Ma. Eleanor Barlongay
Biography: Ma. Eleanor Mabaquiao-Barlongay, or simply “Yek” to her students is a dancer, choreographer and educator. Her formal training in various dances such as Classical Ballet, Modern Jazz and Tap Dance started at the age of four (4). She is an alumnae of Siena College, QC. She earned her degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of the East (UE). In 2000, she took and finished additional units in UE for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. To be sure, her love of dance and the passion to share it with others made her pursue a career in the field of arts and education.
She was a member of the Royal Academy of Dance based in London. Likewise, she was a member of the premier jazz dance company Douglas Nierras’ Powerdance. As a member of the dance company, she has performed and participated in various local and international dance concerts and expositions.
Presently, she is a faculty member of the International School Manila where she has been teaching Beginning Dance, Advanced Dance and ISM Dance Company. In 2008, she pursued further studies and attended a Dance and Movement Workshop in Sacramento, USA. She is concurrently the Creative Director and Choreographer of the ADB (Asian Development Bank) Dance Guild.
Title: Approach to Making A Dance
Description: This workshop will teach a group exercise class by creating choreography, developing modifications and variations and breakdown choreography.
The workshop will begin with a sample class, review of basic movements and exploring the different elements of dance.
Please wear comfortable clothing which allows you to move freely.
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Megan Campisi
Biography: Megan Campisi received her B.A. from Yale in theater and graduate training from L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq in France. From 2001 to 2006 Megan lived in Paris where she divided her time between creating and performing her own work (including Les Musiciens de Brême, a found object puppet show and winner of the ALFA and Adami awards at the Avignon Festival 2006) and teaching theater in French public schools.
She studied commedia dell'arte with Antonio Fava, puppetry with Philippe Genty and Shakespeare at RADA. Her most recent creation is Floating Brothel, based on historical accounts of female convicts transported from London to the penal colony in what would become Australia in the 1780’s. Floating Brothel will be part of the Shanghai international Contemporary Theatre Festival in November 2009.
For the past four years Megan has taught annual theater workshops in Chinese International Schools. She guest teaches for the Yale University and at Lincoln Center in New York. www.megancampisi.com
Title: Page to Stage: Turning English and History Curriculum into Theater
Description: Experience the step-by-step process to transform an historical event and a short story into short –but rich—pieces of theater. The devising process activates English and history curriculum while developing skills of ensemble work, deep observation, constructive feedback and artistic expression. Leave prepared to guide students through the process.
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Lynne Coleman
Biography: Lynne Coleman, who most recently, served as curriculum and professional development coordinator at Shanghai American School, has been a teacher and administrator for 33 years, 20 of them in international schools. Before accepting the position at SAS, Coleman taught IB English at the International School of Beijing, where she also worked as professional development coordinator and strategic planning facilitator for six years. Coleman moved to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she taught IB and AP English and publication classes at the International School of Kuala Lumpur for four years. Prior to that assignment she taught AP English and the Abitur track at the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin, Germany. After nine years teaching in Lewiston Idaho, she began her work in international settings at Zweibrucken, Germany in a DoDDS school.
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Title: Teachers as Critical Friends Facilitators: Leading engaged, collaborative groups in focused, powerful learning
Description: We will look at teachers as stewards of students’ learning – and their own. Participants will examine the work of both students and teachers to determine how is it that students and adults learn. We will further experience how processes and protocols can help support productive and efficient learning in the school and community. Through the day, participants will:
1. Learn and practice strategies to build and facilitate teams among peers and in classrooms;
2. Select from among a variety of protocols to design and facilitate effective, efficient agendas for team meetings;
3. Practice ways to put learners, students and adults, in the center . . . in order to improve the learning of all;
4. Learn and practice ways of looking at student learning data that provides focus and power to the work of teaching and learning.
NOTE: Participants are encouraged to bring an assignment, assessment or unit they are working on but have not completed. They will have an opportunity to volunteer this real in-progress work for the purpose of tapping the group for ideas and suggestions for further development.
