About Chapters International
About Chapters International
About Chapters International
About Chapters International

Upcoming In-Person & Online Workshops

Dr. Ron Ritchhart In Person tag

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Kath Murdoch

In the true spirit of inquiry Kath has been working hard to develop an online workshop that will ensure teachers continue to have access to practical, professional learning that deepens understanding for classroom and online inquiry.

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Exploring the Inquiry Mindset: Cultivating Cultures of Curiosity

- Trevor MacKenzie

25th & 26th August 2023, Incheon, South Korea

In this highly engaging workshop internationally recognized inquiry expert Trevor MacKenzie will challenge your mind to rethink the role of the teacher and the learner in the inquiry classroom.

Anne Van Dam

Listening Intentionally - Documenting Learning In The Early Years

- Anne Van Dam

2nd, 16th, 30th September & 7th October 2023

This online workshop explores the variety of ways early childhood educators document young children’s learning. A growing body of research points at the importance of documenting, monitoring and interpreting learning as it supports our intention to plan in response to children evolving understanding and questions.

Clare Landrigan

Every child deserves the opportunity to become a lifelong reader and books are the teacher’s tool to make that happen. This course will show you how to redesign your book spaces, reorganize your books, and reimagine how these spaces can work together across the entire school to make each teacher’s book supply seem endless in the eyes of a reader.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

This four-session workshop is designed to guide teachers in understanding and planning for effective differentiated instruction in their classrooms. Each session will balance the need to understand the "whys" of differentiation with the need to act on the "hows" and "whats" of differentiation.

Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of Multilingual Learners

- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

7th, 14th, 21st, 28th September 2023

The principles and ‘how to’s’ of differentiation are good for all students, but this session focuses on its specific benefits for multilingual learners in content classrooms.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

How can we create a living breathing curriculum responsive to the learners in our care? How can support a culture of collaboration between teachers to develop a pathway of engaging learning experiences both vertically and across the school year? Mapping is curricular collaboration.

Dr. Ron Ritchhart In Person tag

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Jodi Wert

Online Workshop: Partnering with Young Children Through Visual Documentation

- Jodi Wert

16th September, 21st October & 4th November 2023

Jodi is an educational facilitator and integrator who loves to co-create healthy culture that nurtures myriad authentic relationships. She is particularly skilled at inspiring practical application, collective leadership, and holistic transformations (big and small), which is evidenced in her work with senior executives, program directors, teachers, families, and children.

Jay McTighe

Principles and Practices of Highly Effective Assessment

- Jay McTighe

19th, 26th September & 10th October 2023

Classroom and school-level assessment practices can be used in ways that can enhance student learning and performance, not just evaluate it. Join international education expert, Jay McTighe, for a 3 session webinar series as he explores important assessment-related questions: Are we assessing everything we value in learning, or mostly those outcomes that are easiest to test and grade?

Jay McTighe

A good essential question serves as a doorway for engaging student inquiry, helps teachers in “uncover” the big ideas of the curriculum, and lead students to deeper understanding. In this session, we will examine key ideas from the best-selling book, Essential Questions:Opening Doorways to Student Understanding (McTighe and Wiggins, 2013).

Carl Anderson Dan Feigelson In Person tag

In most schools, reading and writing are taught as stand-alone subjects. But reading and writing are mirror images, and being skilled at one deepens our understanding of the other.

Ken Shelton In Person tag

In Person Workshop: Building A Culturally Proficient Antibias Learning Culture

- Ken Shelton

30th September & 1st October 2023, Basel, Switzerland

This two-day workshop focuses on the complexities of cultural proficiency, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Over the course of these two days, we will explore and examine the ways in which biases and conversational strategies impact our ability to effectively engage with diverse communities as well as how to design inclusive environments within a Brave Space.

Susan Harris Mackay Matt Karlsen

We know that children walk into school doors full of story. At the same time, we’ve all witnessed - and experienced - the apparent disconnect that can happen when children are handed a piece of paper and a pencil or a keyboard and asked to write that story.

