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19 January 2022

Navigating the Transition from Teacher to Teacher Leader

By Kristen MacConnell

A common challenge voiced by new teacher leaders is navigating the transition from team member to team leader. Teacher leaders share which factors contributed to their current leadership success... more

WOMEN WHO LEAD

Being Prepared for Confrontation as Women in Leadership

By Kim Cofino

The secret to feeling confident and capable in a confrontation is both understanding the process and practicing your actions until there are very few surprises left... more

The Changing Landscape of International Education: It's Time to Change our Terminology

By Jane Larsson

The Council of International Schools (CIS) has moved away from using the terms "host country" and "host country national" in light of the changing landscape of international education... more

Advice to My Younger Self: A Letter to Viki

By Viki Stiebert

In this new series, school leaders write an intimate and personal letter sharing the advice they would give to their younger selves for others to read and learn from their experiences... more

My Freedom Day 2022

By Kevin Glass and Mike McCarthy

The sixth annual #MyFreedomDay campaign is coming up on March 16th, 2022. The international campaign is a way to raise global awareness about human trafficking and slavery. The campaign asks that throughout the day, students around the world participate in activities to celebrate freedom and speak up and act out for those who are unable to... more

Students Tackle Climate Change

By TIE Editor, Courtney Primus

Ten primary schools across Surrey, Middlesex and Doha, Qatar are taking part in an inaugural competition to help tackle climate change... more

Generation of Makers

By Ericka Artiga

At at Colegio Interamericano in Guatemala, the Makerspaces or FabLabs have become physical contexts for unlimited imagination and creation. Students are "building knowledge" and finding solutions to real world problems... more

Does My Student Need a Tutor?

By Natasha Winnard

A step by step, collaborative and holistic approach where home and school work side by side to support students who have missed out on some aspects of their learning during the pandemic... more

Reaching for the Future

By Melanie Ward

The pandemic has reinforced the interconnectedness of countries, whilst sadly highlighting inequalities and global challenges. One international school is aiming to foster global citizenship and prepare its students for the future... more

Pearls of Wisdom: Showing Appreciation

By Jessica Applewhite

In this Pearl, Jessica shares a practical strategy a team leader can use to help build a culture of appreciation and awareness of each others' strengths within our team... more

PODCAST

Starting the Year with Sharpened Tools

By Jeff Utecht

The Shifting our School podcast believes that learning never stops.This week's podcast episode aspires to set you up to take another step forward on your personal learning journey... more

Eye-Catching Résumés for a Headship Are Accomplishment Driven

By Dr. Deborah Welch

More often than not, as a job seeker your résumé precedes you. It is the first impression a potential school has of you - and is usually a quick one... more

Consent, Assent, or Coercion? International Schools and Student Image Use

By Dallin Bywater

In a show of authentic care for child well-being, we must more thoroughly safeguard the digital lives of students through our words, policies, and our actions... more

GLOBAL BOOK REVIEWS

Stories Worth Sharing from Around the World

By Margriet Ruurs

Stories reflect our history and show us who we are. Stories help us to understand others and share our own cultures. Here are voices from other places, stories worth sharing from around the world in picturebooks, in poetry and in nonfiction... more

I Am Not a Moth and My Keys Are Not Missing

By Matthew Piercy

Impacts of climate change are predicted to be increasingly felt, unless we as a species move out of the heaving blackness and entrapment of the Anthropocene. That worldview which is dominated by a false dogma... Pivotal to the necessary upheaval and shift in human consciousness is a transcendence beyond activism and into action... more

Teacher Agency: Reflections on an Interview With AJ Juliani

By Paul Magnuson

For the past decade, I've focused on supporting teacher and student agency at my school. For teachers, our motto is "Continually becoming the professionals we already are." I'm realizing that for students we don't have a particular motto. Help me out! What is a good student agency motto for a school? more

