Future Of Learning

Roadmap To Moving From Reality to a Desired Future

By Jaya Ramchandani and Cary Reid
28-Feb-24

A practical tool that can bridge the gap between our dreams and the realities of educational reform… ..more

By Jaya Ramchandani
17-Jan-24

At its heart, retesting is not about making things easier for students; it’s about making education more meaningful… ..more

A Global Support Network: Reflection on the AAIE Conference

By Stacy Stephens
28-Feb-24

Educators from all over the globe stepped out of their day to day focus and came together to discuss the progress of international education as a whole... ..more

Roadmap to Action

By Jaya Ramchandani and Cary Reid
27-Sep-23

Steps to inform and inspire the next phase of educational transformation, fueling collective action that spurs more reform. ..more

A Human Learning Ecosystem for Our Times

By Kevin Bartlett
19-Jul-23

We set out to close gaps and build connections, to reinvent “school” as one coherent learning ecosystem, a culture in which all learning stakeholders thrive… ..more

Artificial Intelligence Policy Creation Guidelines for International Schools

By Adam Duckworth and Dr. Yujiro Fujiwara
25-Oct-23

It is vital that we examine the use of AI, reflect on its implications on educational practices, and provide guidelines for creating policies in schools… ..more

Reflecting on Assessment, and Leading Learning

By John Bray
27-Sep-23

Change in how we assess is happening but slowly. There are ways schools can adapt, even within structures with culminating examinations... ..more

A Movement to Change the Way the World Learns

By James Dalziel, Richard Henry, James McDonald
24-May-23

In this episode, Kam Chohan talks with the hosts about the importance of her work in DEIJ and child protection and her commitment to social justice… ..more

Getting Back to the Why: Why is History Such a Key Subject?

By Jeremy Hoover
15-Mar-23

The shift from the role of a historian being a “fount of knowledge” to a “teacher of historical skills” demands a re-evaluation of the why of history… ..more

Who Are We, Who Do We Serve, and What Do We Do?

By Lee Fertig
01-Mar-23

What do we need to do as stewards of our educational institutions to prepare international schools for the next 20-30 years… ..more

Are We Preparing Our Students for the 4th Industrial Revolution?

By Josh Bishop
08-Jun-22

As we prepare to enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution, how has our education changed to meet this challenge? I suspect, a significant shift is necessary... ..more

Is School Inevitable Anymore?

By David Willows
25-May-22

I find myself reflecting on the fact that when something stops, even for a while, it stops being inevitable… So, did the pandemic really break school… ..more

Solutions for the Future of International School Education

Anne Keeling
04-Aug-21

What skillsets are essential to today’s international school teachers? These and many more questions were addressed at the Edruptors Conference which was hosted online by ISC Research in July. ..more

Same Game, New Playbook

By Kevin Bartlett
06-Jul-21

The CGC team looked at the current state of play in ‘the learning game’ and saw too many things that didn’t make sense to us. Where there should be connections, we saw gaps ..more

Learning Occurs at Various Levels of Complexity

By Dr Karen L. Taylor
06-Jul-21

In grappling with the complexity of learning one might say that on the surface there are facts, information, and simple processes. On a deeper level, we find complex concepts and universal understandings... ..more

Picking Up after the Pandemic: Preparing for a New School Year

By Dr. Rachel Ball, on behalf of Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting, LLC
22-Jun-21

How do we reacclimate to the in-person classroom? What technology lessons learned can we apply in the in-person classroom? What virtual practices can we carry forward? Rachel Ball outlines instructional silver linings to help move your school, classroom, and learners forward. ..more

Affectively and Socially Healthy Environments Promote Learning

By Dr Karen L. Taylor
22-Jun-21

Thanks to developments in neuroscience we now know much more now than we did in the past about the interplay of emotion and cognition, feeling and thinking. What could this interconnectedness mean for us in terms of our classroom practice? ..more

The Value of Restorative Practices

By Alistair Goold
22-Jun-21

The final article in a three-part series exploring the role restorative practices can play in both personal and professional contexts, beta-tested as the author's family underwent a perfect storm of challenges in the midst of a global pandemic. ..more

