ECIS Annual Report 2022

MAY 2022

ANNUAL REPORT 2022

THE EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

ECIS FACTS

most popular

OUR WORLD OF MEMBER SCHOOLS

membership benefits EUROPE

231

americas

24

ASIA

161

africa

MEMBERship communities

40K+ EDUCATORS

CHILD PROTECTION CERTIFICATE

Protecting the students in our care

MIDDLE LEADER CERTIFICATE

26 500+

01 CPc 02 MLc For those who desire to create impact

82

COUNTRIES

03 04

REE FWORKSHOPS & EVENTS

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES

CITIES AND COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST ECIS MEMBER SCHOOLS

10

AMMAN

09

BERLIN

08

CAIRO

07

LONDON

06

ISTANBUL

MADRID

28 25 23 21 We are a truly global community! 19 18 17 14 12 11 10

BEIJING

DUBAI

NEW YORK

05

BANGALORE

MUSCAT

STOCKHOLM

04

BRUSSELS

MUMBAI

ROME

03

ABU DHABI

AL KHOBAR

BAKU

PARIS

BANGKOK

COPENHAGEN

GUANGZHOU

HO CHI MINH

GERMANY SWITZERLAND CHINA ITALY | spain INDIA UK FRANCE | THE NETHERLANDS USa PORTUGAL | SAUDI ARABIA | sweden JORDAN | TURKEY | UAE kuwait

MOSCOW

SINGAPORE

VIENNA

CONTENTS

04 05-06 07 08-09 10 11-12 13-14 16

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OVERVIEW OUR VALUES & GOALS WORKSHOP & TRAINING DELIVERED NEW PARTNERSHIPS FEEDBACK COMING SOON WITH THANKS

IMAGE: ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

04 | FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King It has been an exceptionally busy time for ECIS. I became the new leader of ECIS during the pandemic, and with our Board of Trustees, developed new values and a vision for ECIS. World events such as the global pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, really made us refocus on what is important for today and for future generations. The current situation in Ukraine saddens us all deeply.

We also need to think globally about how we avoid disasters in the future. When I talk to students they do fill me with hope. Recently I worked with a young student in an online meeting breakout room and my trust in humanity was galvanised. He features in this short video.

It has been a real pleasure to meet so many of our ECIS school members over the last two years, as part of our listening campaign, focussing on what is important to our communities. This Annual Report provides us with an opportuntity to reflect on all that has been delivered by ECIS as well as future plans with all our stakeholders in mind, including the students.

This report highlights positive steps toward achieving the goals set out by the ECIS Board. We have expanded our program offerings and educator participation and we have increased our organisational capacity to provide for our schools in a variety of ways. We continue to expand our membership and we are adapting to a new reality to serve and support our members. We continue to develop new learning solutions and enhancing our relationships with our community.

All that remains for me to say, is to thank you, for both your collaboration and support over the last year, and I look forward to meeting many more of you in the year to come.

With best wishes,

Kam Chohan Executive Director

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05 | OVERVIEW ECIS has emerged from the global pandemic as a provider of exceptional services and value to its membership in 82 countries globally. In this age of global disruption, ECIS has pivoted to not only carefully nurture relationships with our community but to be continually open to new learning and methods of enhancing our service.

It is our great pleasure, therefore, to report that ECIS has had an exceptional year 21/22 and has exceeded all strategic targets set by our Board of Trustees. Despite the challenges which have impacted most business sectors, our organization has managed to exceed financial projections during the past two years.

We remain passionate and purposeful in providing affordably priced products to schools, an approach that has allowed us to steer our way through this crisis, and for ECIS to emerge as a supporter during the greatest crisis of a generation.

Through a strategy of heightened engagement with our community, ECIS has emerged as a partner, providing great service and value to its community. ECIS proved to be agile and quickly, decisively, and effectively adapted to the changing landscape.

From the beginning days of the pandemic, we were able to switch from our face-to-face conferencing to an online environment. With over 900 delegates attending our first event in 2020 and over 2150 delegates attending online conferences and events since, we have been continually adapting our service with new and enhanced technologies.

The past year has seen ECIS develop products and services in a broad range of meaningful areas of engagement: virtual conferences, child protection training and support, webinars and opportunities for connecting and networking, virtual delivery of middle leader courses, and a membership listening campaign.

We listened when we heard that sometimes our schools wanted to attend sessions spread over a longer time period rather than try to attend a full 2-day conference online.

We know that our members are best served by products that lead schools through a learning journey; not only to combat online Zoom fatigue, but to deepen learning, we have moved away from ‘silver bullet PD’ and now offer regular opportunities for participants to connect with facilitators.

