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Three middle school students perch on stools in the library of Rancho Minerva Middle School in Vista, CA. The room is packed with educators from as far away as Salem, MA. They take notes, snap pictures on their phones, and bombard the student panel with questions: How do you experience personalized learning? What do you like best about your school? What would you change?

Educators from Colorado, Illinois, California, and Kentucky have formed a circle of desks to debrief a day spent at Valor Collegiate in Nashville, TN. “It’s so impressive to hear students articulate how their behaviors impact their peers and vice versa--many adults cannot do this!” says one visitor. “I’m definitely going to take back how important it is for adults to do their own character building work before doing it with students,” says another. Still others ask probing questions of their hosts, like “How do you integrate the strengths of your social-emotional program with your academic classes?”

Trailed by a half-a-dozen visiting teachers, a senior walks backwards through the halls of High Tech High in Chula Vista, CA. Like a docent at a student-created museum, she points to the student products that line the walls, dangle from the ceilings, and spill out into the courtyards. She knows which class created the artifacts, and she can articulate each project’s learning goals. Pausing by a wall covered with floor plans and photographs of building construction, she explains with a grin, “This was my project from last year. These are the tiny homes we created for local artists to use as studios.”

These three vignettes capture moments from NGLC Learning Excursions this past year. In 2017 educators from throughout the NGLC grantee network came together to see next gen learning in action: observing classrooms, talking to students and educators, examining student products, and problem-solving around implementation challenges.

January is the season for resolutions, and we would be remiss not to suggest at least one, so here it is: make time in your 2018 professional learning calendar to either visit a next gen learning school or host a visit at your site. For this edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner’s Guide to Next Gen Learning , we spoke to leaders of schools in the NGLC network who have experience both as guests and hosts of school visits. We asked them to share their thoughts on:

  • The professional learning benefits for both visiting educators and host schools
  • Stories of memorable visits and how they shaped mindset or practice
  • Advice and resources for making the most of school visit experiences

Bold Ideas in Motion

That’s what Ami Gandhi sees when she visits other innovative schools. Ami is the Director of Innovation and Collaboration at Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools in Chicago, Illinois. Noting that there are many personalized learning frameworks available, Ami cites the value of seeing the “variety of ways to define it for your school.” According to Ami, seeing practice in action at different schools--those new to next gen learning and those in year five of implementation, both district schools and charter schools--"helps us think more creatively and connect theory to practice. It allows us to see what’s possible, and that’s very powerful.”

“It’s very rejuvenating to be a visitor at another school” as well, she reports. To illustrate, Ami tells the story of a December visit to Lee Elementary, a district school on the other side of Chicago that was piloting the Summit Learning Platform. Ami recounts what happened when one of the Intrinsic teachers sat down to talk to a student: “His mind was blown when he heard what the student’s day was like. He got so excited about student agency, how students could articulate what they were doing and said they loved going to school.” Right after that visit, Ami reports, that educator organized another group of teachers to go back to Lee to learn more.

Seeing is Believing

This is more than a familiar saying; it’s the name of a new kind of professional learning at Colorado’s Thompson School District. As part of a system-wide shift to personalized and competency-based learning, district and school leaders have launched a series of “Seeing is Believing” tours of district schools. In place of meeting in district office conference rooms, for example, Thompson’s school administrators design professional learning experiences in schools throughout the district, closer to the work of teaching and learning. Many of the events are also open to parents, community members, and educators from surrounding districts.

Jeri Crispe, Thompson’s Director of Secondary Education, describes this school-based, collaborative professional learning as something “uplifting and rare. It looks and feels different from any PL I’ve been a part of in 20 years.” Jeri contrasts traditional “sit and get” professional learning to the “hands-on and totally, authentically engaged” experience of being in colleagues’ schools.

Jeri’s enthusiasm about the tours is palpable. Spending a day learning about another school, she says, gives educators and school leaders “the opportunity to collaborate around design thinking and innovation, talk to students and teachers, observe classrooms, and share tools and resources. To explore possibilities and see what is already in place that we can build on.”

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The Value of a New Set of Eyes

It’s probably not surprising that educators tout the value of visiting other schools in order to learn new ways to implement personalized learning and other innovations. What’s perhaps less obvious is the value for the host schools. All of the leaders we spoke to pointed to this benefit, and they have created structures for getting feedback from visitors, either with a form like this one from Intrinsic schools or by including debrief time in the day’s agenda .

According to Ami, hosting fellow educators “makes us crisper in our purpose and how we are tying practice to outcomes for students. They know your intentions and they can tell you what they are seeing. This is hard to do when you are in the weeds. The tours give you a better sense of strength areas and what really needs to be improved.”

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Building professional networks

The interactive and collaborative nature of school visits also fosters strong relationships among colleagues engaged in the work of next gen learning. Jeri notes that for Thompson, the “Seeing is Believing” tours helped the district “come together as a system and see ourselves as one 13-year journey instead of 13 one-year journeys” toward reaching shared goals for students like social-emotional learning and college- and-career-ready competencies. Through the school tours, she says, “we created a sense of ‘we believe in ourselves as a system.’”

LeViis Haney, the principal at Chicago Public Schools’ Lovett Elementary, an NGLC Regional Funds grantee supported by LEAP Innovations, also emphasizes this benefit. In addition to receiving useful feedback, he points to how visits “connect our teachers with other educators both across the city as well as across the country. Those connections have been cultivated into relationships that have become support networks for us as we have expanded and scaled our work.”

LeViis adds that knowing that your school is serving as a model for others can also serve as a reminder to your school and broader community that “something special is happening here. It has helped to elevate the work for teachers and administrators as well as the students themselves. Being a part of a larger context of learning has helped to bring a deeper level of meaning for our work.”

Advice to School Hosts and Visitors

To get the most out of hosting a site visit, Ami advises educators to “be candid and humble. Show yourself to be as much of a learner as the visitors. Don’t try to look like year ten in year one.” She recommends that hosts “be reflective of their own journey” and include in the agenda time for collaboration around a problem of practice.