A Letter to COVID

By John Mikton
22-Jun-21

For John Mikton, the pandemic has felt personal. So in the epistolary tradition, he has written a letter to COVID from the perspective of an educator and school leader charged with heading up his school's COVID Task Force and juggling the nuisances and complexity of the situation. ..more

Not Light But Fire

By Kelli Powling
22-Jun-21

Not Light but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay is a critical read for any educator interested in building authentic classroom community and makes a particularly good text for study by a PLC. ..more

Following the Silver Linings of a Pandemic into a New Version of School

By Ryan Hopkins-Wilcox
22-Jun-21

21 years into the 21st century, we still are having discussions about how to teach 21st-century skills and dispositions. Among educators who are ready to explore the ideas of creativity, passion, identity, collaboration, and self-directed learning a new version of school can emerge. ..more

Prototyping During the Pandemic: The PLA

By Marina Gijzen
08-Jun-21

At Lincoln Community School, elementary school teachers and leaders learned from their emergency online experience that there might be a more effective way to provide a student-centered approach to online learning. ..more

Increasing Student Autonomy Through Time and Place

By Tim Johnson & Tony Winch
11-May-21

Tim Johnson and Tony Winch decided to give more autonomy and control to their students. Some failed to prioritize work, but many adapted well. The new approach generally made students more responsible for their learning, boosted achievement, and taught critical skills. ..more

Learning Progresses With Effective Feedback

By Dr. Karen L. Taylor
11-May-21

In an ideal world, feedback and instruction are intertwined and multidirectional. Karen Taylor offers some thoughts on how to make sure that the feedback we offer students is focused specifically on how to improve their work and takes form of questions rather than instructions. ..more

What Will the Future of International Education Be? Five Lessons in Superforecasting

By David Willows
27-Apr-21

The entire future of how our schools will function appears to be the subject of some considerable debate and not an insignificant amount of opinion and conjecture. Problem is, people are not very good at making predictions. ..more

The Ability to Follow Thoughts Carefully and Control One’s Attention Are Prerequisites for Learning

By Dr Karen L. Taylor
15-Mar-21

One of the challenges of teaching is to capture students’ attention when they enter the classroom and to keep it. Which means being aware of attention span and cycles of attention in relation to the rhythm of the lesson. ..more

An Introduction to Metacognition

By Michael Griffin
15-Mar-21

Metacognition is about thinking. It is about knowing not only what you think, but why you think it and how you arrived at your thoughts. Metacognition is about active learning. It is empowering. Effective teachers foster a metacognitive learning approach, to generate better quality thinking. ..more

The Most Important Lesson of 2020

By Will Richardson & Homa Tavangar
16-Feb-21

In their free ebook, BIG Questions Institute co-founders Will Richardson and Homa Tavangar offer practical steps to reflect on who we are now as individuals and institutions and to begin a process of reinvention to ensure our students can thrive in an increasingly uncertain future. ..more

How the Next Generation of Parents Will Choose the Right School for Their Children

By David Willows
16-Feb-21

Has Covid-19 already started to mold and influence the ways in which today’s generation of students will choose the right school for their children? David Willows decided to test this idea on the school-aged people in his own family. ..more

When It Comes to Distance Learning We’ve Got It in the Bag!

By Angela Beach
02-Feb-21

Dalian American International School Elementary in Dalian, China takes distance learning beyond the screen by offering student toolkits to enhance instruction and add a personal touch—a weekly-refreshed bag of physical supplements to online learning. ..more

Fairgreen Partners with Swiss Sustainability Management School to Launch IB Careers Programme

By Jill Alali
02-Feb-21

Commencing in the 2021-2022 academic year, Fairgreen students will be able to embrace an international network of experts in sustainability by choosing tracks in Nature Conservation, Sustainable Hospitality, Sustainable Fashion and more. ..more

ACS Hillingdon Launches Global Citizens Diploma to Recognize Every Student's Achievements Beyond Grades

By ACS Press Office
08-Dec-20

ACS International School Hillingdon has become the first school in Europe to offer the Global Citizens Diploma (GCD), a qualification that acknowledges all of the exceptional citizenship and service-related activities students undertake to become global citizens. ..more

The AISA Virtual Conference: Inspiring Innovation

By Graham Watts
08-Dec-20

With the rapid shift to online professional learning, the international school community experienced a plethora of new opportunities to innovate, engage, and learn at the annual conference of the Association of International Schools in Africa. ..more

Pandemic-Prompted Progress?

