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12 May 2021

By Shwetangna Chakrabarty

Students at Utahloy International School Guangzhou (UISG), in Guangzhou, China decided to focus on staff and student wellbeing to mark Teacher Appreciation Week and organized five days of fun and fundraising... more

By Doline Ndorimana

A scent is natural and emanates from the environment. A perfume, on the other hand, is an artificial overlay that tends to create a mood yet doesn't linger long. In my experience, DEI work can tend to function like a perfume. What's in the air at your school?... more

By Robbie Jefferiss

Covid-19 has definitively changed many industries, and Robbie Jefferiss thinks college counseling might be one of them. Is it time to acknowledge that campus visits and college fairs are an outdated model of recruitment in the zoom era?... more

By Alec Aspinwall

In a chapter book created with the help of international school counselors, teachers, principals, and heads of school, Grade 5 twins Patrick and Patricia (aka X-Pats) leave their home country and start new adventures abroad at an international school... more

By Alexandra Ritt Gustad
& Esther Bettney

Translanguaging is the adaptable way in which multilingual people use their languages to communicate. As the action and practice of using a person's full linguistic repertoire to construct meaning, we should be deploying this approach more broadly with our students.... more
By Dr Karen L. Taylor

In an ideal world, feedback and instruction are intertwined and multidirectional. Karen Taylor offers some thoughts on how to make sure that the feedback we offer students is focused specifically on how to improve their work and takes form of questions rather than instructions.... more

By Libby Sievert

With Schutz American School nearing its centennial celebration, the design team launched a collective process aimed at re-imagining campus. The visual art building got an extraordinary makeover in the most challenging of conditions... more

By Tim Johnson & Tony Winch

When the authors decided to give more autonomy and control to their students, some failed to prioritize work, but many adapted well. The new approach generally made students more responsible for their learning, boosted achievement, and taught critical skills... more

By Kim Marshall

Many school leaders turn away from conflict and never realize its potential for promoting growth rather than disorder. When they don't step up, problems fester unresolved, including mediocre and ineffective teaching, racial microaggressions, and systemic inequities... more
What exceptional work have your students produced
this year?
By Daniel Kerr

This past year has been traumatic for many of us. I think the first step toward healing is for all of us to find space to unpack and talk about how we have been affected and changed since this all began. It can be overwhelming if you stop and think about all of it, which is why it is so easy not to. So many of us keep focused on the silver linings and little joys and gratitudes as a nice defense mechanism... more
By Matthew Piercy

What could be harder to turn around than a 220,000 ton ship measuring nearly a quarter of a mile long? The education system. The Evergreen serves as a fantastic metaphor. Traction continues to be gained, however, as educational systems move from compliance to empowerment... more
Global Book Reviews

By Margriet Ruurs

Poetry is a universal language. These books, both new and old, invite readers to explore the world... more
By Paul Magnuson

My colleagues and I have frequent conversations about teaching and student agency. We do so because we are working together with a set of creative elective courses within our traditional school. We call our program Edge, because it is a bit on the fringe, perhaps even a little edgy. There are no grades and we let the students self-organize. Well, mostly. Often we get a little uncomfortable as we watch our students struggle to self-organize... more
APPOINTMENT NEWS
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Dominique Velociter has been named Interim Head of School for the French-American School of Princeton, USA. She has led in Head of School roles since 1994. Most recently, Dominique served as Superintendent of Dar Jana International School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Sam Mills is now Head of School at Sias International School in Zhengzhou, China—an ISS-managed school that opened in August 2020. Sam was most recently the Chief of Staff/Staff Attorney at the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
Pamela Chandler is the new Head of Elementary at The International School - Portland, in Portland, Oregon. Most recently, Pamela was the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme Coordinator at the Stamford American International School in Singapore.
WORTH A GLANCE

Kim Brettschneider
& Dallas A. Grundy
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