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PYP Category 1: Building Your IB Programme (formerly Making the PYP happen: Implementing agency
2025-09-09 09:00 - 2025-09-11 15:00 (America/New_York) | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
RECOMMENDED FOR: All Primary Years Programme (PYP) teachers (early years, Primary Years, new to PYP and with some experience of the PYP
What does it mean to be an IB Primary years educator? An IB education supports the development of learners through a holistic approach within its inquiry-based and contextualised curriculum frameworks. In this workshop, participants will explore how:

An IB education develops agentic lifelong learners who are internationally-minded and demonstrate attributes of the IB learner profile
Approaches to teaching and learning help students develop the attitudes and skills they need for both academic and personal success
An inquiry-based learning environment develops students’ curiosity and deeper understanding of concepts, contexts and conceptual understandings.

Collaborating as a community of learners impacts learning and teaching and the success of every learner
Note: Available from 1 January 2025. This workshop is replacing ‘Making the PYP happen in the early years: Implementing agency’ and ‘Making the PYP happen: Implementing agency’ workshop.

PYP Category 2: Learning and Teaching for Conceptual Understanding
2025-09-09 09:00 - 2025-09-11 15:00 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
RECOMMENDED FOR: PYP educators, coordinators, librarians/media specialists and specialist teachers, who wish to learn more about designing and teaching for conceptual understanding in a transdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning environment.
How might we intentionally design and teach for conceptual understanding within a transdisciplinary and inquiry-based context? Developing conceptual understanding enables learners to access many kinds of knowledge and develop understanding from multiple sources and diverse perspectives. In this workshop, participants will explore how:

Conceptual understanding is central to the aims of an IB education.
Conceptual understanding is developed through the pedagogical approaches to teaching to support transdisciplinary learning within, across and beyond subjects.
The programme of inquiry and the PYP collaborative planning process frame opportunities that enable designing and teaching for conceptual understanding that connects meaningfully to the learner and the learning community.
Concepts play a critical role in organizing, designing and planning curriculum and learning.
Together, this creates opportunities for learners to make connections, transfer and apply skills, knowledge, and understandings to new and different contexts in creative, generative, agentic and dynamic ways.

This workshop provides tools and strategies that enhance conceptual understanding leading to depth and rigour in thinking within, between and across subjects both inside and outside the programme of inquiry

IB Education Category 3 - Approaches to Learning
2025-09-09 09:00 - 2025-09-11 15:00 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
What skills positively influence and support a student’s approach to life-long learning? All IB programmes develop the approaches to learning (ATL) skill categories of communication, social, self-management, research and thinking.

Develop a deeper understanding of ATL as a way for students to acquire and use skills developed over time in order to access learning.
Consider contemporary research to apply metacognitive strategies throughout the learning process, with an emphasis on assessment as learning. • Design the curriculum to encourage students to build these skills.
Reflect on how developing affective, cognitive and meta-cognitive skills using a variety of strategies may increase the capacity of learners to become self-regulated and intrinsically motivated.

DP Category 2 - Extended Essay
2025-09-09 09:00 - 2025-09-11 15:00 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
RECOMMENDED FOR: Educators who have had an association with the EE for at least one Diploma Programme (DP) exam session.
This workshop aims to help EE educators build on and further develop their knowledge and skills related to supervising and supporting students throughout their extended essay experience and enhance the quality of their management of the extended essay process. Working collaboratively with each other and the workshop facilitator, participants will:

