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Loren Baron's Career Highlights

My career in education spans more than 30 years and includes vast experience with Magnet Schools of America and magnet programs, the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the IB Diploma Programme (DP), establishing magnet/IB programmes, delivering professional development, and writing curriculum, among other experiences. For detailed information regarding this professional journey, please see the highlights of my experiences below.

Training, Consulting and Professional Development

IB Educator Network: Teacher Trainer and Advisor â€‹

  • IB Workshop Leader: training teachers and coordinators across the United States in the philosophy and methodology of various aspects of IB curriculum for nearly two decades

  • DP specific: DP Coordination; Strategies to Increase DP Cohort Size; Theory of Knowledge and TOK for Subject Teachers; Creativity, Activity, Service; Extended Essay; Economics

  • IB Continuum: Approaches to Learning; Principles of an Equitable and Inclusive Education

  • Equity and Access Advisor: work with participating IB schools to devise strategic plans for increasing access to and participation in their Diploma Programmes

Consultant, Qibao Dwight High School, Shanghai, China​

  • Worked with IB coordinator and others to review and strengthen process for overall student success in the Qibao IB Diploma Programme​

  • Consulted with EE coordinator, CAS coordinator and TOK teachers to support and strengthen all elements of the DP Core student engagement 

  • Supported and provided professional development to Economics department to improve understanding of IB curriculum and development of strategies to effectively teach curriculum

IB Diploma Programme Establishment and Coordination

IB School Authorization, Evaluation and Development

  • Laid the groundwork for the establishment of a whole-school IB Middle Years Programme and an open-access IB Diploma Programme.

  • Saw the Diploma Programme through to authorization and through two reauthorization cycles.

  • ​Coordinated an open-access programme for 15 years, framed by the three pillars of cohort size, programme quality and cohort diversity​

Magnet Program and MSA Experience

  • Responsible for magnet program branding, marketing and recruitment

  • Led school through MSA Certification and certification renewal

  • ​Led school to 14 consecutive MSA Merit Awards as School of Excellence or School of Distinction​​

Statewide Educational Leadership

IB Schools of North Carolina, Executive Board, Past President

  • Reorganized executive board to increase efficiency and promote collaboration

  • Revamped bi-annual meeting process to better serve the needs of our constituency

  • Established new initiatives for member schools, including grants and round table conference

Curriculum Development

Pamoja Education, Inc.

  • Wrote online Economics course curriculum for HL and SL courses

International Monetary Fund

  • Developed curriculum for the IMF's Education Center exhibit – “Money Matters:  The Importance of Global Cooperation”

Montgomery County Public Schools

  • Wrote curriculum for the “National, State and Local Government” course

  • Rewrote the Economics performance objectives to meet state performance standards

Teaching Background

Public High School 

  • Served two magnet IB world schools, teaching a variety of humanities courses to all levels of students, including AP and IB

Online Education

  • Taught online IB courses for Pamoja Education and VHS, Inc.

International Education

  • Developed and implemented ESL curriculum for Chinese graduate students

Past Professional Presentations

Inquiry for Creative and Critical Thinking: A Pathway to Equity in Education

MSA Conference, 2025

 

Scheduling for Equity and Inclusion

WCPSS Summer Institute, 2024

 

Diploma Programme Participation: Removing Barriers to Entry

IBSNC Conference, 2019

 

Removing Barriers to Effective Student Participation

Webinar with David Weiss, Head US Public Schools, International Baccalaureate, 2018

 

Magnet Recruitment: Building an Effective and Sustainable Model

MSA Conference, 2015

 

Creating an IB Culture: Making the Vision a Reality

MSA Conference, 2015

 

Theory of Knowledge: From Theory to Action

IB Global Conference, 2011

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