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06 | OVERVIEW Our success has put ECIS one a solid financial footing, achieved by allowing the organisation to evolve, restructure, and refocus, and by applying the Occam’s Razor principle in simplifying our partnerships though direct and clear connections with the fundamental aim of impacting learning in our member schools.

This has led to greater participation in the organisation, with our Twitter following growing by 36%, and LinkedIn, where we have over 11000 followers, by 56%. Similarly, our events registrations have significantly expanded; in 2019/2020 we had 729 registrations for all events, increasing last year to 2200 registrations, and along the same trajectory, this year we have already 2731 registrations. We have re-established strong relationships with our member schools in Western Europe while maintaining global outreach.

The ongoing work to enhance the ECIS membership value proposition now has a focus on the post pandemic needs of schools around learning and professional development. Our two guiding questions for the ECIS team remain: • •

Does this work improve the lives of learners?

Does what we are doing protect and enhance the reputation of ECIS through quality offerings?

Our commitment to Child Protection continues as evidenced by our close work with ICMEC to provide training to ECIS member schools, which has seen over 500 registrations for the ICMEC Child Protection Workshops just this year. ECIS was also the proud sponsor of the ISC Award for Safeguarding.

Thank you to everyone in our community who has worked incredibly hard to remain focused on the education and well-being of the children in our care and for looking after each other.

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07 | VALUES & GOALS

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OUR

WE VALUE:

GOALS

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Keeping learning at the heart of our enterprise

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Leading courageously and ethically

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Building connections amidst diverse perspectives

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Caring deeply for humanity

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Innovative co-creation

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Maintaining strong organizational reliability

EXPANDED MEMBERSHIP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TO IMPROVE DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE DELIVERY, FOSTERING COACHING AND MENTORSHIP RELATIONSHIPS AND EXCHANGES.

PRIORITISING OUR CARE FOR HUMANITY AND GLOBAL IMPACT

REGULAR AND RIGOROUS FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT

DEVELOPING LEARNING SOLUTIONS

PROMOTING INTENTIONALLY ETHICAL AND CARING EDUCATIONAL BEST PRACTICE AND INITIATIVES

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CELEBRATING AND SHARING OUR HERITAGE AS A FAMILY OF EDUCATORS

OPERATIONAL AND LEADERSHIP REORGANIZATION

LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY REPACKAGE OUR BRAND THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, EVENTS, STUDENT & ENGAGEMENT

08 | WORKSHOPS & TRAINING DELIVERED

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LEARNING

ecosystems

SCHOOL COMMUNITIES THAT THRIVE

DIVERSITY & belonging

MLc MIDDLE LEADER CERTIFICATE

For those who desire to create impact

MIDDLE LEADER CAFÉ

THE POWER OF COMMONALITY & INCLUSION.

VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE | APRIL 2021

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MIDDLE LEADER CAFÉ

ASIA

2020 & 2021 Online Leadership Conferences

Admissions Month Middle Leader Certificate Programme

1,500+ delegates

CPc

These have been exceptionally popular with over 350 delegates completing this training.

Plus: Regular Middle Leader Café online events.

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With our partner, EMA: LEARN MORE

CHILD PROTECTION CERTIFICATE

Protecting the students in our care

Child Protection Training with ICMEC With a focus on learning and keeping children globally safe, we are committed to child protection as founder members of the International Child Protection Task Force.

To demonstate our commitment to Child Protection, we have sponosored the ISC Award for Safeguarding.

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MULTIPLE LANGUAGES MULTIPLE VOICES MULTILINGUAL LEARNING IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

VIRTUAL MINI CONFERENCE | 24 FEBRUARY 2022 Online Multilingual Conferences

1-to-1 conversations hosted by Kam Chohan Olli-Pekka Heinonen, Director General of the IB, will be joining us in May. Previous participants include: Amar Latif, Kiran Bir Sethi, and Yong Zhao.

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Two conferences from the Multilingual Learning in Interntional Education Special Interest Group (MLIE).

2021: Multilingual Week 2022: Multilingual Mini Conference (1 day) Ongoing monthly MLIE meet-ups LEARN MORE

PE Month (online) 200+ delegates

09 | WORKSHOPS & TRAINING DELIVERED

D I V E RSI T Y & B E LO N GI N G SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP

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LIBRARIES

Y RSIT E V DI UITY ION EQ C LU S C E I N J U ST I &

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2021

Bespoke Diversity And Belonging events

Inclusive Education (formerly Student Support)

2021 Libraries Virtual Conference

Delivered by the Diversity and Belonging team.

