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for PYP Educators

Practical workshops to elevate your PYP practice with AI

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About the event

As PYP educators, we are first and foremost lead inquirers! We model the path of inquiry for our students, and today, this path has led us to the question, can AI truly understand the distinct elements and complexities of the PYP and grow our teaching practice?

How can AI support PYP teachers in creating meaningful central ideas, conceptual connections, and engaging learning experiences? Where and how can AI seamlessly integrate into the several roles that PYP teams juggle everyday?

Join our seasoned PYP educators and leaders as we investigate how to thoughtfully and meaningfully integrate AI into the PYP.

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Jay McTighe

Jay McTighe is a veteran educator, having served as a teacher, resource specialist, program coordinator, and director of a state program for gifted students. He is an accomplished author, having co-authored 18 books, including the award-winning and best-selling Understanding by Design series with Grant Wiggins. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. Jay has also written more than 50 book chapters, articles and blogs, and been published in leading journals, including Educational Leadership (ASCD), Edutopia and Education Week.

Jay has an extensive background in professional development and is a regular speaker at state, national and international conferences and workshops. He has made presentations in 47 states within the United States, in 7 Canadian provinces, and internationally in 38 countries on six continents.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Dr. Catlin Tucker

Dr. Catlin Tucker is a bestselling author, international trainer, and keynote speaker. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years. Catlin earned her doctorate in learning technologies from Pepperdine University. Currently, Catlin works as a blended learning coach, education consultant, and professor in the Masters of Arts in Teaching program at Pepperdine University.

Catlin has written a series of bestselling books on blended learning, which include The Shift to Student-led, The Complete Guide to Blended Learning, UDL and Blended Learning, and Balance With Blended Learning. She is active on X @Catlin_Tucker and Instagram @CatlinTucker and writes an internationally-ranked blog at CatlinTucker.com.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Tony Frontier

Tony Frontier, PhD is an award-winning educator who works with teachers and school leaders nationally and internationally to help them prioritize efforts to improve student learning. With expertise in classroom assessment, student engagement, curriculum development, effective instruction, meaningful feedback, and strategic planning, Frontier emphasizes a systems approach to build capacity to empower leaders and teachers to serve others. His most recent book, Teaching With Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More (ASCD, 2021), helps teachers prioritize and align standards and assessment to instruction and feedback that supports each students’ efforts to learn.

Frontier is also co-author of the ASCD books Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School with Jim Rickabaugh, Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching with Bob Marzano and David Livingston, and Making Teachers Better not Bitter: Balancing Teacher Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth with Paul Mielke. He is also co-author of Corwin’sCreating Passionate Learners: Engaging Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s World with Kim Brown and Don Viegut. Frontier is a frequent contributor to the flagship journal Educational Leadership, his most recent articles include, “How to Provide Better Feedback Through Rubrics” with Jay McTighe, (March, 2022) and "A Transformative Approach to AI", (June, 2023). His books have been translated and published in Korean, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Dr. John Spencer

John Spencer is a former middle school teacher and current college professor who believes teachers are the key to inspiring creativity and wonder in students. He is the co-author of Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student, Empower: What Happens When Students Own the Learning, Vintage Innovation: Leveraging Retro Tools and Classic Ideas to Design Deeper Learning Experiences, and The A.I. Roadmap: Human Learning in the Age of Smart Machines. In 2013, he spoke at the White House, sharing a vision for how to empower students to be future-ready through creativity and design thinking.

Transforming school leadership with AI

Join John Spencer in an insightful keynote designed to give school leaders like you practical ways to transform your leadership using AI.

Explore how you can harness AI to empower your teaching teams with innovative tools and platforms. Discover how AI can elevate collaboration, drive professional development, and enable data-based decisions among educators.

In this session you will learn how to use AI to:

  • Streamline your administrative tasks and save time
  • Support targeted student interventions and personalise learning
  • Improve engagement with students and families
  • Impact student success
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Cindy Blackburn

Cindy has a Masters of Education in Teacher Leadership and has worked as an PYP educator and coordinator internationally for the past ten years. She currently works as the Director of learning and engagement at Toddle and specializes in developing resources to support teachers and leaders in honing their practice and understandings, to make the PYP simple, actionable, and above all else, joyous.