Echoing this same frankness, LeViis advises hosts “not to be afraid to open up your building. Leverage those opportunities to elevate everyone’s work. Give visitors the opportunity to give honest feedback--outside perspectives can be powerful for teams.”

Jeri makes the connection between hosting school tours and modeling mindsets and behaviors for students: “We expect kids to collaborate, take risks, ask for feedback, and be vulnerable, but do we do that? Are we taking that risk of opening up our doors and asking other teachers and administrators for feedback? We do with those we trust, but rarely do we step that far out of our comfort zone to become vulnerable.”

For visitors to other schools, Ami suggests that educators start off by asking foundational questions like “How do you make decisions?” and “How do you prioritize?” She recommends that visitors inquire about core values and beliefs and how practice and operations support them before “getting down to the tactical to ask questions like ‘how many minutes?’”

And just in case you are not yet convinced of the value of school visits, we’ll close with these motivating words from LeViis: “My advice is to go see amazing things happening in other schools and do not be afraid to steal--I mean borrow--ideas! Have an open mind, and do not be afraid to ask questions. Give honest feedback so that you are helping to improve practice. Believe that you can implement new ideas in your schools/classrooms, but know that it will not happen overnight.”

  • Sample visit agenda from a tour of Intrinsic Schools, with information about the visiting school and the purpose of their visit
  • Feedback form used after visits to Intrinsic Schools
  • “School Information” folder , an exemplar collection of documents about Intrinsic Schools that illustrates what a host school might share with participants before a visit
  • Sample NGLC Learning Excursion agenda , with structured, debrief time and links to school-specific agendas
  • NGLC Learning Excursions: A phenomenal experience , a 2-minute video that captures host and visitor perspectives from the NGLC Learning Excursion to San Diego-area schools in October 2017
  • We See and Believe in Thompson School District , an Education Week blog post by school leaders from Thompson School District

The opinions expressed in Next Gen Learning in Action are strictly those of the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of Editorial Projects in Education, or any of its publications.

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1. Build clarity around the purpose of the visit, among your critical friends and among colleagues, parents, and students in your school.

What questions do we have and how will a visit help uncover them?

  • What evidence will we ask our critical friends to look for or examine, to enable them to provide relevant feedback?
  • What steps should the school take in order to welcome the visitors and value their feedback?
  • What written background information will our visitors need? How can we use existing documents-the school’s restructuring plan, for example-to give this information?

2. Structure a visit that gives critical friends access to the information and observations they need to help the school.

  • How will we make our visitors comfortable (location of restrooms, bell schedules, a meeting room, a student guide, access to coffee)?
  • How will the visitors get to talk to students, teachers, and parents about student work (focus groups, candid interviews, meetings with leadership)?
  • Will there be samples of student work to look at? What data and evidence should be available?
  • How will the visitors get the “feel” of the school (student shadowing, teacher shadowing, classroom observations)?
  • How will we handle lunch (ask visitors to mingle, assign them hosts, arrange focus-group lunches)?
  • How and when can the visitors offer ideas about the design of the day’s activities?

3. Structure the feedback process so that as many people as possible can be involved in a non-threatening way.

  • Is there a time and a place in the agenda for visitors to discuss with each other what they have seen and talk about the feedback they want to give?
  • What will our grouping strategies be (team reports to staff, individuals to small groups, team reports to representatives)?
  • What data will we collect from our visitors (charted feedback, personal reflections, notes on the feedback)?
  • What will people need to feel safe in the feedback process (ground rules, facilitation, room set-up)?
  • Who needs to hear this feedback?

4. Think through the follow-up activities.

  • How will this feedback get to a wider audience?
  • How will we provide information to the visitors on the value of the visit and the quality of their feedback?
  • Will visitors need a room to debrief and plan following the visit?
  • How does this visit connect to the other visits the school will host?

Thanks to the Bay Area Coalition of Essential Schools (BayCES) for developing this material.

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How to Plan Great Learning Tours for School Designers

By Victoria Crispin, Senior Director, Springpoint

There is growing recognition that we need to do school differently. More and more, educators seek examples, ideas, and inspiration that can fuel innovative school design. At Springpoint, we help educators across the country design and launch new high school models. We’ve led hundreds of educators on learning tours across the country, which is a key lever for informing great practice and shifting mindsets.

Our latest  Schools to Visit guide  lists innovative school sites across the country that educators may want to learn about. Here, we’ve outlined the ways in which we help them intentionally explore exemplary learning environments and process their observations through structured debrief and planning time.

Start with Learning Outcomes As educators think about which schools to visit, a great first step is to identify a set of outcomes for the learning tour by asking a set of questions to drive the overall design and planning of the learning tour, such as:

  • What aspects of practice should all participants be exposed to?
  • What questions are participants hoping to investigate based on their existing practices?
  • What will they concretely take away from the learning experience?
  • How will they spend their time debriefing and engaging with their observations outside of the specific school visits?

From here, educators can craft a set of outcomes, which will help prioritize the ideal host sites to reach out to for a visit. Here are snapshots of sample outcomes and how they inform site and participant selection.

Example 1  –  Sample outcomes : 1. Our team will learn about different approaches to primary person models through the effective use of advisory that brings positive youth development practices to life in a school. 2. Our team will understand flexible scheduling that provides opportunities for leaders to build additional time for advisory into the daily schedule. What you’d look for : Multi-grade advisory structure in a full 4-year sequence. Who should attend : Principal with a thought partner including an Assistant Principal or lead teacher, students, and anyone whose primary job will be to accelerate the inclusion of positive youth development into the school model.

Example 2  –  Sample outcomes 1. Our team will learn about college and enrichment supports in an alternative school context. 2. Our team will understand innovative approaches to human capital and college access programming in schools. What you’d look for : Content teachers overseeing student case conferences and teaching college navigation courses, direct instruction of collaboration, self-advocacy, and other habits of success. Who should attend : Grade team leaders, students, student success personnel, college counselors.

