Welcome to the website for the 27th Annual Regional Conference for IB North America and the Caribbean. From July 17-20, well over 1,000 members of the worldwide IB community will come together for four days of inspiration, collaboration, and reflection. IB turns 40 in 2008, so we will also be celebrating four decades of progress.
During the formative years of the IB, the philosophy of educator Kurt Hahn greatly influenced its development. Hahn passionately believed that successful education strives for a delicate balance between knowledge and action. Forty years later, we look again to Hahn for inspiration. His philosophy that students should have the “power to think and the will to act” still resonates in our work and will serve as the theme of this year’s conference.