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29 March 2023

Empowering Change: The Role of the Social Justice Committee

By Chiara Böcker (Grade 12), Sneha Choubey (Grade 9), Anea Boye Eldor (Grade 12), Ivy Fang (Grade 12), Rachel Fields (Grade 12), and Oyinlola Osinoiki (Grade12)

Students push for systemic change… more

CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP

A Framework for Your DEIJ Work

By Ryan Persaud

The first in a six-part series providing a step-by-step guide that can be employed by schools to frame their work… more

Student Mental Health in Schools

By Amanda Long

How can educators, parents, and caregivers be more proactive in identifying warning signs and providing initial support for youth mental health… more

Student Voice: What Drives Change?

Dr. Jaime Brianna Pustis

Developing and engaging student voice in schools is an incredible opportunity for students to drive the change they need in a rapidly evolving world… more

Be Transparent and Take Action

By Angela Langlands

In her Pearl, Angela encourages educators to “be the Pied Piper of the inclusivity you want to see at your school” through five simple steps… more

GUIDANCE FOR GLOBAL FAMILIES

Starting Strong

By Natasha Winnard

Strategies to support international educators whose children go overseas to university. What can you do to help them create good habits and routines… more

What Are International School Principals Talking About?

By Bambi Betts

In our role as leaders, what do we do to address the five core questions at the heart of the daily endeavors in a school... more

#ArtForPeaceInUkraine: HOPE Edition

By Nikita Vasyliev

Let’s choose to be the agents of change that our beautiful world so badly needs. Join the movement of HOPE and take action in support of peace and kindness… more

How Accurate Is International School Enrollment Data?

By Dr. Jitka Stiles and Langa Ndiweni

What factors affect the accuracy of enrollment data and how can we improve precision… more

Why Growth Mindset Is Crucial for All Educators

By Michael Griffin

A teacher’s approach to cultivating a healthy student mindset regarding the quality and quantity of effort for learning is crucial… more

What Is Edible Education at ASD?

By ASD Communications

Food is one of the most important sustainability issues of our time. Watch and learn about an educational program focused on global food issues… more

Totally Inclusive School Cultures

By Paul Magnuson

This week I’m attending Outstanding Schools Europe, a two-day conference in London. Keynoter Angeline Aow shared the carrot metaphor below in her morning keynote. Metaphors can be worth their weight in gold. For example this one... more

Women’s Day or Not?

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

Every 8th March is marked as international women’s day. We see a lot of enthusiasm in organizations across the world promising change, equity, respect, and breaking gender bias. What we really need to do is measure the impact of our actions; is there a change in the status quo of women... more

Translating Theory Into Practice in Schools

By Conrad Hughes

There are a number of imperatives in education that it would be difficult to argue against. Any good school should be looking into them. Central ones would have to include... more

Global Book Recommendations: Stories and Information in Picture Books

By Margriet Ruurs

I’m a firm believer in using picture books with readers of all ages. Picture books can seem simple and be aimed at young readers, but many stories are perfect for older learners as well. Picture books allow you to share interesting stories on many topics... more

Balance and Rigor, Not a Paradox

By Matthew Piercy

“Eighty-five percent of all performance problems are not people problems, they are process problems.” I heard this two decades ago from the most competent person I ever worked with. He spoke from experience but had borrowed this teaching from William Deming, one of the acclaimed Founding Fathers of Total Quality Management. It is fitting to consider how this relates to education... more

WORTH READING

Using AI To Help Organize Lesson Plans

Jorge Valenzuela
Edutopia

Should Students Get a ‘Do Over’? The Debate on Grading and Re-Doing Assignments Deepens

Elizabeth Heubeck
Education Week

GPT-4 Will Arrive Next Week and Will Be Multimodal

Ronan Byrne
Gearrice

APPOINTMENTS

Jan Stipek has been appointed Principal of Regent International School in Dubai.

Dr. Jaime Brianna Pustis has been appointed High School Principal of Western Academy of Beijing in China.

David "Cal" Callaway has been appointed Deputy Head of School of International School of Prague in the Czech Republic.

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PTC-EAL Instructing and Assessing Multilingual Learners(IAML)(asynchronous)

Feb 12 - Apr 22, 2023

PTC-CTC Mental Health and Well-being in International Schools (six synchronous sessions)

Feb 25 - Apr 22, 2023

AMISA Annual Educators’ Conference

Mar 28 - 31, 2023

AISA Supporting Inquiry-Based Learning with News Media Resources

Mar 29, 2023

AISA Predicting and Managing Risk: A Seminar and Discussion to Mitigate International School Challenges in 2023

Apr 12, 2023

AMISA From Foundations to Fluency: The Science of Reading in Action

Apr 12, 2023

EARCOS Anti-Human Trafficking in Schools: What we can do to take action

Apr 15, 2023

Using ChatGPT & Generative AI to Foster the 4 C's

Apr 18, 2023

AISA A Whole School Approach to Supporting Students with Eating Disorders

Apr 19, 2023

Whiteness Accountability Group for International Educators

Apr 20, 2023

AISA 2023 School Heads Retreat

Apr 28 - 29, 2023

Search Associates Job Fair-Dubai

Apr 29 - 30, 2023

PTC-GTC Becoming an Effective International School Board Chair

Apr 30, 2023

EARCOS Raising the Bar for Computer Science Instruction: Best Practices for High School Teachers

May 6, 2023

EARCOS Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work

May 6, 2023

Diversity Collaborative Member Meeting

May 8, 2023

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PRINCIPALS' TRAINING CENTER

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PTC Curriculum Leadership (online)

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PTC Assessment Leadership (online)

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PTC Leadership and Team Dynamics

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PTC Leadership and Team Dynamics (online)

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PTC Technology Leadership (online)

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PTC Instructional Supervision and Evaluation

Jul 5 - 11, 2023

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PTC-GTC Becoming an Effective International School Board Chair

Apr 30, 2023

PTC-GTC Welcome to the Board!

May 28, 2023

CTC - COUNSELORS

PTC-CTC Getting to Solutions: The Heart of Counseling

Jun 22 - 26, 2023

PTC-CTC Essential Skills for International School Counselors

Jun 28 - Jul 2, 2023

PTC-CTC Mental Health and Well-being in International Schools

Jul 4 - 8, 2023

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