“The Elephant in the Classroom” is an expert-driven Professional Development course specifically addressing the unique situation we face launching into the new year or new phase of schooling influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic: our need for connection and community, our worries, our grief over losses of all kinds and our hopes and opportunities for growth as we move forward together.

Our Partner Create Positive created this course to be self paced, short, concise and packed with hands-on information and practical tips that you can put to use directly in your staff rooms and classrooms. It is a mental health education programme – not counseling – to equip you with tools to address the elephant. There is limited access on a first come, first serve basis. You can take this course at any time, please contact Create Positive via the website below.

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GREAT NEWS: FREE FOR ECIS MEMBERS!

Like you, our team here at CreatePositive had hoped, by now, that the daily impact of COVID-19 on classrooms would have ended and that the work of the recovery phase would be our focus. The reality is that classes around the world continue to be disrupted and dysregulated due to the mental and emotional toll of a global disaster. With that in mind, CreatePositive has extended access to the course which will remain open to educators for as long there is a need and they have offered it free of charge to you, as an ECIS member. To gain access, simply follow these steps:

Visit their website here
Sign up to the platform
Select “The Elephant in the Classroom” and click enroll.
Under payment method, enter the ECIS promotional code: ECIS100 for free acess.
Click on buy. Congrats – you are now enrolled!

About Create Positive

Create Positive is a global organization formed by a team of wellbeing, future skills and organizational leadership experts to build an education ecosystem focusing on the skills that lead to wellbeing and success in education and in life. The modular topics are based on more than 30 years of international wellbeing education research and application and informed by the skills identified as essential for the future by organizations such as the OECD, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, McKinsey, and Accenture.

Middle leaders, from teacher-leaders through coordinators and assistant principals (and more!), are crucial partners in facilitating school change that has a direct and meaningful impact on student learning. The middle leader certificate programme translates quality research around middle leadership into a credible professional pathway.

The ECIS Preparing for International Teaching Certificate is a professional development qualification which will help your teachers develop their skills and deepen their knowledge around the intersection of intercultural awareness and global competence.

As we outline in our ECIS Effective Governance quality standards and in our tome Governance in International Schools, trustees and governors, in partnership with the head of school, play a critical leadership role in international schools. Effective practices, policies, and behaviours at the governance level comprise an essential part of the foundation of stable and strong international schools, and that holds true whether we are considering not-for-profit or for-profit governing boards.

At ECIS, we believe that increased global understanding and engagement is an imperative in schools today, as we seek a better understanding of our world and an appreciation of each other, so that we create impact and opportunity for current and subsequent generations. Enter the ECIS Awareness in Global Perspectives. This course is available as part of all School Membership levels.

This course can also be purchased for £30 +VAT via the link below.

We are delighted to offer our member schools an excellent professional learning opportunity–an online course developed by members of our own community, Rachael Thrash and Ellen Heyting as a toolkit for transformational teaching. In addition to the course, ECIS will host open forums with Rachael and Ellen throughout the year.

We know there is value in pushing students outside a protective academic bubble to personalise their learning through real-world experiences and connections, but teachers and schools struggle to find time, resources, and assessable outcomes. This online course, organised around 6 stages for connection, walks teachers and curriculum designers through practical and reinforcing approaches that transform the classroom into a student-centered laboratory for growth! Teaching and learning becomes an active collaboration for all group members. Drawing on evidence-based best practice, this course guides educators to find the potential for learner growth within their content and subject areas. Teaching is a joyful practice when the learners are eager to engage and find meaning through their participation.

This course is included as part of ECIS School Membership packages. 

Alternatively, you can take the course via the ECIS Learning Hub:

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