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TIE NEWSLETTER

17 March 2021

ACS Teachers, Students and Parents Embrace the Return to School

As schools across the U.K. return to on-site teaching and learning, ACS International Schools' parents, teachers, and students share their thoughts and feelings on the return to the classroom... more

International Schools Impacted by Staff & Student Wellbeing During COVID-19

By Anne Keeling

ISC Research, which tracks the world's international schools, has released a new report of research into how the wellbeing of students and staff at international schools has been affected by COVID-19.... more

Student Perspective:

We Are Not the Same

By Justin Connors

Justin is a Senior at the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel devoting his senior project to examining the means by which foreign students might receive better support at school by taking into account their pedagogical conditioning... more

An Introduction to Metacognition

By Michael Griffin

Metacognition is about thinking. It is about knowing not only what you think, but why you think it and how you arrived at your thoughts. Metacognition is about active learning. It is empowering. Effective teachers foster a metacognitive learning approach, to generate better quality thinking... more

Shame Resilience and Accountability as Weapons Against White Supremacy

By Rama Ndiaye

White people's shame resilience can only strengthen if they are willing to move authentically through shame. This will happen when they hold each other accountable, break the barriers of white solidarity, and extend true empathy... more

The Learning Principle

The Ability to Follow Thoughts Carefully and Control One's Attention Are Prerequisites for Learning

By Dr Karen L. Taylor

One of the challenges of teaching is to capture students' attention when they enter the classroom and to keep it. Which means being aware of attention span and cycles of attention in relation to the rhythm of the lesson... more

Download STEM Role Models Posters for Your School

The crew that produces Nevertheless has commissioned another four female illustrators from South America, Africa, the Middle East and China to produce a new set of posters featuring role models in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, now available in eight languages. Listen to their podcast episode on STEM Role Models here.

Are We Putting Out the Same Fires? Serving Multilingual Learners During the Pandemic

By Esther Bettney & Jon Nordmeyer

In the past year, WIDA has partnered with a variety of researchers and practitioners to better understand how to support multilingual students, their teachers, and their schools in the midst of the ongoing COVID pandemic, and they have some ideas to share... more

What Are the Elements of an Effective Global Citizenship Curriculum?

By Gordon Eldridge

When it comes to structuring curriculum for global citizenship, designing instruction and experiences around justice-oriented citizenship is what we should be striving for. So what might the elements of such a curriculum be?... more

A Study of Quiet Students

By Kim Marshall

In this article summarized by Kim Marshall, the authors report on their study of students who don't raise their hands during whole-class discussions. The way teachers orchestrate class discussions, as well as student-to-student dynamics, can influence patterns of participation... more

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Gender Gap: Don't Just Mind It, Mend It

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

We have been minding the gender gap since 1908. It's time to mend it. The pitch for international women's day this year is to celebrate women's achievement, raise awareness against bias, and take action for equality. To choose to challenge is to come up with an action plan for every woman out there... more

As Education Evolves, We Must Continue to Integrate Parents

By Matthew Piercy

How well do parents really understand what school is today? Parents play an integral role in assisting their child's learning but how might we better facilitate this? How might we as students, parents, teachers, and schools, have a more shared vision of what education can be?... more

The Voice Inside Your Head

By Daniel Kerr

So I just recently finished reading a fascinating new book by Ethan Kross titled, Chatter. It's all about that little voice that we have inside our heads, and the power that it has, when not harnessed properly, to lead us down a rabbit hole of negative self talk and endless rumination. This little voice can easily affect our moods, and if we don't get control over it, this inner chatter can even negatively affect our physical health, as well our relationships with others... more

Global Book Reviews

Picture Books About Science

By Margriet Ruurs

Here are some fabulous new, and not so new, titles to use as tools in the classroom with students while studying science... more

APPOINTMENT NEWS

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Jeremy Majeski will take the reins at Frankfurt International School's satellite campus in Wiesbaden. He joins FIS Wiesbaden from the American School of Barcelona, where for the past four years he has been Elementary Principal.

Grace McCallum will become Head of School at the American School of Brasilia. She is currently Elementary School Principal at Frankfurt International School in Germany.

Lee Hole has been named Head of Secondary at the International School of Phnom Penh, Cambodia beginning August 2021. Lee is currently Head of Secondary School at GEMS International School Dubai.

WORTH A GLANCE

What Do International Students' University Decisions Look Like

in 2021?

By Katryna Snow

Decolonize International Education Resources

A community-sourced document from @decolonize-intl

Cultivating Critical Consciousness in the Classroom

By Michael Kokozos, Ph.D.

and Maru Gonzalez, Ed.D

The Planet Classroom Podcast

Climate Can't Wait is now live

In this episode of Planet Classroom, Orb, the show's virtual host, is joined by Eric Simon, director of What to Do About Climate Disruption, and youth from around the world to talk about how technology, ingenuity, individual commitment and action can address the climate emergency.

Have a listen!