Our Team:

J. Tim Kane

Lead Consultant

Tim Kane has over 30 years in public education and has developed a reputation as gifted classroom teacher, an expert in driving school changes through effective use of data, and catalyst for increasing both participation and performance in the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) Program. Tim has worked his entire life as a teacher and instructional coach in an open access IB school in Northern Virginia. His leadership has focused on three areas: IB instruction, using data to inform school improvement, and altering the paradigm around access to the advanced education programs. As a classroom teacher and curriculum team leader, Tim has produced IB History results that consistently outperform the IB world average and has increased participation to over fifty percent of the senior class in a diverse open access school. As Instructional Coach, Tim has used his leadership experience to lead his school and others to gain a deep understanding of how IB assessment works and how to demystify assessment for students. This work led him to partner with IB and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation's Bridging the Equity Gap Project as a consultant in IB Assessment. Finally, it is Tim's work as a change agent that led him to found IBSchoolImprovement.com as means to share his deep understanding of IB assessment and the school change process to increase participation and performance in the IB.

Our Mission:

Our Beliefs:

• The more students who can access the IB curriculum the better.
• There is no correlation between increased student participation and scores.
• In order for students and teachers to feel they can tackle the rigor of an IB course, teachers (and coordinators) must understand how the different components interact to produce an IB score of 1-7.
• Teachers must then use this increased understanding component data to create an assessment model that will be predictive of an IB score.