further develop their skills in guiding and supporting EE students, emphasising IB approaches to teaching and approaches to learning
develop their capacity to help students to actively connect their EE experience with their experiences in the other components of the DP core, TOK and CAS •
enhance their understanding of the nature, purpose and requirements of the EE and the framework that needs to be in place to effectively support students during their entire EE experience •
enhance their capacity to develop a positive supervisorstudent relationship, with clearly delineated and mutually understood role boundaries, that helps students to make the most of their EE experience •
explore the possibilities offered by the research pathways open to students, interdisciplinary and subject-focused, and discuss the consequent potential emerging complex decision-making faced by students •
share approaches and techniques for running effective reflection sessions with students, emphasising transfer of skills to other contexts, both present and future • co-develop practices to manage academic integrity in an era of rapid technological change •
apply the assessment criteria uniformly to extended essays written in a range of subject-focused and interdisciplinary frameworks •
use the EE grade descriptors to inform the grade prediction process • use examples of assessed student work to build on and improve existing understanding of what a range of essays looks like, using this to inform potential guidance and feedback for students

September 9-11, 2025 In-Person IB Workhops
2025-09-09 - 2025-09-11 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
CASIE’s September 9-11, 2025 IB workshops will be presented in-person at our CASIE office campus (Century Center NE, Atlanta, GA 30345) in Atlanta, GA, USA.
Our in-person workshops are led by highly-skilled, IB-trained practitioners. We provide breakfast and snacks on all three days and lunch on the first and second days of the workshop.
Regular rate: $1,295.00
Group rate: $1,195.00

27 August, 2025 IB Coordinators Chat
2025-08-27 11:00 - 13:00 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States
CASIE’s FREE IB Coordinator Chat is a monthly get-together designed specifically for IB coordinators and administrators OUTSIDE OF GA. Join us for networking, support, and learning about how to lead your school’s International Baccalaureate Programme.
IB Coordinators Chat meets virtually from 11:30 – 1:00 pm US Eastern Time. The meetings are usually held on the second Wednesday of each month during the school year.
CHECK YOUR TIME ZONE HERE
The hour-and-a-half-long meeting is a time for coordinators and administrators from PYP, MYP, DP, and CP programmes to share ideas and concerns, learn from veteran coordinators, discover new resources, and establish valuable contacts. These connections with other coordinators form a support system that helps strengthen everyone’s IB programs.
We invite you to meet and collaborate with other outstanding educators around the country and the world!
We invite you to come meet other outstanding educators who are part of the Georgia IB family! If you are outside the state of Georgia, we invite you to join our IB Coordinators Chat.
An RSVP email with details is sent out in advance of each Lunch & Learn to those on our email list, so sign up now!

2025 GA IB Lunch & Learn + Programme Retreats for PYP/MYP/DP/CP
2025-08-21 08:30 - 14:30 | CASIE, 2635 Century Pkwy NE Suite 125, Atlanta, GA, 30345, United States

July 8-10 Virtual IB Workshops
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
Virtual IB Workshop Registration – $950 USD
CASIE’s July 8-10, 2025 IB Workshops will be presented online.
We deliver best-in-class, IB-accredited online workshops. Our virtual IB workshops are structured to maximize opportunities to collaborate in real-time with your workshop leader and fellow participants while allowing you to complete your training in only three half-days, from the comfort of your home.
Facilitated by expert workshop leaders in 4.5-hour sessions over three consecutive days, our highly-interactive virtual workshops take place over Zoom and feature an additional three hours of asynchronous work in Canvas required to earn a completion certificate

IB Education Category 3 -Approaches to Learning
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
What skills positively influence and support a student’s approach to life-long learning?
All IB programmes develop the approaches to learning (ATL) skill categories of
communication, social, self-management, research and thinking.
• Develop a deeper understanding of ATL as a way for students to acquire and use skills
developed over time in order to access learning.
• Consider contemporary research to apply metacognitive strategies throughout the
learning process, with an emphasis on assessment as learning.
• Design the curriculum to encourage students to build these skills.
• Reflect on how developing affective, cognitive and meta-cognitive skills using a variety of
strategies may increase the capacity of learners to become self-regulated and intrinsically
motivated.

