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Phil Evans and Chad Lower lead the IBWS effort to support the transition and transformation, meeting schools where they are, and to define their own optimum. At this year's CAWS Spring Seminar in San Diego, Phil and Chad will be joined by their colleague Leah Yates, Curriculum Manager for DP Language A courses. They will engage the community with key messages related to the provisions for schools and offer resources to help schools get started. They are eager to meet schools who have been working to grow the impact of their DP and CP. Please join us to draw from their experience and insights.
Join us as we explore the transformative power of collaboration in shaping educational experiences that truly resonate with students, educators, and communities alike.
Together, let’s build a brighter future—by design!
Best,
Phil
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Biographies
Phil Evans is a Senior Schoolwide IB Strategist at the International Baccalaureate (IB), a global non-profit organization. As career educator, he first started teaching in Australia and moved to the United States in 2008 to teach and lead in IB schools in both the public and private sectors in Virginia and around Washington D.C. Phil joined the IB in 2016 and now develops and leads the Schoolwide IB Strategy to advance the pioneering work of IB schools who have been opening access to the DP and CP for all students in comprehensive high schools across the United States and Canada.
In his creative role at the IB, he learns alongside schools to design and scale new services, resources, and support schools need to do this work. Phil's greatest hope is "to be proactive in bringing the community together to learn from each other, and for the IB to have a greater impact for more students in schools by addressing inequity and including all students because everyone should have access to high-quality education, and it is through our collaborative innovation and transformative work, that is made possible.”
For more than 20 years, Chad Lower has been an influential and creative contributor to the global education community. He began his teaching career in Toulouse, France at Lycée Bellevue, where he taught English classes and developed non-traditional assessments to measure English proficiency. Returning to the United States, he was a Middle and High School French and World Cultures, and Theory of Knowledge teacher. In 2013, he embraced the challenge of pioneering adoption of one of the first International Baccalaureate Career-related Programmes in North America.
For almost a decade, Chad has invested his creativity and excellence as a Curriculum Developer for the International Baccalaureate and in August of 2024 was recruited to expand the IB Schoolwide Adoption initiative; supporting schools to remove barriers to student participation and increase whole school engagement in their IB Programmes. Chad is an innovative thinker who listens to students to learn how education should adapt to nurture their self-efficacy, interests and skill development.
Leah Yates is a Curriculum Manager overseeing the review and design IB Studies in Language and Literature, in The Hague for the International Baccalaureate. Leah recently defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Denver, focused on Humanizing Pedagogies for nurturing student wellbeing and agency through approaches to learning.
Leah has been an educator for more than 20 years, having taught English Language Arts and Social Studies, managed public high school libraries and media centers, coordinated IB programmes for schools in Colorado as well as designing mentor teacher endorsement curriculum for the University of Denver, where she was also an adjunct professor.
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