60 Years of Research on Small Schools Stuart Grauer Smaller learning communities are routinely perceived and treated as “less” by virtue of their size when, in fact, they often offer more in essential areas. Two Ignored Facts: Schools and school districts have grown steadily in size for well over 100 years. Since the […]
INCLUSION, LANGUAGE, LABELLING, NEEDS and BELONGING An illuminating interview with the founder of Global Inclusion Consultancy, Inclusion Expert, author and trainer, Daniel Sobel, who himself has ADHD and has turned it into his ‘superpower’. At a time when ECIS has been reflecting deeply on inclusion from an international perspective and reflecting on its own […]
Why observing a music lesson can benefit a modern language teacher Isabelle Wolfe Language Teacher, International School Aberdeen Instrumental instruction shares a lot of common traits with language instruction. More importantly, modern language teachers can improve their instruction by observing music lessons. Noam Chomsky developed in the 1950s the theory of universal […]
Organisational Culture in School Settings Simon O’Connor Director, Deira International School In the second of these articles, Simon O’Connor, Director of Deira International School, explains how lessons from organisational culture in the corporate world can be applied to school settings. ‘A school leader needs to negotiate the minefield of competing values and understand the social […]
CHATBOTS ARE HERE TO STAY Paul Magnuson & Beth Dewhurst It is impossible to keep up with the flood of blogs, podcasts, and scholarly articles about ChatGPT. Provocative article titles and opinions like The College Essay is Dead (Marche, 2022) and The End of High School English (Hermon, 2022) have helped drive current interest, […]
Slow Is Smooth and Smooth is Fast: A Case for Taking Time to Do the Deep Work of DEIJ Kyra Kellawan Futures Lead at The British School of Barcelona & CoFounder, Kokoro Careers A little over a month ago now, on a breezy Friday and gloriously sunny and warm Saturday in mid-October, the expansive, […]
Escaping our confines of fear: a call to develop courageous learning communities Nunana Nyomi “I’ve been worryin’ that we all live our lives in the confines of fear”, the refrain of Ben Howard’s song, The Fear, kept insistently echoing in my ear. As the song played, I had to put it on repeat as I […]
Culture eats strategy for breakfast Simon O’Connor Director, Deira International School With the benefit of hindsight, moving to lead a new school in the middle of a pandemic may not have been best timing. However, when I did, I was very conscious of the fact that many successful school leaders fail in their second position […]
Self-Organised PD, Anywhere, Anytime: Uplift! Jennifer Carlson & Paul Magnuson Introduction We are two educators at two different institutions on two continents with the same interest: Uplift. To learn how other educators define, think about, experience, and practice Uplift, we invited other educators, and created a platform to share our perceptions, perspectives, and […]
Insightful Stories: Call and Chaos Jill Canillas Daley PYP LIbrarian, American International School of Lusaka PART 1: CALL AND CHAOS It’s the noise that makes your blood feel like an ice-laden river. It’s waking up out of a deep sleep at 1 in the morning to turn your buzzing phone over and see you […]
