Office of Magnet, Gifted and IB Programs

International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB)

Request for Proposal, FY 15

Worksheet 1: IB Middle Years Programme Action Plan (2014-2015)

Please refer to the IB Standards and Practices when completing this document to help guide you through the process.

SCHOOL: Ogden International School of Chicago

A: Philosophy
The schools educational beliefs and values reflect IB philosophy.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Pedogogical leadership and staff understanding

of IB philosophy.

Upon hiring of new administrative team, several TBD: When new contract principal is hired and
meetings to detail the IB philosphy are
when they have appointed their administrative
necessary. Bringing administration in on the MYP team.
framework and where Ogden is in the process is
an immediate need. Regularly scheduled
meetings to give updates to the programme is
needed as well.

IB Coordinators: Collin MacDonald, Heather

Worley, Taneal Sanders.

Minimal

The Ogden community will have a clear

understanding of the IB philosophy and
programme,

1) Update MYP section of Ogden's webpage. 2)

IB open houses/parent nights. 3) Personal
project showcase for community members.

Collin MacDonald, Heather Worley, Nicolas

Ribaudo, Year 5 students, parents,
administration

Minimal

Hold at least one Ogden University day to

promote international mindedness

Teachers create and teach seminar classes

based on their own interest. Students register for
classes and participate in activities and field
experiences in order to link their classroom
content to real world situations.

Jun-15 Whole staff

None from MYP budget. Money may be needed

for materials and/or transportation.

Hold second annual international day at Ogden

Invite neighborhood partners and guest speakers

to lead lectures on internatioally minded topics.
Students rotate to at least three different
sessions.

Jun-15 Whole

None from MYP budget. Gifts for guest

presenters.

1) October 2014 2) February 2015 3) April 2015

Re-introduce PRIDE PBIS system using learner

profile traits.

Ogden teachers will use the LP to award

Ongoing
students tickets for their positive behaviors at
any time during the school day. Students can use
the tickets collected in purchase school supplies.

MS Teachers/Staff

None from MYP budget. PTA to provide supplies

for PRIDE store.

B: Organization
B1: Leadership and structure
The schools leadership and administrative structures ensure the implementation of the Middle Years Programme.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Continue faculty education of ongoing

implementation and development of the
programme.

Updates/overviews/professional developments
Ongoing
during common planning, in-service days,
principal directed preps. Topics to include but not
limited to: MYP next chapter, personal project,
assessment criteria, unit planning,
interdisciplinary learning, special needs in IB

MYP coordinator, teachers, administrators

None

Communicate the pedagogy of the MYP

programme to all administrators.

Regularly scheduled coordinators meetings with

administrative attendance. This will need to
happen frequently when a new principal has
been hired.

Ongoing

IB Coordinators, Administrators

None

1) Sept-Nov 2) Oct-Nov

MYP Coordinator, teachers, administration

Minimal for supplies for Open Houses

Continue to grow MYP as the school grows while 1) Attend recruitment fairs of other schools. 2)
maintaining the integrity of the programme.
Communicate the goals of Ogden's MYP
programme to current 5th and 8th grade
parents/students through assemblies, open
houses, and programs.
Revise IB language and special education
policies with newly hired administrative team.

Review current language and special ed policies.

Get feedback from important stakeholdes.
Revise policy as needed.

Jun-15 MYP coordinators, ELL teachers, special

education teachers, case manager, councelors,
administrative team

None

Revise IB MYP assessment policy.

Review current assessment policy and

expectations of MYP teachers. Obtain feedback
from ILT members and depatrment chairs. Make
appropriate revisions.

Jun-15 MYP coordinator, ILT, department chairs,

adminstration

None

B2: Resources and support

The schools resources and support structures ensure the implementation of the Middle Years Programme.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Register new administrative team for MYP

workshops.

Register for Head of School category 2 training

when a new administrative team has been hired
and has a general understanding of the IB
programmes. Other options could include MYP
projects, global contexts, or Designing authentic
assessments for 21st century learners.

TBD based on hiring date of new admin

MYP Coordinator, new admin team

At least $699 for one workshop plus travel

expenses.

Ensure all MYP teachers have a firm grasp of the 1) Work closely with first year teachers in order
Ongoing
the MYP framework
to give feedback on units. 2) Schedule IB
category three workshops for teacher leaders. 3)
Provide refresher PDs to confirm that veteran
teachers are using the MYP framework.

