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While university admissions officers are increasingly actively recruiting IB Diploma students, there remains a good deal of tension between their desire to attract prepared students, both academically and socially, and student and parent expectation that course credit be awarded for the rigorous SL courses they have taken.

A new Diploma publication is being written that provides guidance to schools on the effective implementation of the curriculum as a whole in schools. An outline of the key points, principles and practices will be presented with implications considered. The presentation will be followed by discussion, questions and answers.

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.

This session will provide an overview of current developments within and across all three IB programmes. It will also be an opportunity for participants to contribute to the development of future directions through dialogue with the IB's Academic Director.

All educational philosophies, including the IB Learner Profile, lay claim to teaching critical thinking, and yet students and teachers continue to make faulty choices in their daily lives. Perhaps this is because too often, thinking remains only a mental exercise as the "critical" portion is ignored.

Summit School District is in the process of implementing IB programmes for all students at the pre-K through 12th grade levels. The high school and middle school are currently authorized to offer the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme and all six elementary schools are in the process of becoming authorized Primary Years Programme schools.

The presentation will begin with an overview of admissions and IB placement policies at three major Canadian post-secondary schools: Queen's University, University of Alberta, and University of British Columbia.