Aurelia McNicol

Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Parent, Potential employer, Project manager, Student

I am Programme Director at Collège Alpin Beau Soleil and endeavour to include the SDGs into everything the Juniors do at Collège Alpin Beau Soleil, from their MYP studies, their many challenges and home-from-home life in our five boarding houses. In the past, I have implemented many Cross-disciplinary days that led to the school changing energy providers, embracing Meatless Mondays, learning Esperanto, mastering three languages (two mother tongues and a Foreign language) and much more... I have also presented research in the past on the importance of Reflection and the Implementation of the SDGs as part of various academic programmes (IMYC, MYP, IBDP, HSD) as well as leading workshops on plurilinguism in conferences such as ‘Practical Pedagogies’.

I have always been passionate about stretching my students and peers through creative & inquisitive pathways, particularly enjoying the breadth of possibilities cross curricular projects always offer. Raised in the Pyrenees and educated at la Sorbonne, I am a creative and language Arts specialist with a penchant for French Realism Literature and American Abstract Expressionism. I love art, opera, skiing, hiking and getting lost in novels and poetry.

Creativity, Curriculum Mapping, High Potential students, Leadership, linguistics, SDGs

This is my first time as a TEDx Curator...time to inspire our small Community to take action!

A synaesthete with Grapheme-color and Ordinal linguistic personification, I have closely worked on High Potential linguists for over 15 years with agencies and communities such as Gifted and Talented London, Eton and Libellule in Lausanne.