The Role of your IB Coordinator
We strive to create an inclusive learning community; “living peacefully together by engaging with different ways of knowing and being, prioritizing people and their relationships, assuming shared responsibility for learning, health, and well-being.” ibo.org
The focus of the IB Coordinator is to:
- work with others in their learning community to create a shared sense of purpose and direction
- collaborate with others to establish the culture and conditions needed to be an internationally minded IB school.
- ensure delivery of the curriculum including documentation, reporting, analysis, and evaluation
- support members of the learning community in taking action to create a better and more peaceful world
IB Coordinator: Esther Croak
ecroak@psdschools.org
It is my pleasure to serve the Dunn learning community by taking responsibility for ensuring the philosophy of the IB is put into practice at our school. In particular, I am devoted to:
The Learner
- Our mission to engage and empower globally minded learners
- Getting to know our students personally and inspiring them to take positive action that impacts our world
- Building relationships with students based on trust and authenticity
Teaching and Learning
- Play, problem-based learning, collaboration, and experimentation as purposeful inquiry
- Concepts as broad, abstract organizing ideas that promote meaning and understanding and challenge students to engage with significant ideas
- The belief that learning how to learn is fundamental to a student's education
- Creating transdisciplinary learning that has relevance between, across and beyond subjects, connecting learning to what is real in the world
The Learning Community
- Cultivating learning as a social endeavor benefiting all its members individually and collectively
- International-mindedness as the view of the world in which people see themselves connected to the global community and assume a responsibility to its members
- Shared leadership and a collaborative approach to facilitating community
Please consider yourself invited to reach out to me anytime with questions and ideas!