By Dr. Tiffani Betts Razavi
11-Nov-20

After some seven months of covid-19, educators and researchers are asking: what progress has been prompted by the pandemic? Are any of the lockdown-induced adjustments here to stay? Are there any old ways that won’t survive the virus? ..more

How to Increase Learning through Disciplinary Literacy

By Xianxuan Xu
14-Oct-20

Recently there has been a call for teachers to teach disciplinary literacy—literacy skills specialized to individual subject matter, especially in middle and high schools, since experts from different disciplines approach their respective texts quite differently. ..more

Standards-Based Report Cards: If Not Now, When?

By Colin Brown and Lindsay Prendergast
14-Oct-20

Standards-based grading practices proved to be a critical element of consistency and stability in guiding our focus around student learning and in providing accurate, meaningful, and proactive feedback to our learners and their parents during these turbulent, complex times. ..more

Language Matters

By Jon Nordmeyer
30-Sep-20

As 21st-century educators, we need to build on multilingualism and transnationalism as resources in preparing students for increasingly more complex and more global challenges in the years to come. ..more

At Home Experiments (@HE)

By Adam Bradford
30-Sep-20

Students struggle to work independently on developing lab ideas and carrying them out. @Home Experiments are designed to complement the IB biology curriculum by giving them memorable, safe, practical experiments to try at home. ..more

Divided Views on Distance Learning: A Glimpse Into Three Students’ Lives

By Sena Chang
03-Sep-20

The abrupt change in pedagogy at The American School in Japan (ASIJ) brought on by the pandemic has sparked many conversations about the effectiveness and value of digital learning. Three middle schoolers shared their views with ASIJ student Sena Chang. ..more

The Sound of One Hand High-Fiving

By Matthew Dicks
15-Jul-20

We might be raising the first generation of children who truly understand the value of school and appreciate all of the educational opportunities that have been afforded to them. Unfortunately, it is coming at great cost. ..more

ISC Research: How Covid-19 Has Impacted EdTech Use

By Anne Keeling, ISC Research
03-Sep-20

Technology played a vital role in supporting the continuation of student learning in schools during covid-19, according to a new report by ISC Research, focused on understanding the use of technology during campus closures and its impact on international schools. ..more

Adopting a Future-as-Present Frame of Mind

By Emily Sargent-Beasley
15-Jul-20

No longer is there a chance to kneel beside a child, smile from across the room, or nudge with clear feedback using a tone that invites listening and understanding. The traditional toolkit has been left behind. Each tool now feels as if it must be replaced. ..more

Moving from an Industrial to a Postindustrial Model

By Julie Wilson
22-May-20

Changing a system is one of the most challenging things to do. If we are saying that we want to support more creativity, collaboration, and appetite for risk in schools, then the organizational structure, systems, and processes must change significantly in order to support and reflect that pedagogy. ..more

International School of Kenya Embraces Life-Centered Education

By Heidi Laws & Donna Bracewell
06-May-20

The new Life-Centered Education program at ISK is designed to serve students who have a diagnosed intellectual or developmental disability and require individualized academic and social skill instruction. ..more

The Hidden Cost of Professional Development and an Industry’s Hypocrisy

By Robert van der Eyken
08-Apr-20

In this reflective piece, Robert van der Eyken invites the international education community to engage in more critical self-examination about how much our words for sustainability align with our actions. His message takes on new meaning in light of the global health crisis. ..more

Piloting Education 4.0 Prompted by the Coronavirus Crisis

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty
17-Feb-20

Education 4.0 is a term used to describe the ways in which we need to prepare students for the fourth industrial revolution, or the advent of the 22nd century. Guangzhou Nanfang International School in China has had the opportunity to pilot Education 4.0—albeit under duress. ..more

