By Natasha Winnard
04-Aug-21
04-Aug-21
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Intergenerational connections provide kids with an extra tier of support ..more |
By Dana Shpak
04-Aug-21
04-Aug-21
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Grade 12 student, Dana: "Moving to a new place and learning a new language helped me become the best version of myself." ..more |
Anne Keeling
04-Aug-21
04-Aug-21
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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 |
By Kevin Bartlett
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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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 |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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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 |
By Laurie Forrester
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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How have schools pivoted to meet the needs of students and families in the last year? What have we learned about ourselves, our students, and our supports in complex times? ..more |
By Jaleea Price
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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A small group of International School Bangkok (ISB) students were guided by professors as they literally connected their embodied knowledge to the laboratory testing capabilities of motion analysis. ..more |
By Dr. Paul Richards
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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I have taught critical race theory for the past ten years in three different overseas American schools, and that experience has solidified my unequivocal belief that teaching diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental ..more |
By Leo Thompson
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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Introducing an inclusive global citizenship model and linked resources to help busy educators and invite further discussion and impact. ..more |
By Suzanne Laong and Liam Hammer
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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Sharing the various approaches in Tenby Schools Johor has adapted to the COVID crisis and thrived as a school community. ..more |
By Lori Langer de Ramirez and Martina Mencer Salluzzo
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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During the Covid crisis, language teachers worked to expand our digital toolkit and find ways to connect our students with the world outside our Zoom rectangles. ..more |
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If you are a student aged 12-16, working on a project to make our world sustainable, we want to hear about it! The #YoungGreenLeaders Award. ..more |
By Alec Roisko
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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This short story was produced by Alec Roisko at Frankfurt International School’s Writing & Art Symposium, where authors and artists worked with students on a bilingual interschool publishing project. ..more |
By Megel R. Barker
06-Jul-21
06-Jul-21
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School leaders have always had to wear “masks” in order to be successful change makers. Leadership is surely about being honest but isn’t it also about being cool under pressure? ..more |
By Dr. Rachel Ball, on behalf of Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting, LLC
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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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 |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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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 |
By Alistair Goold
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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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 |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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As important a pedagogical tool as scaffolding may be, we should not oversimplify its relationship to the zone of proximal development. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but they are also not synonymous. ..more |
By Kelli Powling
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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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 |
By Ryan Hopkins-Wilcox
22-Jun-21
22-Jun-21
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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 |
By Hamsini Sivakumar
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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This short story was produced by Hamsini Sivakumar at Frankfurt International School’s Writing & Art Symposium, where authors and artists worked with students on a bilingual interschool publishing project. ..more |
By Alistair Goold
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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When covid hit and Alistair Goold's family underwent a major life transition, he turned the focus inwards and sought to find out if the restorative methodologies he employed in the classroom could be helpful in restoring relationships on the homefront. ..more |
By Marina Gijzen
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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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 |
By Anna Rose Sugarman
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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Feedback is most powerful when it comes from the student and is directed toward the teacher. Have yours had any voice in the trajectory of their learning? I have started to ask students what they consider to be the best ways for them to learn. ..more |
By Sally Robertson
08-Jun-21
08-Jun-21
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80 students from 10 schools in 9 countries on 4 continents collaborated to produce 60 stories in Hear It Out – A memoir of an extraordinary year, a performance project that celebrates real life stories and creates a significant piece of collective oral history. ..more |
By Alistair Goold
25-May-21
25-May-21