Virus Variants

By Shwetanga Chakrabarty

The virus mutates into many variants just to survive. Infact, viruses mutate constantly, at least that is what I learnt in high school Biology. Their genetic code is prone to changes called mutations that can change how the virus looks or attacks its hosts. Viruses mutate depending on their host environment. A mechanism that teaches us a lot to adapt to new changes... more

WORTH READING

How to Help Students Be the Best Version of Themselves

Karen E. Bohlin and

Deborah Farmer Kris

Greater Good Magazine

The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2021

Youki Terada, Stephen Merrill, and Sarah Gonser

Edutopia

Connect with Empathy, But Lead with Compassion

Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, and Marissa Afton

Harvard Business Review

APPOINTMENTS

Emily Barbuto has been appointed Director of Instruction at Ashgabat International School in Turkmenistan.

Catherine Sawyer has been appointed Director of Instruction at QSI International School of Shenzhen in China.

Hafida Becker has been appointed Director of Instruction at QSI International School in Malta.

Heather Sherwood has been appointed Director of QSI International School of Skopje in Macedonia.

Heather Townsend has been appointed Director of QSI International School of Phuket in Thailand.

Jason Montgomery has been appointed Director of QSI International School of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.

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Check out the TIE Event Calendar for upcoming events, webinars, job fairs and more...

AIELOC Book Club: Minor Feelings

Jan. 22, 2022

EARCOS Project-Based Learning 101: Start Your First Project

Jan. 22, 2022

ISS Diversity Collaborative Meeting

Jan. 24, 2022

CANversation with: Jawhara Al-Thani

Jan. 25, 2022

International School Positioning webinar: Attract and retain the staff your school needs

Jan. 25, 2022

Whiteness Accountability Group

Jan. 27, 2022

Pandemic Governance: What We Have Learned

Jan. 28, 2022

EARCOS Planning for Conceptual Learning, Assessment of Understanding, and Agency Date

Jan. 29, 2022

LGBTQ+ Affinity Group Monthly Meeting

Jan. 31, 2022

ISC: BESA Open Day

Feb. 1, 2022

Creating a Culture of Caring; Cultural Responsiveness and Safeguarding

Feb. 2, 9 &16, 2022

2022 AISA GLOBAL ISSUES SERVICE SUMMIT (AISA-GISS)

Feb. 3-4, 2022

Assessment Practices for Accelerating Learning (6-12 Math)

Feb. 3 & 17, 2022

Equitable Assessment through Universal Design

Feb. 5-6, 2022

Leadership for Structural Equity

Feb. 7-18, 2022

PTC INSTITUTES

PRINCIPALS' TRAINING CENTER

Leadership and Team Dynamics

Rome: 20 - 26 June 2022

Online: 27 June - 3 July 2022

Rome: 6 - 12 July 2022

Assessment Leadership

Rome: 20 - 26 June 2022

Curriculum Leadership

Rome: 28 June - 4 July 2022

Online: 6 - 12 July 2022

Creating an Effective School

Rome: 28 June - 4 July 2022

Rome: 14 - 20 July 2022

Online: 15 - 21 July 2022

Instructional Supervision and Evaluation

Online: 18 - 24 June 2022

Rome: 6 - 12 July 2022

Rome: 14 - 20 July 2022

Technology Leadership

Online: 15 - 21 July 2022

TLI - TEACHER LEADERS

Teacher Leaders: Curriculum - The Heart of the Teacher Leader Role

Online: 12 February - 26 March 2022

The Teacher Leader Summit

Rome: 7-9 July 2022

CTC - COUNSELORS

Getting to Solutions: The Heart of Counseling

Rome: 23 - 27 June 2022

Mental Health and Well-being in International Schools

Rome: 29 June - 3 July 2022

Introduction to Essential Skills for International School Counselors

Rome: 5-9 July 2022

Culturally Responsive Counseling in the International School

Rome: 11-15 July 2022

TTC - TEACHERS

TTC: Instructing and Assessing Multilingual Learners (IAML)

Online: 13 February - 23 April 2022

EAL in the Mainstream Classroom

Rome: 29 June - 3 July 2022

Online: 11-15 July 2022

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