International Baccalaureate
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IB practice, explained through lived school stories.
IB Voices follows the International Baccalaureate through classrooms, conferences, schools, and student initiatives. Its conversations move from policy and curriculum ideas into practical examples: multilingual learning, service projects, Theory of Knowledge exhibitions, Indigenous perspectives, and youth leadership.
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IB Voices is a careful, institutionally rooted education podcast centered on the International Baccalaureate. It brings together students, educators, curriculum managers, coordinators, and programme leaders to explain how IB ideas are carried into real schools. The pace is deliberate. Guests are usually given enough space to define their context before the conversation turns toward practice. Recent episodes show that pattern clearly. A discussion of systems transformation connects young people, life skills, opportunity, AI, and the question of how education can become more relevant to lived experience. A multilingualism episode examines language as more than communication, placing it alongside identity, culture, power, translanguaging, differentiation, and new course design. The school stories are especially concrete. A Theory of Knowledge exhibition becomes a way to show parents, students, and educators what IB thinking can sound like in public conversation. A Centennial High School episode frames service learning as something students wanted to understand and access, not just complete as a requirement. The French-language Primary Years Programme conversation adds another layer, following Anderson Vidal's path through IB implementation and the demanding work of reading, planning, and leading across contexts. Other episodes widen the lens. IBEC Across Borders links educator certification to personal teaching histories, programme adoption, and institutional change. Indigenous Learning in British Columbia places IB work in relation to territory, local responsibility, and classroom curiosity. The Youth Advisory Council episode gives students and recent graduates a more direct role in describing support networks, writing, youth strategy, and global IB community. The show is not flashy. Its strength is translation: policy terms, curriculum structures, and programme names are repeatedly brought back to students, teachers, families, and school communities. It is best heard as a thoughtful professional companion for people already near IB or trying to understand how the model works in practice.
Made for: For IB educators, coordinators, school leaders, students, alumni, and families who want thoughtful context on IB programmes and school implementation. It also suits education listeners interested in multilingualism, service learning, curriculum design, and international-mindedness.
What sets it apart: IB Voices stands apart by combining official IB context with grounded stories from schools, students, and programme practitioners. It spends less time selling the model and more time showing how it is interpreted, organized, and experienced in specific communities.
Welcome to IB Voices, where IB students, educators, alumni and more with a passion for the International Baccalaureate share their stories and experiences.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
IB Voices connects educational principles to the practical decisions made by school leaders, curriculum staff and students.
IB Voices brings school leaders, curriculum staff, students and researchers into focused conversations about how education works in practice. Its range runs from multilingualism and Theory of Knowledge exhibitions to community wellbeing, youth participation and system-level…
Color-coded name tags at a Theory of Knowledge exhibition: your parent night could use that kind of thinking.
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A steady, policy-minded interview about building education systems that widen opportunity.
IB Voices leans into systems change with a calm, attentive conversation about what education can do when it reaches beyond test scores. Dr Mo Alatadjou brings grounded perspective from Brookings and his work in Nigeria, including efforts to strengthen public and private sector…
A steady look at multilingualism as curriculum design, identity, and school practice.
Multilingualism is treated here as part of IB life, not as an abstract ideal but as curriculum work and school practice. Gijar Modov and Camelia Constantinescu stay close to the IB's language offerings, the Language and Culture subject, and the day to day work of piloting it…
A practical look at how TOK becomes a community-facing window into IB learning.
The episode presents the TOK exhibition as a practical, community-facing way to make IB learning visible. It treats TOK less as an abstract idea and more as something students can use in a real conversation about knowledge, while also giving parents and other community members a…
A grounded look at how student voice moves from program-level participation to institutional influence.
The discussion traces IB youth strategy through the Youth Ambassador Program, iBelieve, and the Youth Advisory Council in The Hague, with Katie Tracy and Etchem making a plain case for student voice that carries real weight.
A steady school-leadership conversation about care, support, and the culture that holds both together.
IB Voices returns to a familiar but still hard question: how schools build a culture that protects relationships, supports staff, and keeps well-being from being treated like an afterthought.
Thoughtful teaching talk with classroom roots.
Careful conversations for better teaching.
Creative ELA ideas with classroom roots.
Classroom creativity, treated as real work.
Education conversations with a human pulse.
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IB Voices: Multilingualism centers on Gijar Modov and Camelia Constantinescu, who explain how the IB’s 15 language tenets, PRC resources, and multilingualism workshop are meant to move language policy from philosophy into practice.
Matthew Davis and Jared Phelps open by positioning TOK as the capstone of the IB diploma program.
Anderson Vidal, directeur d'enseignement et coordonnateur du programme primaire à TFS, partage son parcours avec l'IB depuis 2009, en commençant par l'implémentation du DP et du PP au Brésil.
This episode discusses Centennial High School's first IB Day of Service on November 15th, exploring how students and faculty collaborated to create service learning opportunities within the IB program framework.
This episode features a discussion between Charissa Lejean-Bitter and Keith Lee about the International Baccalaureate Educator Certificate (IBAC) and its global implementation in education.
This episode features a discussion between Jennifer Aragon and Dana Matthews about integrating Indigenous perspectives into the International Baccalaureate (IB) program in British Columbia's education system.
Katie Tracy opens by introducing IB Voices and welcoming Etchem, who is part of the IB's first Youth Advisory Council.
This episode features a discussion between Matt Glanville and Ryan Findlay on the practical applications of artificial intelligence in assessment and K-12 classrooms, exploring its impact on teaching, learning, and student flexibility.
This episode features an interview with Megan Ullau, a recipient of the Global Youth Action Fund, discussing her experience with the grant and its impact on empowering students.
Angela Meikle says her goal "right now is not education" but "social emotional welfare" and "compassionate learning."