Welcome to our sixth programme of summer professional development and support for teachers, educational leaders and administrators. These single-topic Professional Conversations about issues of educational governance have been developed from the needs and requests of Chilean National Programme and International Programme (Cambridge and IB) teachers and students.
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This page will be updated so please let us know of your interest in a specific area or session by completing the Contact Us form to the right, or please check back.
Monday 5 January
4.30 - 5.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Advanced Vocabulary : Counting Uncountables
6.00 - 7.00pm : Literature - Essays You Need to Read and Can Use in Class : "The Stream" - author unknown
Tuesday 6 January
9.00 - 10.00am : English as a Second Language : English Foreign, English First, English Second; the differences matter
10.30 - 11.30am : Leadership : Mind Your Language, defining your Department's Mission
12.00 - 1.00pm : Early Years (PK - K) : Free Stuff for the Early Years
1.30 - 2.30pm : English as a Second Language : All the Cambridge Englishes : Cambridge Foreign Language English, Cambridge Second Language English, Cambridge First Language English, Cambridge English Literature
3.00 - 4.00pm : Early Years (PK - K) : Free Stuff for the Early Years
6.00 - 7.00pm : Literature - Essays You Need to Read and Can Use in Class : "Indian Camp" - Ernest Hemingway
7.30 - 8.30pm : Issues in Education / Professional Conversations : Do bad teachers exist?
Wednesday 7 January
4.30 - 5.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Advanced Grammar : gerunds and infinitives
6.30 - 7.00pm : Literature - Essays You Need to Read and Can Use in Class : "Death of the Moth" - Virginia Moth
7.30 - 8.30pm : Issues in Education / Professional Conversations : Do teachers have free speech?
Thursday 8 January
9.00 - 10.00am : Leadership : Leading a Department, getting started
10.30 - 11.30am : Job Search : You have an advanced level of English; which certificate is best for you?
12.00 - 1.00pm :
1.30 - 2.30pm : English as a Second Language : Introduction to Cambridge English as a Second Language 0510 / 0511
3.00 - 4.00pm : Early Years (PK - K) : Introduction to Active Learning
4.30 - 5.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Advanced Grammar : 'Ats off to at
6.00 - 7.00pm : Literature - Essays You Need to Read and Can Use in Class : "A Hanging" - George Orwell
7.30 - 8.30pm : Issues in Education / Professional Conversations : Education, a public or private good?
Friday 9 January
4.30 - 5.30pm : Advanced Use of English Practice & Feedback : Advanced Grammar : transitive and intransitive
7.30 - 8.30pm : Issues in Education / Professional Conversations : Is for-profit education bad?
Saturday 10 January
Currently reserved for closed / private sessions. Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right (or click here) to ask about a programme of your choice.
These one-hour, synchronous, online video-conferencing, open-enrolment group sessions are limited in size to allow for participation and questions. Minimum group sizes apply. Ask us about closed programmes where you choose who, what, where and when. A C1 or higher level of English is assumed. One session $6.000, five sessions $25.000, multiple-session discounts.
Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right
- for registration information
- for institutional and group rates
- to ask about our February 2026 programme
- if the date and time of any sessions are not convenient, to ask about an "on demand" session on a different date and at a different time
- to be placed on the interest list for any of these topics and to receive advance notice of the next open-group session
- to ask about a private one-to-one or small-group closed session on any of these topics, or on any other Advanced English and English teaching & learning and evaluation concerns you have
- to ask about job search support, CV / resume and personal statement support, and interview practice and feedback
- to ask about programmes of support for you and your colleagues during the academic year where you choose who, what, where and when
- if you would like to receive our once or twice a week event announcements. We will not spam you and you can leave the email-list at any time
- with any queries about any of our programmes.
This page will be updated so please let us know of your interest in a specific area or session by completing the Contact Us form to the right, or please check back.
Click on the label(s) to the right for related programmes. Click here to go to our January 2026 main page.
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