Webinar Series: Community Engagement in the IB
Our 5-part series about the shift in language and culture in the IB from “service” to “community engagement” was designed to explore:
key concepts
implications for the design of learning experiences and assessments
considerations about language and framing
foundations of dialogue, partnerships, systems awareness, and reflexivity
forms of action: advocacy, action research, social entrepreneurship, participation, and community-building
the nature of the communities to which we belong (personal, local, global, professional, and thought communities)
the impact of community engagement on learners, communities, and the environment
The curated resources include recordings of each session, shared resources from each session’s chat, recommended IB documents, and curated resources from us (Shei, Laurence, and LeeAnne), your enthusiastic hosts. We hope these resources have real value for you as an IB educator.
To access the resources, click the lock icon beside any module. You’ll be taken to a payment page with the following options:
$35 for the entire resource library (please email us if this is a barrier)
$69 for your access to the entire resource library, and to gift access to another educator
$89 for your access to the entire resource library, to gift access to another educator, and to leave a tip for your hosts
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Setting the Stage: What's the Shift About?
An overview of the shift from service to community engagement across IB programmes. Explore key principles, forms of engagement, and the role of local and global communities.
An overview of the shift from service to community engagement across IB programmes. Explore key principles, forms of engagement, and the role of local and global communities.
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Considering the Implications for the MYP
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, what it can look like in the MYP and why it matters for developing purposeful, connected, and reflective learners. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, what it can look like in the MYP and why it matters for developing purposeful, connected, and reflective learners. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
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Considering the Implications for the DP
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, what it can look like in the DP, specifically CAS. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, what it can look like in the DP, specifically CAS. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
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Considering Implications in the PYP
This session dives into action in the PYP. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how the shift to Community Engagement can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
This session dives into action in the PYP. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how the shift to Community Engagement can deepen agency, enrich inquiry, and strengthen students’ capacity to engage meaningfully with the world around them.
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Considering Whole-School Implications
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, touching on whole-school implications. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can impact schools and the opportunities that this can provide.
This session untangles the shift from service learning to community engagement, touching on whole-school implications. With insights from guest speakers, we will consider how this shift can impact schools and the opportunities that this can provide.
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Your Community Engagement Series Hosts
LeeAnne Lavender
LeeAnne partners with schools worldwide to turn mission statements from static ideals into lived, daily practice.
By weaving together community engagement, storytelling-informed pedagogy, and authentic local/global citizenship, she helps educators create learning experiences where students apply their knowledge and skills in local and global contexts with purpose and impact.
LeeAnne is committed to helping educators build changemaker and changeseeker cultures that empower students to engage in positive, purposeful action fueled by the power of stories. You can learn more about LeeAnne, her courses, and the way she partners with schools at https://www.leeannelavender.com/.
Shei Ascencio
Shei is an educational consultant known for her partnerships and collaborations with schools, youth, organizations and individuals.
With a dynamic, student-focused, community-first approach that prioritizes action, solutionary learning, and community engagement, she empowers school communities to transform their programs and embrace their mission and vision.
Shaped by decades of work across Africa, Asia, and North America, Shei’s unique background in international education, together with her Latina roots, brings a deeply relational, culturally responsive, and equity-centred perspective to her work. You can learn more about Shei, her courses, and partnerships at https://sheiascencio.ca/
Laurence Myers
Laurence is an educational changemaker and systems thinker guiding schools and educators in creating transformative, agentic learning journeys for a world in balance.
With 30+ years of international educational experience and leadership in shifting culture, authentic curricular design, agentic pedagogy and student-directed program coordination he utilizes systems thinking as a catalyst for a more equitable, sustainable and regenerative world.
Laurence is a proponent of schools “being the example they teach about” as innovative, planet-friendly learning spaces enabling transformative journeys inspiring learners to become agents of positive change. You can learn more about Laurence and his school partnerships at https://www.laurencemyers.net/