The definitive guide to becoming an AI leader

Join Cindy Blackburn for a masterclass designed to equip school leaders like you with everything you need to meaningfully use AI.

Discover practical strategies and tools that will simplify your work and optimize day-to-day tasks. Gain access to a toolkit of resources that can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow and used to equip your teaching teams for an AI future. Take away the conviction to field questions from your school community and level-up your leadership practice using AI.

In this masterclass you will:

  • Learn the comprehensive what, why, and how of AI
  • Learn how to better manage your time and tasks
  • Know the questions to ask when adopting new tools individually or as a school
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Deepanshu Arora

Deepanshu is the Co-founder and CEO of Toddle. An engineer by background and an educator by passion, he believes that technology in education has only one role to play - that of making teachers’ lives easier by helping them do better what they do best. Deepanshu also leads Toddler’s Den, a network of Reggio Inspired Preschools in India. Prior to this, he worked with McKinsey & Company and studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
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Dr. David Franklin

Dr. David Franklin is an award winning school administrator, education professor, curriculum designer, and presenter. He earned a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, East Bay, a Master’s Degree in Education Technology from National University, and holds a B.A. in Music from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Franklin is an Education Consultant and an Adjunct Professor of Education for Colorado State University. He is also a Marzano Research fellow trained in High Reliability Schools, Instructional Rounds, Collaborative Teams, and PLCs. Dr. Franklin has presented at national and international education conferences and is a sought after presenter in the areas of academic intervention, school leadership, creating a shared vision, creating common assessments, and data analysis.

Lessen your leadership load with AI

Join Jay McTighe, Catlin Tucker, Tony Frontier and Deepanshu Arora as they explore the transformative opportunity AI offers school leaders like you to drive impact.

This panel will explore the game-changing role AI can play in school leadership, including how it enables leaders to spend more time on essential interactions with educators. By streamlining administrative tasks, AI frees up valuable time for you to engage in meaningful collaboration, professional development, and coaching.

Get actionable insights on:

  • How AI can support learning
  • How AI can lessen your load as a school leader
  • How you can support teachers to implement AI successfully
Transforming school leadership with AI

Join John Spencer in an insightful keynote designed to give school leaders like you practical ways to transform your leadership using AI.

Explore how you can harness AI to empower your teaching teams with innovative tools and platforms. Discover how AI can elevate collaboration, drive professional development, and enable data-based decisions among educators.

In this session you will learn how to use AI to:

  • Streamline your administrative tasks and save time
  • Support targeted student interventions and personalise learning
  • Improve engagement with students and families
  • Impact student success
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Sarah Phillips

Sarah has been part of the IB community for over 15 years, serving in a variety of capacities including MYP coordiantor and Senior Curriculum Manager for the MYP at the IB GLobal Centre in the Hague. She is now the DIrector of Learning and Engagement for MYP at Toddle.

The definitive guide to becoming an AI leader

Join Cindy Blackburn for a masterclass designed to equip school leaders like you with everything you need to meaningfully use AI.

Discover practical strategies and tools that will simplify your work and optimize day-to-day tasks. Gain access to a toolkit of resources that can be seamlessly integrated into your workflow and used to equip your teaching teams for an AI future. Take away the conviction to field questions from your school community and level-up your leadership practice using AI.

In this masterclass you will:

  • Learn the comprehensive what, why, and how of AI
  • Learn how to better manage your time and tasks
  • Know the questions to ask when adopting new tools individually or as a school

Event takeaways

What’s on the agenda

Session 01 March 9, 2024 | 11:00AM - 12:00PM GMT (60 minutes)
AI as your co-coordinator

As the PYP Coordinator, you have three core roles - you’re the champion of the programme, you’re constantly developing teacher capacity to implement the programme, and you manage programme-wide planning. In this session, dive into how ChatGPT can enhance your practice across all three areas and elevate your programme. Walk away with practical strategies and an exclusive resource packed with 20+ prompts to get you started tomorrow!