Participant Selection We recommend selecting learning tour participants with the visit outcomes in mind. Based on the learning outcomes, identify team members who can best leverage the learning tour experience. Participants should also understand that the learning tour will be an opportunity for the team to both examine and bolster their own model or current set of practices. It may be worthwhile to take time at the outset to socialize the idea of adopting a learner’s stance as they visit and observe other learning environments.

On our learning tours, we ask participants to embark on school visits with open-mindedness, enthusiasm, and respect. We propose the following statements to our groups as visit norms for our time together:

  • An appreciation for each other’s time away from our buildings and homes, and the commitment we’ve made to this shared experience by remaining fully present and entering each learning experience with a beginner’s mind.
  • A willingness to challenge personal beliefs, perceptions, and practices, and an open and receptive attitude while doing so.
  • A professional, respectful, and transparent environment in which it is safe to converse, question, and discover, and one that fosters new relationships.
  • A belief that every school is a work in progress and has valuable lessons to impart.
  • A common understanding of the vision, mission, goals, and expected student outcomes driving the work of your model, to best internalize observed practices that you may want to implement.

Bring Students! We always recommend that our partners include students on their design team, which means that students often attend our learning tours. Having students join these learning experiences can be a robust and enriching way to embed them even more deeply in their own school’s design process. It can connect the dots for students in tangible ways, expose them to new cities and ideas, and make them feel like an equal member in their school’s design work.

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Planning the Visit Thoughtfully Our team understands how to navigate the many moving pieces of planning a trip for any group, be it an existing school team, a design team, district or charter staff, or students. Here are some tips we’ve developed as a result of our robust work in this arena:

  • Assign roles.  Determine which team member will be the point of contact for the host school. This person will coordinate with all parties and respond professionally and promptly to all requests and changes. They will also organize the visit logistics, including arrival and sign-in at the host school. While the school visit logistics are being honed, other team members can work on planning the debrief and related aspects of programming that will also happen during the learning tour.
  • Scheduling.  Identify any blackout dates for visitation, cross-checking the availability of your own team and coordinating closely with the host school to avoid holidays, testing days, trips, and other school-wide events. We have found that the optimal time of year for most schools to host visitors is early October to Thanksgiving and end of January to mid-March.
  • burning questions and areas of interest
  • any requests for specific policies or work products that would be helpful for your team to reference as additional context and pre-work (e.g., one-page overview of the school model, master schedule, student and staff recruitment materials, grading policies, etc.)
  • any requests for specific stakeholders to hear from, for example, a  STEM  teacher, a mastery specialist, or students (we strongly recommend including a student panel in the agenda)

Remember to reach out to potential host schools as early as possible. Making contact four months out is safe and generous. We recommend giving one month at the very least. You’ll also want to be clear with the host school about your overall group size, as well as classroom walkthrough group size so that the visit is minimally disruptive. As we say in our Schools to Visit Guide, most smaller host schools can accommodate at least five people, while larger schools might be open to 10-15 visitors. Discuss this with your point of contact early on as it might affect the planning process.

Once you confirm a visit and a date, you might consider setting up a brief planning call with the host school leader (or their planning point person). Giving the host school a high-level sample agenda to review and react to in advance can make the planning call more efficient. This is the  sample school visit template  that we use when coordinating with host schools. We’ve found that these leading questions and action items help concretize the ask.

Develop an Outline for the Tour Sketching out the structure of a learning tour requires strategic planning. We work to ensure that teams are engaged in the following learning cycle: 1. Observe; 2. Make meaning; 3. Plan; 4. Receive feedback; 5. Share and implement. This cycle allows participants to develop clear understandings and positions them to act upon their insights back at their home schools. The following foundational elements of a Springpoint learning tour are designed to guide participants through this cycle:

  • A welcome and framing presentation  by the host school leader to open the school visit and set the context.
  • Classroom observations  across content areas and grade levels (if applicable). Participants can capture observations and learning with a common observation tool that has flexibility for customization. ( See a sample observation tool here ).
  • Robust Q&A sessions  with students and teachers.
  • A thorough debrief discussion  with the school leadership team.
  • Structured planning time  to make meaning of observations and insights from each school visit.
  • A presentation segment  at the end of the tour, so that participants can give and receive feedback on the action plans that have resulted from examination of the observed school model elements, and how these can live in their own school context.

We have found that dedicated blocks of planning time are crucial so that educators can digest what they see and figure out how to adapt relevant practices and systems to their own contexts.

Our learning tours generally include multiple school design teams. We use the planning time to facilitate a robust session for these teams to engage in conversation, explore key questions, work in small groups, and collaborate across teams. Each team develops a brief slide presentation showing how they will bring learnings back to their community and shift practice in their school or classroom. School teams present to the larger group and receive feedback and we help them itemize next steps toward implementation. We have found it most valuable to hold these sessions on the same day as the visit, generally in the afternoon following a morning tour. However you decide to structure the debrief and planning time, be sure to think about the structure and process well before the visit starts.

Meals, Networking, and Special Accommodations It’s important to remember that your group will need access to three meals a day, breaks to rest and check-in with their teams and at home, and snacks, water, and caffeine to sustain them through the afternoon’s debrief and planning sessions. We try to balance the number of collective meals that our groups eat together for networking and general camaraderie, with those that they can have independently so that everyone has a bit of individual time as well.

We also always ask up front whether participants have any special accommodations that we should be aware of, including food allergies, trouble with walking long distances or stairs, required proximity to a screen or audio, print size, or any other need. Our goal is to make participants as comfortable as possible while they’re with us.

Iterate the Process Our network support team thinks of every detail, planning for everything but remaining nimble based on needs and changes. We always collect participant feedback at the end of a learning tour to address our partners’ requests and ideas for future agenda and/or facilitation modification. We have run dozens of learning tours and continue to refine our approach to make sure each trip is a valuable use of educators’ precious time away from their buildings, teams, and their own families back at home.

We consistently get positive feedback from our partners on their participation in our learning tours. Cleveland Metropolitan School District leader, Darcel Williams, said: “The Springpoint network enriches our principals, who each have had the opportunity to visit schools across the country where the very design principles they are implementing are being lived out, richly.” Nancy Rosas from Internationals Network for Public Schools has said, “the school visits that Springpoint organizes for our staff expose us to innovative ideas that we can adapt and implement within our own context. These visits also energize our leaders and teachers who always return wanting to try new things they’ve seen.”