Regular events for global collaboration LEARN MORE

170+ delegates.

llbeing e W CAFÉ

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT

World Languages events (x2)

Inclusive Recruitment Workshops

Wellbeing Cafè

with the AERO group.

3 events per-year.

With Elke Paul from Create Positive.

Plus: Free course for all members.

Regular online events

Intercultural Understanding

Also with the Women in Education Special Interest Group. LEARN MORE

Facilitated by Debra Rader.

10 | NEW PARTNERSHIPS

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Tes Institute International Teacher Training and Development ECIS and Tes are working in partnership to support international schools worldwide, helping them to develop and retain the talented teachers they need for their school to succeed.

Tes have been supporting schools and championing great teaching for more than 100 years. Today they provide a wide range of software and services to help schools and students flourish. Validated by the University of East London, Tes Institute’s iPGCE is a Master’s level online learning programme that will help you to increase the quality of teaching in your school by supporting your teaching staff to develop their teaching practice and pedagogy.

As an ECIS member, you can access a 5% discount on programme fees for Tes Institute’s iPGCE programme.

Arts International: Rethinking and Refocusing Arts International, builds long term relationships with schools, mental health and wellbeing and brings the best in performing arts training. With a series of week-long residencies, focussing on key themes, unique to each school. Arts International can help students “Find their Voice”, “Tackle Intolerance and Injustice”, “Make Everybody Welcome” or even put on the best musical the school has ever seen, where students perform with West End stars.

Arts International owners, Amy Jessop and Dr Andrew Lee will be speaking at and bringing very special guests to our Leadership Conference in St Albans 06-08 April.

In the meantime, please do contact Dr Andrew Lee to discuss how your school can become an Arts International partner, Centre of Excellence, or Flagship school for the Performing Arts.

11 | FEEDBACK

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DEIJ Bespoke Trainings The scope in which students view themselves and the school as a whole changed my thinking #spikestudents.

I just wanted to let you know the impact of the training. Almost every staff member I have passed has told me how inspired they were. The most common comment that I have had is that it was the best training that they had ever attended!

Lots of staff have felt inspired to go on and learn more, and have signed up for webinars and courses. The secondary Head also passed by to tell me that he too had highly positive feedback.

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Creating a Culture of Caring; Cultural Responsiveness and Safeguarding I will bring the material to our Child Protection Committee and work with them on applying it to our practices. I do hope that it will be offered again soon so that ASD’s Admin team can attend.

The most meaningful part of the training was collaborating with professionals dealing with similar experiences. The breakout rooms were very valuable conversations.

12 | FEEDBACK

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Middle Leader Certificate Courses This is my first course for the Middle Leader Certificate and I am so grateful I was able to participate. It has allowed me to meet fantastic people and share thoughts, experiences and issues. I have looked forward to every meeting and I am almost sad that it is already ending.

The course got me thinking about my [school] context and leadership in my context, which is more important than just providing a toolkit approach. I say this because the course really made me think from my perspective, it made me engage.

Your survey responses ECIS has a sense of welcome.

We always look forward to the new trainings provided each year which are included in our membership, such as the Cultivating Connections one this year.

In one sentence, what differentiates ECIS from other member organisations?

Kam Chohan :) Despite being global, it has a very personal touch.

It provides wisdom and connections across national boundaries.

Inclusiveness and an earnest sense of mission - and the people to make it happen.

The child protection and middle leader training is the best I have found.

What do you value most highly about your ECIS Membership?

High quality conferences and training with real life people Collaboration across schools and with other organisations Special interest groups A personal touch - positive relationships with members Your genuine commitment to DEIJ Excellent leadership

13 | COMING SOON CANversation with Olli-Pekka Heinonen Director General of the International Baccalaureate This CANverstation is for the international school communities to hear from OlliPekka Heinonen, the new Director General of the International Baccalaureate. OlliPekka Heinonen became the 8th Director General of the International Baccalaureate in 2021 and will join Kam Chohan, ECIS Executive Director, to discuss his best hopes for the future of the IB. Jeff Bradley, Director of NEASC (our Leadership 2022 Conference partners), will also join this CANversation to discuss the new joint IB and NEASC protocol. We are delighted to also welcome Armand Doucet (Educator, Advisor, Author, & Speaker) who will facilitate this panel. May 2022 update: WATCH THE CANVERSATION HERE

A new student-led service programme CHANGE through Partnership is a new endeavour being created by ECIS and ISL London as a student-led programme and conference aiming to help service learning evolve into two-way partnerships. The goal is to both foster relationships between your school and partner organisations so that those we serve are valued in a twoway partnership. Furthermore, we aim to provide authentic student leadership opportunities within the CHANGE programme and though their service at your school.

