September 2017 Newsletter AASSA Welcomes You Back to School www.parentingacademy.com The Tri-Annual Newsletter of The Association of American Schools in South America September 2017 Edition September 2017 Edition Page 1 Back to TOC Back to TOC Table of Contents AASSA Calendar of Upcoming Events 2017-2018• 3 From Your Executive Director Welcome Back• 5 AASSA Twitter Chats• 6 Child Protection Update • 7 Upcoming Events• 7 Welcome to Our Region and AASSA• 14 AASSA Business Managers’ Institute 2017• 15 The Future Is Upon Us!• 17 AASSA Newsletter Articles Welcomed• 19 Get Involved with AASSA Virtually• 19 The Margaret Sanders Scholarship• 20 21 How Not to Be The Expert: One Coach’s Experience with Cognitive CoachingSM• WIDA Academy at Carol Morgan School• 26 Using Interim Technology Leadership to Move from Ruin to Rebuild• 30 EABH 60 Years, A Crossroads for (Re)flection and (Re)calibration• 34 If You Build It, They Will Come: How Badging Programs Can Boost Engagement and Learning in Whole-Division Initiatives• 39 Amplify Student Voice: Be a Facilitator of a TED-Ed Club at Your School• 43 Pan American School of Porto Alegre Celebrates 50 Years• 46 Welcoming Students with High Fives• 50 International School of Curitiba Hosts Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop Conference 2017• 54 Targeting Assessment to Improve Performance• 58 September 2017 Edition Page 2 AASSA Calendar of Upcoming Events 2017-2018 Event Venue Dates Deadline Lincoln School, Lincoln Educators’ Conference September 8 & 9 Buenos Aires Columbus School, Cognitive Coaching Institute, Part 2 September 8-11 Medellin, Colombia AASSA Board Meeting Kendall, Miami September 12 & 13 AASSA Governance Conference Kendall, Miami September 14-16 2nd Annual CNG Learning Center Colegio Nueva September 21 & 22 Symposium Granada, Bogota Colegio Internacional EVAC Educators’ Conference September 22 & 23 Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela AASSA Twitter Chat @AASSA_SA September 27 CIS Latin America Institute on Interna- Lynn University, September 29 & 30 September 8 tional Admission & Guidance Boca Raton, FL Compass Education Level 2 Educator International School of September 30 – Certification Applying Systems Thinking Havana, Cuba October 1 for Sustainable School Transformation Workshop Proposals due for AASSA October 16 Educators’ Conference in Quito WIDA Annual Conference Tampa, Florida October 16-19 innovate 2017 Conference Graded School, Sao Paulo October 19-21 AASSA Twitter Chat @AASSA_SA October 25 Using Data to Inform Instruction and Colegio Maya, Guatemala November 6 & 7 Improve Learning September 2017 Edition Page 3 Back to TOC AASSA Calendar of Upcoming Events 2017-2018 Event Venue Dates Deadline ShiftinEdu: St. Stephens, Miami November 9 & 10 Summit for Forward Thinkers NWEA Fusion Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pre-Conference November 7 & 8 Harbor Beach Main Conference November 9 & 10 Margaret Sanders Foundation November 15 Scholarship applications due Next Frontier Inclusion: Come with a Academia Cotopaxi, Quito November 18 & 19 Purpose, Leave with a Plan! Deep Learning: Engaging Culture, Stu- Magen David Academy, dent Interest, and 21st Century Skills to November 20 Panama Promote Deep Learning AdvancEd Latin American Administra- Grand Hyatt Buckhead, November 27-29 tors’ Conference Atlanta AASSA Twitter Chat @AASSA_SA November 29 AASSA Annual Association Business Grand Hyatt Buckhead, November 30 Meeting Atlanta Grand Hyatt Buckhead, AASSA Recruiting Fair November 30 - Dec 3 Atlanta AASSA Newsletter Articles Due January 12 Colegio Americano de Google Summit January 12-14, 2018 Guatemala Colombia Summit 2018 Featuring Colegio Jorge Washington, February 18 & 19, 2018 Google for Education Colombia WIDA International Institute Academia Cotopaxi February 22-25, 2018 AASSA Global Citizen Award applica- March 2 tions due AASSA Educators’ Conference Workshop Proposals American School of Quito, March 20 & 21, 2018 Pre-Conference due: Ecuador March 22-24, 2018 Main Conference October 16 WIDA International Symposium Colegio Roosevelt, Lima April 7 & 8 AASSA Newsletter Articles Due May 10 Pan American School, Costa GIN Conference March 8-11, 2018 Rica AAIE/GIN Global Citizen Leadership Nova University, June 23-30, 2018 Challenge Fort Lauderdale, Florida September 2017 Edition Page 4 Back to TOC From Your Executive Director Welcome Back My Swansong Year As part of a succession plan approved by the AASSA Board, this will be my final academic year as Executive Director of AASSA. It’s incomprehensible that 10 years have passed so quickly! During this decade, I have had the privilege of working with a region of schools populated with people I have come to love. I have also had the joy of working with the AASSA staff who are more like family than employees. I