Facilitator: Christine Lang

Contact: c.orkiszlang@core-and-more.com

Throughout her career, Christine Orkisz Lang’s work and research have focused on learning in inquiry-based contexts, where she has developed expertise in designing structures to support improved learning and well-being. She is an author of the original International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), and her most recent school-based role was as the Primary School Principal at the Vienna International School. She has founded Core & More Education to support schools, leaders, teachers, and students using a focus on curriculum prioritization to address development, success criteria, and content overload and increase staff and student agency.

She holds an MEd in Mathematics and a PhD in Linguistics/Inquiry-Based Learning; has taught Primary and Middle School students in US, Austrian, and international schools; and has been supporting teachers and leaders in a variety of capacities for over 30 years.