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A school visit agenda is a crucial tool for educators, administrators, and other professionals visiting a school. Whether you are an education consultant, a representative of an organization, or a prospective parent, having a well-planned agenda ensures that your visit is productive and achieves its intended goals. Here's why a school visit agenda is essential:

  • Effective Time Management: An agenda helps you allocate time to different activities, ensuring that you cover all the important aspects of the visit while staying within the designated timeframe. It allows you to make the most of your visit and maximize your interactions with school personnel.
  • Clear Objectives: By outlining your objectives in the agenda, you can communicate your expectations to the school in advance. This helps the school prepare relevant materials, presentations, and resources to ensure a meaningful visit.
  • Structured Meetings and Discussions: The agenda helps organize meetings and discussions with school administrators, teachers, and staff members. It ensures that all relevant topics are covered, questions are addressed, and there is a clear flow of information during the visit.
  • Observation and Classroom Visits: If you plan to observe classes or visit specific programs or facilities, the agenda helps you allocate time for these activities. It ensures that you have the opportunity to observe teaching practices, interact with students, and gather the information you need.
  • Documentation and Follow-up: A well-structured agenda provides a record of your visit and the topics discussed. It serves as a reference for future communication or follow-up actions. You can refer back to the agenda to ensure that all important points have been addressed and follow through on any commitments made during the visit.

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In creating an effective meeting agenda , key points need to be discussed clearly. But to create an effective visit agenda, other matters must be focused on for it to run smoothly.

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What Is a Visit Agenda?

A visit agenda and an itinerary is often used interchangeably. An agenda is a list of things to be done, such as a meeting of topics and issues to be discussed. There are multiple agenda examples that support this thought. An itinerary, on the other hand, focuses on the things to be done on a trip and other significant details of a particular location. A visit agenda is a strict list of details and instructions made for formal visits that are under a tight schedule.

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There are multiple agenda examples in excel that you can follow. But if you want to start from scratch, there are things to consider in writing a visit agenda.

The agenda must contain all the necessary details and instructions. From the participants involved to the given time period, even the smallest details are essential to carry it out. The agenda’s title should also provide a clear message to its readers, containing a proper insight of what the printable agenda is for. The details of the visit must also be well organized. Travel time might affect the next activity, so you must be practical when setting each activity.

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To prepare a visit agenda, you need to know what needs to be covered within a given time period. These are the essential parts of the visit that have to be accomplished. If you wish to include an activity on the list, the details on how to achieve it must be thought through. This would include transportation and other essential materials. You may also see agenda examples in word to serve as your guide.

We often see tips on meeting agenda examples on how to make an effective agenda. A visit agenda is no different however, there are some guidelines that you should consider for a good visit agenda:

  • Estimated time schedule. Although a schedule can alter due to unforeseen circumstances, it’s good to prepare a time frame for each activity to carry out smoothly.
  • Start and finish. Although it’s not necessary to end the day formally, it’s a good idea to indicate the start and end of the agenda properly.
  • Additional notes. These could be instructions on how to carry out activities.
  • Update regularly. Changes in schedule or activities must be reflected immediately to avoid any form of conflict.

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A School Itinerary is a record of lists of activities in the school event that will be followed and serves as a guide to the participating students. It is important to distribute or provide a school itinerary to the presenters, facilitators, teachers, and students in order to prevent confusion. This also helps in auditing and observing the status of a specific task listed.

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step — or one carefully thought-out itinerary. Whether you’re a travel agent, event coordinator, wedding planner, or someone organizing an annual family road trip , you can instantly create schedules for any upcoming occasion with Jotform’s Itinerary PDF Templates.

Using our drag-and-drop PDF Editor , you can reorganize the itinerary template layout and include additional activity fields to help you plan every moment. When users fill out your customized itinerary form, their information will automatically be saved as PDFs that can easily be printed or sent electronically to everyone on the guest list. Once downloaded, these mobile-friendly PDF itineraries can quickly be accessed on phones, so even when internet isn’t available, everything can still go according to plan.

Frequently Asked Questions

1) what are the subtypes of itinerary templates.

There are itinerary templates for events, vacations, conferences — you name it! You can use travel itineraries — which include information about flights, hotels, tickets, vacation packages, and more — as well as business itineraries for conference schedules or meetings. Plus, you can fully personalize your itinerary for any trip you’re planning, whether that’s a road trip, a bachelor party, or an all-inclusive cruise.

2) What is the purpose of using an itinerary template?

The purpose of an itinerary template is to provide a structured plan for a trip or event. It outlines all the details of the event, including activities, schedules, budgets, to-do lists, and more. An itinerary template can help you organize and streamline the planning process both more productive and enjoyable, whether you’re putting on a conference or a small event for friends.

3) What are the benefits of using an itinerary template?

An itinerary template helps with time management and organization. It helps you lay out the details of an engagement in advance, saving you time and hassle once the event actually happens. Itinerary templates are also great for communicating details with others, as you can send them out to everyone involved to communicate logistics. Lastly, itinerary templates are useful when budgeting for expenses because you can estimate and track costs in one place.

4) How do I create an itinerary template?

You can create an itinerary by heading over to Jotform’s PDF templates library. We have you covered with multiple itinerary templates to choose from — no matter your needs. Simply pick the template that works best for you, click Use Template, and customize it in our PDF Editor. When you’re finished, you can share it via email or link or embed it in your website in seconds.

5) What information should be included in an itinerary template?

Generally, an itinerary template should include the major elements of the event or trip. For example, if you’re making a flight itinerary, make sure to include flight numbers, boarding times, terminals, and confirmation numbers.

If you’re making a conference itinerary, list the conference name, date, start time, location, sessions, and other details. Include a day-by-day or hour-by-hour breakdown of the schedule, depending on the length of your event.

The best way to construct an itinerary is to step back and think about all the information you would need to know as a traveler or attendee. This could include everything from budget and accommodation to meals and contact information, so take time to flesh out all the details.

