Deep Dive Sessions

Friday 03 October and Saturday 04 October 2025

For educators looking to move beyond surface-level understanding, Deep Dive Workshops provide the perfect balance between depth and efficiency. These sessions offer structured opportunities to engage with cutting-edge ideas, work through case studies, and apply new strategies in a supportive setting. The extended time frame allows for meaningful dialogue, hands-on practice, and reflection—crucial elements of effective professional learning. Whether tackling instructional design, leadership challenges, or emerging trends in education, Deep Dive Workshops empower participants with the tools and confidence to drive real change in their schools.

 

Facilitator's Name Session Description
Anita Churchville

The Power of Tiered Instruction: Driving Authentic Evaluation and Student Growth in Mixed Ability Classrooms

This session aims to equip educators with practical tiered instruction strategies that promote authentic assessment and personalized growth in diverse learning environments.

 

From Awareness to Action: Practical Strategies for Supporting the Profiles of Gifted, Students with Learning Challenges, and Twice-Exceptional (2e) Learners

This session aims to develop educators' capacity to recognize and effectively respond to the unique needs of gifted, learning-challenged, and twice-exceptional students.

Debbie Downs

Strengthening Safeguarding with ICMEC Level 2 Deep Dive into Online Safety, Parent Engagement, and Student Voice

This deep dive provides actionable strategies for schools to engage their educators, families, and students to create a safer school environment by fostering a culture of proactive safeguarding, strengthening online safety measures, enhancing parental involvement in child protection, and empowering student voices in policy development and curriculum planning.

Elize Ramsay

Financial Stability Through Collective Strength

This session aims to create a collaborative space where finance managers can share experiences, challenges, and strategies for strengthening financial sustainability, resilience, and ethical governance in international schools.

Fidelis Nthenge

Bringing African Perspectives into Curriculum Design and Review

To integrate African perspectives into the curriculum design and review process, ensuring that educational content reflects the many cultural, historical, and social contexts of African communities.

Julie Stern

Learning that Transfers: An Introduction to the ACT Model for Conceptual Transfer

This session aims to teach students how to detect patterns and become lifelong learners.

 

Assessing for Transfer: Measuring Students' Ability to Apply Learning to Unlock New Situations

This session is for those who are already familiar with the ACT model for conceptual transfer.

Katie Novak

The 5 Ps of Learning, MTSS, and an Overview of UDL

This session will use multiple analogies to help all attendees understand the 5 Ps of Inclusion, MTSS, and UDL and how they work together to create flexible, inclusive, and rigorous learning opportunities for all students.

 

UDL as a Theoretical Framework, Differentiated Instruction, and Tier 2 and 3 Interventions

This session will dive into the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, providing opportunities to explore guidelines, analyze lessons, and examine how UDL, differentiated instruction, and tiered interventions work together to better support all students in a multi-tiered system.

Lauren Jones

The Business Model Playbook for Expanding and Enhancing Student Support

The workshop aims to share the Business Model Playbook with international schools across Africa.

 

The Leadership Edit: Removing the Excess to Focus on What Matters

The workshop aims to help school leaders and educators streamline responsibilities by applying the principle of subtraction, fostering a sustainable, mission-aligned culture that prioritizes inclusion, well-being and effectiveness.

LeeAnne Lavender

Building Strong School Communities with Storytelling Rooted in the African Context

This deep dive aims to explore the power of storytelling as a foundation for service learning, community engagement, and building strong school communities.

 

A Sustainability Road Map: How Service Learning Strategies Can Support Your Campus's Green Initiatives

This deep dive session aims to find the intersections of sustainability and service learning and to explore how we might model better and more authentic care for the planet through everything we do in our schools.

Noa Kantor

Navigating School-Wide Crises: Strengthening Community Support in International Schools

This workshop aims to equip educators and counselors with the basic skills to provide effective, culturally responsive support during crises, promote student resilience, and maintain a school culture of care and emotional well-being.

 

Building Teen Resilience: Equipping International School Communities with Stress Tolerance Strategies

This session aims to equip international school staff with strategies to help teens understand the function of stress as a natural and necessary part of life—something for which one can prepare, rather than avoid.

Ronnie Caldwell 

Mindsets for Collective Growth and Resilience

The session aims to help school communities cultivate the mindsets and behaviors for a spirit of collective growth, resilience, and joy.

 

Building Great Leadership Teams in Schools

Cultivating the leadership practices that inspire and promote good followership.