MYP Category 2 - Leading the Learning
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Coordinators, members of the pedagogical leadership
team, librarians, specialists, deans of students, counsellors,
year level leaders/heads of department, section/deputy/
assistant/vice heads, inclusion specialists and career/
guidance specialists. *Heads of school may benefit from
attending this workshop with/without their pedagogical
leadership team.
This workshop will support learning leaders to enhance the
identity of being an IB World School through a reflection on the
purpose, culture and environment of their learning organization
and their agency for growing leadership capacity within the
school. Building on this understanding, leaders will consider the
ways in which they will place learning at the center of their IB
programme, through the thoughtful development of purpose,
culture and environment, in alignment with the IB’s standards and
practices. Working with each other and the workshop leaders,
participants will:
• develop their leadership capabilities as a pedagogical leader
within a learning organization.
• become familiar with the IB’s leadership capabilities as lenses
or tools to develop their personal mastery in an IB global
context.
• prepare to develop collaborative or shared leadership capacity
within their school.
• plan the journey through school self-study toward evaluation
and beyond.
During the workshop, leaders will reflect and build on their
school’s IB development plan to meet the IB’s requirements for
evaluation and a vision for ongoing implementation.

MYP Category 2 - Language Acquisition (generic)
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Middle Years Programme (MYP) subject-group teachers
with at least one year of experience delivering the MYP in
their specific subject. In order to actively participate and
collaborate, all category 2 participants are encouraged to
have previously created, taught, and assessed at least one
MYP unit.
Category 2 workshops encourage you to:
• explore and align your practices with the IB standards and
practices
• refine and continue to develop a collaborative and collegial
approach to the structures and principles of your subject
group aims and objectives
• deepen your understanding and capabilities for delivering
your content through concepts, context and approaches to
learning skills
• evaluate, strengthen, and design new tasks that will support
the implementation of your subject group expectations
• reflect upon the relevance, innovation, and rigour of the
student-centred environments that you have created
• discover and create opportunities to make your content
more accessible to a broader range of students..

MYP Category 1 - Language Acquisition (generic)
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Middle Years Programme (MYP) subject-group teachers
new to the MYP at established IB World Schools and
teachers from interested or candidate schools.
Category 1 workshops will encourage you to:
• align educational beliefs and values with those of the IB in
order to create a challenging programme of international
education.
• begin to develop a collaborative and collegial approach to
aligning your practices with the structures and principles of
the IB subject group aims and objectives.
• develop an understanding of the structures and principles
of the subject group framework and guidelines towards the
construction of a coherent curriculum.
• prepare learning, teaching and assessment strategies that
will support the implementation of the subject group
framework and guidelines.
• engage in and create relevant, significant, challenging and
student-centred environments.

DP Category 2 - Chemistry
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Diploma Programme (DP) subject teachers who have
prepared students for at least one DP exam session in that
specific subject. Educators should enroll in a category 2
workshop in their particular subject area.
These workshops are designed for participants who are keen
to improve the teaching and learning experience in the DP
classroom. The workshop will enable participants to:
• unpack elements of the IB Programme standards and
practices as a guide for decisions regarding delivery of the
subject
• review and share strategies that support successful
collaborative planning and reflection which deepen links
with the DP core—theory of knowledge (TOK), CAS and EE
• consolidate understanding of the nature of the extended
essay and the role of the supervisor, to include reference to
world studies interdisciplinary extended essay
• examine the connection between their chosen subject, the
approaches to teaching and learning and the learner profile
while promoting international-mindedness
• create teaching and learning strategies that develop selfregulated and metacognitive learners
• design appropriate inquiry-based lessons and activities for
their subject
• discuss strategies for addressing assessment-related
challenges in the chosen subject
• understand how to arrive at a judgment using a common
assessment task and published criteria
• analyse IB subject reports to promote student achievement
• discuss successful strategies for recording, reporting and
monitoring ongoing student progress in the subject group
• design formative learning engagements that will equip
students with the required factual, procedural and
conceptual knowledge that support the summative
assessment task(s)
• engage with and integrate current IB publications on the
programme resource centre into the teaching of their
subject
• discuss and share strategies to promote academic integrity
• interact with and explore the TSM and subject-specific
teaching and learning resources on the programme
resource centre and in the programme communities
throughout the curriculum life cycle
• participate in professional learning communities within and
beyond your school to facilitate the transfer of professional
development
• reflect on the teacher’s role in programme evaluation,
particularly how to highlight horizontal and vertical inschool planning

