2021 IBSC Annual Conference
Cancelled
Workshop Block 1
Thursday, July 8, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
| Best Teaching Practices for Boys |
| Co-Lead Instruction for
Innovative Learning
Appeal: New to the topic How do you actively reach every boy in your class and elevate teacher collaboration? Co-lead instruction! The co-lead teaching model positively influences boys' learning and teacher engagement. Learn about what co-lead instruction looks like, the research that supports it, and how to implement and maintain it. Elevate engagement and teaching with this innovative approach. |
| Connecting Discipline's
Past with the Present: A Relational Approach
Appeal: Intermediate Find out how we connected our school's long-used demerit system with boys’ needs for relationship and conversation with the adults in our community. Examine the nuts and bolts of the system, hear examples of success and failure from our first year, and discuss disciplinary struggles that our schools have faced. |
| Libraries Matter: Research
and Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Google
Appeal: Intermediate Prepare students for college-level research with vital and vibrant techniques for young men. As we acknowledge the disassociation between perceived expertise in research methodology and the reality of students' lack of research skills, we must reconnect the dots among classroom instruction, research, and approaches to inculcating critical thinking skills into library instruction. |
| Life Through a Lens:
Empowering Emerging Identities Through Visual Literacy
Appeal: New to Topic For young people visual
literacy is a matter of survival. For teachers, schools, and families,
empowering students as purposeful consumers and producers of visual texts is
paramount for their well-being. Whether negotiating their identities online or
viewing content designed to engage and sway them, our students must get
equipped with the tools to both critically question and enjoy visual texts. |
| Project Beyond 21C:
Empower Boys to Contribute to Solutions for the World
Appeal: Intermediate Being a boy today is
sometimes fraught with negative connotations—from negotiating different views
of masculinity to facing the impact of automation and globalization shifting
the landscape of work, particularly for men. Project Beyond 21C raises
self-efficacy through choice and ownership, allowing boys to create valuable
solutions to issues in their local, national, and global world. |
| Promoting Communication
and Metacognition Through Number Talks and "Talk Moves"
Appeal: New to the topic Have you ever wanted to
promote more meaningful dialogue, deepen conceptual understanding, and
strengthen number sense during math class? Would you like your students to
enhance their communication skills and engage in metacognitive thinking on a
regular basis? Come explore how number talks and "talk moves" can
lead to rich discussions, reflection, and mental flexibility in math. |
| Community Service |
| Detoxifying Masculinity:
Redefining Service Learning for Purposeful Connection
Appeal: Intermediate Explore new research about
holistic service learning that debunks the pervasive stereotype that boys'
education generates toxic masculinity. Learn how cultures of service develop
empathy, empower boys to be global change agents, and create balanced young
men. Discover how to foster community connections and servant leaders who
engage in service beyond the school through co-curricular projects. |
| Connecting Families, Alumni, and School |
| Use Your Website and
Digital Tools to Keep Your Community Connected and Engaged
Appeal: Intermediate Your community members are
saturated with content. Find out how to break through the noise on your
website, social media, and email to keep them engaged and informed. Explore
using content marketing to cultivate strong relationships and study schools that
optimize digital tools to share their stories to recruit, retain, and engage
their families, faculty, and alumni. |
| Mental Wellness and Healthy Communities |
| Connecting the Dots with
+M
Appeal: Intermediate Positive Masculinity (+M) is
the expression of attitudes and behaviors embodied and enacted by a person who
identifies as a male for the common good, both individually and for the
community. Connect the dots between youth and their communities in developing
+M. Join the discussion and view examples of how to integrate +M into your
community, school, and home. |
| Returning to Our Strengths: How Boys' Schools Promote Meaningful Wellness Appeal: Intermediate Boys' schools often focus on academic development, though we now recognize the importance of wellness for academic and personal development. We face two main challenges in delivering wellness curricula: existing demands on student time and an idea of masculinity that undermines wellness. In spite of these challenges, we believe our schools are well-positioned to improve wellness in our students. |
| Shifting Culture Through
Circles
Appeal: Intermediate How do we move the dots when
they are connected but don't always head in the right direction? Oh, boy!
Discover how 175 grams of plastic can develop upstanding men and how a
traditional boarding school is shifting its culture toward a new vision of
mindful masculinity! Explore the intersectionality between mental health and
masculinity. Learn how to build healthy group dynamics. |
| Single-Sex Schools in a
Multigender World: Transgender Students at Boys' Schools
Appeal: New to the topic While girls' schools have
been encountering trans students for several years, boys' schools are just
beginning to face these new challenges. Building on the training and policy
development experience of several boys' schools and over 100 girls' schools,
examine how we can respond to the changing gender landscape while staying true
to mission and responsive to all stakeholders. |
| "Whole" School
Health: A Strategic Wellness and Character-Education Program
Appeal: New to the topic How do you develop and
implement a comprehensive wellness and character-education program across the
academic and residential sides of a boarding school to reach not only students
but also involve the entire school community? Join us to acknowledge both the
challenges and successes of such a program and discuss the importance of these
programs in our schools and curricula. |
| School Leadership |
| 2020 IBSC Strategic Plan
Appeal: New to the topic Join IBSC board members to
learn more about the new 2020 IBSC Strategic Plan. Hear how IBSC can benefit
you and your school and explore the myriad resources membership brings to
enrich your community. Connecting with global leaders dedicated to educating
boys proves invaluable. Plus, take this opportunity to share with IBSC how we
can serve you, schools, and boys better. |
| Creating a Professional
Competency Model to Transform School Culture
Appeal: New to the topic For boys to thrive and
connect, teachers and leaders need the professional competencies to go on the
learning journey with—and for—them. Join this interactive workshop to explore
why competencies such as emotional intelligence, growth mindset, and courageous
communication are important, and learn the best way to create a robust
competency model for staff and school leaders in 21st century schools for boys. |
| Traditional Progress:
Evaluating and Crafting Belief and Mission Statements
Appeal: New to the topic It is often difficult to
overcome the "traditions" of the past when schools self-reflect. With
careful self-evaluation, schools can maintain the traditions of the past while
reaching toward future growth and advancement. Undertake exercises for
self-evaluation through conversation, surveys, and data collection in order to
build consensus across a community. |