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Jennifer Delos Reyes
Biography: Jen Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Her research interests include the history of socially engaged art, group work, and artists' social roles. She has exhibited works across North America and Europe, and has contributed writing to various catalogues and institutional publications. In 2008 she contributed writing to Decentre: Concerning Artist-Run Culture published by YYZBOOKS. In 2006 she completed an intensive workshop, Come Together: Art and Social Engagement, at The Kitchen in New York. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant. She is the founder and organizer of Open Engagement, a conference on socially engaged art practices. She is currently an Assistant Professor and teaches in the Art and Social Practice MFA concentration at Portland State University.
Title: Art and Social Practice
Description: The main focus of all of my workshops will be how to encourage students and teachers to develop and utilize their artistic skills to engage in society. This will all culminate in a public project that I will realize while at the conference that will enact principles from the various workshops.
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Marilyn George
Biography: Marilyn George has been the associate executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Schools, the Western Association for Schools and Colleges, since 1987. In addition to her knowledge of accreditation and school improvement, her areas of expertise are curriculum/instruction and staff development. She has been a classroom teacher, staff development specialist, trainer, consultant, and a high school district administrator of staff development and state/federal programs. She has worked extensively with the California State Department of Education in the areas of program quality review, the mentor teacher program, and staff development programs. She has given presentations and written articles and other publications in the areas of staff development, mentoring, and accreditation. Her degrees are from Westminster College (B.S.), University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.S.), and UCLA (Ed.D.).
Title: Serving as a Visiting Committee Member and Conducting a Self-Study
Description: This pre-conference session will (1) prepare EARCOS educators to serve on WASC visiting committees, emphasizing the role and responsibilities of a WASC visiting committee member, and (2) examine the essentials of the Focus on Learning process and its adaptability from a self-study perspective.
Who should attend?
Representatives from schools conducting future Focus on Learning self-studies.
All interested teachers and other educators who have never served on an accreditation team or have served previously but are eager to learn more about serving on a Focus on Learning team.
All who are serving on Focus on Learning teams, if they have not participated in a recent training.
Why attend?
The session will provide an opportunity for EARCOS educators...
To strengthen their understanding of the Focus on Learning process from a school self-study and visiting committee perspective.such as strategic planning.
To understand how Focus on Learning can be integrated with other school initiatives.
To examine strategies inherent in Focus on Learning that support the school's assessment of student learning in relation to schoolwide learning results and curricular objectives/standards.
To become eligible to serve on visiting committees.
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John Joseph
Biography: John Joseph M Ed (Mathematics and Science Education) taught across all school year levels before working in teacher education at the University of South Australia. In 1999, he formed his own company, Focus Education Australia and has enjoyed phenomenal success as a presenter, writer and coach. In ten years John has worked with over 300,000 delegates and 140,000 students across 21 countries. He has published 6 books, 3 CDRoms and over 100 articles. His websites attracts over one million visitors annually.
Today, John is affectionately known as the Brain Man. He speaks at national and international conferences for educators, parents, the health industry and the corporate world. John has featured in hundreds of newspaper articles for his work. He is a world leader in teaching students about learning, memory, brain care and emotions.
Title: Mind Your Brain: A Journey into the Mechanics of Learning
Description: Mind Your Brain provides the essential ingredients for developing a fully integrated thematic approach to learning about learning. John will demonstrate how to use his remarkable PowerPoints (available for site-licence purchase at the Conference) including numerous brain and neuron animations to switch your students onto learning.
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Maggie Moon / Eliza Lewis / Jill Kaufman
Biography: Maggie Moon was a Staff Developer for The Reading and Writing Project, at Teachers College, Columbia University, before moving to the Philippines in 2007. Prior to working as a consultant across the US with the R&W Project, she was a 3rd and
4th grade teacher in the NYC Public School System. She has worked closely with hundreds schools within NYC and across the US, as well as presented at the R&W Summer Institutes for many years. She also worked to implement the position of Literacy Coach in NYC, as well as train hundreds of Coaches across the NYC public school system.
Since moving abroad, she has had the privilege of working with International Schools within South East Asia, as well as local schools in Manila, Philippines. She and her husband relocated to Guangzhou, China in 2009.
