Schedule

Delegate Registration and Coffee (Main Reception)

• With music from Senior School Chamber Strings

Conference Opening (Theatre)

• Welcome from Head of College Garry Russell and Whole College PL Lead Anna Townend
• Performance by Senior School Chamber Strings: “Fuga Y Misterio” composed by Astor Piazallo arranged by  Roy W (Year 12)

Keynote 1: What If We Already Know How, Shane Leaning (Theatre)

Schools have lost confidence in themselves. Somehow we decided the answers must come from outside. The next consultant visit. The latest programme. Research from somewhere else.

Shane Leaning, co-founder of Work Collaborative and host of the chart-topping Education Leaders podcast, works with schools reclaiming that confidence. His best-selling book Change Starts Here maps how. Schools around the world are joining the movement to build professional development from internal wisdom rather than external solutions. The research backs them up. Internally-led PD creates lasting change. External solutions fade.

In this keynote, Shane brings stories from schools that made this shift, questions that help uncover what your teachers already know, and the double diamond framework that turns scattered expertise into genuine collaboration. He’ll help you move from passive recipients to active designers of your own learning. The expertise isn’t missing. You’ve just been asking the wrong questions to find it.

Workshop 1

• Effective Collaboration Through High-Performing Teams – A114
• From Plans to Progress, Part 1: Diagnose and Design for Collective Action – A115
• Managed Autonomy: Getting the Balance Right in CPD – 1619 (top floor, Sports Centre Building)
• From Modelling to Mastery: Developing a Shared Framework for Learner Self-Regulation – A116
• Bridging Silos: A Whole‑School Model for Mandatory Training, Competence, and Risk‑Informed CPD – A117

Workshop 2

• How to run a discovery conversation with your staff – A114
• From Plans to Progress, Part 2: Implement and Measure What We Value – A115
• Three Tiers, One Vision: Strengthening Autonomy Through Collaboration – A116
• From Curriculum Intent to Classroom Practice: Interdisciplinary Learning Through the SDGs at KS3 – A117
• The Positive Power of Connection – 1619 (top floor, Sports Centre Building)

Keynote 2: Connection & Collaboration – What Does Success Look Like? With Phil Holdworth and Sam Egerton from Impact International (Theatre)

An experiential exploration of what connection and collaboration look in the context of International Schools. This keynote invites you to look at your beliefs around successful collaboration, what that might mean for you, and what implications that has for your organisation. Prepare to get involved!

Workshop 3

• Designing PD that doesn’t exhaust people – A114
• Collaboration Groups at EiM: the successes, the challenges, lessons learned – A115
• From Compliance to Collective Efficacy: Designing PD that Teachers Choose, Not Endure – A165
• Great Teaching Teams – How high-performing schools make collaboration work – A116
• How Academic Councils brought our school community together – A117

Bus collects delegates from Hotel (Marriott and Ramada)

• Luggage storage available on campus

Keynote 3: Coordinating Peer Learning at Scale – Michael Iannini (1619)

In this keynote, Michael Iannini shares his five-year journey coordinating PeerSphere’s Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) at scale. Discover how PeerSphere used an Improvement Systems approach to ensure continuity and quality across its communities, overcoming numerous challenges along the way. Michael will offer an honest look at the setbacks faced, both personally and professionally, and the strategies that have helped PeerSphere to continue to evolve.

PeerSphere’s story is far from being considered a success, but what they have learned can contribute immediately to your school successfully building a sustainable peer learning culture. Learn how to establish the groundwork for authentic, impactful peer learning, equip facilitators with the right tools, and empower leaders of learning to take charge and drive change. No one will walk away empty-handed, as Michael shares actionable tips that you can implement right away to build dynamic and self-sustaining communities of learners.

Workshop 4

• Supporting others and your own career progression – A117
• What Makes Professional Learning Stick? – moving beyond platforms and one-off sessions to classroom-focused collaboration – A114
• Building the Bridge: Collaboration That Converts Intention Into Action – A115
• From Co-Construction to Collective Efficacy: Building and Living a Whole-School Teaching & Learning Framework – 1619
• From Pushback to Partnership: Collaborating with Parents Around RSE – A116

Workshop 5

• Creating a Professional Learning Culture – From intention to impact: leading professional learning across a College – 1619
• CPD as Bridge-Building: How Inclusion Work Strengthens Whole-School Collaboration – A117
• The Rosetta Stone: Implementing a Shared Teaching and Learning Framework – A114
• Safe to Speak, Ready to Learn – A115

Departure

• Bus available to Pudong International Airport.