Conference 2019

Chris Durbin is an Associate Director for the Council of International Schools [CIS] which has almost 600 Member universities and 750 Member schools worldwide and almost 600 of these schools are accredited or in the accreditation process. He is now responsible for CIS Member schools and the staff that support them, in Africa, Europe and the Americas.  He is an experienced educator, with a lifelong commitment to high quality learning and global citizenship education.  Throughout his career he has worked and volunteered for organisations with a global mindset.  Prior to this role in CIS, he worked for 12 years as School Development Adviser with the English Schools Foundation [ESF], which comprises 22 schools, 17,500 students in Hong Kong.

Preparing a school for CIS International Accreditation – ensuring community-building evaluation is effective
Participants will engage with the revised CIS International Accreditation protocol to understand the fundamental building blocks for an effective international school committed to learning, well-being, global citizenship and enhancing its own purpose and direction.

Preparing a school for CIS/NEASC Synchronized Process – Lessons from effective schools
Participants will understand the integrated approach to synchronized evaluation and how to take advantage of two lenses on a school.

Andy Hargreaves is Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and holds Visiting Professorships at Hong Kong University and the University of Stavanger in Norway. He is President of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Adviser in Education to the Premier of Ontario and the First Minister of Scotland, and founder of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC): a group of 9 nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy and human rights www.atrico.org

Andy has consulted with the OECD, the World Bank, governments, universities and teacher unions worldwide. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted multiple Outstanding Writing Awards – including the prestigious 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Professional Capital (with Michael Fullan). He has been honored with the 2016 Horace Mann Award in the US and the Robert Owen Award in Scotland for services to public education. Andy has been ranked by Education Week in the top 10 scholars with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong and the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Keynote: Collaborative professionalism: when teaching together means learning for all