the Middle Years Programme that have occurred over the past year, those that are coming in the future, and offer an opportunity to ask burning questions about the programme.

What does a child possess that can be freely given to other children across the world? Ideas, thoughts, and stories. Children's (and adult's) writing has the potential to provide reading materials for those who do not have books, as well as to spark an examination of differing cultures from across the world.

The title of Charles Dickens' novel is an appropriate segue to begin the discussion of how the IBCC is being implemented in two high schools in two different countries. Educators must begin to think about how they are preparing students for the future, a future that one can only begin to envision with the advances in technology and global terrorism.

As it matures as an organization, the IB is increasingly in need of research to provide evidence of programme quality as well as to inform its ongoing curriculum and professional development efforts.

The documentary NOBELITY brings viewers into an intimate dialogue with nine Nobel Laureates. Each Laureate discusses a global concern forcing the viewer to consider and reconsider how the decisions each of us make affects our society, other societies, and future generations.

Come join the IB Primary Years Programme Regional Manager in a presentation and conversation. This session will review changes to the Primary Years Programme that have occurred over the past year, those that are coming in the future, and offer an opportunity to ask burning questions about the programme.

Come join the IB Diploma Programme Regional Manager in a presentation and conversation. This session will review changes to the Diploma Programme that have occurred over the past year, those that are coming in the future, and offer an opportunity to ask burning questions about the programme.

Maggie Doyne graduated from West Morris Mendham High School in 2005. She had made the unusual decision to take a gap year and spent that time in a LeapNow program settling into an orphanage in India teaching English. She fell in love with the kids, the work, and the landscape of India.