6) Can I customize an itinerary template to suit my specific needs?

The beauty of the itinerary template is that you can adjust it to meet your requirements seamlessly. With Jotform’s intuitive drag-and-drop PDF Editor, you can rearrange sections, add new form fields, adjust fonts and colors, drop in your own logo, and much more. When you’re done, you can share it through email or a link with anyone who needs it. Plus, our mobile-friendly PDF itineraries work great on any phone, tablet, or computer, so your users can access them even if they’re traveling without a great internet connection.

7) Where can I find free itinerary templates online?

You can find free itinerary templates with a quick Google search. But, while there are many options to choose from, not all free itinerary templates are created equal. If you have to download a template as a Word document or PDF, editing them can get tricky, depending on which operating system or tools you use.

Jotform’s itinerary templates are completely free to use and easy to edit. Just choose the one you want to use, customize it in our PDF Editor, and you’re ready to go. You can create and share a robust itinerary in minutes.

8) How do I add accommodations and transportation details to an itinerary template?

You can add accommodation and transportation details to your itinerary template by replacing the text from the sections in one of our templates or by adding new sections to your itinerary.

You can include handy charts, color-block your sections, or create a snappy form design to make sure your users can absorb the information at a glance. To make your accommodation and transportation details even more organized, consider using standard formatting, bullet points, charts, and clear headings to enhance readability.

9) Can I share my itinerary template with others?

Yes! An itinerary wouldn’t be very useful if no one could see it except you — which is why Jotform has made this part as easy as possible. When you’re finished customizing your template, navigate to the Share button in the upper right corner of the PDF Editor. From there, you can create a link to share your document or invite users by email. You also have the option to grant private or company access, adjust permissions, and more.

10) Is it possible to create an itinerary template for multiple destinations?

Yes, you can create an itinerary template that covers multiple destinations for an event or trip! For example, if you’re organizing a company retreat with multiple destinations (think Chicago to New York or Paris to Berlin), you can create schedules for each location in the same itinerary. Put your stops on different pages or create separate charts with their activities. This way, you won’t have to send multiple documents to attendees.

11) Can I integrate a map or GPS coordinates into an itinerary template?

You can add a map as an image in your itinerary template to help guide attendees. You can also include information like the name and GPS coordinates of the destination in the template to make sure your attendees know where they’re headed.

12) How can an itinerary template help me stay organized during my trip?

An itinerary template can help you stay organized during your trip by eliminating unknown factors that may cost you time and money. For instance, if you book a bus to your day trip destination in advance, you won’t have to run around trying to find a way there the day of. An itinerary also helps you keep all the details about your day in one place so you won’t have to dig through your email searching for tickets or schedules.

One of the biggest perks of an itinerary is that it helps you manage your budget. Planning your budget in advance helps you estimate how much you’re going to spend and when, which also helps you add contingency funds should any surprises pop up.

And speaking of surprises — believe it or not, an itinerary can actually help with flexibility as well! Any trip will throw unexpected changes at you, but having your plans in one place will make it easier to rearrange specific activities or incorporate more time into your schedule with ease.

13) Are there any best practices for using an itinerary template?

There are several best practices that will help you get the most out of your itinerary template. The first one is to customize the template to your needs — adding all the details specific to your event will help you cover all your bases. Keep the information concise, so attendees don’t feel overwhelmed by too much text on the page.

It’s best to use a digital format such as a PDF for your itinerary, since paper itineraries are easy to lose or destroy. Be sure to share your document with all your attendees, so no one’s in the dark — and be sure to update it if any last-minute changes pop up!

14) How can I optimize my itinerary template to maximize my time during the trip?

Every itinerary will be different, depending on what each person enjoys. If you’re someone who likes to account for every minute of a trip, you can make a really robust itinerary. On the other hand, if you prefer to have some wiggle room, you can schedule one or two activities and leave the rest of your time to mosey around town.

In general, you can optimize your itinerary by prioritizing a couple must-see destinations and grouping activities together based on location. For example, if you’re headed to Barcelona and you’re most excited to see the Sagrada Familia, then you should plan a day in that part of town — and if a restaurant you wanted to try happens to be nearby, you can group those activities together.

It’s also wise to research transportation options in advance, because getting from one place to another often takes up the most time on trips. Be mindful of how long it’s going to take you to get somewhere — you might find it’s better to snag a cab than brave the train.

Lastly, plan in some buffer time and go with the flow! Nothing will ever go perfectly on a trip, but remember that it’s just as much about the journey as it is about the destination.

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A visit agenda contains all the things that an entity needs to fulfill when they visit a location where the operations or the processes of the business where they are involved in are done. There are different kinds of visit agendas varying on the purpose of the visitation and the activities that are needed to be done by the individual or group who will use this specific document.

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  • The identification of the visitors based on their roles in the procedures that are stated in the visit agenda
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Use our guide to help plan and prepare for governor school visits. understand how you can link visits to the school improvement plan, and how you can help your governors prepare and report back effectively., be clear on the purpose .

  • Link the visits to your school strategy
  • Set the frequency of visits and use our template to map out a schedule
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In a nutshell

  • 'Monitoring visits' are where individual governors go into the school to see how specific aspects of the school work in practice
  • Visits allow governors to ask and see whether the things people say are happening are actually happening
  • They might involve a 'learning walk', where governors are taken around the school to chat to staff and pupils, or a sit-down meeting with a relevant staff member
  • They're  not for governors to inspect the school, judge individual staff members or interfere with the day-to-day running of the school
  • In line with your school improvement plan  (SIP) priorities
  • For an identified purpose linked to the governing body’s responsibilities, such as safeguarding
  • Pre-arranged with your headteacher or executive headteacher 

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Educators are the lead learners in schools. If they are to enable powerful, authentic, deep learning among their students, they need to live that kind of learning and professional culture themselves. When everyone is part of that experiential through-line, that’s when next generation learning thrives.

Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning

On NGLC Learning Excursions, educators see next gen learning in action: observing classrooms, talking to students and educators, examining student products, and problem-solving around implementation challenges.