MYP coordinator, teachers

Approx $7000 for workshop registrations, travel,

and hotel accommodations

Allocate funding for the implementation and

ongoing development of the programme.

Speak regularly with our operations manager

and PYP coordinator to ensure that funds from
both central office and our internal budget are
being allocated equitably and appropriately.

PYP/MYP coordinator, Rita Somen

None

Use online IB management tool (ManageBac) to

organize and collaborate on IB units of
study/assessments/service.

1) Lead PD on ManageBac usage and tutorial. 2) 1) August 2014 2) Ongoing 3) End of Q1 4) End
Give feedback and units uploaded through
of semester 1
ManageBac. 3) Require teachers to upload
summative assessment tasks to managebac. 4)
Score and give feedback through ManageBac.

MYP coordinator, teachers

None from MYP budget. Yearly subscription

($2000)

Train teacher to provide PD for gifted education

1) Identify teacher leader 2) Teacher leader

attends two PD sessions from ISBE 3) Teacher
leader facilitates at least one PD during inservice day.

MYP coordinator, Carrie Slavens

None

Ensure all IB teachers have OCC accounts

1) Coordinators create OCC accounts for all

1) Oct. 2014 2) Nov. 2014
newly hired teachers 2) Lead sessions on how to
navigate OCC and find use
resources/documents.

MYP coordinator, teachers

None

Use new technologies to give the most up-todate resources to students.

1) Create questiaschool.com accounts for all

Ongoing
students. 2) Use Turnitin.com for DP students. 3)
Have librarian instruct staff in using CPS
database subscriptions.

MYP coordinator, teachers, school librarian

None

All Ogden stakeholders

None

Ongoing at coordinator's meetings.

1) Sept 2014 2) Oct-Dec 2014 3) June 2015

Establish outside partnerships with organizations 1) Continue to work with ClimateCycle in order to Ongoing
that have visions/missions that reflect the IB
take action against the effect of climate change.
mission statement
2) Develop relationship with Loyola's teacher
prep program 3) Continue to work with the
various consulate offices and members of the
international community

C: Curriculum
C1: Collaborative planning
Collaborative planning and reflection supports the implementation of the Middle Years Programme.

Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Collaborative planning and reflection takes place Develop collaborative planning and unit planning Ongoing
regularly and systematically.
feedback protocol for use in department
meetings. 2) AP and/or coordinator attends
department meetings at least once per month.

MYP coordinator, AP, department chairs,

teachers.

None

Moderate summative tasks to calibrate scoring

among departments.

Lead PD regarding assessment scoring. Attend Ongoing

department meetings to review assessments and
student sample work.

Teacher, MYP coordinator

None

Align MYP to CPS framework for core content

areas

ILT meetings to find identify aligned

June 2015 (open to constant revisions)
skills/objectives/standards. Department meetings
to begin skills/standards map

ILT, teachers, coordinators

None

Each teacher will have at least one

interdisciplinary unit plan.

Identify key concepts that are being taught

across grade levels. Match key concepts with
different content areas. Allow teachers time to
co-plan unit in order to adress concepts at the
same time. Create interdisciplinary summative
assessments.

Jun-15 Teachers, MYP coordinator

None

Provide transparency to all units of study through 1) Lead PD on ManageBac usage and tutorial. 2) Ongoing
an online curricular management tool.
Require units of study to be published on
ManageBac to the appropriate grade level and
subject area.

MYP coordinator, teachers

None from MYP budget. Yearly subscription

($2000)

Create new Approachers to Learning skills map

for all deparments and grade levels.

MYP coordinator, teachers

None

1) Lead PD regarding MYP ATL skills. 2) Allow

teachers to choose ATL skills they see fit for first
semester 2014-2015. 3) Compile skills from
semester one to begin creation of map. Identify
gaps, redundancies.

Fall 2015

C2: Written curriculum

The schools written curriculum reflects IB philosophy.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Create horizontal/vertical planning documents

Use department meeting time to backwards plan
using new key/related concepts, global contexts, from DP to the start of MYP ensuring all
CCSS, MYP assessment criteria, and content.
requirements are met.

