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International Dalton Café

Today we have warmly welcomed the Dalton International community from Australia, Austria, China, Japan, Poland, The Netherlands and Turkey. It was wonderful to see you all!

The goal of the first Dalton International Café was to raise awareness and understanding of Helen Parkhurst legacy as a global influence in our rapidly changing world. The main theme of our today’s meeting was “School of the Future”.

With this today’s meeting we hope to inspire all Dalton Participants to praise your daily Dalton work, and to return to your today’s activities with renewed energy and vigour.

As with all international gatherings both online and in- person, we had today the unique opportunity to connect with each other and share our common Dalton experience both in theory and practice.

Hope to see you all in April in person during our International Dalton Conference in Izmir!

 

DALTON INTERNATIONAL CAFE

 Save the date!

Dalton International Cafe will take place on 23 November 2022 at 8AM GMT. During the meeting you will have the opportunity to listen to our Dalton speakers from different countries as they talk about Dalton daily practice, philosophy and vision on a modern Dalton education from different cultural perspectives.

From 9.30 AM GMT you will have the opportunity to ask questions to our speakers and they will try to answer them.

See you soon!

Below the detailed program of our meeting:

The new book about Helen Parkhurst in English.

We are delighted to share with you the picture of the book about Helen Parkhurst written by the board member of Dalton International and a lecturer at Saxion University in Deventer, Rene Berends. The book will soon be available to order in English language.

 

It is a book about a woman, who was a global advocate for radical changes in the teaching of all the children. Her progressive and timeless ideas concerning the hollistic development of children are a continuous source of inspiration for our Dalton International community.

Rene Berends will be one of our speakers during Dalton International Cafe on 23 of November.

Impression of impressive days at Ascham

 

Our visit to Ascham in Sydney

 

On the occasion of 100 years of the Dalton Plan in Ascham School in Sydney, President Roel Röhner gave a speech to the students concerning the value and significance of Dalton Plan across the world. The consultants of Dalton International Agata Röhner and Rene Berends during their staying in Ascham, exchanged practices and experiences while meeting Senior School Staff, management and teachers of Ascham in different sections.

In the picture Roel Röhner giving a speech in the School Assembly Hall.

DALTON COLLEGE IZMIR

It is our immense pleasure to congratulate the wonderful team of Dalton College Izmir on obtaining the certificate International Dalton School. It is for us, Dalton International a meaningful and special occasion. The whole team of Dalton College Izmir under the management of Sarah Louise Money have been working hard on an implementation of Dalton Plan in kindergarten, middle and secondary section of the school, also during the Covid period.

Following the series of trainings since 2018 from the trainees and consultants of Dalton International, the school is now joining the family of other International Dalton Schools.

Dalton College Izmir creates an innovative, Dalton International community that fosters holistic development of each child. In 1999, the idea of opening a school that offered each child the opportunity to reach their own potential without limits through Dalton education was a dream. Today, we observed that this child-centered vision to education created by Helen Parkhurst more than one hundred years ago provide the children with all necessary social and communication skills so that they can survive their own future. It is a joy to witness an advanced organized Dalton learning environment, class management as well as carefully selected learning materials. The idea of enterprising living and working, freedom and interaction of a group life and providing children with real life experience are main principles of the school team.

Celebrating end of the school year in Wenzhou Dalton School

 

Last week we have celebrated online the end of the school year in Wenzhou Dalton Elementary School. We were honoured to welcome numerous special guests, including city authorities, researchers from academic environment, school authorities and representatives from the local educational bureaus.

Thank you to all Governors, school management, Dalton coordinators and Dalton mentors who were working with us this year so hard. It is a privilege to serve among such a dedicated group of individuals. We are so fortunate to have such creative and outstanding contributors on our Board. 

With the end of the school year, we would like to wish all International Dalton schools and members a peaceful, healthy and happy summer filled with friends, family and loads of fun!

Holiday party in the school.

