Please tell us, what is your preference to document the information in the 2 UDL sessions during our PLD. Is just ONE question!
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As part of a school wide student JEDI initiative, all staff will be asked to complete a survey on microagressions at NIS. The survey will be sent to your inbox on Monday June 29 and should take less than 4 minutes to complete.
The NIS Annual Report 2023 is here!The NIS annual report is part of our commitment to our parents and community to be transparent about our use of finances and NIS’s authentic status as an independent, non-profit school. The reports have been ready in each staff’s mailing box, and homeroom teachers/advisers will distribute one report to the youngest student in each non-teaching staff family starting Monday, January 29th.
Great News!
We now have access to Bing Chat Enterprise AI-powered copilot for the web. This gives us access to ChatGPT 4.
We can use Copilot to get work done faster and be more creative. All of this can be done with the confidence that user and school data is protected and will not leak outside the organization. For example, Copilot can help us quickly generate content, analyze or compare data, summarize documents, learn new skills, write code, and more. While we do this, we can be assured our organizational data is protected.
To log in please follow the instructions found here. https://nanjingschool.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/NISTech/EfdHlLhTvi5Oo5Ft01AhSvEBNaqnECj-aFzQfQYquaw-MQ?e=56vv72
To do more with CoPilot, it is best to use it through the MS Edge Browser. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/download?form=MA13FJ.
If you have any questions or need help, please see us in the IT Office.
As part of a school wide student JEDI initiative, all staff will be asked to complete a survey on microagressions at NIS. The survey will be sent to your inbox on Monday June 29 and should take less than 4 minutes to complete.
Dear All,
One way transportation will be provided for 2024 Lunar New Year Staff Dinner Party. Departure from school at 17:00.
Best wishes,
Jenny
Sign-up on SchoolsBuddy opens today for Primary Students at 12.45 pm.
Students in the secondary are able to sign-up all year round. Please check SchoolsBuddy regularly for last minute additions.
To the amazing faculty of NIS!
I wanted to share some procedural steps regarding posting name lists of students to our Daily Bulletin.
As our Daily Bulletin is a public website, we will need to follow the following guidelines to be compliant with child protection protocols.
When name lists are shared on the Daily Bulletin, it is better if we don’t include full names.
We thank you for your assistance in this important matter.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.
The IT Support Team
The Mandarin department kindly requests six volunteers to join us in decorating the PAC. Please sign up on SchoolsBuddy.
Date: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
Time: 3:15 pm-4:45 pm
Place: PAC
We will decorate the PAC with traditional Lunar New Year decorations. This includes lanterns, red banners, and other symbolic ornaments during this decoration session. Your creativity and enthusiasm will be greatly appreciated as we aim to capture the spirit of this joyous festival.
Possibly for ManageBac:
A: Decorate the PAC for the Lunar New Year
B: This benefits the school and creates ambience for the celebrations
C: I would change…
D: I achieved Collaboration because …
I achieved Strength and Growth because …
E: upload a photo.
Following the information shared at this week’s briefing, I thought I would share information about how to post things to the Daily Bulletin.
Posting to the Daily Bulletin
How to create a post via email
How to subscribe to the Daily Bulletin
Go to the Daily Bulletin. https://share.nanjing-school.com/dailybulletin/
Click subscribe at the bottom right
Enter your school email and click Subscribe Me.
If you have any questions please come and visit us in the IT Office!
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Women in LeadershipPresented by: Nitasha Crishna
Saturday, February 17, 2024
9:00 – 10:30 AM HKT
This session will offer participants an opportunity to dig into the identity, beliefs and values of women leaders and women of colour while examining the skills and competencies women in leadership require to stand strong and true to who they are. The session will be structured so that participants have multiple opportunities to connect with each other and process the material. They will engage with the literature to deepen their thinking and the session will end with some time to create an action plan going forward.
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Navigating the Complex Roles of Governance: Honoring Channels and Boundaries |
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Presented by: John Littleford
Saturday, February 24, 2024
9:00 – 10:30 AM HKT
Cars today are often equipped with alerts that indicate when drivers veer out of their lanes. What might lane assist look like when it comes to the roles of international school board members and heads? Mr. Littleford will discuss both best practices and cautionary tales to help board members and heads identify, articulate, and communicate their complementary roles in strategic and operational matters. We will also have a specific focus on constituent/board/head communication protocols , ie the good, the bad and the downright dangerous.