Three middle school students perch on stools in the library of Rancho Minerva Middle School in Vista, CA. The room is packed with educators from as far away as Salem, MA. They take notes, snap pictures on their phones, and bombard the student panel with questions: How do you experience personalized learning? What do you like best about your school? What would you change?

Educators from Colorado, Illinois, California, and Kentucky have formed a circle of desks to debrief a day spent at Valor Collegiate in Nashville, TN. “It’s so impressive to hear students articulate how their behaviors impact their peers and vice versa—many adults cannot do this!” says one visitor. “I’m definitely going to take back how important it is for adults to do their own character building work before doing it with students,” says another. Still others ask probing questions of their hosts, like “How do you integrate the strengths of your social-emotional program with your academic classes?”

Trailed by a half-a-dozen visiting teachers, a senior walks backwards through the halls of High Tech High in Chula Vista, CA. Like a docent at a student-created museum, she points to the student products that line the walls, dangle from the ceilings, and spill out into the courtyards. She knows which class created the artifacts, and she can articulate each project’s learning goals. Pausing by a wall covered with floor plans and photographs of building construction, she explains with a grin, “This was my project from last year. These are the tiny homes we created for local artists to use as studios.”

These three vignettes capture moments from NGLC Learning Excursions this past year. In 2017 educators from throughout the NGLC grantee network came together to see next gen learning in action: observing classrooms, talking to students and educators, examining student products, and problem-solving around implementation challenges.

January is the season for resolutions, and we would be remiss not to suggest at least one, so here it is: make time in your 2018 professional learning calendar to either visit a next gen learning school or host a visit at your site. For this edition of Friday Focus: Practitioner’s Guide to Next Gen Learning , we spoke to leaders of schools in the NGLC network who have experience both as guests and hosts of school visits. We asked them to share their thoughts on:

  • The professional learning benefits for both visiting educators and host schools
  • Stories of memorable visits and how they shaped mindset or practice
  • Advice and resources for making the most of school visit experiences

Bold Ideas in Motion

That’s what Ami Gandhi sees when she visits other innovative schools. Ami is the Director of Innovation and Collaboration at Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools in Chicago, Illinois. Noting that there are many personalized learning frameworks available, Ami cites the value of seeing the “variety of ways to define it for your school.” According to Ami, seeing practice in action at different schools—those new to next gen learning and those in year five of implementation, both district schools and charter schools—“helps us think more creatively and connect theory to practice. It allows us to see what’s possible , and that’s very powerful.”

“It’s very rejuvenating to be a visitor at another school” as well, she reports. To illustrate, Ami tells the story of a December visit to Lee Elementary, a district school on the other side of Chicago that was piloting the Summit Learning Platform. Ami recounts what happened when one of the Intrinsic teachers sat down to talk to a student: “His mind was blown when he heard what the student’s day was like. He got so excited about student agency, how students could articulate what they were doing and said they loved going to school.” Right after that visit, Ami reports, that educator organized another group of teachers to go back to Lee to learn more.

Seeing is Believing

This is more than a familiar saying; it’s the name of a new kind of professional learning at Colorado’s Thompson School District. As part of a system-wide shift to personalized and competency-based learning , district and school leaders have launched a series of “Seeing is Believing” tours of district schools. In place of meeting in district office conference rooms, for example, Thompson’s school administrators design professional learning experiences in schools throughout the district, closer to the work of teaching and learning. Many of the events are also open to parents, community members, and educators from surrounding districts.

Jeri Crispe, Thompson’s Director of Secondary Education, describes this school-based, collaborative professional learning as something “uplifting and rare. It looks and feels different from any PL I’ve been a part of in 20 years.” Jeri contrasts traditional “sit and get” professional learning to the “hands-on and totally, authentically engaged” experience of being in colleagues’ schools.

Jeri’s enthusiasm about the tours is palpable. Spending a day learning about another school, she says, gives educators and school leaders “the opportunity to collaborate around design thinking and innovation, talk to students and teachers, observe classrooms, and share tools and resources. To explore possibilities and see what is already in place that we can build on.”

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The Value of a New Set of Eyes

It’s probably not surprising that educators tout the value of visiting other schools in order to learn new ways to implement personalized learning and other innovations. What’s perhaps less obvious is the value for the host schools. All of the leaders we spoke to pointed to this benefit, and they have created structures for getting feedback from visitors, either with a form like this one from Intrinsic schools or by including debrief time in the day’s agenda .

According to Ami, hosting fellow educators “makes us crisper in our purpose and how we are tying practice to outcomes for students. They know your intentions and they can tell you what they are seeing. This is hard to do when you are in the weeds. The tours give you a better sense of strength areas and what really needs to be improved.”

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Building Professional Networks

The interactive and collaborative nature of school visits also fosters strong relationships among colleagues engaged in the work of next gen learning . Jeri notes that for Thompson, the “Seeing is Believing” tours helped the district “come together as a system and see ourselves as one 13-year journey instead of 13 one-year journeys” toward reaching shared goals for students like social-emotional learning and college- and-career-ready competencies. Through the school tours, she says, “we created a sense of ‘we believe in ourselves as a system.’”

LeViis Haney, the principal at Chicago Public Schools’ Lovett Elementary, an NGLC Regional Funds grantee supported by LEAP Innovations, also emphasizes this benefit. In addition to receiving useful feedback, he points to how visits “connect our teachers with other educators both across the city as well as across the country. Those connections have been cultivated into relationships that have become support networks for us as we have expanded and scaled our work.”

LeViis adds that knowing that your school is serving as a model for others can also serve as a reminder to your school and broader community that “something special is happening here. It has helped to elevate the work for teachers and administrators as well as the students themselves. Being a part of a larger context of learning has helped to bring a deeper level of meaning for our work.”

Advice to School Hosts and Visitors

To get the most out of hosting a site visit, Ami advises educators to “be candid and humble. Show yourself to be as much of a learner as the visitors . Don’t try to look like year ten in year one.” She recommends that hosts “be reflective of their own journey” and include in the agenda time for collaboration around a problem of practice.

