I would like to share with you how relationships and the arts matter in my teaching practice here at ISB under the current pandemic. There are two aspects to my experience. The first aspect is keeping the connection going in our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and the second how the final DP Theatre performance tasks were completed with one senior performing from their home in Canada with an audience of peers online live here in Belgrade.

Two CEESA AD/AC have been keeping busy on a global scale while on home office. In January, Nick DeForest (AIS Vienna) and Matt Fleming (AIS Budapest) have started their own podcast for International School Athletics Directors, Activity Coordinators and Coaches called the “Globetrottin’ ADs’.

According to a recent World Economic Forum report, 65% of children currently in Primary School will enter a job that does not yet exist. The fastest growing job sector is the ‘Gig Economy’, whereby people are not employed in the traditional sense, but instead sell their skills on an open market. Some estimates indicate that around by 2022, 40% of all jobs will be in the Gig Economy.

Our Associate Member - "WIDA International School Consortium" organizes a few valuable events in the next school year. You can find details via provided links:

Anglo-American School of Sofia hosted the CEESA Healthy Assessment Summit last week (Oct 3-5) in their brand new Rila Renaissance Building. Educators from the CEESA region joined some of the AAS faculty to discuss how they might assess all learners.

For the seventh straight year the first event of the CEESA Athletics year was a teachers softball tournament.

Just before the winter holidays four current and three past CEESA AC/ADs were in San Antonio, Texas at the 49 th annual National Athletic Directors Conference.

CEESA international Literacy Coach Cohort members led by Monica Medina, had amazing four days of learning at PSI Kyiv this November.

The International School of Belgrade had the pleasure of hosting the CEESA IB Diploma Coordinators for their annual job-a-like event in November 2017.

Starting from the beginning of the 2018/2019 school year NOVA EMS will be implementing a new International Curriculum that will complement the existing Common Core Language Arts, and Maths in Focus Curricula.