She is co-authoring a professional series on Literacy Coaching with Lucy Calkins, to be published by Heinemann.
She is currently running an Institute for Literacy Coaches at HKIS, sponsored by EARCOS. The first cohort began in May '09 and will continue this Fall.
Eliza Lewis has lived and worked in Hong Kong for the last thirteen years. Eliza has taught pre-K – grade 2 and provided support services as a reading specialist. She is currently job sharing a grade 1 classroom and literacy coaching during her release time at Hong Kong International School. Eliza also chairs the Lower Primary Literacy Committee and is Literacy Coordinator for pre-K to grade 2. She is a recent graduate of the NESA Literacy Coaching Training Program.
Jill Kaufman is a grade 2 teacher at Hong Kong International School. She has been teaching first and second grade for 12 years. Her career has led her from teaching in Texas to international schools in Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Hong Kong. She has been the Elementary Language Arts Coordinator at the International School of Curitiba and the International School of Prague. She will begin a half-time Literacy Coach position in Hong Kong next year. She is currently participating in the Literacy Coach cohort sponsored by NESA and is a member of the "Literacy Coaching Asia" group sponsored by EARCOS.
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Title: Launching Authentic Reading and Writing Workshops in Grades 1-5: Ways to Set up Your Classroom Environment and Organize Your Materials in Order to Provide Students Room to Grow as Readers and Writers.
Co-Presenters: Jill Kaufman and Eliza Lewis
Description: This workshop will give teachers a realistic view of what a Reading and Writing Workshop look like and how they both fit inside of a Balanced Literacy Framework. Topics covered will include basic essentials such as: setting up a child-centered room environment, materials needed to launch a Reading and Writing Workshop, how to know what to teach, ways to collaborate with colleagues when developing curriculum, how to plan and execute focused Minilessons, how to set up and establish partnerships and how to differentiate instruction in order to best meet the needs of all students. Small breakout groups will allow for a more careful examination of particular topics, with differentiation for grade levels. Teachers who have previous experience teaching within a workshop model are also welcome!
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Kristi Mally
Biography: Kristi earned her PhD in Developmental Kinesiology from the University of Minnesota. She is the director of the Physical Education Teacher Education program at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Her areas of expertise include best practices in early childhood movement and elementary physical education, teacher preparation, and motor development and learning. Kristi is actively involved with numerous national programs related to early childhood and elementary physical education, including master trainer for Head Start Body Start, author of monthly physical activity calendars for early childhood, writer and host of physical activity training materials for Nike and National Head Start Association, presenter of Lets Get Moving workshops for the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, and consultant for various school districts. Kristi is passionate about helping teachers understand how to plan with a purpose, how to design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities, and how to infuse movement throughout a child’s day.
Title: Got Purpose?
Description: Everything we do in the gymnasium must be grounded in a clear, observable, measurable purpose. Everything we do must have value for our students, and must take them all to a new level of learning! This activity based session will ask participants to play and then analyze a variety of high-quality, versatile activities. Participants will not only take away ideas, but more importantly will gain a renewed commitment to purposeful planning. There will be a continuation of this workshop during the main conference.
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Bill Kentta and Josh Reckord
Biography: Dr. William Kentta has been a Curriculum and Staff Development Administrator in the Eugene, Oregon public school system for twenty years. Before that, he taught high school English, speech, and journalism. He has a Ph.D in English and has taught at Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Maryland--Far East Division, Vietnam. Bill has been an Organizational Development consultant in public schools since 1977 and has consulted nationally and internationally. He has made presentations at National Staff Development Conferences, presented at workshops and conferences for EARCOS and has published several articles in the Journal of Staff Development. Formerly the Director of the Eugene Cadre, the oldest volunteer group of organizational specialists in the United States. He is currently semi-retired and continues to consult on organizational development topics.
Josh Reckord is a retired educator with 38 years of school experience. After working in Eugene, Oregon as a teacher and Head Teacher/Team Leader he worked at the American School in Japan for 10 years. While there, he was involved with and facilitated a number of projects dealing with divisional staffs, board governance and leadership and school wide initiatives. He remains interested in working with a variety of non- profit organizations including schools, community groups, and churches helping them improve their abilities to work collaboratively. In retirement, he is a volunteer member of the Eugene Cadre, a group of school employees who support organizational development in the Eugene School District. He also enjoys travel, continued work with overseas schools, and working in his garden.
