Workshop Overview

Classroom culture is essential to student outcomes, wellbeing and teachers’ empowerment. But how do you create the culture you want, which aligns with you, your school, and your vision? How do you include all students in that vision? What if you’re short on time?

This workshop introduces teachers and leaders to two core approaches to owning and enhancing classroom culture for learning and inclusion: Cultures of Thinking from Harvard’s Project Zero centre and the Landscape Model of Learning by Principled Learning. Through practical activities and discussion, participants will learn how to develop a robust culture of learning that suits their classroom and style and to improve differentiation and inclusion. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of each model and practical ways they can begin using them to plan, differentiate and design the learning culture their students need.

Facilitator:

Catharina Gress-Wright

Catharina Gress-Wright is fascinated by how to design schools to foster whole children for ‘whole impact’ in the 21st century. She is an experienced IBDP coordinator, DP/MYP English teacher and published education researcher at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). An IBDP alumna herself, she spent 8 years teaching IB and national curricula in the US, Senegal and the UK. She now works in education policy and research, after completing a master’s in Comparative Education at University College London (UCL) and working at the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). She has published research on global trends affecting education, student well-being, and social and emotional learning. She now uses her experience to help schools foster whole children through academic, cultural and system alignment.