CP Category 1 - Community Engagement
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Teachers supporting this CP core component from schools
that have taken the decision to apply to offer the careerrelated Programme (CP); new or recently appointed
community engagement (CE) coordinators or advisers
from IB World Schools with an existing CP offer; teachers
who are interested in supporting CE in their schools and
are new to CE.
This workshop will provide participants with an in-depth
look at the IB mission and philosophy reflected in the CP as
a programme of international education and in the context
of community engagement (CE) more specifically, and
introduce the function of CE in the CP core and the CP as a
whole. Participants will explore the building blocks of CE, the
CE learning and engagement process, and approaches to
assessment in CE, and will gain an understanding of both the
aims and the specific requirements of CE. The workshop will
focus on practical methods to encourage achievement of the
aims and learning outcomes of CE, and participants will have
the opportunity to consider a range of approaches to bring
CE to life in their diverse contexts with consideration of their
students and wider communities, as well as of their school
resources.

IB Education Category 3 - Approaches to Learning
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR: All educators, IB coordinators and school leaders or
decision makers at any point in their journey as life-long learners.
What skills positively influence and support a student’s approach to life-long learning?
All IB programmes develop the approaches to learning (ATL) skill categories of
communication, social, self-management, research and thinking.
• Develop a deeper understanding of ATL as a way for students to acquire and use skills
developed over time in order to access learning.
• Consider contemporary research to apply metacognitive strategies throughout the
learning process, with an emphasis on assessment as learning.
• Design the curriculum to encourage students to build these skills.
• Reflect on how developing affective, cognitive and meta-cognitive skills using a variety of
strategies may increase the capacity of learners to become self-regulated and intrinsically
motivated.

PYP Category 3 - Role of the Coordinator
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Experienced coordinators from authorized IB World Schools.
This workshop is designed to help coordinators implement the
programme in a manner that supports the IB mission statement
and philosophy, while at the same time developing programme
standards and practices. The workshop looks at the role of
the coordinator in documentation, organizing professional
development opportunities, and managing complex
relationships, resource management and communication
with a range of stakeholders. All of these responsibilities are
integral to the successful implementation of the programme.
The workshop will provide opportunities for reviewing new and
existing publications, curriculum mapping, policy writing and
reviewing the guidelines for verification and evaluation. You will
also become familiar with online systems, such as International
Baccalaureate information system (IBIS) and the programme
resource centre, which are vital to the role of the coordinator.
The workshop will model collaborative leadership strategies and
explore ways to effectively manage change.

PYP Category 2 - Your Exhibition
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
This workshop is relevant for PYP (primary years programme) educators (including specialist teachers, librarians and media specialists), coordinators and administrators in IB schools who want to learn more about the exhibition and its role in supporting individual and collective agency within students and the learning community.
How might the exhibition provide not only the culminating experience for PYP students but also a journey into the coconstruction of learning involving both individual and collective endeavours that engage the whole learning community and beyond? Discover how to mobilize the power of the exhibition in your school, activating and supporting student agency, action and collaborative learning through the in-depth exploration of personal, local and global challenges and opportunities. This workshop will build your understanding of how the programme standards and practices support students and schools in an
integrated way to plan, carry out and reflect on the exhibition through purposeful environments, learning spaces and engagements, alongside the approaches to teaching and learning, IB learner profile and action. Learn how to leverage your exhibition into a culminating experience that impacts self and community and furthers a student’s learning journey.

