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The Schoolwide IB project has worked with over 100 schools across the US and Canada to support the development and implementation of a school defined plan that opens access and grows student participation and success in the IB Diploma Programme and Career-related Programme.

This is a recording by International Baccalaureate of our event for those of you unable to attend or wish to hear it again.

Thank you to our participants.

As a follow up to the immigration resources for California schools we shared with you in early December, we wanted to make sure you also have access to student and community immigrant and immigration resources released yesterday afternoon by Attorney General Rob Bonta.

At a press conference this morning in the San Joaquin Valley, Governor Newsom highlighted a few topline issues for his proposed 2025 budget. The full budget will be released later this week, but the impetus for this early glimpse is that Governor Newsom plans to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter and will not be available to present the detailed budget.

Thank you to those of you who participated in our recent event. I have included the slides that I used during my introduction and look forward to seeing many of you again at future events.

Open to view slides.

Please contact me if you have any questions.
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Dorothy Battenfeld, University Liaison
California Association of IB World Schools
707-528-6818
[email protected]
http://www.cawsib.org/

Dear colleagues in California and the greater IB global community,

The California fires dominating the global news have been insurmountably devastating for families in the Los Angeles region. Our hearts go out to everyone impacted by this horrible event. For our California schools, please remember that CAWS is there to serve and advocate for you however we can. We all see the immediate impact of what is happening in the LA region, but know the unforeseen long-term effects will be equally challenging. For our California colleagues, whether advocating through the state or with IBO, CAWS will always be your main point of contact for information, advocacy and support.

This roundtable was a resounding success in introducing participants to Mariam Choi,  Robin Oliver, and IB Educators who share like goals. 

Attached is the padlet created that we will continue adding to as we share best practice throughout the year.

CAWS is pleased to present our Calendar of Events for this academic year. In addition to our annual Fall Forum, Spring Seminar and IB Training we are expanding our offerings to include a diverse array of both in-person and virtual opportunities. These events are designed to support best practices and foster innovative collaboration within our community. They will be hosted by global, regional and local IB leaders, CAWS Board Members, IBEN trainers, Orange County Department of Education Coordinator and CAWS vetted vendors

Open this page to meet some of Students of the Year.

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Global Conference will take place in Washington, District of Columbia (DC), from 25-28 July 2024.

Our theme for 2024: Inspiring learners, realizing potential

Summary of Important Take-Aways 

Board approves Accountability Workplan for 2024 Dashboard and authorizes continuing work for future dashboards. The Board adopted a unit of measurement for the science indicator as well as approved how high school scores will be combined and the inclusion of a participation rate in the science indicator results.

As an International Baccalaureate school, Pacific Beach Middle requires students to complete community service hours each year.

Sixth-grade students document 10 hours, seventh-grade grade will need 15 hours, and eighth-grade students are required to complete a minimum of 20 hours that become their community service project. Eighth-grade students can complete an individual project or work in groups of two or three to meet their community service project requirements.

Our roundtable event yesterday with Kelsey Day provided excellent practical information, direction and support for the IB Programme Development Plan launched in 2020. Kelsey is happy to share her PowerPoint slides and audio of our meeting through this email.

Although we were tipped-off that this May Revision Budget would have less detail than usual, we did not expect virtually no detail on Proposition 98 or K-14 funding. There are probably several reasons for this, including that: the Summary was released early because Governor Newsom plans to be at the Vatican next week to discuss climate change; negotiations are ongoing regarding the January proposal to adjust and reduce the Prop 98 Guarantee by over $8 billion in the prior budget year (2022-23); many difficult compromises with the Legislature remain on the budget as a whole, and the extent to which Prop 98 will be part of the solution to balancing the budget.

The Legislature recently advanced bills dealing with charter school data, homework, and student-involved incidents while halting bills related to the science of reading, early enrollment in transitional kindergarten (TK), and school resource officers.

Last Friday was the deadline for bills that would have a fiscal impact to pass out of their first policy committee. As expected, very few bills were stopped this early in the process, although many were heavily amended.