Jun-15 Teachers, Department chairs, coordinators

None

Integrate service learning into MYP curriculum

Jun-15 Joey Feinstein, Collin MacDonald, and other

partners

Minimal

Develop partnerships with outside organizations

in an effort to create project based, long term,
interdisciplinary service learning projects.

Transition MYP curriculum to ManageBac

1) Lead managebac PD and tutorial. 2) Create

classes for all MYP courses in managebac. 3)
Require units of study to be uploaded to
managebac.

Ongoing

MYP coordinator, teachers

None from MYP budget. Yearly subscription

($2000)

Provide written feedback to MYP teachers

regarding their unit of study.

Provide general, department specific unit plan

feedback during department meetings once per
unit. Provide more specific feedback to teachers
prior to a REACH pre-observation meeting.

Ongoing

MYP coordinator

None

C3: Teaching and learning and C4: Assessment

Teaching and learning reflects IB philosophy.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Promote understanding of academic honesty.

1) Students receive, sign and return Ogden's

1) Sept 2014 2) Ongoing 3) Ongoing
academic honesty policy. 2) Department meeting
time to discuss academic honesty as it relates to
their content area. 3) Teachers in all departments
stress the importance of academic honesty and
what it looks like in each individual content area.

Teachers, Students

None

Address the diversity of language needs.

Work with the ELL teacher in order to ensure

Ongoing
students receive the services necessary to excel
while still supporting their mother tongue.

Todd Atler, Teachers, MYP coordinator

None

Differentiate instruction for different learning

needs.

1) Give special education teacher time to plan

1) Ongoing 2) Inservice PD days 4) Ongoing
PD around differentiation. 2) Special education
teachers lead full faculty PD on differentiation. 3)
Continued support from special education
department to differentiate instruction.

Special Ed department, MYP coordinator,

Teachers

None

Use Global Contexts in order to promote

international mindedness

1) Send teacher to IB workshop regarding Global Ongoing

Contexts 2) Teacher leads PD on global contexts
3) Highlight exemplar lessons, units that
incorporate global contexts.

Teachers, MYP coordinator

None

C4: Assessment
Assessment at the school reflects IB assessment philosophy.
Objective

Actions

Date to be achieved

Person/group responsible for achieving this

objective

Budgetary implications

Use interim objectives for years 1, 3, and 5 of the Require teachers to assess unit summative
MYP for all summative assessments.
assessments using MYP rubrics. Modify rubrics
as needed to make them more task specific.

Ongoing

Teachers, MYP coordinator

None

Communicate assessment policy and philosophy Update MYP webpage. Hold MYP parent
to the school community
meeting to discuss how MYP scores differ from
traditional grading policies.

Spring 2015

MYP coordinator

None

Use IB assessment criteria to determine MYP

final grades.

Use the ManageBac reports feature to generate

MYP scores/report cards for all MYP students.

End of year

ManageBac IT support, teachers, MYP teachers

None

Standardize levels of achievement for MYP

summative assessments.

Collect sample student work. Moderate students

scores among other teachers. Discuss the
criteria for all levels of achievement.

Analyze EPAS/NWEA data to inform instruction

and expectations of students.

ILT identifies areas of improvement based on

Ongoing
standardized testing data. ILT makes
suggestions for instructional shifts that need to
be made based on data. Instructional rounds are
conducted to give feedback on instructional
shifts.

Backwards map MYP assessment criteria based DP teachers inform MYP teachers the
on DP exam expectations.
requirements and expectations. MYP backwards
plan what are the minimum expectations for their
classes in order for students to be sucessful in
the Diploma programme.

Notes:

Jun-15 Teachers, MYP coordinator

ILT

Jun-15 DP/MYP teachers

None

None

None

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
Admin/Coordinator's meeting agendas and
notes.

MYP webpage, emails to parents/partners,

personal project showcase invitations and
photographs
Ogden U course catalogue, photographs of
Ogden U day.

List of guest speakers, student registration

papers, photographs.

PRIDE tickets, email from Jeff Wagner, PRIDE

store operation

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
PD agendas, notes, presentations.

Meeting agendas and notes.

Open house registration spreadsheets.

Revised policies

Revised policy, sample summative assessments

with student work.

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective

MYP Head of School certificate

PD agendas, unit plan feedback, workshop

certficates of completion

Creation of programme specific buckets for

expenditures.

