The Courage to Try | TIE Newsletter 25 March 2026 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

25 March 2026

SAFEGUARDING IN SCHOOLS

By Tiese Bright

A safeguarding professional confronts affluent neglect research, and realizes uncomfortable truths about parenting, pressure, presence, privilege, and emotional connection... more

Multilingualism Is Not Support for Some; It Is Pedagogy for All

By Natasha Sarah Vinales

An educator’s journey from EAL to multilingual pedagogy shows how translanguaging and asset-based practice build belonging, equity, and learning for all... more

Righting Reports?

By Sou Leong-Ellerker

Examining the difference between feedback and reporting, real learning cannot be captured through templated descriptions of experience... more

Learning Against the War

By Pechersk School International Kyiv

This short documentary highlights how students and educators maintain continuity and resilience in their educational journey... more

Trends and Insights in Post-Secondary Counseling

By Stacy Stephens

This episode of the Voice of TIE podcast features international school counselors discussing how geopolitical shifts are reshaping post-secondary counseling in international schools... more

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Seeing Challenges as Opportunities

By Michelle Simpson

In this Pearl, Michelle shares how a simple mindset shift turned burnout and doubt into renewed purpose and leadership growth... more

Recruitment Is Not a Transaction; It’s the Beginning of Culture

By Dr. Ben Voborsky

The future of a school is shaped not by a position being filled, but by the people who intentionally choose to join its community... more

The Courage to Try

By Shyamalika Nagendra

The key to helping students cultivate an appetite for flexibility and growth in the face of challenge and discomfort is to help them see and feel their individual progress... more

AI and School Crisis Preparedness

By Dr. Gregory Hedger and Anshu Verma

In times of disruption, responsible use of AI supports school leaders with planning, communication, and continuity while keeping people at the center... more

Support Students By Supporting Teachers

By Lindsay Manzella and Kim Cofino

Empowering support specialists to embrace a coaching mindset offers a pathway to ongoing collaboration and professional growth for all teachers… more

Take TIE's 2026 Getting the Job Survey

Take our short survey and share your experience: what you’re seeing, what’s working, and where the system can better serve educators' needs... more

Don’t Skip the Reflection!

By Kathryn Berkman, Meredith Robinson, and Megan Vosk

Examining the third of the four new community engagement learning objectives: Engage in reflective and reflexive practices... more

The World Needs an Ecological Humanities Course

By Jared Rock

Facing ecological crisis, schools must lead by teaching ecological interdependence through a new discipline to reshape values, institutions, and futures... more

Are We Teaching Our Children To Exploit Themselves?

By Nicholas Alchin

I have said to my own children many times: don’t put yourself under so much pressure. They invariably point back at me and my habits, and also their friends’ habits, and the competitive systems we all swim in. It’s a sharp response — and a perceptive one. What looks like a personal struggle, they seem to understand instinctively, is also located in our social structures… more

A Student Told Me She Hated Nature

By Matthew Piercy

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Rather wise words attributed to Einstein, someone who identified more with humility and curiosity than wisdom. Yet, I thought of this quote recently when a student surprised me by adamantly declaring, “I hate nature!” I could not stop thinking about it. In the moment, cautious of my tone, I recoiled with “Hate nature? But we and all life IS nature!” I did not go into a diatribe of how we breathe nature. Eat from nature. Live in (and hopefully “with”) nature… more

Parenting for a VUCA World

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

In a world increasingly described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous), the question many parents ask is not simply What will my child learn? but How will my child learn to navigate the world they inherit? A world they will inherit after decades of war with a lot of orphaned population; something that has become our reality especially with the recent war… more

Perspective Shifting: Perhaps the Most Powerful 21st Century Competency

By Conrad Hughes

Recently I found myself at the Broad museum in LA, dwarfed by massive household objects as part of an exhibition by the late Robert Therrien. As I wandered under giant tables, stooped under colossal chairs and looked up at 10-foot-high stacks of plates, two thoughts occurred. First, how the defamiliarisation of an object forces one to deconstruct it and examine it much more closely… more