How to Intentionally Integrate Students’ Languages in Any ClassPresented by: Tan Huynh Students’ heritage languages are one of the most valuable assets that enhance learning, especially for multilingual learners (MLs). Fortunately, this does not mean teachers have to know students’ languages for intentional integration. Teachers who are monolingual can also create authentic opportunities for students to tap into their heritage languages while learning. After participating in this session, teachers from K-12 will leave with a practical, easy-to-implement framework to make every learning experience a multilingual one. It’s college results season! Counseling your spring semester seniors (and their families)Presented by: Dr. Grace Cheng Dodge American college results will be flowing in at this time of year. This webinar will provide school counselors and college counselors practical and timely knowledge of how to advise students on finalizing the college admissions process and tidying up all responsibilities from the student’s side. Identity Centered LearningPresented by: Daniel Wickner In this workshop, participants will explore the international school and its systems through an Identity Lens– an approach associated with Identity-Centered Learning (identitycentered.com). What systems exist within international school classrooms, staff rooms, boardrooms, communities, and networks– and how do these systems empower (or disempower) certain identities in overt/covert ways? How can we recognize, unearth, analyze, and transform hidden systems within these micro/macro ecosystems that prevent them from becoming more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just? This workshop will challenge educators to move beyond the common scope of identity work (personal and interpersonal) to a broader systemic outlook– with the goal of sparking systemic evolution in our schools.’ Late spring college counseling: For seniors whose processes will continue through the summer and for juniors who want to get an early startPresented by: Dr. Grace Cheng Dodge What happens when a student’s college process to US colleges is not yet done by May 1? This webinar will explore case studies of late spring situations that will require a counselor’s expertise to help ensure the student is a good fit with a college/university. Culturally Responsive and Sustaining LearningPresented by: Joel Llaban In this session, we will explore dispositions, mindsets, and frameworks to support us in courageously leading anti-racist, anti-bias change at schools, particularly in our learning cultures and ecosystems. In congruence with our belief that our action on DEIJ is a personal as much as political act, this workshop will hopefully enable us to understand that “education is a practice of freedom”. We will develop our understanding by engaging with some of the provocations from the research, brilliance and wisdom of bell hooks, Christopher Emdin, Lorena Escotto German, Zaretta Hammond, Dr. Bettina Love, Dr. Danau Tanu, Daniel Wickner, Dr. Jamila Dugan, Shane Safir, Django Paris and Samy Alim. |
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Other exciting opportunities include:
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INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM LEADING FOR EQUITY IN INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOLS – NEW COHORT BEGINS MARCH 2024 |
 PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The purpose of this 15-month, EARCOS-sponsored program is to build deep understanding and skills in leading in a neurodiverse school. The courses offer shared understanding of practices, systems, and structures needed to facilitate effective inclusion. Participants learn to lead instructional design “to the edges,” develop tiered systems of support, implement universal design for learning, design intervention, measure progress, support behavior and emotional regulation, to coach for inclusion, and lead school change. The intent is for school and teacher leaders, in turn, to develop such strong capacity and collective efficacy that there is no longer a question of whether diverse needs can be met by the school. |
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THE WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL EMPOWERMENT (WISE) CONFERENCE
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February 2-4, 2024
The Women in International School Empowerment (WISE) Conference is a first of its kind. A conference which takes full advantage of its face-to-face nature, offers world-class speakers at an affordable price and is aimed at promoting female empowerment and supporting females to take advantage of opportunities within school.
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For more information on these and other coming events check out this link.
Opportunities are also available to submit articles to the EARCOS Journal. Get in touch with me if this is something you are interested in.
For more info on everything EARCOS visit https://earcos.org
Hello PP Supervisors!
It’s that time when we need to provide feedback to our students on part B of their Personal Project. For their first part of criterion B, they need to explain, giving descriptions and examples, how their chosen ATL skill was used to help them achieve their learning goal. For the second part of criterion B, students need to explain, once again giving descriptions and examples, how their chosen ATL skill was used to help them achieve their product.
For example, my student has written about how his ATL skill of research helped him learn about experiments that are exciting to watch. He wrote about his research journey, comparing his search terms in the beginning of his PP to the end. (In the end, he could identify the information that he really wanted and could use clearly defined search terms to get the results he needed). He could include a screenshot of the list of resources google returned to him as evidence, or a screen shot of a great digital resource he found useful. He has also discussed that he found it useful to use a range of sources, including real people! For his second ATL, he choose communication. In this section he has discussed how he researched the communication elements that make up an effective video, his product, and has stated how he has used these elements in his video to ensure he achieved clear communication. He has provided screenshots as evidence.
Please give students some feedback before the CNY break, as many will be finishing their PP during this time. At the moment, students are busy drafting their reflections, so look forward to that arriving on Friday the 2nd of February!
Thank you for all of your hard work, and don’t hesitate to ask questions!
Regards, Anita and Jade
Dear all,
Shirley Liu will be the MOD on Jan. 27, 2024.
Best wishes,
Clara
