PYP = AYP

Audience: Primary Years Programme
Session: Block 4: Saturday 11:15 to 12:30, Room: Marina Room

This session will explore how the implementation of the Primary Years Programme, which focuses on inquiry-based learning and taps into all eight multiple intelligences, can help to ensure that schools achieve adequate yearly progress and meet state goals for improved academic achievement. Best practices which promote higher order thinking will be explored, as well as how to utilize the PYP planner without overwhelming teachers. Ways to engage the instructional leadership teams and provide daily collaborative team planning will be addressed, including enhanced reflection of planners and allowing students to take charge of their own learning through an integration of the arts.


Gladys Camp, Principal, District of Columbia Public Schools

Gladys Camp has been Principal of Thomson Elementary School since 2001. She implemented the district's first elementary Chinese language program and introduced the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. In all three schools in which she has served as principal, she has initiated reading and writing incentive programs. At one school, she exhibited her commitment to students by following through on a promise to spend the day on the roof after every student wrote a book. She received a B.S. from Morgan State University, an M.A. from George Washington University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park.


Organization website: http://www.k12.dc.us/