A Global Community | TIE Newsletter 20 May 2026 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

20 May 2026

Leavers and Stayers: Two Perspectives, One Community

By Megan Vosk and Shafali

Schools flourish when they embrace both change and continuity, a balance reflected in the perspectives of two educators experiencing international schools as leavers and stayers… more

The Scholarship Problem in Elite International Schools

By Elijah Abdullah

International schools can move beyond access alone, creating communities where every student experiences not only opportunity, but genuine belonging... more

APGAR Score for Understanding School Health

By David Hawley

Introducing a school APGAR score would cut through data overload, helping leaders assess school health and prompt shared insight and action... more

Three Lessons From the First Year of Our Global Impact Diploma

By Corey Topf and Joe Bonnici

Agency has become the starting point for something far more important: helping students explore who they are and how they want to contribute… more

THE VOICE OF TIE PODCAST

A New Era in Job Seeking

By Stacy Stephens

International recruitment expert Mark Weber examines today’s changing teaching market, hiring realities, candidate strategies, and evolving challenges facing international educators... more

When Seeing Learning Was Easier

By Matthew Parr

Learning has shifted from textbooks to pathways. Less visible, more authentic. The key question is not “what page are you on?” but “what did you learn"... more

Neuroplasticity and the IB Spanish Ab Initio Oral

By Harold Hernández C.

Neuroscience-informed strategies transform IB Spanish ab initio Internal Assessment preparation by reducing cognitive load, managing stress, and strengthening memory through multisensory practice... more

Moving Classes Beyond the Classroom With Project Based Learning

By Ximena Daza and Gregory Hessee

One school created large-scale, interdisciplinary PBL that changed their Classroom Without Walls journeys into meaningful, academic experiences... more

The Forgotten Years of Play

By Bree Kraft

Play doesn’t disappear after early childhood. It evolves, shaping learning, creativity, and identity, and schools must recognize and protect it... more

From One Email to a Languages Olympiad

By Oceane Jullien

From one email to a 13-school event: how the Languages Olympiad uses teacher agency and admin trust to bring students a new language learning opportunity… more

Rigor and Care: Mentoring Educators Through Postgraduate Study

By Dr. Richard Harrold

Effective postgraduate mentoring develops confident, independent researchers while strengthening lifelong learning, research quality, and meaningful contributions… more

Lessons from the Redwoods

By Conrad Hughes

In the Reggio Emilia approach, we say that the classroom is the third teacher, which is why we spend the time we do curating an aesthetic, pedagogical and ergonomic space for learning. To me, nature is by far the greatest classroom as it has an immediately pleasant and welcoming effect on the senses. I have very fond memories of an English teacher in Eswatini who would teach us poetry on a lawn... more

Global Book Recommendations: Global Books for Global Kids

By Margriet Ruurs

Global books for global kids - the following brand new titles allow readers to read a variety of viewpoints about people in different cultures… more

Against Empathy

By Nicholas Alchin

I have been very much struck by one of the most powerful and counter-intuitive but compelling books that I have come across in a long time. Paul Bloom’s Against Empathy seems to suggest a ridiculous idea; how can empathy be a bad thing? But the sub-title The Case for Rational Compassion raises the nuance of emotional response, and I think he raises some very easily misunderstood issues… more