'Daltonschule Unstruttal' got a new school garden

Schulgarten "STAATLICHE GRUNDSCHULE DALTONSCHULE UNSTRUTTAL" eingeweiht

Der Kirchgarten der Gemeinde Unstruttal - Ortsteil Ammern wurde als Schulgarten eingerichtet. Dazu stellte die Kirche das Grundstück kostenlos zur Verfügung.

Natur und Umweltbildung erhält eine neue Wertigkeit!

The Most Popular Dragon Boat Festival in Dalton

Last week Shenzhen Xinhua School had an unique way to celebrate children’s day. "Happiness" was the main Chinese elements all over the campus, running a "temple fair" can help others to experience the Chinese folk customs culture without going to a "dragon boat race" knowledge quiz event!

The Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are a time of competition and collaboration for Dalton junior school students to discuss history, geography, Taoism and Chinese language together, as well as a traditional cultural knowledge development activity jointly planned and organized by the Junior School Integrated Arts Group and Chinese Group.

The Third Chinese Traditional Culture Knowledge Competition was held in the theatre on June 2. The moments that best exemplify Dalton's spirit of freedom and cooperation are truly ubiquitous.

In the theatre, the "Dragon Boat Racing; Ride the Storm" is the most eye-catching scene on stage, with several boats in a row, and is the most unusual form of points presentation for this competition.

Children’s Day celebrated together with Dalton International and Dragon Boat Festival are much more than just a carnival.

Each festival for Dalton students is as unique, creative and beautiful as each student is.

Dalton's teachers, on the other hand, are overjoyed to see their students happy, cooperative, having shared social experience.

Visit to Daltonschool 'De Maten' - Den Ham

The team of teachers from the International Dalton school 'Sternschule' in Deutschlandsberg/Austria visited yesterday  International Daltonschool 'de Maten' in Den Ham/the Netherlands.

Two teachers from the 'Sternschule' gave a presentation of their Daltonschool to the students from group 7 and 8 from 'de Maten'. After the presentation all good answers on the questions about the content of the presentation were awarded with a 'Mozart Kugel'.

  

Director Jenny Valk,  together with a teacher explained their individualized model for mathematics.

Plans for further cooperation between these two International Dalton Schools were the result of a spontanious brainstorm.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CAFÉ

During our autumn online International Dalton Café, the participants will have the opportunity to listen to one of our special guests Huib Wursten. Huib is a Senior Associate Partner of Hofstede Insights and the intellectual father of “7 Mental Images”. He has been working in public and private organizations in over 85 countries. In his latest article on "Mental Images and nation building. The pyramid system", he analyses the attributes of the Pyramid value system and match them with one of the most important goals for nation building: creating an ”imagined community”.

 

Stay tuned for more information about our online autumn meeting!

In the meantime, make yourself familiar with the latest Huib’s article:

see article

Jürgen Peters "MEMBER OF HONOUR' of Dalton International

 

During the anniversary of the Dalton school in Wels, Jürgen Peters became a "Member of Honour" of Dalton International. 

The membership appropriately reflects the long term support and commitment in Dalton education in Austria.

Dalton International would like to thank you for your continuous engagement in Dalton development across the world.

#daltonaustria #daltoninternationalcommunity

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

 

Main speakers during the conference :
Naoko Nunomura - Agata Röhner-Sowinska - Rene Berends
Karel Riedl - Bob Kartous - Vladimir Moskvan and Roel Röhner

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

 

XXV Jubilee International Dalton Conference in Brno, Czech Republic came to an end. We were happy to welcome delegations from Dalton world in Austria, Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey and The Netherlands. We would like to thank our participants, guests, speakers and hosts for taking part in this year’s International Dalton Conference. We appreciate enormously your input,  active participation and continuous support for Dalton International. It was a brilliant occasion to visit International Dalton Schools in Czech Republic and observe a natural contact, respect without fear, a joy in daily school living and willingness to do a hard work.

