08 December 2025

January 2026 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Issues in Education / Professional Conversations / Advanced Discussion Practice


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.

Maintaining range and fluency while teaching beginners or younger learners is at best challenging and many, if not most, teachers have been unable to manage either or both in today's reality. We all need adult conversation, and these Advanced Discussion practice sessions provide just that. 

Click on the session title(s) for more information. Complete the Contact Us form to the right (or click herefor registration information. In no particular order ...

  • A liberal education or liberalism in education : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 19 January 2026
  • Take politics out of education : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 20 January 2026
  • "Mixed-ability" or ability-grouping : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 21 January 2026
  • Gifted education, what is it and who deserves it? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday  22 January 2026
  • Student placement : promotion, retention and acceleration : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 23 January 2026
  • League-tables - publishing SIMCE and PAES results : 7.30 - 8.30pm Monday 26 January 2026
  • Grading, standards and grade inflation : when is a 7 a 7? : 7.00 - 8.00pm Tuesday 27January 2026
  • Bullying; is the school the bully here? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Wednesday 28January 2026
  • Book-bans, trigger-warnings and sensitive students : 7.00 - 8.00pm Thursday 29 2026
  • Uniforms; dress for success? : 7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 30 January 2026

Each session $6000 with discounts for 5, 10, 20 etc sessions. Texts will be sent to participants prior to the session in pdf form for pre-reading and review; we recommend printing a copy and bringing coloured pencils for annotation.

Interested? Complete the Contact Us form to the right (or click herefor registration information, for institutional and group rates, and to ask about our February 2026 programme.

  • 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.

  • Click on the label(s) to the right for related programmes.
  • Complete the "Contact Us" form on the right

    • 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 Educaitonal Governance or Professional Issues concerns you have.
    • 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.

Ask us about programmes of support for you and your colleagues during the academic year where you choose who, what, where and when. Simply complete the "Contact Us" form to the right to start the conversation. Click here to go to our January 2026 main page.

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