Day: September 9, 2016

The 2017 EARCOS Teacher Conference (ETC) is on March 30 – April 01, 2017, in KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSIA. The strands in this year’s conference are Science, Math, S.T.E. M., Technology, Social Studies/Humanities, Global Issues/Global Citizenship, Middle School, Service Learning, Counseling, and General Education Topics. As a medium school, EARCOS will accept up to 2 workshops from our school. If you are interested in presenting, proposals and all the necessary forms will need to be submitted to me by October 25th. Then, I will arrange for the trial-run and submit all the necessary information to EARCOS by November 7, 2016. Please let me know if you are interested to present at the ETC.

If you are interested in attending the conference, the deadline for registration is January 22, 2017. You will need to fill out our school’s PD forms and go through the PD committee. You can find more information on http://www.earcos.org/etc2017. EARCOS will continue to update the site so please check often.
There are also weekend workshops and presentations. Please check out their website for the most updated list of weekend workshops. (http://www.earcos.org/ww_approved_1617.php)

The 2016 SENIA Conference hosted by Yokohama International School is on Feb 9-11, 2017.  YIS is now accepting teacher/practitioner presenter proposals. Proposals need to be submitted by October 3rd, 2016 to SENIA. Please note that there is no monetary compensation paid to the chosen teacher presenters by either YIS or SENIA. Please let me know if you are interested in presenting at the SENIA Conference. The school deadline for your proposals is September 23rd. You will need to meet with me and do a trial run before sending the proposals.

TheSENIA Student and Advocacy Awards which are presented during the SENIA 2017 Conference will be open for nominations on September 9, 2016.  Please look on the SENIA website (http://senia.asia/) for more information.

SENIA has partnered with 21 Century Learning. Their annual conference, where one of the themes is ‘Special Learning Needs’ will take place on March 10-11, 2017 Want more information? Go to their website: http://www.21clhk.org/item/senia/

Reminder at 8:15 today we will meet on the field for a all-school photo organized by the yearbook committee. Primary classes – go with your homerooms. Secondary – meet in the PAC as usual at 8:00 and you will go from there.