The updated Visible Learning story:

This session will discuss the updates to the many new meta-analyses to develop the fundamental VL story, specifically address the impact of teachers, mindframes, look closer within classrooms, and end with a focus on learning.

• Discussing the importance of metacognitive questioning and dialogue, and self-regulated learning to build independent, confident, and creative thinkers
• Considering how technology can enhance the development of metacognition, particularly with regards to blended teaching and learning
• Discussing effective techniques to nurture and integrate a growth mindset to affect organisational change and result in deep learning and outstanding performance for students and staff

• Sharing Cranleigh’s curriculum transformation journey, from a traditional model of education to a forward-looking and student-centred learning approach
• Discussing the process of implementing a skills-based curriculum, focusing on equipping students with the necessary skills to thrive in the future of work, such as flexibility, complex problem-solving, cross-cultural and globally aware skills
• Highlighting key practical skills and takeaways from this curriculum-mapping journey in order to set high expectations while still building confidence and delivering an outstanding student experience

• Explore the key principles of the science of learning and its impact on teaching: how to get children to love and engage in education through simple yet powerful teaching methods every practices in the classroom
• Learn how to use evidence and knowledge to make learning meaningful and foster student’s application of knowledge in a variety of academic settings
• Understand how the top performing students learn: how is modern cognitive psychology improving teaching and learning?

• The impact of highly personalised and deeply engaging learning experiences on class engagement and student progress.
• Exploring whether the quality of education can be improved through Unlimited Learning Ecosystem with personalised processes, skills-based training, and developing the individual competencies of each student.
• How to create personalised, targeted learning experiences and methodologies that empower learners and promote critical learning skills, build habits that promote lifelong learning, and offer support for the whole education community
• Can AI-based technology genuinely support an inclusive education adapted to all interests and learning abilities

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’.  

• Roundtable A: Teacher-Centred vs Student-Centred Learning: How to Impact Student Attainment Through Agency, Autonomy and Creativity

FACILITATOR: Christelle Lonez, Primary School Principal, International School of Geneva, Switzerland

• Roundtable B: Delivering an Engaging and Innovative STEM Curriculum with Limited Resources

FACILITATOR: Vaughan Lewis, Assistant Principal, Qatar Academy for Science and Technology

• How can good curriculum design empower schools to build bridges between their pupils’ learning and the world around them?
• How can schools teach the skills required for students to thrive in a 21^st century society and in the world of work by delivering learning experiences that genuinely link knowledge to life?
• How can we realign school goals with what research shows parents, children, and teachers actually care about?

Education matters, for individuals and for society. However, most of the policies that have been pursued have been directed at the kinds of schools that students attend—policies that, even when well implemented (which most are not) would have limited impact on student achievement.

What matters for student achievement is what happens inside the classroom, and what matters most is the quality of interaction between students and teachers; teachers finding out what their students know, and making appropriate adjustments to their instruction as a result.

*Programme subject to change

The updated Visible Learning story:

This session will discuss the updates to the many new meta-analyses to develop the fundamental VL story, specifically address the impact of teachers, mindframes, look closer within classrooms, and end with a focus on learning.

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’. 

• Roundtable A: Supporting Student Mental Health Needs Through Early, Targeted Interventions

FACILITATOR: Piet Jansen, Director of International Relations, Yes We Can Youth Clinics

• Roundtable B: Maximising Pastoral Data Collection and Analysis to Inform Teaching Practice and Curriculum Design

FACILITATOR: Phil Mathe, Director of Sport, Brighton College Al Ain 

• Understanding the barriers to effective learning and creating the conditions to promote equity and ensure progress for all students
• Emphasising the importance of effective differentiation to meet individual learning needs, and understanding what school leaders can do to ensure all teachers differentiate correctly
• Sharing evidence-based guidance and solutions that school leaders can implement to ensure that progress happens for all students, from the most vulnerable to the high-achievers

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’. 