Kathy Collins In Person tag

A teaching tension may arise when we strive to be well-planned and aligned with colleagues, yet we also want to customize instruction for our own students and infuse our units of study with a spirit of inquiry and the potential for discovery.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Online Workshop: Designing and Leading Learner-Centered Classrooms

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

5th, 12th, 19th & 26th October 2023

An increasing number of teachers and schools are moving away from test-driven and teacher-centered approaches to instruction, seeking instead to create classrooms in which decisions are made based on learner strengths, interests, and needs rather than on strict “coverage” mandates and pacing guides and in which the aim is to maximize the academic/intellectual, affective, and social development of each learner.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

How can leaders directly improve the conditions for teaching and learning? We have a genuine opportunity to reconsider format decisions in our schools to address new challenges and open possibilities regarding the structural ecosystem.

Guy Claxton Kath Murdoch In Person tag

Across the world, there continues to be a growing interest in approaches to teaching and learning that not only help students develop important understandings and skills, but equips them with the dispositions necessary for a life of learning and active citizenship.

Carl Anderson

Online Workshop: Differentiating Writing Instruction K-8

- Carl Anderson

14th, 21st, 28th October & 4th November 2023

It’s not a secret: the children in your classroom differ in many ways from each other as writers: Some of them love to write, while others avoid writing. Some have been writing for years, while some haven’t had much opportunity to write in school. Some students have a deeper knowledge than others of the craft of writing. Some move confidently through the stages of the writing process, while some need help with doing so.

Jessica Vance

Nurturing A Culture Of Inquiry-Based Assessment

- Jessica Vance

14th, 21st, 28th October & 4th November 2023

How do we assess our learners while maintaining student agency and a mindset centered around the heart of inquiry? How do we strengthen critical thinking while slowing down for more mindful moments for ourselves and for our students?

Kath Murdoch

Personal Inquiry In The K-6 Classroom

- Kath Murdoch

17th & 24th October, 7th & 14th November 2023

There has been growing interest in ‘personalised learning’ for many years now. Increasingly, schools are making arrangements to provide more opportunities for learners to learn to be self-directed and to have their needs and interests met through the curriculum.

Dylan Wiliam In Person tag

In Person Workshop: Assessment for Learning

- Dylan Wiliam

21st & 22nd October 2023, Dubai

There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day formative assessment is the most cost-effective ways to improve student learning.

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In Person Workshop: Assessment for Learning

- Dylan Wiliam

25th & 26th October 2023, Bangkok

There is now a large and growing evidence base that helping teachers develop their use of minute-to-minute and day-by-day formative assessment is the most cost-effective ways to improve student learning.

Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

Cultivating Collaboration Skills to Make Every Teacher a Language Teacher: A Reality

- Dr. Virginia Pauline Rojas

31st October, 7th, 14th, 21st November 2023

Effective collaboration requires us to embrace a new way of working to push past the traditional roles and responsibilities of content and language teachers of multilingual learners. Gain the ‘what, why, and how’ perspectives and skills you need to strengthen your foundation and unleash the potential of content and language integrated classrooms.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Formative Assessment In A Differentiated Classroom: An Online Workshop

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd November 2023

While there is a great deal of conversation in schools about formative assessment, it is relatively rare to see it implemented in classrooms as it ought to be if the goal is to improve teaching and learning.

Hannah Schneewind Jennifer Scoggin

Online Workshop: Cultivating Independent Reading: Connecting Engagement, Reading Identity and Conferring

- Hannah Schneewind & Dr. Jennifer Scoggin

2nd, 9th, 16th, 30th November 2023

Highlighting the power of independent reading combined with impactful conferring, Jen and Hannah demonstrate how centering a student’s reading identity leads to relevant instructional opportunities and increased student growth.