Our first conference will aim to accomplish these objectives as we are now forming a Steering Committee comprised of students that will help us prepare to train students how to form and maintain service partnerships.

Furthermore, we aim to bring many organisations to the conference to help form partnerships with schools; some examples include refugee schools. We expect to have a day-long conference event on 15 October 2022, held via Zoom and in local hubs where schools can get together, covering time zones from Asia though Europe.

We are in the early stages of this programme, and we look forward to hearing from you to involve your students in the planning and the conference.

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14 | COMING SOON

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Return of our Educator and Learning Conference this autumn

Continued Commitment and Child Protection Trainings

In response to school members’ feedback in surveys, we are planning the return of a face-toface learning conference for November 2022.

The child protection courses that are offered in partnership with ICMEC are a foundation for many schools around the globe.

We are further extending our bespoke courses with a focus on cultural sensitivities and relevance in multicultural settings.

New Leadership Training

DEIJ

Our highly acclaimed facilitator, Helen Morgan, will extend the provision of bespoke school leadership courses.

With a commitment to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, this is the lens through which we work and learn together and create community and a sense of belonging.

A cohort of educators will work together through the school year, exploring the potential in our schools, for moving from talking about it to engaging in action.

More Middle Leader courses

Developing Global Awareness and Commitment to Equity and Justice

Our MLCs have grown in depth and balance.

We now offer 8 options for courses, 4 of which are required for certification. Our facilitators Helen Morgan, Nancy Squicciarini, Teresa Belisle, Jimena Zalba, and Jim Ellis, will be seeking continual improvement by visiting each other’s courses, and sharing best practice.

Our Global Perspectives online course is being re-written to reflect the commitment of ECIS and our member schools to DEIJ as well as the ever-changing world in which we live. Identity, cultural influence and biases and intercultural sensitivities as well as engaging with diversity and embracing inclusion will be features of the new course.

Next school year, Nunana Nyomi will add another course to the smorgasbord. By offering more courses, we will extend the opportunity for participants to reach certification within a year.

Flexible timing will provide for better accessibility for colleagues in Asia.

The course will be designed for staff, students and families transitioning to new schools and cultural settings, suitable for transition and mentoring programmes as well as classroom teaching.

“ECIS gives me access to wisdom and experience that I can't get alone.”

16 | WITH THANKS

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We would like this opportunity to thank all our supporters and collaborators. We have run over 100 events since January 2020, these have been facilitated by many experts and specialists, we thank you.

A huge thanks to our 16 Special Interest Groups, these volunteers work tirelessly, bringing together world class training to the ECIS community.

Thank you to our board of trustees: • • • • • • • • • • •

Tim Kelley, International School of Stuttgart (Chair) Sheena Nabholz, Search Associates (Treasurer) Anu Monga, TAISI Chairperson Richard Parker, International School of London Kathryn Miner, American International School Vienna Marta Medved Krajnovic, Western Academy Beijing Tom Egerton, Beijing City International School Dahi Al-Fadhli, American Creativity Academy, Kuwait Gift Nisanart Dharmageisirattana, American School Bangkok Pascale Hertay, BEPS International School Dr Christy Brown, Regional Education Officer, Office of Overseas Schools, United States Department of State

To the U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Schools, thank you for your continued support, and a special thanks to Dr Christy Brown and the other Regional Education Officers that have supported schools and communities globally through the most challenging times in recent history and they continue to do so with the current Ukraine situation. May peace come soon.

A special thanks to all respected colleagues who have worked collaboratively and with schools globally, AAIE, CIS, AMISA, CEESA, EARCOS, NESA, MAIS, AISA, and Tri Assocication.

As Founder members of the International Task Force for Child Protection, we remain committed to Child Protection. A huge thanks to ICMEC who have provided training to many hundreds of school teams - this work will continue. Thanks to all members of the International Task Force.

Many thanks to our 75 commercial partners, plus our sponsors at leadership conferences. We are proud to have your brands associated with ECIS. Finally, many thanks to the ECIS team who work tirelessly and are committed to our historical foundation, to provide thought leadership and uphold the ECIS tradition of sustainable, caring and inclusive learning. This will forever be our legacy and aim. Thank you, Sarah Kupke, Jim Ellis, Caroline Davis, James Wren, Joanne Whitson, Abigail Canright, and Mohammed Chaudhry.

WE STAND with ukraine You can support Ukraine via our member school, Pechersk School International, Kyiv.

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