Where Identity Meets Learning | TIE Newsletter 3 June 2026 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

3 June 2026

From Quiet Support to Collective Impact: The Next Step for Teacher Leaders

By Vickie Swann

From quiet coaching conversations to shaping whole-school culture, teacher leaders amplify collective efficacy, strengthen practice, and drive lasting change... more

Learning the Beat of a New Home

By Ayrton Green, Grade 12 student

A moving reflection on migration, loneliness, identity, and belonging as one student discovers friendship, confidence, and personal rhythm through change... more

In Between Worlds: What Teaching Across Different Realities Has Taught Me

By Beatrice Innocenti

From Alpine privilege to migrant classrooms, education is less about content and more about human dignity, attention, and shared questions... more

Suicide Attention: What Happens to the Person Who Receives the Disclosure

By Neila Steele

A reflection on presence, fear, and being with someone in their darkest moment, for counselors, educators, and trusted confidants… more

Not Mixed, Not Half: Why Identity Language Matters in International Schools

By Abena Eduam-Baiden

We need to reflect on the labels our institutions default to and ask whether they truly make space for the communities we serve... more

MULTILINGUALISM IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

Dismantling the Monolingual Paradox of Multilingual Schools

By Dr. Virginia Rojas

A research-based look at how the monolingual habitus can be reframed as an opportunity to rebuild a multi- and plurilingual habitus in international school contexts... more

Listening Should Be Designed, Not Requested

By David William Sheehan

International schools ask students to speak up but rarely design the conditions that make speaking safe. Voice is a system, not a sentiment... more

Two Daughters, Two IB Journeys, One Lesson in Resilience

By Sandy Sheppard and Stacey Wotton

Their stories are different, yet the same; they both, at their essence, are about young people and their determination to succeed no matter what barriers are placed upon them... more

The Conference That Set Out to Be Different

By Kim Cofino

Educator-led communities foster collaboration, mentorship, innovation, and meaningful professional learning grounded in classroom practice and relationships... more

EMPATHY TO IMPACT PODCAST

Inspired Student Leadership: Morocco Edition

By Scott Jamieson

Hear student leaders from GWA in Morocco discuss hosting a regional leadership conference, amplifying student voice, and creating meaningful impact through collaboration and service... more

From Screen Time to Mindful Time: Reimagining Tech in the Classroom

By Conrad Hughes

The EdTech revolution that swept over classrooms some 20 years ago was a wave of uncritical implementation: whiteboards, cloud-based learning platforms, and 1:1 computing programmes unfurled in a tidal wave of widespread technology adoption with each school following the next eagerly... more

When Work Lost Its Meaning

By Matthew Piercy

As summer in the northern hemisphere approaches, I’ve found myself in a number of conversations with parents of teenagers, particularly those who are recent high school graduates or home from college. A few phrases surface again and again: “He doesn’t listen to me anymore,” and “I wish she would get a job”... more

Real Professional Growth: No Joke, It’s Been Life Changing for Me

By Paul Magnuson

We’d like to think that the professional development we spend time and money on garners this enthusiastic response much of the time: “No joke, it’s been life changing for me.” The fact that it doesn’t is a real problem. The fact that we are often stuck in patterns of telling and explaining, of talking at folks instead of with them, of assuming there’s been learning when there hasn’t been much, that’s a problem… more

Colonizer, Colonized, and the Question of What Comes Next?

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

At a recent conference on flourishing in the Anthropocene, I found myself sitting with two feelings that are not always easy to hold together: intellectual curiosity as well as deep discomfort. The conference brought together urgent and necessary questions. What does it mean to flourish in an age where human activity has become a geological force… more