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In his Action Research Project, Alistair Goold examined the role that restorative justice practices can play for international families in transition, using his own family as a case study as they moved during the Covid-19 pandemic and faced a perfect storm of challenges. ..more |
By Lindsay Kuhl, Jane Russell Valezy, & Esther Bettney
25-May-21
25-May-21
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Teachers everywhere have repeatedly faced new and ongoing challenges over the past year as we have transitioned through various forms of learning. We have tried to ensure that multilingual students' voices are heard and that we provide a variety of options so all students can succeed. ..more |
By Ranjana Harlalka
25-May-21
25-May-21
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Students at Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti school in Guwahati, India have been working with enthusiasm, hope, and determination on meaningful creative projects throughout the pandemic, sometimes in collaboration with students around the world. ..more |
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In a global competition launched by Book Creator and Planet Classroom, youth aged 11-18 were asked to create a one-page storybook, including a cover illustration, and to read it aloud. Over 480 stories poured in. ..more |
By Alexandra Ritt Gustad & Esther Bettney
11-May-21
11-May-21
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Translanguaging is the adaptable way in which multilingual people use their languages to communicate. As the action and practice of using a person’s full linguistic repertoire to construct meaning, we should be deploying this approach more broadly with our students. ..more |
By Tim Johnson & Tony Winch
11-May-21
11-May-21
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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 |
By Dr. Karen L. Taylor
11-May-21
11-May-21
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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 |
By David Willows
27-Apr-21
27-Apr-21
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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 |
By Irem Noyaner
27-Apr-21
27-Apr-21
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Organized for the 7th time this year and attended by more than 1,400 students to date, the Hisar Coding Summit offers courses and workshops in a variety of fields, such as artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and application, and game development—all taught by students. ..more |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
13-Apr-21
13-Apr-21
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The whole point of the learning sciences is to use what we know about human cognition in order to create the best possible environment for student learning, so taking cognitive load into account when preparing a lesson is critical. ..more |
By Dr. Rachel Ball
13-Apr-21
13-Apr-21
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Formative assessment presents a powerful opportunity for improving student outcomes. Here are several practical suggestions for providing formative feedback to students in hybrid and virtual learning settings. ..more |
By Mrs. Jean Candol-Piscioneri
13-Apr-21
13-Apr-21
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Despite uncertainty, and constant changes in our daily or weekly schedule, science lab activities at Seoul International School continue to be implemented effectively through flexible thinking and focusing on the possibilities rather than limitations. ..more |
By Kristin Simmers
13-Apr-21
13-Apr-21
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While today’s unprecedented levels of educational challenge may merit equally unprecedented levels of teacher support, it can be hard to know where to begin, or even who to trust. Educators need to critically evaluate educational claims and pedagogy. Here's a way forward. ..more |
By Ahaan Chakrabarty
30-Mar-21
30-Mar-21
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For his Grade 10 IB Middle Years Programme Personal Project, Ahaan Chakrabarty decided to build a solar power bank that his fellow students would use at school to charge their phones. In the era of COVID-19, staying charged up and connected is all the more critical. ..more |
By Kelly Owens
30-Mar-21
30-Mar-21
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Service learning, according to Kelly Owens, is problematic in that it reinforces the “savior” mentality among students at international schools. A different approach, community-based engagement, shows them the importance of working together for the betterment of all. ..more |
By Justin Connors '21
15-Mar-21
15-Mar-21
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Justin is a Senior at the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel devoting his senior project to examining the means by which foreign students might receive better support at school by taking into account their pedagogical conditioning. ..more |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
15-Mar-21
15-Mar-21
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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 |
By Michael Griffin
15-Mar-21
15-Mar-21
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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 |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
03-Mar-21
03-Mar-21
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Thinking routines are pedagogical tools that promote the development of critical thinking skills. This doesn’t happen by accident. Classroom teachers work hard to create an environment in which such powerful learning experiences take place. ..more |
By Bonnie Billak
15-Mar-21
15-Mar-21
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After months of virtual classes, students have become accustomed to being at home with parents. Now that schools are reopening, special attention needs to be focused on ESL students to ensure that the transition from virtual to face-to-face classes is a smooth one. ..more |
By Will Richardson & Homa Tavangar
16-Feb-21
16-Feb-21
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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 |
By Sadie Hollins
16-Feb-21
16-Feb-21