Teacher accounts with units uploaded to specific

classes.

Certificate of completion for teacher leader, PD

agendas and notes.

OCC accounts for all teachers

Login accounts for all MYP students

Special events, field experiences, photographs.

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
Feedback on unit planners, department meeting
agendas and notes.

Assessment reflections and moderation

protocols
ILT agendas, standards alignment document

Interdisciplinary unit planners authored by

mutliple teachers.

Units published on
Ogdenchicago.managebac.com

ATL skills maps

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
Vertical/Horizontal planning documents.

ClimateCycle documents, fundraising efforts,

meeting agendas, pictures, presentations.

Units uploaded to managebac

Feedback emailed to teachers, departments.

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
Signed academic honesty forms

Special education meeting agendas. Notes from

Todd Atler.

Special education meeting agendas.

Exemplar lessons/units.

Evidence of achievement
or of progress towards achievement of the
objective
Sample student work with attached rubrics.

Parent meeting

ManageBac!

Sample student work shared with others and

sample scoring protocols.

NWEA/EPAS data. Instructional rounds protocol

DP/MYP summative assessments.

Office of Magnet, Gifted and IB Programs

International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB)
Request for Proposal, FY 15
*Please complete this worksheet for every teacher that will be teaching an IB course this school year.
Worksheet 2: IB Teacher Training Information

SCHOOL:

MYP Subject
Language and
Literature

Language Acquisition

Individuals and
Societies

Sciences

Mathematics

Arts

Last Name

First Name

Position
Number

IB Trained: Yes or No

Date of most recent IB

Workshop

Location of IB
Workshop

Youkhana

Nora

Yes

Homampour

Alicia

Yes

Nov-11 Austin TX

Andujar

Rob

Yes

Eisenbaum

Sara

Yes

Madigan

Sean

Yes

Jul-14 Austin TX

Saines

Steve

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

Fleishcer

Eric

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

Lopez

Amalia

Yes

Jun-11 Montezuma, NM

Hoover

Adam

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

Calderon

Eric

Yes

May-12 Florida

Hipchen

Kris

Yes

Jun-11 Atlanta, GA

Slavens

Carrie

Yes

Nov-09 Pittsburg, PA

Park

Sarah

Yes

Jul-14 Austin, TX

Huebner

Mary

Yes

Dec-09 Chicago IL

Stone

Dan

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

McCarthy

Terry

Yes

May-10 Florida

Decmeber 2013

Chicago, IL
2014 Online
Jul-14 Austin TX

Miller

Melissa

Yes

Design

Wagner

Jeff

Yes

Physical and Health

Education

Chantry

Chris

Yes

Nov-09 Portland, OR

Greco

Clement

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

Troia

Jackie

Yes

Oct-12 Chicago, IL

Collin

Yes

Dec-12 Chicago, IL

IB Coordinator/Head of MacDonald
School

Jul-14 Austin, TX
November 2011

Chicago, IL

Counselor
Librarian

ool year.

IB Workshop
Provider (IBA,
FLIBS, etc.)

IB Certificate on
File: Yes or No

TIBS

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

TIBS

Yes

TIBS

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

FLIBS

Yes

CASIE

Yes

IBA

Yes

TIBS

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

FLIBS

Yes

TIBS

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

IBA

Yes

Office of Magnet, Gifted, and International Baccalaureate Programs

International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB)
Request for Proposal, FY 15
Worksheet 3: IB Budget Summary

SCHOOL:
Budget for FY15, Total Allocation $9,000

Description

Account
Code

Allocation

IB Workshop Registration/ Seminars

(as it relates to IB PD only)

54505

$4,194

Travel for IB Faculty/Staff Only

(as it relates to IB PD only)

54205

$4,806

Postage
(for mailing IB monitoring samples only)

53510

$0

Total Allocation:

$9,000

ternational Baccalaureate Programs

Middle Years Programme (IB)

Proposal, FY 15
Budget Summary

otal Allocation $9,000

Justification

Six registratios for: category three workshops

(Assessment in the MYP for Mathematics,
Sciences, Individuals and societies) (MYP
projects). Category two workshops (design)
Travel and hotel arrangments to (but not limited
to): Miami, FL; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA;
New Orleans, LA.

Matching
Funds
(Amount)