A SchoolwideIB prototype resource
Toolkits for IB Associations, Schools, and School Systems
Introducing two customizable toolkits developed by the IB Community for the IB Community. Each toolkit includes guidance and support for facilitating the learning engagements, and the resources that can be used and adapted.
In 2024, the Rocky Mountain Association of IB World Schools collaborated with three member schools and their district leadership to engage entire school faculties in a half-day professional learning experience that addressed beliefs and understanding gaps, and revolutionized the way schools engage in IB alignment school-wide.
This unique approach brought community-led professional learning to a district context, rather than requiring educators and leaders to attend a networking in an off-site location. When schools engage with their local associations to address programme implementation barriers, community partnership can nurture and inspire the type of change needed to improve learning and teaching outcomes.
Two educators from Minneapolis Public Schools decided to organize a series of professional learning engagements for teachers in the three high schools in their district that were building a strategy to increase student participation in DP Language and Literature, though the IB Schoolwide Adoption initiative. A three part series is developed to support teachers as they explore the way IB designs curriculum framework and empowers teachers contribute as co-creators, to arrange and plan in ways that meet the needs of their students.
Their pilot empathized with the range of perspectives teachers brought to their first engagement in IB education, established shared values for what teachers considered to be most important, and subsequently replaced myths and misconceptions about the IB with tangible examples of how all students can learn and grow as they are included in an IB experience.
