Edutopia article about Student Led Conferences This document is my final project for MIEA 580 Innovative Practices course at Endicott. The project outlines an innovation and the process for the implementation of it within my school. I have included the entire text within the the body of this post. Rooting of the innovation itself The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) has a shifted approach toward learning than that of traditional models. One of the tenants of this shift is the focus on students understanding the process of how they learn and reflecting upon this process. Summative assessments in the Middle Years Program (MYP) fall under four different criteria categories: knowing and understanding, investigating, communicating, and thinking critically. Each of these criterion are broken down into specific strands and the MYP requires that each strand is assessed at ...