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Title: Toolkit for Teacher Leaders
Description: As part of the collaborative environment of many EARCOS schools, teachers are expected to assume leadership roles for a variety of different groups and teams. These include grade level teams, subject area departments, a variety of curriculum groups, parent groups, ad hoc committees and as part of the accreditation process. This pre-conference will focus on sharing tools for communication, group and team building, decision-making, problem-solving and meeting processes. Participants will have access to ongoing EARCOS resources as they are developed and shared.
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Barbara-Ann Sunday
Biography: Barbara has taught AP Studio Art at Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver, Canada, for 20 years. An experienced elementary/high school art teacher she has served in a variety of positions for Art Educators’ Associations, as a District Art Coordinator, as an art education lecturer, and as a presenter for numerous workshops. Barb has been an Advanced Placement Program Studio Art Reader for ten years, has been appointed Table Leader and is currently serving on the Steering Committee for the AP Annual Conference. She has been the recipient of the NAEA Pacific Region Award Art Educator of the Year Award and the BCATA Art Teacher of The Year Award.
Title: AP Studio Art - 2 day workshop description
Description: This workshop will address all three sections of the three different AP Studio Art Exam portfolios. Participants will survey the requirements and parameters of each portfolio in conjunction with the scoring rubrics. There will be opportunities to apply the rubrics in assessing a range of student work, discuss recent developments in the digital submission process, and sample a variety of strategies for achieving success.
Participants will engage in discussions about appropriate classroom materials and share best practices, techniques and strategies that can be used to enhance student learning. They will also discuss and participate in exercises to develop effective vertical teams; teams of educators within a school that work together to align art curriculum and instruction across the grade levels in order to prepare students for university-level course work.
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Ted and Carolyn Temertzoglou
Biography: Ted Temertzoglou has twenty years experience as a Health and Physical Education Teacher for the Toronto District School Board. He is the co-author for Exercise Science, which is a high school university prep course in Ontario.
He is the lead author for:
• Healthy Active Living: Keep Fit Stay Healthy Have Fun used in Ontario and New Brunswick
• Active for Life: Physical Education in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Active Healthy Living: Physical Education in Nova Scotia
• And the Canadian Active Living Fitness Circuit Charts used all over Canada and all published by Thompson Educational Publishing.
He is a certified personal trainer with The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiologist (CSEP) and sits on the Board of Directors For Physical and Health Education Canada. He serves as an Ophea Master Trainer and was the recipient of CAHPERD’s Young Professional award and in 2008, Ophea’s Outstanding Contribution Award.
Carolyn Temertzoglou is a Health and Physical Education teacher for the Ontario Institute For Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISEUT). At OISEUT, she teaches in the Initial Teacher Education Program both at the Elementary and Secondary levels. Carolyn serves on several provincial committees that advocate for quality daily health and physical education programs. She is an Ontario Physical Health Education Association (OPHEA) Master Trainer conducting workshops across Canada. Carolyn received the Ontario Supervision of Physical and Health Education Teacher Advocacy award in 2007. She is the co-author of the Exercise Science Workbook/ Lab Manual (Thompson Educational Publishing 2003). Carolyn and her husband, Ted have presented in the past at the NEESA, CEESA and ECIS conferences.
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Title: Inclusion and Differentiated Instruction in Health and Physical Education
Description: The workshops presented by Carolyn and Ted will give teachers the tools they need to help all students succeed in health and physical education. Their three active sessions include 1. Functional Fitness Blasts (all grades), 2. Teaching Games for Understanding (all grades), and 3. Healthy Active Living: A Foundation for a Healthy School (specifically for grades 7 to 10). Their fourth session is of particular interest for those teaching IB-Sports, exercise and health science.
