Year: 2016

https://youtu.be/1S2TYcI1suU

WHEN: At 4:00 on Friday, September 9th.
WHERE: In the Centre Entrance of NIS.

• Choose your own team or be teamed up with others.
• (Max. 5 teams – At least 3 people per team)
• Submit names by Thursday at 3:15 please.

• Each team will need a phone with the GooseChase app signed up:
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goosechase/id437330879?mt=8

You will need a VPN on your phone and 3G or 4G.
Teams might spend money for certain missions, so bring along a card or cash.

Contact Joe Barder for more info.

Dear EE Supervisors, starting on Thursday I will be available in the school Library from 3.15 to 4.15 to support students with their EE. If you would like to insist that your student attends, please email me (and them) and I will always follow up. This is just an opportunity for students to work quietly or to ask for help.

‘Instrumental Teachers’

If you have any instrumental teachers recommendations please could you e-mail them to Amy and I (Heidi). Please can you let us know what instrument they teach, their name and their telephone number. We will then add them to our instrumental teachers list.

Thank you for your support.

Burst the Bubble: Goose Chase

WHEN: At 4:00 on Friday, September 9th.
WHERE: In the Centre Entrance of NIS.

• Choose your own team or be teamed up with others.
• (Max. 5 teams – At least 3 people per team)
• Submit names by Thursday at 3:15 please.

• Each team will need a phone with the GooseChase app signed up:
• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goosechase/id437330879?mt=8

You will need a VPN on your phone and 3G or 4G.
Teams might spend money for certain missions, so bring along a card or cash.

Contact Joe Barder for more info.

ASA cycle 1 starts today (Monday).  Would instructors of G1 and 2 ASAs please note that you will need to collect the kids form their classroom before the ASA and at the end of the ASA they must be collected by an adult. If you have any questions please let contact me.

Greetings fellow academic-practitioners,

• Do you bask in the perusal of readings, plus those suggested and referenced in said articles as well?
• Do you love finding new ways of thinking?
• Are you comfortable with cognitive dissonance?

If so, starting on September 8th, and continuing every
Thursday, in the Strategy Room
at Lunch
we will create a:
Learning Alchemists* Environment

We will:

• Survey current, seminal, and even abject books on education, learning, and the periphery;
• Analyse, elucidate, and debate Peer Reviewed articles;
• Reflect on TED videos and the like;
• Criticise and appraise current practice, gadgetry, and trends;
• Share Ideas and “best practice";
• Create an ongoing agenda as a group.

You need to:

• Update your iPhones ?
• Be prepared for controversy and aha moments
• Bring a lunch (Maybe we’ll order in sometime)
• Do prior readings – or watchings (if called for)

You do not need:

• To come every week or for the whole of lunch (You can drop in and leave any time)

For our first encounter, we will watch a video,
comment on and critique it,
and create an agenda of items, readings, and videos for the next few meetings.

Come one, Come all.
Nihil Sine Causa (or is there?)

Contact Tom Johnson for more details

*Alchemy – "a power or process of transforming something common into something special”

Reference
Alchemy. (n.d.). Retrieved August 30, 2016, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alchemy

Please find important information about the EARCOS and SENIA conferences coming up in 2017. If you are interested in presenting for these conferences, please let me know.

EARCOS INFORMATION

• 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 by November 7, 2016. I will soon let you know our school’s deadline so that we can make sure that everything you need gets submitted by the final deadline.
• 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)

SENIA INFORMATION

• The 2016SENIA 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 also be in contact with me before you send your proposals. 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.
• SENIAhas 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/

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Just kidding!
Game Day will be held in the Game Room from 1:00-1:30 today (Friday) and every Friday after. Bring games or play the ones we have. It will be AWESOME.