January 2026 Professional Development and Personal Growth : Leadership

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.

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

• Mind Your Language, defining your Department's Mission : 10.30 - 11.30am Tuesday 6 January 2026

• Leading a Department, an overview : 9.00 - 10.00am Thursday 8 January 2026

• Evaluating Teachers (v Staff Appraisal : 10.30 - 11.30am Tuesday 13 January 2026

• Developing and Implementing a Departmental Handbook : 10.30 - 11.30am Thursday 15 January 2026

• Departmental Finances : 10.30 - 11.30am Tuesday 20 January 2026

• Developing and Implementing Evaluation and Assessment Policies and Procedures : 10.30 - 11.30am Thursday 22 January 2026

• Effective Recruitment Practices : 9.00 - 10.00am Tuesday 27 January 2026

• Top Five Paths to Success as a Head of Department : 10.30 - 11.30am Tuesday 22 January 2026

• Widening your Departmental Footprint - promoting your area and showcasing your students' success : 9.00 - 10.00am Thursday 29 January 2026

• Planning and Running a Successful English Week : 10.30 - 11.30am Thursday 29 January 2026

You may also be interested in Issues in Education / Professional Conversations.

One session $6.000, five sessions $25.000, multiple-session discounts.

Interested? Complete the Contact Us form to the right (or click here) for 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.
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• 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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