Educating for Impact | TIE Newsletter 22 October 2025 | The International Educator (TIE Online)

22 October 2025

From Opportunity to Alignment: Phase Three of Your Job Search

By Stacy Stephens

In this phase, engage actively with schools, showcase your impact, assess fit with clarity, and take confident steps toward the right role... more

Beyond the Stipend: Making Middle Leadership Desirable

By Dr. Kathryn Handy

Transforming middle leadership starts with redefining the role—from burdened task manager to empowered agent of schoolwide impact... more

A Seed of Equity: Lessons in Bridging the Digital Divide

By Ahmad Fadli

We do not need to wait for perfect infrastructure to start teaching digital literacy. We can start with creativity, with collaboration, with whatever resources are already at hand… more

Lead With Empathy

By Craig McVicar

In this Pearl, Craig shares a powerful story about shifting from judgment to understanding as a leader… more

Meeting the Moment: How Educators are Embracing AI With Intention

By Stacy Stephens, Cora Yang, and Dalton Flanagan

This episode welcomes two educators who are leading the way in exploring how AI can meaningfully enhance teaching and learning... more

PEACE YOU HAVE MY WORD

No Justice No Peace

By Malika Siklawi, student

A student pleads for peace, recalling a united past and urging everyday choices to heal a deeply fractured nation... more

Building a Data-Driven Wellbeing Culture in Schools

By Bosmat Kochavi

As schools prioritize student wellbeing, proactively and systematically measuring it has become essential rather than optional... more

Why Presence is the Missing Link in Digital Safeguarding

By Anthi Patrikios

Firewalls can’t replace empathy. When adults shift from control to connection, digital safeguarding becomes an act of prevention and trust… more

Lessons From Living and Teaching Internationally

By Mushfiqua Zabeen

Appreciation matters more than titles, positivity builds communities, and the resilience you grow becomes your greatest accomplishment... more

EMPATHY TO IMPACT PODCAST

Embodying Earth: Leadership for a Regenerative Future

By Scott Jamieson

Join Scott, Ivy Yan, and students as they explore regenerative leadership, mindfulness, and interbeing in a Vietnamese eco-village... more

Everyone Needs a Fresh Start

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

There comes a time in everyone’s life when the only way forward is to start again; to shed the old skin of comfort, pain, and certainty, and step into the unknown. I have lived through two such transformations. One came after my mother’s passing, and the other in the quiet aftermath of the pandemic, when my son graduated and the world itself was emerging from stillness... more

Global Book Recommendations: Interesting and Slightly Scary Books

By Margriet Ruurs

Broom For Two by Jennifer Maruno, with art by Scot Ritchie, is a funny story about a Little Witch that is learning how to fly her broomstick. Zoom in on Zombies by Kari-Lynn Winters and Catherine Rondina is a deliciously gross book that will appeal to elementary school readers... more

My Scandinavian Studies: Five Weeks in Already

By Paul Magnuson

Tiden flyger, as they might say in Sweden – time flies – but I know better than to be confident of my translation until I’ve checked with a true blue (and yellow) Swede. I’ve translated “time flies” alone and online and because it is an idiom, well, you have to be careful... more

Blue Skies Leadership Podcast – Episode #17

By Daniel Kerr

“Community engagement is a two-way street that benefits both sides.” Is your school’s service program truly reciprocal? In our latest Blue Skies Leadership episode, Dr. Dan Long argues that sustainable community outreach is the lifeblood of a thriving international school. It’s not about what we give, but what we share and what we learn... more

CURRENT CONVERSATIONS

A One-Page Chart to Support Every Student Every Day

Cathleen Beachboard and Carolyn Shaw
Edutopia

The Four Key Trends That Will Shape International Student Mobility for the Next Decade

ICEF Monitor

Reconsidering the Use of Oral Exams and Assessments: An Old Way to Move Into a New Future

Andrea Fenton
Sage Journals Home

APPOINTMENTS

Dr. Kulangara Jacob Johnson has been appointed Director of the Center for Design & Innovation for Public Purpose of American School of Dubai in United Arab Emirates.