Echoing this same frankness, LeViis advises hosts “not to be afraid to open up your building. Leverage those opportunities to elevate everyone's work. Give visitors the opportunity to give honest feedback—outside perspectives can be powerful for teams.”

Jeri makes the connection between hosting school tours and modeling mindsets and behaviors for students : “We expect kids to collaborate, take risks, ask for feedback, and be vulnerable, but do we do that? Are we taking that risk of opening up our doors and asking other teachers and administrators for feedback? We do with those we trust, but rarely do we step that far out of our comfort zone to become vulnerable.”

For visitors to other schools, Ami suggests that educators start off by asking foundational questions like “How do you make decisions?” and “How do you prioritize?” She recommends that visitors inquire about core values and beliefs and how practice and operations support them before “getting down to the tactical to ask questions like ‘how many minutes?’”

And just in case you are not yet convinced of the value of school visits, we’ll close with these motivating words from LeViis: “My advice is to go see amazing things happening in other schools and do not be afraid to steal—I mean borrow—ideas! Have an open mind and do not be afraid to ask questions. Give honest feedback so that you are helping to improve practice. Believe that you can implement new ideas in your schools/classrooms, but know that it will not happen overnight.”

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Biden lauds new Microsoft center on the same site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his "Investing in America agenda" at Gateway Technical College, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Sturtevant, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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STURTEVANT, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday laced into Donald Trump over a failed project in the previous administration that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin and trumpeted new economic investments under his watch that are coming to the same spot.

That location in the battleground state will now be the site of a new data center from Microsoft, whose president credited the Biden administration’s economic policies for paving the way for the new investments. For Biden, it offered another point of contrast between him and Trump, who had promised a $10 billion investment by the Taiwan-based electronics giant Foxconn that never came.

“In fact, he came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world. You kidding me?” Biden told the crowd of about 300 people, who clapped and cheered loudly as he spoke. “Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it.”

Noting that 100 homes were destroyed to make way for the project, which wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, Biden added a jab: “Foxconn turned out to be just that — a con. Go figure.”

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Biden was in Sturtevant, in Racine County, to promote the $3.3 billion Microsoft data center, which the Democratic president said will employ about 2,300 union construction workers to build it and then 2,000 permanent employees to staff it.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith said in an interview with The Associated Press that Microsoft had a “steadfast commitment to under-promising and over-delivering” and praised the Biden administration and the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers, for economic policies that set the stage for the developments announced Wednesday.

But Biden was eager to take the credit and use the opportunity to repeatedly take swings at Trump, arguing that his presumptive Republican challenger embraced the same type of “trickle-down economics” that Biden abhors and failed to revive domestic manufacturing during his four years in the White House.

“Folks, during the previous administration, my predecessor made promises, which he broke more than kept, left a lot of people behind in communities like Racine,” Biden said. “On my watch, we make promises, and we keep promises.”

Trump’s campaign didn’t address Foxconn, but the Republican former president often says the economy was in a much better position when he was in office and will be again should he win in 2024. Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley said Biden’s trip was an attempt to “save face in Racine County as Wisconsinites feel the pain of Bidenomics.”

“Manufacturing has stalled, family farms are shuttering, and costs are up for everything from electricity and gas to food and housing,” Whatley said. “It’s no wonder why Biden is losing in Wisconsin and battleground states across the country: his policies have failed and people want President Trump back in office.”

Foxconn, meanwhile, said its current Wisconsin operation “greatly contributes” to the company, which has invested roughly $1 billion in the state and now employs more than 1,000 people at Foxconn Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents the district where Biden was visiting Wednesday, said the Microsoft announcement was good for workers. But Steil said Biden is using it to hide his record on failing to control rising inflation and said Biden was taking credit for private-sector work in the region that began a decade ago, much of it for the Foxconn project.

As for Trump, he was back in Florida on his day off from his New York hush money trial on Wednesday, meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club with people who, as part of a promotion, bought digital trading card NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to publicly discuss it. The “MugShot Edition” NFTs featured images of Trump as a cowboy, with lightning coming out of his hands, walking by the U.S. Capitol and taking the place of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.

Later, Biden met with about 50 Black supporters and volunteers at a community center in nearby Racine, noting that he first got into politics “because of the African-American community.”

He also briefly laid out the stakes for the election, warning of the potential risk to democracy and Trump’s threats to “get rid of all the stuff that we’ve done.”

Racine County is a critical location. All but five of the past 33 winning presidential candidates carried it. Trump is one of the five. He won Racine County but lost the election. Biden was the first Democrat since 1976 to win Wisconsin without carrying Racine County.

The race is expected to be close in Wisconsin, where four of the past six presidential elections have been decided by less than a percentage point. Biden won by just under 21,000 votes in 2020. A recent Marquette University poll showed that Republican voters in Wisconsin are somewhat more enthusiastic about the election than Democrats.

Biden also went to Chicago on Wednesday for a fundraiser, telling his donors that he doesn’t think the polls showing poor approval ratings for him are accurate. But he used the event to further attack Trump in a sign that he sees November’s election as hinging on how people feel about his predecessor, not necessarily Biden’s own track record.

Biden’s trip to Wisconsin — his fourth of the year and 11th as president — came as his reelection also sharpened its outreach to minority voters on the airwaves. It announced the launch of a new, $14 million digital and television blitz that follows the $30 million effort that began after his State of the Union address in early March.

One of the new ads in the latest ad campaign focuses on Trump’s failed yet determined push to repeal the Affordable Care Act. A significant portion of the $14 million campaign starting Wednesday will go into Black and Hispanic media, as well as Asian American print and radio, according to the campaign.

By the end of May, Biden’s reelection effort will have more than 200 offices and roughly 500 staff members in place, according to Dan Kanninen, the campaign’s battleground director. Those figures include offices in areas that traditionally haven’t seen investments by Democrats in pockets of Michigan, Arizona and North Carolina.

While Microsoft has been ramping up artificial intelligence-driven data center construction around the world, “this one is more important than many because there is more land and ultimately access to power available,” said Smith, who as a child lived in the area where the center is being built.

