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Minutes and Links from OAIBWS Meetings
Upcoming Meeting and Workshops
Engage with the IB
Lunch and Keynote for Superintendents, Heads of School, and Coordinators
11AM-1PM
Monday, November 4
Graf Center, 2020 Builder’s Place, Columbus, Ohio 43204
with Daniel Wartick, Principal of North Kansas City High School
This conversation will delve into strategies that bring the IB Diploma Progamme framework more fully into the systems of your school processes and practices. The objective of the conversation is to reframe how the IB Diploma Programme can be embedded as part of the school culture and not one of many programs that you have to manage! We will discuss various components of the IB Diploma Programme and see how they can be integrated into current initiatives that schools are balancing. We will move on the continuum of recognizing your school as an IB World School.
Dan Wartick is the Head of School at North Kansas City High School, a comprehensive public high school in North Kansas City, Missouri. The school offers both the Diploma Programme and the Career Programme. Dan has been affiliated with IB for 20 years in various roles: member of the Heads Council, workshop leader, consultant, team member and leader for school verification visits and evaluation visits. Most recently, Dan has been involved with the Equity Project focused on opening up access in IB programs. Dan's proudest accomplishment – parent of three children who went through the DP!
Concept-Based Teaching
& Learning
9:30AM-3:30PM
November 6, 2019
Porter Library
27333 Center Ridge Road
Westlake Ohio
75.00 Registration Fee
Presenter Chris Overhoff has been in the education for over 25 years. He holds a Master’s of Science Degree in Elementary Education from Buffalo State College. He has had the good fortune to be involved in the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme (IB/PYP) since 1998. As you know, the IB/PYP is a concept-based curricular framework that teaches to globally transferable concepts and develops students as critical thinkers. He has been an IB/PYP teacher (currently teaches Innovation Lab K-5) and coordinator as well as a workshop leader, school consultant, and site visitor for IB as well as an independent consultant since 2003. He has recently joined the Toddle team as a school success manager for the Americas. He is certified by Lynn Erickson to work with schools/districts in the area of concept-based teaching and learning. We will explore concepts within the written/taught/assessed curriculum framework of the IB/PYP. Connections with local standards and practical applications will be immediate.
MYP Coordinator Roundtable
March 6, 2020
9:30-12:30
Cleveland Heights-University Heights (location TBD)
Cost: FREE
email Melissa Garcar to RSVP (m_garcar@chuh.org)
The Latest IB News
Working to Lower Costs & Eliminate Barriers to Access for Students Worldwide, International Baccalaureate Eliminates its Student Exam Registration Fee, from Yahoo! Finance, July 19, 2019
NEW ORLEANS , July 19, 2019 /CNW/ -- As part of a focused effort to reduce financial barriers for students and schools to participate in its unique programmes, the International Baccalaureate Organization announced today that it is eliminating the $172 "candidate registration" fee that students traditionally pay (as a cost separate from individual IB subject exams).
This decision to lower per student assessment costs is intended to help more students worldwide afford additional subject exams or pursue a full Diploma Programme, as well as help more schools join the community of more than 5000 IB schools worldwide.
"A key part of our mission is to develop for the international community youth who are well-rounded, multilingual and open-minded citizens—a new generation educated in ways that enable them to respond thoughtfully to global, national and local challenges," said International Baccalaureate (IB) Director General Dr. Siva Kumari.
Tools for the DP
Ohio IB University Recognition Document File for conversations with university staff regarding acknowledgement and credit for student achievements
Sample letter to State Representatives regarding recognition of DP student work at the state level
