Student Voices | TIE Newsletter 10 May 2023 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

10 May 2023

Putting Learning Into the Hands of Students Through Self Directed Projects

By Laurence Myers

True learning is a shared conversation with a common goal, growing from doing and reflecting… more

Student Voice: A Case Study of the American School of Guatemala

By Dr. Jaime Brianna Pustis

A look into how one school uses student voice as an innovative opportunity to create meaningful and impactful change… more

Creating Spaces for Belonging in Schools Through Courageous Leadership

By Ariane Baer-Harper

The framework for creating the right spaces for belonging begins and ends with good organization and communication... more

Within and Without: Facilitating Students’ Authentic Exploration

By Shannon Kerry

Course content can act as a bridge between a student’s inner emotional world and their developing conceptual understanding of the real world… more

Resources for Educational AI Cohabitation: An Introduction

By John Mikton

As AI becomes an integral part of our daily lives and its impact on education becomes more significant, we must stay up to date with resources and support... more

PEARLS OF WISDOM

The Stay Interview

By Tim Rogers

In this pearl, Tim shares practical advice for creating a culture of trust and increasing teacher retention… more

Closure of International Schools in Sudan

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

The recent crisis in Sudan has forced international schools to close indefinitely... more

IMPRINTED ON OUR IDENTITIES

We Sing Along

By Tilda Arsovski, Grade 10, and Amaya Sevilla Manso de Zúñiga, Grade 10

In this series, students share poems that explore their experiences as multi-locals whose many moves have imprinted on their identities… more

The Interview Question Men Rarely Get Asked: Female Leadership and Family Life

By Kim Cofino

Has pursuing a leadership pathway been impacted by, or influenced women’s decisions about, raising a family… more

MUSIC TEACHERS IN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS PODCAST

Play-Based Early Childhood Music Pedagogy in Your Context With Tina Arenas

By Chris Koelma

A music teacher shares her experiences engaging students in exciting music-making activities and encouraging a playful spirit in all people… more

How Did We Get Here? The Dangers of Watering Down Curriculum for Multilingual Students

By Sarah Y. Ko

We have the privilege and power to teach and advocate in a way that undoes some of the wrong in our world: reflect on biases, determine gaps, and collaboratively plan… more

What Is a British Education?

By John Frame

Britishness cannot be a shorthand for one culture, one system, one way of speaking, one set of values, and one way of identifying… more

The Seven Is of Advocacy: What It Means To Be Intrepid

By Angeline Aow and Dr. Sadie Hollins

Being intrepid is an exercise in risk-management and looks different depending on the identities and positions people embody and hold… more

Reflections and Considerations From the SENIA Africa Conference

By Maymouna Sakho

The more we take time to reflect on our equity practices, the better we are able to serve… more

Two Approaches to Research Centers at the High School Level

By Paul Magnuson with Timothy Scott

Meeting a colleague traveling a similar path is always a good opportunity for reflection. So it is with pleasure that I reflect together with Tim, Research Fellow at the Barker Institute of Barker College in Hornsby, Australia... more

300 Posts – A Reflection

By Daniel Kerr

So this week is my 300th blog post, which is a bit staggering for me to think about honestly. I broke that number down the other day and realized that this number represents an average of 25 posts a school year for the past 14 years straight... more

Global Book Recommendations: Earth Day Books

By Margriet Ruurs

Earth Day was celebrated recently around the globe. What better way to celebrate than with books that create a lasting impression and support readers of all ages... more

Laugh Like the Whole World Is Watching

By Matthew Piercy

Might May 11 mark a new path forward? For the past several years society has seemingly carried the Sisyphean rock, Covid. The date marks the official close of “Emergency Declarations” in the United States. In effect, this is the end of both the COVID-19 national emergency and the COVID-19 public health emergency... more

Sustainability and Education

By Conrad Hughes

It takes an extraordinary amount of bad faith and looking the other way to suggest that the carbon footprint left behind by human activity is not damaging the planet and creating new inequities whereby those living off the land and in regions affected by natural disasters are not suffering terribly because of it... more