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TIE NEWSLETTER

23 December 2020

TIE sends its very best wishes for a restorative holiday season and an energized start to the new year!

2020 has certainly demanded great flexibility and compromise from everyone. Disruption and change have challenged us deeply but these forces have also served as empowering catalysts, prompting necessary shifts in our paradigms and processes.

We are thankful for each and every one of you, for the critical role you play in the education and wellbeing of the children in your schools. We are grateful for the dedication, perseverance, and resilience you have shown, sometimes at great personal cost.

May we all approach the coming year with a spirit of innovation, clarity, and renewed commitment to our tasks as educators in the learning process.

THANK YOU!

Brittany Betts, TIE CEO

12 Lessons in Leadership in a Year to Forget

By David Willows

Pandemics don't read reopening plans, David Willows has concluded. For each month of this seemingly never-ending year, he has extracted some fairly universal and hard-won lessons in school leadership to share with fellow international educators... more

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Recruiting

By Jessica Magagna

Last August, Search Associates sent a letter addressing its plans to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization. After conducting six listening circles, CEO Jessica Magagna reports on the learnings that will shape company strategy and actions moving forward.... more

Why I Talk About Consent with My High School Students

By Cheryl-Ann Weekes

Cheryl-Ann Weekes believes it is never too early to help students understand the need for consent and encourages all counselors to start having conversations on this critical topic. Because the absence of a no is not a yes... more

Educational Excellence for 40 Years: IB World Schools Celebrate Anniversaries

Press release

Since its launch in 1968, the IB has sought to provide students with skills needed to thrive in today's unpredictable future. This year, 15 IB World Schools in 11 different countries are commemorating 40 years of giving students a lifelong advantage..... more

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Standing Side-by-Side in the Black Lives Matter Movement

By Yvette Cuenco

Yvette Cuenco shares highlights from her recent talk on Filipinx/Asian American history and allyship with the Black Lives Matter movement, presented at the November 2020 Association for International Educators and Leaders of Color and Women of Color in ELT conference... more

Care at the Core

By Sherri Spelic

Drawing on observations from a vibrant life of learning through reading, writing, listening, and dialoging, Sherri Spelic asks us to rethink the world we are building for ourselves and our children in schools, in our communities, and in our societies.... more

Hierarchy of Needs: Student Version

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

Recently, while teaching motivation theories to the Grade 11 students in my business management class, we created a Student's Hierarchy of Needs very similar to Maslow's famous schematic. It is time to prioritize these while creating policies to provide a truly inclusive and holistic educational experience for a diverse community of international students... more

You Are What You Eat:

CDNIS Renovates Cafeteria and Revamps Lunch Menu

By Christopher Niem

"Our long-term goal is to be able to influence the culture of school food in Hong Kong, and in other areas of Asia as well. Once parents and children can see the benefits of healthy, sustainable food, we really believe that it can become a movement for positive change"... more

Silver Linings and the

Work to Be Done

By Matt Brady

Matt Brady offers an examination of potential next steps in techno-social transformation as a result of the effects of Covid-19 on technology integration in schools. One silver lining: how the pandemic has obliterated so many long-held limiting beliefs of what was possible.... more

2020 Year-in-Review: Five Big Ideas in Professional Learning

By GOA Staff

In 2020, the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and racial injustice coalesced to create an inflection point for schools to reevaluate their priorities and clarify their purpose. Although much remains uncertain, it's clear that school will never look quite the same again... more

Effective Remote Instruction

By Kim Marshall

The authors of this article summarized by Kim Marshall say they've noticed an increased focus on content in classrooms during the pandemic - more social studies, science, and the arts. They believe it is a healthy correction from the previous test-driven focus on reading and math... more

Update from the

Principals' Training Center:

Big news! All PTC, TLI, and CTC summer 2021 programs will be virtual! Same rigorous, practical, international school PD, all new format! Registration opens 18 January. Click here for June/July 2021 schedule.

Global Book Reviews

By Margriet Ruurs

In this column I review books with special appeal to people around the world. Today I'll share with you books about kindness and honesty - one is a classic, others are brand-new titles. Don't forget to share picture books with older students, too!... more

Getting Out of Students' Way

By Matthew Piercy

Education often is steeped in compliance as a result of control. How nourishing the experience can be, when instead of control, context is the driver. In October two students asked if I might be willing to sponsor a club called, "Green Oceans." The name was intriguing, as were the stickers already affixed to the computers of various sixth graders... more

Snow Day

By Stephen Dexter, Jr.

On December 3, my daughter and I stood at the window of our house in Zagreb, Croatia watching the first flakes of the first snow since we stopped keeping track of time in the pandemic and resorted to the ancient rituals of watching seasons pass and sunrise changes. I put my arm around her and said,"Hey, on a day like this, we'd probably be calling a snow day." When I told her that it was one of the few times of the school year when a feeling of pure euphoria and joy overwhelmed us, she looked up and said, "I could use some of that now".... more

WORTH A GLANCE

Exodus of exhausted headteachers predicted in England after pandemic

By Sally Weale

Colleges are changing the status quo to make curriculum more inclusive

By Kelly Field

The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020

By Youki Terada, Stephen Merrill

We accept articles on a rolling basis that cover school news, curriculum, pedagogy, leadership, governance & policy, antiracism, wellness, learning technologies, women in leadership, lifestyle, future of learning, service projects, inclusion, counseling & advisory, professional learning, & every aspect of international education... [email protected]