Beyond Good Intentions | TIE Newsletter 6 May 2026 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

6 May 2026

CULTIVATING HIGH-IMPACT INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES IN SPORTS

By Dr. Christi Chase

Learn how actionable feedback, reflection, and family communication elevated swimmer performance, strengthened team culture, and inspired lifelong growth... more

Artist Research, Reflection, and Connection in the Visual Arts Process

By Dr. Debjani Mukherjee

Through research, students examine how art explores social issues, experiences, and culture, revealing it as a powerful form of inquiry... more

Making Growth and Appraisal Work in Practice

By Stacy Stephens

Schools can move from theory to practice, building growth and appraisal systems that are consistent, fair, and genuinely improve teaching and learning… more

Lead Her Higher With Bambi Betts

By Emily MacLean

In this episode of Lead Her Higher, education leader Bambi Betts explores what it truly means to lead for learning in complex global school systems... more

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Staying Still

By Katie Wellbrook

In this Pearl, Katie shares how recognizing her tendency toward constant motion and achievement led her to reframe success through the practice of stillness and presence… more

Integrating SEL Into Your MTSS Framework

By Dr. Priscilla Bade-White

An academic examination of a tiered approach for mental health and social-emotional learning in East Asian international schools… more

Supporting High Expectations

By Sarah Ssengendo

High expectations has become a cornerstone of contemporary education. But, how do we ensure that all students are able to meet high expectations... more

Simbahan

By Christina Samson, Grade 12 student

Using a Catholic missal essay format, a Filipino student in Japan explores belonging across generations through faith, language, and migration... more

Just This Once: The Most Dangerous Phrase in Leadership

By Federico Verri

Small exceptions quietly reshape culture, staff trust, and standards. Compassion without consistency can create confusion and weaken culture... more

Stop Gatekeeping Real Science From Young Learners

By Stephen Kaye

The limiting factor in science exploration is rarely the child's mind. It is the adult's imagination about what the child's mind can hold... more

Four Mindset Shifts for Standards-Based Learning in Secondary Schools

By Colt Turner

Implementing standards-based assessment, grading, and reporting practices effectively often requires educators to identify and adjust past perspectives... more

Creating your own MSelf or SelfCert

By Paul Magnuson

I’m smiling as I write this because I’ve now written these two recent additions to my vocabulary enough times that they feel sort of real. It’s sort of cool how you can create new stuff if you just, well, create it. And I think that’s going to be the basic message here for how to go about creating an MSelf or a SelfCert. It’s so wide open that you can just create what you would like to create... more

Blue Skies Leadership Podcast – Episode #22

By Daniel Kerr

Leadership isn’t about having a perfect plan; it’s about having the courage to make the next best decision when the ground is shifting beneath you. Eight weeks ago, Daniel Mendes was evacuated with his family from Doha while trying to support teachers and students during an escalating international conflict... more