• Roundtable A: Identifying Effective Questioning Strategies to Differentiate Instruction for Gifted and Talented Pupils Based on the Level of Need and Capability

FACILITATOR: Cynthia Bolton, Head of Gifted Education, Qatar Foundation

• Roundtable B: Developing Happy and Productive Students Through an Enhanced Wellbeing Framework and Character-Building Initiatives

FACILITATOR: Tom Hadcroft, Senior Vice Principal, DLD College London

• Roundtable C: Sharing Culturally Appropriate Approaches to Inclusion and Parent Communication

FACILITATOR: Louise Dawson, Former Head of Inclusion, Jumeirah College Dubai and Founder, Louise Dawson Educational Services

• Discussing what strategies and approaches are most effective in delivering support provision whilst meeting the online learning needs of the student
• Exploring how technology and AI can help support learning needs through identification, assessment and tailored intervention during blended teaching and learning
• Considering the role of training and teacher CPD in improving SEN provision

Education matters, for individuals and for society. However, most of the policies that have been pursued have been directed at the kinds of schools that students attend—policies that, even when well implemented (which most are not) would have limited impact on student achievement.

What matters for student achievement is what happens inside the classroom, and what matters most is the quality of interaction between students and teachers; teachers finding out what their students know, and making appropriate adjustments to their instruction as a result.

*Programme subject to change

• Exploring the current education landscape across the Middle East and discussing areas of growth and innovation in school management and leadership that have emerged in the past year
• Education changed: preparing for the possibility of a permanently blended school environment, and discussing what school leaders need to consider to ensure a sustainable future for all stakeholders
• Discussing opportunities to further harness the potential of technology to drive effective change and improvement in school management and operations

• Outlining the importance of creating a strong business strategy and vision for the future that enables agile and dynamic transformation during uncertain times
• Building organisational resilience and emerging stronger using a robust change management approach, and adopting a ‘preparedness leadership’ mindset
• Transforming and strengthening the international school culture to support learning in an environment that promotes cooperation, respect, collaborative decision-making and communication

In this presentation, Nalini Cook, Head of EMEA Research at ISC Research shares some of the latest trends and data identified by ISC Research that are driving forward the international schools market in the Middle East including priorities around teaching and learning, wellbeing and CPD.

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’. 

FACILITATOR: David Cole, Principal, British International School of Ukraine 

• Roundtable B: The Road to Executive Management – Effectively Supporting Aspiring Executives in International Schools 

FACILITATOR: Nicola Taylor, Director of Programmes, LLSE

• Understanding the role and responsibilities of school leaders in setting the climate for financial success whilst keeping learning at the centre of financial decisions
• Exploring key strategies to creatively safeguard your school’s financial future, and build and sustain financial efficiency across the business
• Discussing best practice in budgeting, monitoring and control to support long-term financial planning, effectively create financial agility, and implement financial decisions that always follow what is best for student

• Discussing how school leaders from different regions have tackled pandemic-related challenges and navigated financial uncertainty, loss of enrolment and staff turnover
• Exploring how the pandemic has affected school operations across the world and sharing how school leaders are preparing their recovery plans
• Looking at future developments and priorities for international school leaders across the globe such as demand for private schooling and financial management

• Understanding the power of an integrated approach – collaborating between and combining development, marketing, and admissions to deliver value for money
• Identifying and developing your school’s identity and unique selling proposition to attract prospective staff, parents and students
• Navigating current marketing trends and exploring low-cost yet cutting-edge, innovative strategies that schools should put into place to market successfully in a competitive sector
• Communication, communication, communication – sharing simple yet effective ways of engaging and interacting with all stakeholders to maximise satisfaction and enhance your school’s profile

In this presentation, Dr Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will share an update on the latest OECD findings, and discuss how schools must adapt their learning provision for an interconnected world. 

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in international education – discussing practices and principles that schools need to put in place to create the conditions necessary for every individual to thrive
• Global awareness and international mindedness – understanding the responsibility of schools to create sustainable and nurturing environments in which students and staff alike develop global competency skills to thrive in a complex and uncertain world
• The challenge and possibilities of professional learning – exploring ways to create opportunities for all educators to access professional development in order to transform their teaching, their classrooms, their schools—and, ultimately, each and every one of their students

*Programme subject to change

• Exploring the current education landscape across the Middle East and discussing areas of growth and innovation in school management and leadership that have emerged in the past year
• Education changed: preparing for the possibility of a permanently blended school environment, and discussing what school leaders need to consider to ensure a sustainable future for all stakeholders
• Discussing opportunities to further harness the potential of technology to drive effective change and improvement in school management and operations

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’. 

