Wednesday Professional Learning Session, Bubbling Up

Dear colleagues,

During this Wednesday's professional learning session we have the following schedule:


14:40 - 16:00 Conference Prep


16:00 - 16:30 POI update, Shout outs, finger food and drinks to get to the mood for conferences

Weekly Updates, Monday, 25 February 2019

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the week of kindness and conferences as well as to the month of March by the end of the week!

Thank you for everyone who contributed to the assembly last week. Congratulations to grade 5 team for successful
Exhibition Coffee Morning on Thursday! Both KB and Grade 3 enriched and consolidated their learning in the
respective units of inquiry with the wonderful field trips.

This week, Elementary School Student Council is organizing plenty of opportunities for everyone to further
develop and practice the skills for kindness and caring of others in our learning community. We are expecting
daily reminders, heartwarming moments, and new wonderful and positive discoveries about ourselves and others.

As a faculty, let’s not hesitate to model kindness amongst us adults even if we may find ourselves under pressure
when preparing for the conferences and piloting the draft schedule. On Wednesday, the pink t-shirt day, the
whole school is being reminded about the destructive impact on individuals of bullying and the enormous
power of collective action and stance against bullying. Wear something pink if you can.

Conferences will shape the end of the week, and we will have enthusiastic parents and students sharing learning
in the Elementary School. We wish you all the best of luck and plenty of happy moments with parents and the
students. Conference Workshop Slides (including schedules for your reference).

We start this week with day 6 of the pilot schedule and continue to experiment some different times and days
until the end of the cycle on Thursday. Thank you all for your perseverance, anecdotal and recorded observations,
critical analysis, and most importantly open-mindedness towards the pilot as it provides us crucial data for designing the next draft and making the best possible decisions for the school year 2019-2020.

We had a wonderful turnout and a positive meeting with parents last week about re-designing time for learning.

Here you can find the slide show that framed the workshop and conversation. Pilot Schedule is here.

Kim, Trevor, and Heikki

Adaptive Schools - links for exploring the adaptive schools model

Adaptive Schools Link for Inclusion Activators and other resources shared by Ochan.

Meeting Standards

Agenda Construction

Guiding questions for developing an agenda for a meeting

Meeting inventory

Study Guide

Lunchtime Supervision:                    Links to Supervision Schedule 18-19    Supervision Protocol

Time	12:15-12:40	12:25-13:10	12:25-13:10	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55
Duty	Cafeteria Tables	Playground / Gym	Playground / Atrium	Cafeteria line	Indoor recess ELAC Gym
Feb 25	Karen H	Emi	Kaho		Maiko, Kaight

This week's schedule:                        Wednesday Schedule     ES Master Schedule

Day	Morning	Afternoon - After School
Mon 25 Feb Day 6		14:30 ES Leadership Meeting
Tue 26 Day 7		14:30 ES Student Support Team Meeting
Wed 27 Day 8	The Pink -T-Shirt Day	The Pink -T-Shirt Day 14:40 Brief update  of the POI review process Time for Conference Preparation
Thu 28 Day 9		3-way conferences (K-5) Parent conferences (PreK/KA)
Fri 1 March	3-way conferences (K-5) Parent conferences (PreK/KA)	3-way conferences (K-5) Parent conferences (PreK/KA)

Professional Learning:        How to apply for PD

Please note that in order to qualify for Professional Development, you must always

apply through the CA PD application form and no later than 10 days before the PD registration deadline.

N.B. All PD information posted on Blogger is by default Personal PD unless otherwise noted.

CA will host IB workshops May 24-26

• Leading the learning in PYP schools
• Making the PYP happen in the early years: Implementing agency
• Building for the future

**Check here for workshop descriptions.

Future Dates:

Grades 1 - 2 Concert

8 March

New Schedule Pilot II

12 - 22 March

Spring Holiday

23-31 March

Cultures of Thinking, Harvard Project Zero, Ron Ritchhart

6 - 8 April

PYP Exhibition

25 April

Student Led Conferences

26 April

Weekly Updates, Monday 18 February, 2019

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the week of launching our first schedule pilot. Let’s hope it goes without major hiccups.

As we go through the week, I am sure we will notice aspects of the new schedule that we need to tweak before it
is good to go. Please, add those observations to the actual schedule google sheet with comments.

PE, VA, and Music teachers are not yet able to fully experience all the flexible features of the new schedule
as we currently have those third sections in grades 1 and 5. With this design, those third sections reduce the
flexibility that we will have in August as they occupy 18 otherwise free slots away from the schedule. This is
something we may have to think about when running the pilots II and III.

This week’s other highlights include ES Assembly, a couple of parent coffees (Scheduling and PYP Exhibition),
and Wednesday’s Tankyuu time. We will surely have an interesting week.

Kim, Trevor, and Heikki

Adaptive Schools

As the Adaptive Schools training is slowly becoming history, we know that the momentum for utilizing the
important elements for effective meetings will slowly fade away unless we try out some of the adaptive schools'
protocols. We encourage you to try out inclusion activators, facilitating meetings with professionally constructed
agendas (outcomes, decision-making protocol, designated facilitator etc.) that will help us all honor each others’
time, and utilizing protocols for balanced participation. Heikki, Learning Leaders, and Coordinators are
committed to practice and model professional practices whenever possible. Please, do not hesitate to ask help
from Riana, Kris, Kim, Trevor or Heikki for any ideas or suggestions.

Adaptive Schools Link for Inclusion Activators and other resources shared by Ochan.

Lunchtime Supervision:                    Links to Supervision Schedule 18-19    Supervision Protocol

Time	12:10-12:40	12:25-13:10	12:25-13:10	12:15-12:40	12:25-12:55
Duty	Cafeteria Tables	Playground / Gym	Playground / Atrium	Cafeteria line	Indoor recess ELAC Gym
Feb 18	Jess	Kaoru	Colleen		Maiko, Kaight

This week's schedule:                        Wednesday Schedule     ES Master Schedule

Day	Morning	Afternoon - After School
Mon 18 Feb Day 1	Starting the 9-day cycle pilot - Pilot Schedule	Assembly Practices @ 13:30 14:30 ES Leadership Meeting 15:40 PYPX Specialist meeting in S304
Tue 19 Day 2	ES Assembly @ 9:00 am in the main theater	13:30 ES Learning Support Meeting
Wed 20 Day 3	Parent Coffee Morning II : Organizing Learning at CA through a new schedule in 2019-2020	14:40 Tankyuu Time HS APAC Band
Thu 21 Day 4	PYP Exhibition Parent Coffee	12:30-16:00 POI Committee Meeting HS APAC Band
Fri 22 Day 5		HS APAC Band

Professional Learning:        How to apply for PD

Please note that in order to qualify for Professional Development, you must always

apply through the CA PD application form and no later than 10 days before the PD registration deadline.

N.B. All PD information posted on Blogger is by default Personal PD unless otherwise noted.

CA will host IB workshops May 24-26

• Leading the learning in PYP schools
• Making the PYP happen in the early years: Implementing agency
• Building for the future

**Check here for workshop descriptions.

Future Dates:

The Pink T-shirt Day

27 February

Three-way Conferences

28 February, Thursday from 13:00 - 1 March, Friday

Grades 1 - 2 Concert

8 March

New Schedule Pilot II

12 - 22 March

Spring Holiday

23-31 March

Cultures of Thinking, Harvard Project Zero, Ron Ritchhart

6 - 8 April

PYP Exhibition

25 April

Student Led Conferences

26 April