>HIT - International Bac.

[Rachel Carlson <aixoise@NETCOM.COM>]

At last.  Thanks to all who responded.  I've edited responses in the
interest of bandwidth and relevance.

from: Linda Sweeting <sweeting@umd5.umd.edu>

I am the (only library media specialist at Parkdale H.S., Prince
George's County, Maryland....we are currently applying to the IB program...
and I gave our committee answers to the questions on the application.

from: Janice Shea <acig@acig.k12.ec>

You may want to try the I.B. people themselves.  Here is the address for
Andy Williams.  andyw@ibex.mhs.compuserve.com

from: Andy Williams

I have passed on your message to the IBNA office in New York

from:  JSCHASE@aol.com

John Mackenzie, who is the assistant headmaster of The Grange School in
Santiago, Chile, is an examiner for the IB Program. . . . He knows
everything about what you want to know and I'm sure will be forthcoming
with any info you need.  He does not have an internet connection but does
run a pretty fast fax machine.  His fax # is 0115622770946.  You can also
write him at his school, Casilla 218 - Santiago 12 Chile.  You can tell
him I sent you.

Joan Chase

from:  Yvonne Davidson <uwcsea@technet.sg>
        Librarian, United World College of S.E. Asia, Singapore

Our school has been offering IB for many years now, and several schools
in our area have just recently started preparing to offer it.  We all
have received a lot of help with our libraries from the IB Assoc.
Regional Office.  Your local one is 200 Madison Ave., Suite 2007, New
York, NY 10016.  From them you can order their periodical IB World, some
very helpful books about extended essays and TOK, and learn about
regional conferences.

These conferences hold workshops, usually including ones specifically for
librarians.  I've been to one of these, and they are really useful,
usually distributing bibliographies as well as discussing all sorts of IB
library problems and issues.

We are pretty new to Internet here and don't have information about
listservs or online sources, so if you do learn of any, I'd be grateful
to hear.

We are members of the United World College group, and one of our
partners, in British Columbia, is setting up its own gopher.  One of the
items on its menu is the IB.  ... Their email address is uwcpc@igc.org.
They are the Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific.


from: Kathy Schueler <kschuel@lps.esu18.k12.ne.us>

I can't help much in your planning, but I went through the IB program in
high school. I can't say enough good things about it.  I went to Henry
Foss H.S. in Tacoma,WA (a good source of info) . . .

from: Ellen Pecoul <mcmain@music.loyno.edu>

...Over the holidays a friend told me about a new high school which
recently opened in Oklahoma City, called, I believe, the Classen school,
and its curriculum is based on the IB.  You might want to contact the
public school system there for more information.

from:  Marian Karpisek <Marian.Karpisek@m.k12.ut.us>

We have an IB program at West High School in Salt Lake City.  You may
want to contact Sharren Matthews the library media specialist there for
more information. ... she does not yet have an Internet connection....
Her phone number is : 801-578-8500.  The address is 241 North 300 West,
Salt Lake City, UT 84103.


from:  Carrie Jo Parmley <cparmley@tenet.edu>

At John Tyler H.S. in Tyler, Texas, we are in our second year with our
pre-IB program.  We started with the 9th grade level as the students
entered high school.  We now have our second group of 9th graders.  We
completed a very lengthy application.  Each department was responsible
for replying to the portion for which they were responsible.  As the
librarian, I was responsible for that portion.  I had to give the various
sources that we already had available in our library and then, based upon
the input from the various academic areas, project what we would need to
be able to provide the sources needed.  Later in the year, an accrediting
team visited our campus and also made recommendations.  We are now in the
process of attempting to implement the suggestions made by the visiting
team.  If I can be of assistance with specifics, I will be glad to do
so.  I had nothing in writing.  The person coordinating our IB program
and the various academic teachers gave input on needs based on their
curriculum.

from:  Dana Pope <popeda@heidelberg-emh2.army.mil>

Working overseas in the IB probram makes a lot more sense than it does in
the USA, but the only IB program going on in an American DoD school, as
far as I know, is the one at Bonn American HS...

 . . .few if any American kids had ever finished the IB even though the
school had had it for years.  American kids are too wrapped up in
extra-curriculars (and now colleges demand it for the best schools) to do
justice to the IB.  Or that was their explanation.

If you want to contact Bonn American HS, I can send you the address.


from:  Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ericir.syr.edu>

We are an IB school...  I have given the IB Director a place for his desk
in the library....

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Hope you can glean some useful ideas/info/leads out of all this.

Cheers -

Rachel Carlson
aixoise@netcom.com