OAIBWS MINUTES - OhioIB



OAIBWS MINUTES

DATE: Friday, January 31, 2014

LOCATION: Worthington Kilbourne HS

Attendance:

Ballheim, Cynthia—Upper Arlington HS

Bellanco, Richard—Tri County International

Carter, Kacy—Jackson HS

Garcar, Melissa—Cleveland Heights University Heights

Jordan, John – Worthington Kilbourne HS

Kendall-Sperry, Karen—Dublin Jerome HS

Koos, Kim – Prospect Elementary -- Oberlin City Schools

LaCoste, John – Indian Trail – Stow OH

Luzos, Stergios – St. Edward HS

Maier, Nate – Bexley Middle School

Mudore, Colleen – Dover and Holly Lane ES – Westlake City Schools

Velo, Jim – Columbus Alternative HS

Wadden, Deb – Bassett and Hilliard ES – Westlake City Schools

Powers, Jackie – OSU student

Welcome from host John Jordan.

Cynthia welcomed everyone and commenced introductions all around. IB Source is present today.

Approval of the agenda: motion offered by Karen, 2nd from Rich – agenda approved.

History Report – Nate -- with a presentation of “A Brief History of OLIBS/OAIBWS” covering 1978-present; current Ohio numbers include 22 DP schools, 10 MYP schools and 20 PYP schools authorized or in application stage. Nate reviewed the incredible growth of Ohio IB and the need to move to a more sustainable system by restructuring the organization. Some changes highlighted: local meetings established in two different areas of the state; banking P.O. box; roundtable formats towards more networking, working with Smart Events, continual guest speakers and events, Westlake workshop, student travel with a service learning focus. In addition, the notification of 501(c)3 status should be released on Feb. 14.

AGM Featured Speaker –

Andrew Atkinson, Global Director of IB School Services -- New Services for IB Schools

Andrew addressed the recent rapid expansion of IB; obvious growing pains are occurring; IB is increasingly connected to governments around the world; govts change so there are strategic challenges to maintaining relationships in these schools.

Andrew addressed one positive aspect of growth in that IB programs are based upon best practices that are increasingly backed up by research; research; those studies are available to all schools. Of particular note: U. of VA 2013 study detailing the benefits of the EE; all research is independent of the IB and schools are encouraged to review studies and use the information. Requests for more studies on MYP and these are coming with the changes in the MYP approach.

Professional development services of note – online options; blended workshops (onsite & online); Subject Specific Seminars; subscription packages are coming for a district or school that needs to train a lot of people. Modular workshops of 2-3 weeks are coming in the online realm creating increasing opportunities to build your own portfolio for professional development.

IB recognizes that they are BAD with IT…e-services are being worked on and IB understands the frustration for schools; working towards better effects. Comments offered regarding this and high shipping costs. Both matters need to be strongly addressed.

Enormous expansion of guides and resources; request for more research in the MYP; PYP training is required as a staff where the MYP and DP do not have this requirement; Because DP is subject-oriented less training is required of a staff at one time.

Post-authorization services to support school improvement: IB is streamlining school visits; providing tools for schools to measure the criteria in program evaluation; software will help schools diagnose the more intrinsic aspects to help make changes more research-based.

NEW SERVICES for schools coming to all schools in three versions:

Tier 1 –Self-study and evaluation (one for all)

Tier 2 – Webinars designed for a region or school; package for a group or networking (one for many)

Tier 3 – More traditional one-on-one support; tailored to school or individual; extended arrangement for ongoing support; further mentoring to offer coaching (one to one)

1) School leadership consulting

2) School leadership support; helping school move forward once authorized

3) Curriculum planning feedback

4) Curriculum alignment with other standards (Common Core)

5) DP assessment support -- assessment related support; emarking creates more data

opportunities for benchmarking achievement; IB will have someone who can analyze

results

6) Whole school assistance with action plan diagnosis

7) Collaborative planning support

8) Whole program change consultation with leadership firms

Fees will be issued for some of the services depending on the tier. IB is working on a scale that will provide some services free of charge. Schools may get involved in trials for these new services: IBO site find the new tab of “Support” and register your interest. Schools will receive a response in late spring.

NEW PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENTS:

• Check out: What is an IB Education? -- a synthesized document about the IB located on the OCC.

• Learner Profile revision

• Approaches to Learning are being streamlined to agree in all areas

• Biology and Physics are becoming more conceptual and less content based; changes to IA are the most significant; the new Nature of Science course is being piloted now.