The Hard Work of Innovation in Schools

By Ewan McIntosh
05-Feb-20

Independent schools are swiftly abandoning traditionally static long-term strategy planning. Instead, they’re adopting agile approaches to designing strategy so that they engage their whole community in changing how they think about what’s possible in school. But this process of agile innovation isn’t all fun and games. ..more

Thinking Math: A Conceptual Approach to Math Instruction

By Vicky Placeres
03-Jan-20

This year, the elementary school at Uruguayan American School adopted the Math In Focus program, based on the Singapore Math Approach for Grades 1–5. This program emphasizes collaboration, discussion, the use of models, and multiple problem-solving strategies. ..more

Six Reasons to Start a Travel Program at Your School

By Sara Segar
05-Jun-19

Traveling as a teenager with purpose, accompanied by trusted advisors and peers, is an invaluable learning experience. A school travel program gives students the resources, support, and guidance to make educational travel a reality. ..more

Future-Ready Learning

By Helen Kelly
22-May-19

Successful change leadership in this context involves leaders not only developing a vision for future-ready learning and providing structures for implementation but also attending to the emotional climate in which they are operating. ..more

Theory into Practice: 21st-Century Learning and the Learner Profile

By Maritte Moskovics
14-Feb-19

To define the UAS learner profile, we all worked together as a community of educators, students, and parents to create the conditions that will help our students be globally aware, creative, emotionally intelligent, and collaborative critical thinkers. ..more

Closing Relevance Gaps and Building Schools of the Future

By Scott McLeod
19-Dec-18

Like most institutions in society, international schools are realizing that the intertwined, very disruptive forces of technology and globalization require us to rethink things, often at an elemental level. As they reassess, they are typically focused on four big shifts. ..more

ASF Is Recognized as a Common Sense District for Its Work on Digital Citizenship

By Nina Blake
02-Nov-18

For its commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing its students to use the immense power of digital media to explore, create, connect, and learn, while limiting the perils that exist in the online realm, ASF kicks off the 2018–19 school year having earned official recognition as a Common Sense District. ..more

Time to Update the Program: Reimagining School with Will Richardson

By Meadow Hilley, TIE Editor
30-Mar-18

Over the past dozen years, Will Richardson has become an outspoken advocate for change in schools worldwide. Writing and speaking about the intersection of social online learning networks and education, Will has worked with educators in over 20 countries to understand the opportunities and challenges of learning in the modern world. ..more

Homa Tavangar Sees Empathy as Key to Global Citizenship

By Brittany Betts, TIE CEO
02-Feb-18

TIE’s Brittany Betts talks with Homa Sabet Tavangar, keynote speaker at AAIE’s annual Leadership Conference in New York and author of Growing Up Global and The Global Education Toolkit. ..more

Knowledge in the Age of AI

By C. M. Rubin
13-Jan-18

C. M. Rubin chats with Futurist and Global Ed Thought Leader Charles Fadel, who believes new and more innovative knowledge maps are now needed to help us navigate the complexities of our expanding landscape of knowledge. ..more

TASIS Leadership Academy Explores Entrepreneurship & Service in the Balkans

By Daniel Ware
27-Sep-18

Students from TASIS The American School in England (TASIS England) recently participated in a 12-day trip to the Balkans as part of the TASIS Leadership Academy (TLA) with the aim of exploring political and diplomatic leadership, as well as conflict resolution. ..more

International College Adopts the Danielson Framework for the New Academic Year

By Richard Bampfylde
27-Sep-18

International College (IC), Lebanon, one of the largest international schools in the world with over 3,600 students across two campuses, has successfully integrated the world-renowned Danielson Framework into its educational practices. ..more

Not All Screen Time Is Junk Food

By Matt Harris
04-Apr-18

Screen time is a key element of the hyperconnected world children live in today. Their access to information, entertainment, communication, and now learning is tied more and more to screen time. They need devices to fully experience modern childhood, for better or worse. ..more