• Roundtable A: Embedding Effective Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Practices in Your School
  

FACILITATOR: Dr Louise Lambert, PhD Editor, Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology, Head of Happiness Research and Policy Design, Happiness Matters

• Roundtable B: Turning Teachers into Leaders: Utilising Coaching and Mentoring as a Powerful Tool for Teacher Development

FACILITATOR: Dave Bryan, Deputy Head of School, International School of London, Qatar

• Roundtable C: Stepping into Leadership: Successful Approaches to Supporting Aspiring and Newly Qualified Middle Leaders
  

FACILITATOR: Simon Walker, Principal, ABA International School Oman

In this presentation, Nalini Cook, Head of EMEA Research at ISC Research shares some of the latest trends and data identified by ISC Research that are driving forward the international schools market in the Middle East including priorities around teaching and learning, wellbeing and CPD.

• Leadership, not management: leading with agility, resilience, and empathy to create an outstanding learning culture
• Building an emotionally intelligent team based on trust, communication, and positive relationships, that is consequently able to lead better and deliver improved results across the board
• Rethinking performance appraisals: how autonomy, self-reflection, and accountability can improve staff performance and achieve goals

Delegates have the option to attend one of the following roundtable discussions. All roundtables are delegate-led and ‘video-on’. 

• Roundtable A: Championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in the International Teaching Profession

FACILITATOR: Natasha Hilton, Strategic Lead, WomenEd, and Head of Primary, Park House English School, Qatar

• Roundtable B: Effectively Supporting Newly Qualified Teachers to Improve Long-Term Satisfaction and Retention.

FACILITATOR: Iain Henderson, Deputy Head (Educational Developments and Partnerships), Wellington College, UK

• Exploring the changing trends and patterns in international recruitment since the start of the pandemic: what are the key lessons learned and how can this inform the future?
• Navigating the shortage and high turnover of staff, and overcoming the long-term impacts of Covid-19 on the recruitment of international teachers
• Creating a robust recruitment and staffing structures in order to effectively support new and existing staff and ensure long-term retention and satisfaction of all stakeholders

• Addressing the obstacles that have led to the underrepresentation of women in educational leadership
• Exploring the enablers to achieving equity in school leadership
• Discussing how school leaders can support the development and growth of aspiring female leaders

• Championing a personalised, adaptive and holistic approach to teacher education and talent development to successfully harness and enable professional growth and whole-school improvement
• Creating the conditions for successful professional learning and progression to enhance pedagogical capacity and improve long-term retention within the school
• Effectively developing, supporting and sustaining professional learning networks within and across schools to improve student outcomes and professional performance

In this presentation, Dr Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will share an update on the latest OECD findings, and discuss how schools must adapt their learning provision for an interconnected world. 

*Programme subject to change

• Understanding why we must never forego a first and fundamental focus on student wellbeing and attitudes to learning as an essential feature of the truly outstanding school
• Exploring how wellbeing and attitudes can be measured, visualised and maximised as the most important part of a triangle of student-level data
• Demonstrating how all three vertices together can tell, and, fundamentally, change the individual student’s data story, and complete our picture of them as an emergent learner

Dr Terence Brady has been working on creating a new and innovative school curriculum in line with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Vision 2030. In this session, school leaders and curriculum developers will gain practical advice and guidance on how to transform a traditional curriculum into a forward-thinking and creative curriculum fit for the 21^st Century.

Key learning points will include:

• How to make a curriculum genuinely personalised and pupil-centred
• How to give students the opportunity to experience their learning
• How to become maker-centric and turn students into creators rather than consumers

Mable Therapy is the UK’s leading online speech and language therapy and counselling provider. As well as delivering therapy as a schools’ and private service, their team of clinicians deliver training to school staff in supporting students’ SEND and mental health needs. In recent years they’ve combined their expertise in these two disciplines to examine the importance of mental health and communication as predictors of long-term well-being and academic achievement.