The main theme of the conference was “Education for future”. Undoubtedly, Dalton Plan is   universal and timeless. As Parkhurst said “The old machinery has been captured by a new spirit”. We hope that the innovative Dalton spirit will be present in your schools and hearts as it was more than one hundred years ago.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

 The #Internationaldaltonconference is going to start in four days on 5th of May. On the first day of the conference the vice director of Dalton Tokyo Junior and Senior High School will talk about their vision on a modern Dalton development. During her speech Naoko will present their own vision on how to raise a fearless, self-directed, lifelong learner and a productive member of a society in a progressive learning environment.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

A DEMONSTRATION OF THE GROWING INTERNATIONAL RADIATION OF DALTON EDUCATION NOWADAYS DURING THIS JUBILEE CONFERENCE IN BRNO-CZ

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

With pleasure we would like to introduce our organizing committee of XXV International Dalton Conference. We hope this conference will be an enjoyable experience for all Dalton Plan educators and lovers. Don't miss your chance to register, by contacting our event coordinator Vladimir Moskvan on: vmoskvan@chalabalova.cz.
We hope to see you there!

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

 

During our International Dalton Conference, our executive director and researcher dr Agata Röhner- Sowinska will analyze implementation of Dalton in the world taking into account diverse cultural backgrounds. As a head of ‘Chinese Department of Dalton International’, she is responsible for supervision of Dalton implementation, organization of audits in currently existing and new Dalton schools in China.
More about Agata, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-agata-sowinska-03663b170/ 

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

Our next keynote speaker is Bob Kartous. Bob is the head of communications and an analyst in think-tank EDUin. He has been writing about education in several Czech media and serves as regular media commentator of educational events. He teaches at the University of Economics and Management in Prague and is helping to launch the start-up Education Republic. Bob speaks regularly at TED conferences in Czech Republic.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

During our International Dalton Conference, Dr Joanne Manning will be talking about the latest innovative development in Ascham School in Sydney.
Joanne is Dalton International consultant and trainer and is a part of the management team in Ascham School in Sydney.
 

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

Professor Rýdl is a consultant of Dalton International and  the author of more than 200 original scientific works and more than 300 professional articles.  He often performs at conferences both national and international.

The professional interest of professor Rydl are the history of education, the development of education abroad, school management, in which he focuses on the issue of the concept of quality and its evaluation.

Prof. Rýdl is a member of a number of international and national scientific and professional societies, and has been active in the non-profit sector as a lecturer.

Since February 1, 2010, he has been the Vice-Rector for Education and Student Affairs at Univerzita Pardubice in Czech Republic.

On the 5th of May, professor Rydl will give a speech on innovative trends in a modern education.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE BRNO

 

International Dalton Conference in Brno-CZ

 

I am very proud to be part in the organization of the 25th International Dalton Conference in Brno.
After the first years of cooperation and organizing Dalton conferences within the city link Utrecht - Brno, together with Vladimir Moskvan we founded 'Dalton International'                            on 30.March 2001.

This year we have participants from Australia - Austria - Czech Republic - Germany - Holland - Japan - Poznan/Poland - Spain.

The conference is organized in cooperation between:

The City of Brno traditionally supports the conference again.

INTERNATIONAL DALTON CONFERENCE IN BRNO

We are looking forward to meet our Dalton friends during the upcoming live XXV jubilee International Dalton Conference in Brno, Czech Republic. The conference is titled "Education for the future". Our experienced array of speakers consists of Dalton International board members and researchers, Czech Dalton specialists in academic and practice and Czech Dalton Association board members. Numerous topics will be covered concerning innovative Dalton education in XXIst century.

 Soon, we will make you familiar with our key speakers from all over the Dalton world.

The official program in the link below:

PROGRAM

INTERNATIONAL DALTON DAY

 

MANY INTERNATIONAL DALTON SCHOOLS CELEBRATE THE DAY 

SEE ALL CONTRIBUTIONS HERE

BIRTHDAY OF HELEN PARKHURST

 

CONTRIBUTION OF RENE BERENDS

CONTRIBUTION OF 'SHENZHEN DALTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'

 

CONTRIBUTION OF 'DALTON COLLEGE IZMIR'

 

CONTRIBUTION OF 'WENZHOU DALTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'

Photo exposition about Helen Parkhurst in their central hall