Dr Heidi Hayes Jacobs

How can we streamline a bloated curriculum that piles relentless demands on teachers and students? This workshop will address not only the problem but a process for determining what to cut out, cut back, consolidate and create in your school setting K-12. But, there is more. It is insufficient to simply remove curriculum.

Anne Van Dam

This online workshop explores how early childhood educators can support the development of early literacy and numeracy skills through play and adult initiated focused learning engagements. By acknowledging young learners as active meaning makers, we recognize they bring experiences, understandings and curiosities to our schools that draw on many different symbolic modalities.

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The Asian Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute

- Jim Knight

15th - 19th November 2023, South Korea

The Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute is a focused and intensive professional development opportunity based on 20+ years of research. It provides a big-picture view of instructional coaching and includes an exhaustive learning opportunity covering five coaching areas presented in Jim Knight’s bestselling books and research.

Damian Cooper

In most classrooms I visit, teachers and students have in their hands the most powerful assessment tools for improving student learning that I have seen in more than 40 years as an educator: tablets and Smartphones.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.

Jim Knight

For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his colleagues have been developing, refining, and studying instructional coaching. In his new book, The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, Jim has summarized that research in seven success factors that need be a part of any successful coaching program.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.

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In-Person Workshop: Teaching and Learning through Inquiry for K-8 Teachers

- Kath Murdoch

25th & 26th November 2023, Hồ Chí Minh City

Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.

Carl Anderson Dan Feigelson In Person tag

Individual conferences are the most powerful teaching we do with young readers and writers. These 1:1 meetings with children are not just our best opportunity to target literacy instruction to individual strengths and needs, but also to teach student ownership of learning.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Creating "Everybody Classrooms": When Inclusion Means Everyone

- Carol Ann Tomlinson

10th, 17th, 24th & 31st January 2024

When we think of “inclusion,” that most often refers to general education classrooms that make provisions to include a few learners with special needs. In those instances, it’s easy for think of the classroom as composed largely of “regular” or “normal” students who are joined by learners who aren’t “regular” or “normal.”

Carl Anderson Matt Glover

Increase the Level of Student Engagement in Your Writing Workshop!

- Carl Anderson & Matt Glover

13th & 20th January 2024

Student engagement is critical to learning. We know that when students are engaged, it has a huge impact on whether students retain and reapply what they learn in the future. However, all too often, students aren’t that engaged in writing, and write mostly out of compliance, or don’t write that much at all.

Carl Anderson

Learn the Secret to Teaching Students How to Write Well: Teach with Mentor Texts

- Carl Anderson

13th, 21st, 27th February & 5th March 2024

Every writing teacher has this question: How do I teach my students to write well? The answer? Teach with mentor texts. To help students learn how to craft their writing in effective and beautiful ways, students need to see and study mentor texts in mini-lessons, small group lessons, and individual writing conferences in the writing workshop.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning (K-8)

- Kath Murdoch

24th & 25th February 2024, Dubai

There has been growing interest in 'personalized learning' for many years now. Increasingly, schools are making arrangements to provide more opportunities for learners to learn to be self-directed and to have their needs and interests met through the curriculum.

Kath Murdoch

Critical to the success of any journey of inquiry is the degree to which the learner is able to both access information and process and communicate ideas. As we inquire, most of the information we encounter is in the form of some kind of text.

Kath Murdoch In Person tag

In-Person Workshop: Teaching and Learning through Inquiry for K-8 Teachers

- Kath Murdoch

16th & 17th March 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria

Inquiry as an approach to teaching and learning has long been regarded as a powerful way not only to engage students in their learning, but to challenge them to think more deeply and apply skills and understandings to new contexts.

Jim Knight

Online Workshop: Life-Giving Leadership

- Jim Knight

16th, 18th, 23rd & 25th April 2024

This workshop led by Jim Knight is created for anyone who is in a position of leadership, whether in an administrative role, a teaching role, or a role that lies somewhere in between. Attendees of this workshop will benefit by learning how to effect change within their respective environments.