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Jeff Utecht
Biography: Jeff Utecht is an international educator and educational technology consultant. Currently Jeff is working as the Elementary Technology and Learning Coordinator for the International School Bangkok. Jeff is a main coordinator for the Learning 2.0 Educational Technology Conference in Asia. He has consulted with international schools in and around the Asia region. Jeff have recently been mentioned in the books Reinventing Project-Based Learning as an avenue for “free online professional development” and Web 2.0, New Tools, New Schools. To learn more about Jeff, visit www.jeffutecht.com
Title: The Connected Classroom
Description: This all day pre conference session will examine the basics of setting up a globally networked classroom. We will concentrate on three areas: pedagogy, tools and curriculum. We will spend time looking at and trying out some of the latest tools that teachers can use in their classrooms as well as discussing the changes in pedagogy that support these tools. Finally, we will look at how curriculum fits in to this puzzle as well, driving the learning that happens in a classroom
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Cirecie West-Olatunji
Biography: Cirecie A. West-Olatunji, Ph.D. holds the position of Associate Professor of Counseling at the University of Florida. Dr. West-Olatunji is a nationally recognized presenter (over 100 presentations), trainer, and author in the areas of multicultural education and counseling. Internationally, Dr. West-Olatunji has provided consultation and training in Osaka, Hiroshima, Tottori, and Fukuoka cities in Japan in the area of culturally relevant anti-bias education for young children. Cirecie West-Olatunji has provided educational consultation to a PBS children's television show on diversity through KCET-TV in Los Angeles, CA ("Puzzle Place"). Her most recent research endeavors have included the development of a culture-centered disaster mental health counseling model based upon her coordinated outreach experiences nationally as well as internationally. Dr. West-Olatunji is a graduate of Dartmouth College and attended Teachers College of Columbia University where she pursued graduate studies in the area of Multicultural Counseling Psychology. Dr. West-Olatunji holds a doctorate degree in Counselor Education from the University of New Orleans. She is also a state-approved domestic and family mediator.
Title: 21st Century Counseling in School Settings
Description: The goal of this session is to share perspectives on counseling in school settings that reflect cultural competence, social justice, and leadership skills. The Objectives are to: (a) raise participants’ awareness of their biases when working with socially marginalized clients (such as, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities), (b) increase participants’ knowledge about cultural and advocacy competencies, and (c) enhance participants’ effectiveness by providing opportunities to learn new counseling and guidance skills.
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Bill Zeigler
Biography: Bill Zeigler earned his B.A. in history from San Diego State University and an M.A. in education with an emphasis in professional development in gifted education. He teaches world history and literature in the humanities program at San Marcos High School in California. Bill has been a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader for AP World History, as well as a Reader for AP U.S. History. He authored part of the first AP World History Teacher's Guide and was a reviewer for the latest version of that resource.
Bill has always had a keen interest in world history. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation at Princeton University and was awarded a two-year NEH fellowship to study India and China at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has presented at the World History Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the AP Annual Conference, and serves as a member of that program committee. Bill is an international AP and Pre-AP® consultant for the College Board in world history and interdisciplinary strategies. He has led workshops and institutes for international schools in Brasilia, Bangkok, Cairo, Heidelberg, Madrid and Seoul. Bill lives in San Diego, California with his wife Marianne.
Title: AP US History and AP World History (combined)
Description: Interested in learning skill-building techniques that can be applied to AP US and World History? Social science classes at any level? Join us in our exploration of the tools and techniques that can be used in any history-social science course to encourage greater reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Participants will review material from the US and World History Advanced Placement (AP) courses, free-response questions, and multiple-choice tests, and engage in discussions around the techniques and strategies used to develop deeper critical analysis within the social sciences. Participants will also hold a mock reading for both exams and discuss the scoring process. Educators teaching AP or courses that prepare students for advanced and university-level course work in the social sciences, are encouraged to attend. In addition, teacher-teams will find valuable development resources to vertically align their curriculum, grades 6-12.
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East Asia Regional Council of
Overseas Schools (EARCOS)
Brentville Subdivision, Barangay Mamplasan, Biñan, Laguna,
4024 Philippines
Phone: +63 (49) 511-5993/5994 | Fax: +63 (49) 511-4694
