IBASA+Minutes

IBASA Minutes March 12, 2010

Goals of the organizations: • Increase the profile of southern African schools with the IB • Promote IB in the region • Develop communication: one key person at a school who is the key person the head point • Facilitate sister schools i.e. CAS from 3 school; TOK kids from different school having a debate • Create more informal training opportunities • Facilitate formal training with IB for new DP subjects i.e. Language A & B • Continue to facilitate college entrance for DP students in SA • Network with heads of other regional agencies

These goals need to be read concurrently with the Preliminary Constitution.

Recommend: • Rotate the chair around different school. • Organize problem sharing sessions by running a protocol at the next IBASA conference • Create opportunities for school coordinators to sit and talk • Create opportunities for people to share current training/expertise • Provide training of pertinent subjects (i.e. Language A & B with the new syllabus) • Make the IBASA conference cost effective • Make the IBASA conference bigger and better; more teachers; provides more leverage for sending trainers • AISJ willing to host next year. • Ask local teacher to host visiting teachers

Action: • American International School of Lusaka (AISL) was voted in as the chair for the next year, March 2010 – March 2011. • John to write up positives from this conference and send out to the schools. • John to write the conference and send out to schools involved. • John to send out provisional constitution. • Each school to appoint one contact person for their school and send this information to AIS Lusaka. • AISL to send photo/ article to IB World/TIE. • AISL to look into creating webpage/Blogs/Wikis • AISL to continue newsletter after John sends out the conference write up. • AISL to set up a database of trainers in the area. • AISL to talk to IB about Language training A & B.