Once in operation, however, even the most powerful data centers typically employ a relatively small group of full-time employees to oversee them. Microsoft will have about 500, pulling from highly skilled workers in the corridor between Milwaukee and Chicago, Smith said.

Kim reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price in New York, Scott Bauer in Wisconsin and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report.

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Russia-Ukraine war as it happened: Moscow says British military facilities could be targeted after Cameron’s remarks

British ambassador is summoned and told that installations and equipment in Ukraine and elsewhere could be targeted

  • 7d ago Here is a summary of today's developments so far:
  • 7d ago Russia states British military facilities could be targeted after Cameron remarks
  • 7d ago Ukraine calls on allies not to recognise Putin as Russia's 'legitimate president'
  • 7d ago Ukraine accuses Russia of 'nuclear blackmail' over weapons drills
  • 7d ago Russia nuclear weapons drills in response to West possibly sending troops to Ukraine
  • 7d ago Russia to carry out nuclear weapons drills

The British foreign secretary, David Cameron, (right) meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Kyiv last week.

Russia states British military facilities could be targeted after Cameron remarks

Russia warned Britain on Monday that if British weapons were used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory then Moscow could hit back at British military installations and equipment both inside Ukraine and elsewhere.

British Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the foreign ministry for a formal protest after Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Ukraine had the right to use British weapons to strike Russia .

Russia’s foreign ministry said the Cameron remarks recognised that Britain was now de-facto a part of the conflict.

“Casey was warned that in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory with British weapons, any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and abroad could be targeted,” the foreign ministry said.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron walks past a display of destroyed Russian military vehicles in Saint Michael’s Square, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 2, 2024.

“The Ambassador was called upon to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and immediately refute the belligerent provocative statements of the head of the Foreign Office in the most decisive and unambiguous way.”

Cameron, during a visit to Kyiv, told Reuters last week that Ukraine had a right to use the weapons provided by London to strike targets inside Russia, and that it was up to Kyiv whether to do so.

“Ukraine has that right. Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it’s defending itself,” Cameron told Reuters outside St. Michael’s Cathedral.

Russia’s foreign ministry has commented further on the tactical nuclear weapons drills, according to Reuters. It reported the ministry saying it was hoped they would cool down “hotheads” in the west who Moscow said were pushing for a direct military confrontation between Nato and Russia .

Russia’s foreign ministry mentioned remarks by the British foreign secretary, David Cameron , and the French president, Emmanuel Macron , and the delivery of US ATACMS long-ranges missiles to Ukraine .

“They are deliberately leading the situation towards a further escalation of the Ukrainian crisis towards an open military clash between Nato countries and Russia ,” the foreign ministry said.

Russia said on Monday it would practise the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons as part of a military exercise after what the Moscow said were threats from France, Britain and the United States.

“We hope that this event will cool down the ‘hotheads’ in western capitals,” the foreign ministry said.

Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström , said Russia’s planned nuclear drills “contribute to increasing instability”. “In the current security situation, Russia’s actions may be considered particularly irresponsible and reckless,” Billström told Swedish news agency TT.

The drills were announced on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war.

Here is a summary of today's developments so far:

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China had all along been working “vigorously” to facilitate talks for peace in Ukraine, according to Chinese state media.

Russia’s tactical nuclear weapon drills are a response to statements from the West about sending troops to Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Ukraine’s foreign ministry called on Kyiv’s international allies not to recognise Vladimir Putin as Russia’s legitimate president.

The first Olympian to die in the war in Ukraine has been announced. The weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko , who finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016, was killed defending his country on Sunday.

The first Olympian to die in the war in Ukraine has been announced. The weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016, was killed defending his country on Sunday.

The news was confirmed by the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine , who said Pielieshenko died during combat operations.

You can read more about his career and tributes from the weightlifting community here:

One man was killed on Monday in a Ukrainian attack on the village of Nikolskoye in Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China had all along been working “vigorously” to facilitate talks for peace in Ukraine , according to Chinese state media.

China did not create the Ukraine crisis, nor was it a party to it, Xi told French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a trilateral meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

Ukraine calls on allies not to recognise Putin as Russia's 'legitimate president'

“Ukraine sees no legal grounds for recognising him as a democratically elected and legitimate president of the Russian Federation,” the ministry said in a statement, published ahead of Putin’s inauguration on Tuesday.

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen says China’s President has “important role” to play in de-escalating tensions over nuclear threats made by Russia .

Von der Leyen was part of trilateral talks between her, French President Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping at a summit in Paris on Monday.

She pressed Xi Jinping to use Beijing’s influence to halt the Russian war against Ukraine , also telling the Chinese leader to accept fair global trade rules.

Von der Leyen also said she was “confident” Xi Jinping would continue to play an “important role” in de-escalating tensions over nuclear threats made by Russia, hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered nuclear weapons drills involving troops based near Ukraine.

Both Macron and von der Leyen have indicated that trade was a priority in the talks, underscoring that Europe must defend its “strategic interests” in its economic relations with China.

Associated Press have some more information on the planned drills. It says it was the first time that Russia has publicly announced drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, though its strategic nuclear forces regularly hold exercises.

Tactical nuclear weapons include air bombs, warheads for short-range missiles and artillery munitions and are meant for use on a battlefield. They are less powerful than the massive warheads that arm intercontinental ballistic missiles and are intended to obliterate entire cities. The Russian announcement appeared to be a warning to Ukraine’s western allies about becoming more deeply involved in the more than two-year war. French President Emmanuel Macron repeated last week that he doesn’t exclude sending troops to Ukraine, and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Kyiv’s forces will be able to use British long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Dmitry Medvedev , the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council that’s chaired by President Vladimir Putin , said in his typically hawkish fashion that the comments by Macron and Cameron risked pushing the nuclear-armed world toward a “global catastrophe.” The Russian defence ministry said the exercise is intended to “increase the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to fulfil combat tasks” and will be held on Putin’s orders. The manoeuvres will involve missile units of the Southern Military District along with the air force and the navy, it said.

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