Building the Foundations | TIE Newsletter 8 April 2026 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

8 April 2026

By Dr. Richard Granger

AI is not replacing jobs. It is opening new opportunities, revealing what is possible, and rewarding those willing to explore… more

Learning Takes Flight When We Design for Curiosity

By Charles Pimentel

Structured prototyping shifts learning from theory-first to experimentation-first. Classroom examples offer practical ways to build deeper conceptual understanding… more

CULTIVATING HIGH-IMPACT INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES IN SPORTS

Building the Foundations

By Dr. Christi Chase

Discover how classroom teaching strategies transform swim practices, engaging students, setting clear goals, and fostering growth, motivation, and personal bests... more

The Case for Redefining Bereavement

By Sara Refai

Grief is universal, but the ways it shows up in our communities are not. Our systems should be flexible enough to recognize and support it in all its forms... more

Growth and Appraisal as Culture Work

By Stacy Stephens

Teaching quality does not improve through compliance architecture. It improves when schools build cultures where professional growth is expected, supported, evidence-based, and sustained over time... more

Multilingual Learning Through Belonging

By Jomar Conde

The R.I.S.E framework centers belonging to reduce othering, empowering multilingual learners with confidence, engagement, and academic competence… more

Reclaiming Teacher Professional Knowledge in an Era of AI

By Nathan Haines

If we give up on this cognitive and creative work of teaching, both a source and the outcome of our professional knowledge, our profession will suffer; it may even be lost... more

What Our Missions and Visions Say About Us

By Christian Polizzi

Mission and vision statements are omnipresent at every school and looking at them closely allows us to better understand the communities we serve... more

Building Better Coaching Programs

By Kristen Moreland, Jordan Benedict, and Sam Olson-Wyman

What do you feel the instructional coaches or the coaching program in general needs to strengthen its effectiveness and positive impact... more

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Trust in the Power of Time

By Brianne Sheets

Each increment of time holds immense possibilities for connection, growth, and transformation… more

Global Perspectives in Policy, Not Just Curriculum

By Ahmad Fadli

When Global Perspectives shapes curriculum but not policy, a disconnect emerges between what students are taught and how education systems operate... more

WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? PODCAST

Education for Being, Not Just Becoming

By Richard Henry, James Dalziel, and James MacDonald

Join Stuart MacAlpine in a thought-provoking conversation challenging international education, redefining international, and exploring presence, purpose, and the future... 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

Does EdTech Coaching Work?

By Matt Brady

Is instructional tech coaching actually working in K-12, or are we mainly treating symptoms of a broken system? I was invited on the EDU Coach Collective podcast to discuss my research @ “tech coaching” and its troubling relationship with value delivery in K-12 schools… more

Global Book Recommendations:Books to Foster Love and Wonder

By Margriet Ruurs

Poetry, philosophy, wisdom, a chance to learn from various cultures as well as science... That's what these deceivingly simple picturebooks do. Use them with young readers or much older ones to foster a love of language and a sense of wonder… more

Smile Hunting

By Daniel Kerr

So I just finished reading Shift, by Etahn Kross the other day, and honestly, it was just what I needed. You see, there is a lot going on in the world these days, and if we aren’t careful it’s very easy to let the state of the world, and all of the emotions that come along with the constant bombardment of negativity, affect our well being, our mindset and how we show up for others… more