PYP Category 1 - Building Your IB Programme (formerly Making the PYP Happen: Implementing Agency)
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
All Primary Years Programme (PYP) teachers (early years, Primary
Years, new to PYP and with some experience of the PYP
What does it mean to be an IB Primary years educator? An IB
education supports the development of learners through a
holistic approach within its inquiry-based and contextualised
curriculum frameworks. In this workshop, participants will
explore how:
• An IB education develops agentic lifelong learners who are
internationally-minded and demonstrate attributes of the IB
learner profile
• Approaches to teaching and learning help students develop
the attitudes and skills they need for both academic and
personal success
• An inquiry-based learning environment develops students’
curiosity and deeper understanding of concepts, contexts
and conceptual understandings.
Collaborating as a community of learners impacts learning and
teaching and the success of every learner
Note: Available from 1 January 2025. This workshop is
replacing ‘Making the PYP happen in the early years:
Implementing agency’ and ‘Making the PYP happen:
Implementing agency’ workshop.

MYP Category 1 - Sciences
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

MYP Category 1 - Mathematics
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

MYP Category 1 - Language & Literature
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

DP Category 3 - Role of the Coordinator
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

DP Category 2 - Theory of Knowledge
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Experienced Diploma Programme (DP) Theory of Knowledge
(TOK) teachers who have prepared students for at least one
assessment session and are keen to further improve the TOK
teaching and learning experience.
This workshop is designed for experienced Theory of
Knowledge (TOK) teachers who are keen to improve the
teaching and learning experience in the TOK classroom. The
sessions will encourage teachers to reflect on their current
practice and identify ways to take their thinking on specific
topics forwards. The workshop will focus on:
• deepening teachers’ understanding of the nature of TOK
and how it links to the IB programme standards and
practices, the learner profile and international mindedness
• increasing teachers’ understanding of the central concepts
of the TOK course
• unpacking the details of TOK assessment and teachers’ role
in this process
• implementing the course with a consideration of the
teacher’s current course outline through different models
and shared experiences and the possible interactions with
the approaches to teaching and learningl planning

DP Category 2 - Visual Arts
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

DP Category 1 - Mathematics: Analysis & Approaches
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
RECOMMENDED FOR:
Diploma Programme (DP) subject-group teachers new to
the DP at established IB World Schools and teachers from
interested or candidate schools preparing for authorization.
Educators should enroll in a category 1 workshop in their
particular subject area.
These workshops are designed to prepare participants to teach
a specific DP subject in a manner that supports the IB mission
statement and philosophy. The workshop will enable participants to:
• develop a deep understanding of the IB organization: its
history, mission statement, learner profile, IB continuum and
the international dimension
• consider the impact of the centrality of the IB learner profile
and approaches to teaching and learning in the DP and CP
models
• consider how the course makes links with theory of
knowledge (TOK) and creativity, activity, service (CAS) and
takes the CP context into consideration
• explore the nature of the extended essay and the role
of the supervisor, to include reference to world studies
interdisciplinary extended essay
• develop an understanding of student and teacher
approaches to inquiry in the DP/CP classroom
• design course outlines that align with curriculum
requirements, aims and assessment objectives of the subject,
IB terminology and the relevant standards
• design student engagements for interactions with the
syllabus concepts and content
• articulate the assessment requirements
• create formative assessment tasks that will equip students
with the required factual, procedural and conceptual
knowledge that support the summative assessment task(s)
• use assessment criteria to make judgments about student
achievement (criterion-related, best fit)
• interact with and explore the TSM and subject-specific
teaching and learning resources on the programme resource
centre and in the programme communities throughout the
curriculum life cycle
• select and analyse suitable resources that support teaching
and learning in an IB classroom
• promote the importance of academic integrity
• participate in professional learning communities within and
beyond your school to facilitate the transfer of professional
development

DP Category 2 - Biology
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10

DP Category 2 - English A: Literature
2025-07-08 - 2025-07-10