In this session, you will learn how to:

  • Create your own PYP Coordinator bot using AI
  • Master the art of comprehensive programme-wide planning with AI
  • Create and work on your professional development plan (PDP) with AI

Judy Imamudeen

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Session 02 March 9, 2024 | 12:15PM - 01:15PM GMT (60 minutes)
Launching your PYPx with AI

PYPx is an opportunity for students to inquire deeply into topics that they are passionate about. However, lauching into the PYPx and selecting your main inquiry question is often the biggest challenge. In this session, you will learn to overcome common challenges and enhance student engagement in the PYPx using AI tools like ChatGPT.

In this session, you will: 

  • Discuss some typical sticking points that emerge in the beginning of the PYPx
  • Discover three take and use strategies to launch the PYPx using AI
  • Build confidence with AI as a co-teacher for the PYPx process

Cindy Blackburn | Chad Hyatt

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Session 03 March 9, 2024 | 01:30PM - 02:30PM GMT (60 minutes)
ChatGPT essentials for the PYP

How do we effectively integrate AI to enhance teaching and learning in the PYP? Join Cindy Blackburn as she shares actionable classroom strategies that will make your practice deeply conceptual, inquiry-based, and student-led. Take away strategies on using AI as a co-teacher, PD Coach, an effective teaching assistant, and more!

In this session, you will: 

  • Use the IB Approaches to Teaching to craft ChatGPT prompts
  • Learn to create differentiated tasks to meet the needs of all learners
  • Design learning that is informed by formative and summative assessment
  • Learn to use AI as a self-directed professional development tool

Cindy Blackburn

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Session 04 March 9, 2024 | 02:45PM - 03:30PM GMT (45 minutes)
PYP masterpieces with Toddle AI

Ever wondered how incredible AI-generated output can be for you, a PYP educator? In this session, we’ll show you how easily PYP educators can “collaborate” with Toddle AI to elevate teaching. Learn how educators are using AI to design learning experiences that are authentic, rigorous, and student-centred.

In this session, you will: 

  • Uncover the powerful ways that AI can become a nifty teaching assistant
  • See first-hand how Toddle AI can create engaging and authentic content within minutes
  • Learn how your peers are using Toddle AI to save time and make leaps forward in their professional development

Cindy Blackburn | Aashna Shroff | Nimisha Mehta

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Cindy Blackburn

Director of Learning and Engagement, Toddle

Chad Hyatt

Head of MYP, International School of Texas

Judy Imamudeen

PYP Coordinator, International School of Nanshan Shenzhen

Aashna Shroff

Product Lead, Toddle AI

Nimisha Mehta

Program Manager, Toddle Growth

Frequently asked questions

ChatGPT Hackathon for PYP Educators is designed for teachers and coordinators at PYP schools around the globe. This includes coordinators, school leaders, beginning educators, experienced educators, and those who want to learn more about using the full capacity of ChatGPT to enhance teaching and learning.

ChatGPT Hackathon for PYP Educators is fully free of charge! As educators, you are constantly looking to provide the best to your students. This event is our way of thanking you for your unending enthusiasm and passion.

Sit back and get excited for ChatGPT Hackathon for PYP Educators to kick-off! We’ll share links to the sessions for the meet-up 2-3 days prior to the event.

Feel free to pick the sessions you want to attend! We have some exceptional speakers and interactive sessions lined up as a part of the meet-up so we recommend that you attend as many sessions as you can!

All sessions will be recorded and available on Toddle Learn after the event.

ChatGPT Hackathon for PYP Educators is a community initiative by Toddle. Toddle is an all-in-one teaching & learning platform for schools offering IB, UbD®, Cambridge, British, and independent curriculums. Toddle seamlessly integrates curriculum planning, evidence collection, student portfolios, reporting, and parent communication - all from one beautiful interface - and helps teachers focus on the important things. Visit www.toddleapp.com to learn more about how you can use Toddle in your school.





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Disclaimer - This webinar is organised independently of and not endorsed by the IB. Toddle's events and webinars are organised to enable exchange of practices and ideas within the educator community and are not a replacement for the IB official workshops. Views and opinions expressed by the speakers are their personal views and should not be construed as official guidance by the IB.

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