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We hope you will join Dr. Maria Andrade Johnson, Regional Specialist IB and former IBC at Santa margarita Catholic High School as she offers insights on how to enrich your school profile and counselor admission letters to better serve your students.

What to Expect

Admissions readers spend only a few minutes with an application — and often less than a minute with your school profile. In that window, does IB read as rigor, or as an acronym they have to decode? This session looks at the profile and the counselor letter as a paired advocacy strategy: what admissions officers actually look for, which IB details change how a file is read, and how to intentionally craft the counselor letter— translating the Extended Essay, TOK, and CAS into evidence of a student's intellectual and personal profile. Lastly, a demonstration of the IB Recognition Database, available to you, students, and families in making their college lists and decisions. An interactive component working with existing school profiles and counselor letters. Coordinators will leave with a checklist, sample language they can adapt immediately, and a guide for recommendation letters to distribute to teachers.

What to Expect

In this roundtable participants will have an opportunity to share ideas, ask questions, and reflect on their plans for the school year teaching DP Mathematics Analysis & Approaches.  Specifically, we will focus on the structure of the year, planning for the Internal Assessment, focusing on inquiry in our classrooms, and what to consider in the fall to prepare students for IB exams next May.  Those who sign up will have an opportunity to share their needs ahead of the roundtable session so we can focus our time.  In addition, we will take some time for impromptu questions.  Math AI teachers are welcome but the focus on the year’s plan part will be on AA.

Join host Cynthia Ballheim, IBEN and President of the Ohio League of IB Schools for this interactive 60-minute session will explore how Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, Ohio has intentionally embedded the IB Learner Profile into the culture of the school, making it a meaningful part of students’ daily experiences rather than simply a list of attributes that hangs on a wall. Participants will discover practical strategies that help students understand, reflect on, and demonstrate the IB Learner Profile across classrooms, extracurricular activities, and school-wide events.