Angeline Aow

As a CIS International Advisor and co-author of Becoming a Totally Inclusive School, Angelina helps schools design for belonging and impact.

KEYNOTE

Compassionate Courage: Bridging Difference in a World at a Crossroads

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BIO

Angeline Aow is an international educator and consultant who has taught in schools in Sydney, Singapore, Nanjing and Berlin, where she currently resides. Having undertaken multiple roles within schools, as a teacher, curriculum coordinator, accreditation coordinator and professional learning and development coordinator, Angeline has gained unique insights and understandings from multiple perspectives. Since July 2021, Angeline joined the Council of International Schools’ (CIS) team as a part-time International Advisor focused on the development of materials related to socially responsible leadership, whilst continuing her part-time role as PYP coordinator (Upper Elementary) at Berlin International School. 

Her work as a member of the International Baccalaureate Educator Network (IBEN) and CIS volunteer has provided opportunities for her to work across cultures, borders and languages, where she brings together learning communities interested in developing shared understandings and practical steps towards sustainable school growth. Angeline is an advocate of coaching, concept-driven learning and teaching and inclusive schools. Angeline is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and uses this tool to help individuals and educator teams with the development of intercultural learning. She is also a certified Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction trainer (CBCI) who leads pedagogy development that promotes understanding and transfer. Angeline has completed Cognitive Coaching (I & II) and supports individuals and teams to elevate their autonomy, learner agency, intentionality and impact. She enjoys amalgamating these concepts to co-construct consultations that best serve schools in contextually relevant and culturally responsive ways. 

Angeline believes in the power of community engagement and contributes as an active citizen on social justice issues through her role in multiple educational networks. She co-founded WomenEdDE, a community to support aspiring and existing women leaders in education, that now has networks in the following regions: Berlin-Brandenburg, Frankfurt-Main, Bavaria and Nord-rhein Westphalia. Angeline volunteers as a country network leader of WomenEdDE and is also a part of the Berlin team. She also serves on MSB’s Advisory Board and CIS's Board Committee on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Anti-racism. Angeline leads the International Schools Anti-Discrimination Task Force’s Humanizing Pedagogy Committee, where she co-facilitated the development of guidance for international schools to strengthen inclusive learning design to serve all students. In addition to these international and national networks, Angeline is an ambassador in Berlin for PANDA: a women in leadership network, where she hosts events to connect and sponsor local talent.

Angeline co-authored Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders, published by Routledge in November 2022. A review shared by international educators outlines that “the book manages to succinctly explain the urgent need to rethink schools while providing practical first steps for institutions to engage in the necessary work ahead, regardless of their stage in the process” (Thrash, 2023). Angeline believes that every educator and student has the power to impact others to create a just and equitable world. 

SESSIONS

• Session 1: Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: The Role of Language

• Session 2: Humanising Pedagogy

• Session 3: The Total Inclusivity Continuum: Mapping School Development

• Session 4: Changing School Culture and Infrastructure for Intersectional Inclusion

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