Navigating Together | TIE Newsletter 18 June 2025 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

18 June 2025

THE VOICE OF TIE

From Break to Breakthrough: Phase One of Your Job Search

At TIE, we’re here to support you—not just with job postings and a job seeking platform, but with the tools, strategies, and frameworks to help you take meaningful next steps toward the professional future you want to create... more

NEURODIVERSITY IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Richard, Deb, and Dyslexia

By Richard Jaberzadeh, Deb Lane, Diana Rosberg, and Bridget McNamer

How can international schools better support leaders so that their neurodivergent superpowers can flourish, and the schools they serve can too... more

Navigating in Polarizing Times

By Jennifer Abrams

International school leaders face complexity, conflict, and change. Explore practical tools to lead with empathy, clarity, and emotional intelligence... more

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Building a Data Culture at AISG

By Suzie Boss, Jamie Robb, Ralph Emmerink, and Tim Evans

A case study from the American International School of Guangzhou explores how a shared vision and teacher champions drive meaningful data use... more

Coaching Starts One Strength, One Shift, One Conversation at a Time

By Vickie Swann

Coaching isn't a role, it’s a mindset. Discover how asset-based conversations can empower students, teachers, and leaders to thrive... more

Standards with Purpose - With Ginnie Prairie

By Stacy Stephens

Listen to hear how the International School of Kenya is using standards not as a mandate, but as a meaningful framework for growth… more

A PORTRAIT OF GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Cultivating Creativity and Environmental Awareness

By Regina Maniaci and Grade 3 students

Grade 3 students engaged in an interdisciplinary unit blending visual arts and environmental science... more

Nurturing Passion for “Glocal” Citizenship

By Estelle Baroung Hughes

Let’s blossom where we are planted. To nurture passion for global citizenship, how about jumping from B to C: from global to glocal… more

Unpeeling the PEEL Paragraph: Supporting Multilingual Learners

By Alice Tamang

Frameworks like the TLC are essential tools for supporting academic success and fostering deeper language understanding, benefiting all learners… more

EARS OF EAST PODCAST

Global Concerns at UWCSEA

By Grade 11 students

In this episode of Ears of East Politics Podcast Club we shine a light on the Global Concerns aspect of our service learning program... more

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Embrace the Chaos

By Nausheen Siddiqi

In this Pearl, Nausheen shares two powerful analogies to define leadership, highlighting the importance of vision, empathy, and adaptability… more

We Are Not Us Without You: Teaching for Belonging

By Rae Merrigan

Discover why true inclusion goes beyond diversity, and how fostering belonging boosts student success, wellbeing, and school community... more

Pruning, Not Cutting: Leading With Care in a New School Culture

By Lianne Dominguez

I’ve been thinking a lot about my late grandmother-in-law. She was a master bonsai artist. Her garden was a sanctuary of delicate trees—each one shaped over years with steady hands and quiet devotion. I remember watching her prune with care: never rushing, never cutting too deep. She once told me, “You have to understand the tree before you shape it. You don’t force it. You grow with it.”... more

Global Book Recommendations: Picturebooks for All Ages

By Margriet Ruurs

From Africa to Asia and around the world, these picturebooks are perfect for all ages. One is even published in two languages: English and French on the same page – great to use in an international classroom. Have fun reading books and exploring other cultures... more

Who’s Gonna Carry the Boats? A Classroom Without Walls

By Matthew Piercy

Millions look idly on, as the man builds a shelter. He cuts the wood. He ties the knots. He lights the fire with one strike of the steel. His sons are with him. The Alaskan river runs cold and clear. As a family, they will fish. Eat. Sleep on the dirt. All the while, millions remain locked to their screens. Out of the elements... more