Conference 2019

Timothy Kelley has been the Director of the International School of Stuttgart, for the past 10 years. He is also the Chair of the Association of German International Schools, an organization that directs essential lobbying and educational initiatives for member schools. He is a member of the Academy for International School Heads, the Association for the Advancement of International Education and the European Council of International Schools. He is also recipient of a Klingenstein Fellowship on Educational Leadership and serves on multiple advisory boards including Rotary Stuttgart, the Carlsbad International School and the German/American Exchange Foundation in Munich. 

A New Perspective on Leadership in Schools: Are Heads of Departments Necessary?
This workshop plans to provoke its attendees to critically evaluate their own school’s leadership journey, face “brutal truths” and provide exemplars and suggestions that can help build a more sustainable and efficient leadership for learning culture in their schools.

After a teaching career in the People’s Republic of China, Switzerland and the UK, as an MYP & DP teacher (for Languages A & B, Theory of Knowledge and Music) in both English- and French-speaking schools, as well as a member of school leadership teams (Head of Modern Languages or Head of IB) or a writer for pedagogical books, Rémy is now working for the International Baccalaureate at the IB Global Centre in The Hague (Netherlands) as IB World Schools Manager. This department, created in 2017, is dedicated to support IB authorised schools in delivering a quality IB education. On top of leading various projects for the IB, Rémy’s two main roles consist in being the voice of schools inside the IB in order to defend their needs and in evaluating schools in a supportive manner that create development opportunities for each school.

IB Evaluation: transforming a frightening process into a way to strengthen your programmes
This session will look at ways on how a school can transform the evaluation from a one-off event to a continuous process of school improvement. We will go through the various standards and practices, and see how to use them as an improvement factor for each school. Criteria are keys to move forward; we must therefore understand them well and look at them through the context of our own school. Each school is different; therefore each evaluation is different. A well-guided self-study is the best journey towards strengthening the implementation of any programme. Let’s start it together!