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With the onset of the pandemic, the idea of wellbeing exploded. Schools were simultaneously contested as sites of poor wellbeing and under pressure to actively promote its importance. Sadie Hollins reminds us that wellbeing is individual to each of us, just like a fingerprint. ..more |
By Lawrence Shepherd
16-Feb-21
16-Feb-21
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All Grade 11 students were given the opportunity to organize a senior school Creativity Activity and Service (CAS) project. When no one else stepped forward, Lawrence Shepherd raised his hand. The experience was challenging but a huge lesson in the potential of student agency. ..more |
By Adelina Holmes
03-Mar-21
03-Mar-21
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Initially when leading trainings, Adelina Holmes was giving fast lectures and expecting participants to absorb the information she was "gifting" to them—a common mistake. Everything shifted when she started designing her workshops in the same way she planned a class. ..more |
By Rachel Ball
16-Feb-21
16-Feb-21
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Teachers in a virtual setting may observe a lack of student engagement during synchronous instruction, resulting in classroom discussions that feel strained. Here are some instructional tips that will support the integration of class discussion in your current teaching context. ..more |
By Dr Karen L. Taylor
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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Understanding and correcting one’s mistakes offers critical learning, but getting there can be tricky, particularly in a context that traditionally viewed mistakes as failure. The classroom environment must foster conditions in which students can view them as learning opportunities. ..more |
David L. Di Maria Associate Vice Provost for International Education, University of Maryland
16-Feb-21
16-Feb-21
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Associate Vice Provost for International Education at the University of Maryland feels that President Biden’s rollbacks on former President Trump’s travel restrictions signal new opportunities for international students. ..more |
By David Willows
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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When Amanda Gorman stood at the podium on the Capitol steps a couple of weeks ago and recited her poem for the new president, the world was once again offered a lesson on why words do matter after all. ..more |
By Bambi Betts
27-Apr-21
27-Apr-21
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Professional standards are a key to boosting the quality of teaching. We rely on these standards to define the essence of the work of the profession and to ensure integrity, keeping us grounded in the best of what research can offer. So how do we leverage them fully? ..more |
By Esther Bettney & Jon Nordmeyer
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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In the past year, WIDA has partnered with a variety of researchers and practitioners to better understand how to support multilingual students, their teachers, and their schools in the midst of the ongoing COVID pandemic, and they have some ideas to share. ..more |
By Lisa Perskie & the UNAtions Team
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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School of the Nations has found that it is possible both to sustain and strengthen its service projects and connections with its sister schools online thanks to friendship, collaboration, and empathy. The trust developed prior to the pandemic helped tremendously. ..more |
By Angela Beach
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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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 |
By Jill Alali
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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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 |
By ACS Press Office
02-Feb-21
02-Feb-21
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Open to all interested in building a better, more sustainable future, "The world needs global citizens" will be hosted by ACS International School Hillingdon on Tuesday 9 February and will feature a number of speakers who will share perspectives on the global challenges before us. ..more |
By Kristen MacConnell
19-Jan-21
19-Jan-21
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What classroom assessment practices will contribute most to understanding and improving student learning? And what is the role of the teacher leader in supporting student learning through effective assessment practices? Here are some effective strategies and tools. ..more |
By Ben Fishman and Josh Lange
19-Jan-21
19-Jan-21
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Concordia International School Shanghai has forged a partnership that allows international school students and staff to work together with local Chinese in community development efforts, mainly through education and health projects in rural parts of the country ..more |
By Justin Sheehan
06-Jan-21
06-Jan-21
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Unable to travel out of province due to the global pandemic, students and teachers at Dalian American International School developed a partnership with regional corporations in order to bring online learning opportunities to children in local communities. ..more |
By Priya Shah
06-Jan-21
06-Jan-21
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How do we create a group culture of “can do” math in a safe environment with ample support? This research adds to the growing body of work on the concept of mathematical resilience, taking a close look at case studies involving third culture kids and students with IEPs. ..more |
By Joy Jameson
06-Jan-21
06-Jan-21
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Since teachers are key players in the educational process, should they have a voice in school decision making related to COVID-induced changes? Should they be invited to participate and have a say in admin meetings at which key decisions are made? ..more |
By Kim Marshall
13-Apr-21
13-Apr-21
| Including students in shaping what will be assessed by co-constructing success criteria has proven an effective way to improve student writing, according to Jennifer Gonzalez. “It’s essentially backward planning with students for success.” ..more |