• World Studies EE has been added

• MYP – key concepts that are ‘life-worthy’ learning; Global Context replaces Areas of Interaction; streamlining assessment criteria across the subjects; mandatory moderation of the personal project; 2016 will include on-screen assessment

• PYP – Looking at assessment; exploring an early years program; communication and language need to strengthen

• IBCC – most are going on to further education vs. employment

• Open World Schools Project – Pamoja offers classes to an IB open world school and another non-IB school in the neighborhood; an individual can take an online course through the IB school; home school students can link in on individual DP courses; more info on website.

LUNCH

Business Meeting

Approval of minutes from 2013 AGM: motion from Kim; 2nd by Stergios; motion approved.

Confirmation of Executives – new design for OAIBWS to create multiple Vice-President roles allowing for focus in special areas.

College Representative Jeanne Reid is resigning. Please check among your counselors to secure a new member for this role.

Officer Reports:

Vice President of Educator Services – No report; Gregg Goode is absent today.

Vice-President of Organization Services/Historian – Nate – looking for comments on the website; invoices for workshop payments some schools need an invoice to pay; you can add the PO number and change the date on the invoice at a later time if you download and save the document. Instructions attached with these minutes.

The roundtable process is being revised to make for consistent programming. A draft of a template is attached with these minutes. Roundtable guidelines will be made available on the OAIBWS site and reassessed annually; guidelines for a school visit will also be made available to member schools.

Treasurer Report – Jim – See attachment; OAIBWS envelopes are available for coordinators through Jim.

Treasurer Report – Stergios – member schools with dues outstanding will receive a reminder; Stergio is following up on outstanding debts for services; plans to create a budget for the different initiatives that we choose to implement; will investigate corporate sponsorships and donations.

Cynthia would like to develop a “Members Only” portion of the website and there should be some greater involvement as candidate school; Colleen brought up the question as to the potential of candidate schools to have voting rights and some sort of membership fee. Motion from Kim for candidate school to pay $50.00/building and have voting rights; regular fees will take over with authorization; 2nd from Karen. With discussion the motion was amended to establishing voting rights per one attendee regardless of the number of buildings they manage. The motion passed so candidate schools will have an amended membership fee and voting rights.

Vice President of Student Services – John – reported on the use of the generic scholarship form; first scholarship award form was used to award two travel scholarships; the new form is based on the learner profile; awards committee found the form to be useful and suggested some changes to the rubric; the idea is to have an all-purpose form for multiple uses i.e. teacher training scholarship. Discussion suggested adding Action Cycle for PYP and CAS for DP; John has been considering a tiebreaker so he will incorporate these components into the form.

Discussion regarding PYP and MYP awards for this year -- MYP awards are for Oberlin and Bexley and an amount of $250.00 was set; For PYP – Six $25 book awards; DP $1000 scholarship for a graduating senior; IB Source matches scholarship to be used for university purposes; further discussion of supplementing a student to attend the student conference in Montreal this July; registration, lodging and transportation will be covered to a maximum of $925 for a junior Diploma candidate; John will launch these applications in February. Nate suggested some day providing MYP travel/enrichment opportunities in a similar experience; Cleveland schools have a possible connection with a Canadian school in Toronto for an MYP initiative; Cynthia suggested that these ideas be brought forth next year at the AGM.

John’s Kilbourne website has information an AP/IB comparison that others may use.

Secretary – Pat – No Report; sign attendance form please

President – Cynthia – Reviewed upcoming events:

• Calculus the Musical: FEB 5

• Chemistry Roundtable FEB 7 Upper Arlington

• Northern Working Meeting -- FEB 21 – focus on the Westlake Conference

• Central Working Meeting -- FEB 25 – focus on development of promotional materials, college fair, draft of round table protocol template

• Westlake Workshop – MARCH 1-2

• DP Teacher Roundtable – APRIL 10 – Cynthia will facilitate – teachers will share best practice and ideas in groups

Westlake Update from Colleen and Deb – they recommend that there be a better way of assessing which sessions to include in a workshop especially for DP areas; meals are set; Friday is a big day for set-up. Sunday big take-down day; Parent volunteers will be working but IB members are asked to attend to help.

Motion to adjourn from John; 2nd from Stergios; meeting adjourned.

These notes respectfully submitted by Pat Fife

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