In this session school leaders will learn how to:

• Recognise the link between mental health issues and speech and language difficulties and how to avoid misdiagnosis
• Develop a cross-disciplinary approach to inclusion that can provide a more comprehensive support framework for students’
• Use online interventions to facilitate this framework, improve access to specialist provision and collate meaningful outcome data.

Dr Kapono Ciotti from the American International School in Egypt will share key learning points around how they saw the culture of the school change by coaching just a handful of teachers with studies showing that highly effective teachers are the single most influential factor in attaining positive student achievement. In this session, school leaders will learn and understand the need to create a highly efficient workforce to impact on not only student achievement, but also school-wide improvement.

Key learning points will include:

• How to successfully provide targeted and effective feedback both remotely through digital media and through in person-observation and post-observation sessions
• How to create a school culture shift and become a catalyst for school improvement through organic teacher growth and development
• How to implement Professional Learning Communities as a way to structure dialogue, avoiding spiralling negativity and encouraging innovation and joint-vision

This session will be led by a representative from a leading GSCEPod international subscribing school.

In this session GCSEPod & co will walk you through best practice, tips, hints, and cognitive science on a leading ed-tech platform.

Now used in 40+ countries, GCSEPod and its international subscribing schools will use this session to invite all attendees to an interactive workshop to gain a deeper insight into the platform that is building confidence, raising attainment and reducing teacher workload across the globe.

This session will cover the importance of adopting and implementing a successful approach to emotional literacy which will help nurture a more grounded, engaged and intrinsically motivated pupil. Here, school leaders will:

• Identify the underlying emotions and circumstances that can often, at times, hinder pupil progress at school
• Learn how to use the collaborative ‘passport’ template designed to improve pupil literacy and promote discussion of unspoken issues to help support school progress
• Gain the skills and knowledge to steer young people to greater emotional understanding of themselves, so they can better manage their route through the school system

In this session, Dr Helen Wright, Board Chair and international education advisor (and former UK/international school principal) and Matthew Savage, former Principal of ICS Amman and now an international education consultant, join forces to explore what good governance can and could look like in an international school. Drawing on their own experiences, and on the successful outcomes of their blended online course for Board members of international schools, #betterboards, they will explore what good governance could, and arguably should, look like in outstanding schools in the region.

Principals and senior leaders will be encouraged to see their school through the eyes of their Board, and challenged to think about the agency they have (and could have more of) in managing their Board.

Key learning points will include:

• Understand what values-led governance can and could look like, in different contexts
• Appreciate the power of Principals and senior leaders in shaping the direction and output of the Board
• Develop a practical checklist of how you can help your Board to develop and improve

In this 1-hour workshop, you will get the opportunity to hear how Education Perfect (EP) resources support students’ development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Arabic B/Arabic as a foreign language. You’ll also have the opportunity  to hear the innovative ways schools throughout the Middle East are using EP to enhance their Arabic departments’ teaching and learning programmes, and to support the delivery of engaging, and interactive Arabic lessons across all year levels.

Ask Melissa and Philippa any questions you might have about EP’s Arabic course, and have fun trying out a lesson or two yourself to experience the resources first-hand!

In this session, you will learn the key requirements of what makes up an effective teacher CPD programme and where to focus teacher CPD priorities so that they are best equipped to deal with pandemic related challenges.

Key discussion points will include:

• Why professional development matters so much
• What the research evidence tells us about effective professional development
  • The role of identity, agency and pedagogical alignment
  • Active learning, reflective and reflexive practice and coaching
  • Student needs, teacher efficacy and impact on learning
• From onboarding to compliance, qualifications to progression, consistency to collective efficacy
• What to start thinking about now – and what to do next

Led by Simon O’Grady, CEO of High Performance Learning, this workshop will explore strategic
school challenges; world class school features; and moving from regulatory outstanding to self-improving world class.

*Programme subject to change