Date: Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March 2024

Venue: International School of Lausanne

Research and evidence-based practice

High quality teaching forms the bedrock of effective learning and student success, playing a pivotal role in shaping the minds and futures of students.

Skilled teachers possess deep subject knowledge. However, also fundamental is their pedagogical expertise, enabling them to present information in a clear, engaging, and meaningful manner. Effective teachers adapt their teaching strategies to meet the diverse learning needs of students, fostering a positive and inclusive classroom environment.

High quality teaching goes beyond the transmission of knowledge. It inspires and motivates students to become lifelong learners. The most effective teachers instil a love for learning, curiosity, and critical thinking skills in their students, creating an atmosphere that encourages exploration.

The 2024 SGIS conference will explore what research and experience says about how schools and teachers can ensure that their students receive the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive.

Delegate Registration for the Annual Conference

Individual Early bird registration for member schools (by Friday December 31 2023) CHF525
Individual Registration for Member Schools after December 31 2023 CHF 570
Individual registration for non-member schools CHF 625

Closing date for Registration, Monday February 24, 2024

Download the registration doc

Exhibition Registration for the Annual Conference

Please book exhibition space and attendees at https://eventsteven.com/SGIS-2024 

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Speakers include:

Gary Aubin is the author of The Lone SENDCO, a handbook of 300 questions and answers for busy SENDCOs. He works as the Education Endowment Foundation's Associate for SEND,  having been their SEND Content Specialist. In this role, he has spoken to hundreds of school leaders about the evidence base behind high-quality teaching for SEND.

Alongside this, he leads on SEND provision for a Multi Academy Trust of 10 primary and secondary schools. He is a secondary teacher, former primary and secondary SENDCO and former secondary Head of Year. Gary also authors the SENDMattersUK blog.

Dr. Eowyn Crisfield is a Canadian-educated specialist in languages across the curriculum (LAC), including EAL/ELL, home languages, bilingual and immersion education, super-diverse schools and translanguaging. Her focus is on equal access to learning and language development for all students, and on appropriate and effective professional development for teachers working with language learners.

She is author of the recent book ‘Bilingual Families: A practical language planning guide (2021) and co-author of “Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in Schools: The Languages Challenge” (2018, with Jane Spiro). 

She is also a Senior Lecturer in English Language and TESOL at Oxford Brookes University.

Harry has been a teacher, researcher and teacher-educator, and has worked in England, Japan, India and Sweden. He now leads Teacher Tapp's School Surveys, helping school leaders understand their staff, parents and pupils better, and is director of training for Steplab, helping schools use instructional coaching to improve teaching.

His latest book is Habits of Success: Getting every student learning, his blog is improvingteaching.co.uk , and he is on Twitter @hfletcherwood

Josh Goodrich is a former English teacher, school leader and MAT trust leader of Teaching and Learning.

A lifetime obsession with effective PD and teacher coaching lead him to start Steplab, an organisation that supports schools to lead PD that really works, powered by Instructional Coaching. 

Josh is currently the CEO of Steplab.

Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel is a teaching-focused Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Mannheim and pursued postdoc positions at York University in Toronto and the Center for Integrative Research in Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) at Washington University in St. Louis. She was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Dundee for four years before joining the University of Glasgow in 2020.

She is an expert in applying findings from Cognitive Psychology to education and an enthusiastic science communicator. She leads the interdisciplinary TILE Network that connects educational sectors through a speaker series and is a member of the Learning Scientists. Carolina is frequently invited to give continuing professional development workshops and keynotes on learning and teaching worldwide.

She is passionate about teaching and aims at providing her students with the best learning experience possible. In her free time, Carolina enjoys listening to her vinyl records, reading books, or watching movies and series. You can follow her work on Bluesky, Twitter, and LinkedIn."

Peps Mccrea is an award-winning teacher educator, designer and author.
He is Dean of Learning Design at Ambition Institute, Director at Steplab, and author of the ultraconcise High Impact Teaching series.

Peps has three Masters degrees, Fellowships from the Young Academy and University of Brighton, and lots of distracting tattoos.

Visit pepsmccrea.com for more.

Andrew Peterson is Professor of Character and Citizenship Education and is the Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. Andrew is also Head of Department for Education and Social Justice in the School of Education and Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies. He has worked extensively with schools in England and internationally to develop character education. His research concentrates on the connections between character and citizenship education, particularly on the nature of civic virtues and their education in schools. He has written widely in this area, combining theoretical and empirical research to examine how schools cultivate informed, active, and morally responsible citizenship.

His work has been published in leading academic journals, in numerous books (most recently, Civility and Democratic Education) and he has edited several major collections on citizenship and civic education. Andrew has received grants from a range of funders, including the Australian Research Council and Leverhulme Trust, and he currently co-leads the Global Innovations in Character Development Platform initiative with Tom Harrison, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Andrew previously was a teacher of history, politics and economics.

Companies

Tj Power is a neuroscientist, the co-founder of Neurify and an international speaker on the topic of mental health. Tj began his career lecturing in psychology at the University of Exeter before launching Neurify in COVID to support companies and schools across Europe. Tj has now delivered over 300 training experiences and amassed over 200,000 followers on Instagram with his simple, neuroscience-backed mental health teachings. During Tj’s sessions you discover how our modern, digital-based lives are impacting our minds and the optimal way to live in order to feel motivated, connected, calm and healthy.

Young People
Tj deeply understands the challenges young people are experiencing and the steps required to truly transform how they feel.

Please check out Tj’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tjpower/ 

Pritesh Raichura is the Assistant Principal in charge of Teaching & Learning at Ark Soane Academy, a new and growing comprehensive secondary school in London that currently has Years 7 to 9. Pritesh has held the position as Head of Science for the last 5 years.

At his previous school, which is also in London and has a comprehensive intake too, his department had some of the best results in the country. In his Year 11 class, every single student achieved the highest GCSE grade: 9-9.

Pritesh blogs at BunsenBlue.wordpress.com. He tweets from @Mr_Raichura.

Kym Scott is an early childhood consultant with 30 year’s experience of working with children, teachers and leaders. She provides consultancy, training, workshops and keynote speeches across the UK and overseas on a number of subjects connected with early years education and beyond.

Her extensive work with international schools means that she has developed a strong understanding of this unique sector and has provided in-school training, for leaders, teachers and support staff across the globe. 

She is an Affiliate Member of FOBISIA. and also runs her own online learning platform The Place to Learn, where whole teams can access her training videos to work through individually or as a team. 

Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  for any queries relating to training content or visit www.kymscottconsultamcy.com

Anne van Dam is an educator and educational consultant with a passion for play as children's active, complex, vivacious meaning making process. She views documentation as a way to grow as educators as they examine threads, ideas and connections underpinning these investigations.

Anne has worked as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, head of school and vice-principal at (international) schools in China, Singapore, Switzerland and The Netherlands. She joined EtonHouse International Pre-School in 2007, drawn to the school for its vision to centre learning around young children's competencies in making meaning and establishing relationships. In August 2011, Anne became the Assistant Principal at the International School of Zug and Luzern(ISZL). At ISZL, she supported the development of a new vision for learning in the early years, placing a strong emphasis on relationships, play, learning spaces and documenting learning.

Anne moved to the Netherlands in 2015. This has given her the opportunity to collaborate with the PYP development team at the IB regional office in The Hague. She has worked on the IB PYP review focusing on learner agency, early years, inquiry and several aspects of 'the learning community'. Anne also collaborates with schools as an independent educational since 2015. Her aim is to support educators to developed a shared pedagogy based in honouring young children as amazing learners.