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Welcome to CAWS IB Training in San Diego!

Reason, Reflect, Retain: Brain-Based Strategies for the IB Classroom - CAWS 2025 Fall Forum

The Oxnard Union High School District Team at Tahoe! This could be your team in 2026!

CAWS IB Teacher Training, Lake Tahoe, CA

CAWS welcomes Monterey educators to IB Training at Lake Tahoe


Ponderosa or Jeffrey???? Only a tree sniffer knows for sure! CAWS Lake Tahoe Training

Training done, Lake Tahoe fun in the afternoon

CAWS Happy tree sniffing winner from Mexico City!

CAWS Vendors 

Reeve Garcia, Bon View Elementary CAWS Student of the Year

Training with friends in a beautiful place - Lake Tahoe 2025

Teaching by day, fun by choice

IB Association Meeting 2025, Washington DC

CAWS Lake Tahoe IB Training, where the pines meet the water

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Great food always provided!

2026 Tree Sniffers - Amy & Ali 

Washington state particpants love CAWS Training every year

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Your CAWS IB Training Team - Tom, Robin and Matthew

Tampa team enjoy their Lake Tahoe training

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PYP Smiles - Join our Virtual Roundtables

California Student Art - IB Global Conference, San Diego

CAWS Welcomes Ethiopian IB Educators!

Building Agency Within the Systems of Your PYP Community - CAWS 2025 Fall Forum

CAWS Team San Diego 2026

How to relax after training in San Diego

CAWS IB Training, Lake Tahoe

CAWS 2025 Spring Seminar with IB Faciliators and CAWS ED, Chad, Miriam, Phil, Leah and Robin

CAWS Lake Tahoe Training - Eileen says, "They really do smell like butterscotch" 

Your CAWS Team - 2025 Fall Forum

Make plans now for CAWS 2027 IB Training in San Diego!

Who won the CAWS SWAG Challenge?! 

"Just two girls from Illinois ...." Prizes for smelling a tree

Two of our raffle winners

San Diego in March - This could be you!

Nevada IB Teachers, Close to home at Lake Tahoe

Meet our CAWS Learner Profile Instagram San Diego Training Winner

California Student Art - IB Global Conference, San Diego

CAWS 2027 IB Workshops

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Where pedagogy meets the pines and the Pacific

San Diego
February 28-March 3
 
Lake Tahoe
18-21 June
22-25 June
 
Registration will open on August 1, 2026 

Please contact Matthew Davis if you have any questions: Matthew Davis or 619 631-5444.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Warm regards,
Rick, Robin, Matt, Tom and Jerry

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CAWS 2026-2027 Event Calendar

Welcome back! As we begin a new academic year together, CAWS is pleased to share our 2026-2027 Calendar of Events. We continue to offer a variety of in-person and virtual events designed to share best practices, foster collaboration, and bring us together as a community. Our hosts are global, regional and local IB leaders, CAWS Board Members, IBEN trainers, the Orange County Department of Education Coordinator and CAWS vetted vendors.
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Tax Deal Brings Two-Thirds Threshold for Local Taxes to the November Ballot

Following fast-moving negotiations in Sacramento today, the Legislature has passed an agreement that could reshape the landscape for some local school funding measures.



Under the agreement, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has agreed to withdraw its ballot initiative (the Local Taxpayer Protection Act) in exchange for the Legislature placing a new constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
PYP Roundtable: Creating a Joyful Start: Launching the PYP Year with Intention, August 18 3:30-4:15p Featured Photo

PYP Roundtable: Creating a Joyful Start: Launching the PYP Year with Intention, August 18 3:30-4:15p

We are pleased to invite you to your first PYP Roundtable of the 2026-2027 school year, hosted by Erica Chiotti. Erica is an experienced PYP teacher in the Beaverton School District in Oregon and an active member of the IB Educator Network, IBEN since 2013. She is passionate about supporting teachers, coordinators and school leaders in implementing the PYP. Erica is oneof our top CAWS workshop trainers and we are pleased to invite you to join us next week as we begin the new school year together.
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CAWS Invites You to Save the Date for Our 2026 Fall Forum

The IB Framework: The Key to Aligning School-Wide Systems
 
Monday, October 26
Orange County Department of Education
 
Details to follow
 
 
 

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Orange County State of Education, Hosted by Dr. Stefan Bean, Superintendent; Meet Ocean View High School an OCDE Innovative Grant Recipient

Thank you for joining us for the Orange County State of Education.

It was a privilege to come together this month with education, civic and community leaders from across Orange County in support of our students and their future.

We’re grateful for your partnership and for all you do on behalf of students and families.

As we heard throughout the program — and in Adán’s story — students are lifted by the people who notice, believe and stay.

It’s a reminder that no one gets there alone.

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Living Our Mission

In light of recent events across the nation, the California Association of IB World Schools (CAWS) affirms our commitment to standing with and supporting IB school communities throughout California.

As a trusted resource and advocate for IB educators, CAWS is grounded in the IB mission to develop caring, principled young people who contribute to a more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. This mission calls us to attend not only to learning, but to the well-being and dignity of students, educators, and families—and to recognize care as foundational to meaningful education. Continued.........
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CAWS Congratulates Our 2026 Exemplary Educator Award Winners

PYP Award Winner
Loralee Stolzoff
Grade 2 Teacher/Amelia Earhart School of International Studies
MYP Award Winner
Autumn Diaz
Visual Arts Educator/John Glenn Middle School of International Studies
DP Award Winner
Jemima Acantilado
English HL2 teacher/Trabuco Hills High School

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