look forward to this final year as Executive Director and will continue for a subsequent year (2018-2019) as a member of the AAS- SA staff and will have the privilege of working with my successor. The Board will announce the new Executive Director in December at the annual Business Meeting in Atlanta as well as the structure for the transitional year. New Offerings atAASSA for the Year Ahead Our goals for the year include the following undertakings and additions: • Surveying school heads for input into AASSA’s future development in preparation for the Board’s September Strategic Planning Session • Providing heads of school with a timely synthesis of educational research through the weekly Marshall Memo and monthly Klingbrief from Columbia Teachers’ College • Promoting our new Consultant Search Service which provides schools the opportunity to inexpensively utilize master teachers within the region as professional development consultants • Sponsoring ever-more school-based institutes (15 are scheduled to date!) • Expanding AASSA’s Google Group listserves to include Admissions Directors and HR directors • Partnering with ISS for AASSA’s and ISS’s Recruiting Fairs in Atlanta and New York • Establishing a centers of excellence database for schools within our region so that other schools may draw upon and visit schools that have cutting-edge programs • AASSA entered a new partnership with CIS (Council of International Schools) which will result in participating in and accessing educational research projects • Monthly Twitter Chats as a new form of ongoing professional development. September 2017 Edition Page 5 Back to TOC Back to TOC AASSA Twitter Chats By: Silvia Tolisano AASSA’s Social Media Coordinator AASSA welcomes you to our new monthly AASSA Twitter Chats. Connect and learn with fellow Internation- al educators from the AASSA region in a “slow” Twitter chat format. Once a month, we will meet on Twitter with a pre-selected topic and up to four guiding questions to spark con- versation, share best practices, resources and professional experiences. You have the entire day to respond to the questions and interact around the topic with fellow AASSA educators. Mark your calendars to join us for the following topics: • September 27, 2017: What do you want to achieve as an International Educator this year? • October 25, 2017: How do you manage expats/locals relations at your International School? • November 29, 2017: Recruitment Season: Should I stay or should I go? The questions for each topic will be released approximately one week prior to each chat. Questions about how to join the Twitter chat? Connect with @AASSA_SA on Twitter.Looking forward to connecting with you and modeling Social Media for networking, professional development, and learning in our schools! September 2017 Edition Page 6 Back to TOC Child Protection Update The Child Protection Task Force has migrated all child protection resources to website of the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Please visit http://www.icmec.org/education-portal/ for a wealth of resources such as: child protection policies; international laws; accreditation standards; recruitment of staff and background checks; reporting abuse; and, curriculum and family resources. In addition, the European Council of International Schools (ECIS) is offering an online Child Safeguarding Certificate which takes approximately 6 hours to complete and involves assessments which lead to a Certificate of Completion. The cost is £3,000 for 3 years for a non-member school or £2,500 for ECIS member schools. Please visit https://www.ecis.org/learning/child-safeguarding-certificate for more information. Upcoming Events 2017 AASSA Governance Conference for Board Members and School Heads September 14-16, 2017 Marriott Dadeland Hotel, Miami Conference registration and hotel reservations close on August 29th! We are taking the learning which was launched at last year’s conference to the next level! Our 2017 conference will again feature two of our presenters from last year (Teresa Arpin and Kevin Bartlett), and a presenter new to our region, Myron Dueck. This is NOT a repeat of last year but rather taking the next step from a systemic approach to transformational governance! Transformational Governance from Principles to Practice Transformational Boards work with their leadership and community to co-create key Principles that shape and guide the school’s learning culture. This year’s AASSA Conference will focus on key Principles of great Governance and support participants in mastering the practices that matter in the drive to improve the quality of learning and life in our schools. The conference format will also include interactive whole group sessions that will both frame this unique learning experience and provide opportunities