DAY 1 - Tuesday, 12 October 2021
8:40 am
Chair's Welcome Address: Reframing the Narrative on Learning Loss
Professor Deborah Eyre
Founder and Chair
High Performance Learning
Confirmed
9:10 am
Keynote Presentation: Maximising Learning and Impact - Lessons from the Pandemic
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.
Professor John Hattie
Director; Author
Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne; Visible Learning and Visible Learning: The Sequel
Confirmed
10:10 am
15 Minute Break
10:25 am
Facilitated Networking Session
10:40 am
Interactive Roundtable Discussions
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
Piet Jansen
Managing Director
Yes We Can Youth Clinics, Netherlands
Confirmed
Phil Mathe
Director of Sport
Brighton College Al Ain
Confirmed
11:25 am
Keynote Presentation: Promoting an Inclusive Classroom Environment
- 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
Daniel Sobel
Author, The Inclusive Classroom: A New Approach to Differentiation; and CEO
Inclusion Expert (UK)
Confirmed
12:00 pm
15 Minute Break
12:15 pm
Safeguarding Fireside Chat: Taking a Proactive Approach to Safeguarding – The Importance of Getting It Right
- What are the key factors that international schools need to consider in order to sensitively and responsibly prevent harm to those in their care?
- What type of pastoral support should international schools be delivering, and what are some practices that can cause more harm than good?
- What can school leaders do to build their school’s safeguarding credibility through secure, effective and efficient methods for the recording, reporting and management of all safeguarding, child protection and wellbeing concerns of students
Mike Glanville
Chief Safeguarding Officer
The Safeguarding Company (formerly One Team Logic)
Confirmed
Alka Maher
Middle High School Counsellor and Designated Safeguarding Lead
ACS International School Doha, Qatar
Confirmed
Luke Ramsden
Senior Deputy Headmaster and Senior Safeguarding Lead
St Benedict's School, UK
Confirmed
1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Embedding a Whole-School Approach to Wellbeing and Social and Emotional Learning
- Prioritising mental wellbeing as a whole-school responsibility and sharing practical guidance to integrating social and emotional learning in the classroom
- Exploring the benefits of mindfulness on teaching and learning and sharing evidence-based best practice on how to effectively develop and integrate mindfulness in schools
- Highlighting the most effective and creative ways of integrating SEL in the classroom, for example through frameworks that enable students to understand and manage their emotions, set positive goals and maintain healthy relationships
Dr Kayleigh Sumner
Educational Psychologist, and Head of Positive Education and Wellbeing
Regent International School, Dubai
Confirmed
Balqees Al Hassani
President, Knoweldge Oman and Head of Wellbeing
Al Sahwa Schools Oman
Confirmed
Iain Driscoll
Deputy Head - Pastoral and Safeguarding Lead
King's College Doha, Qatar
Invited
Dr Joe Thurbon, PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Educator Impact
Confirmed
2:20 pm
10 Minute Break
2:30 pm
Interactive Roundtable Discussion
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
Cynthia Bolton
Head of Gifted Education
Qatar Foundation
Confirmed
Tom Hadcroft
Senior Vice-Principal
DLD College London
Confirmed
Louise Dawson
Former Head of Inclusion, Jumeirah College; and Founder
Louise Dawson Educational Services
Confirmed
3:15 pm
10 Minute Break
3:25 pm
Panel Discussion: How Best to Remove Barriers to Education for Students with Learning Support Needs
- 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
Dr Sarah Benson
Programme Director, Inclusion and Special Educational Needs (ISEN)
University of Birmingham, Dubai
Confirmed
Matthew Lee
Deputy Headteacher and Head of Inclusion
International Community School Amman, Jordan
Confirmed
Ginette Moore
Head of Inclusion
The Aquila School
Confirmed
Martha Currie
Co-Founder and Clinical Director
Mable
Confirmed
4:15 pm
5 Minute Break
4:20 pm
Keynote Presentation: A Curriculum of Hope - Building a Curriculum that Meets the Needs of the Future
- 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 21st 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?
Dr Debra Kidd
Associate, Independent Thinking Ldt; Author
A Curriculum of Hope: As Rich In Humanity as in Knowledge
Invited
4:50 pm
Closing Keynote Presentation: Why Formative Assessment Needs to be the Priority for Every School
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.
Professor Dylan Wiliam
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment
University College London
Confirmed
5:20 pm
Close of Conference
*Programme subject to change