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ABOUT ECIS
Founded in 1965, ECIS (the Educational Collaborative for International Schools) is a non-profit global membership organisation that provides professional learning, research, advocacy, and grants and awards for the benefit of its members.
Our mission is to transform lives through international education.
Our mission is to transform lives through international education.
Digital Lipstick
/0 Comments/in How We Do School, Leadership, What I Am Reading /by Kevin J RuthIn all the hype around (digital) citizenship, (digital) learning, (digital) marketing, (digital) this, and (digital) that, have we considered whether we’re simply applying (digital) lipstick to everything under the sun, yet not fundamentally changing anything? To refer to Vaasu Gavarasana, are we placing lipstick on a legacy pig?
The Ethics of Leadership Search
/0 Comments/in Leadership, Organisational Behaviour /by Kevin J RuthWith the growth we’ve experienced in the international schools sector, it should be no surprise that there is a concomitant increase in the number of leadership searches happening at any time. I find position descriptions fascinating (I admit to having a habit of reading loads of them…) on account of the questions generated from the […]
Our Bigger Dream
/0 Comments/in Development, Leadership, Learning /by Kevin J RuthDo our students, when leaving us, seek meaning in their lives? This is one of four essential questions for me, in terms of ‘why we do school.’
Toward a New Typology of Professional Learning
/0 Comments/in Development, Leadership, Learning /by Kevin J RuthWhen we think of geography, our mental touchstones are things such as tectonic plates, mountains, maps, and the like. We tend to rely on the concept of ‘distance,’ i.e. spaces between geographies that are to be traversed, to help us make sense of geography.Though we may not be aware of it, this worldview informs how […]
Re-Imagining Global Citizenship
/0 Comments/in Development, Future of Learning, Governance, How We Do School, Leadership, Learning, Organisational Behaviour /by Kevin J RuthWhere are we now, as humans? As we look at the world around us, we are confronted by new power arrangements (e.g., militant groups) whose content and speed and instincts all seem quite foreign to ‘how we do things’ across the world. By ‘we’ is meant the overwhelming majority of humans who live in traditional […]
On Imaginative Gridlock
/0 Comments/in Future of Learning, Governance, How We Do School, Leadership, Organisational Behaviour /by Kevin J RuthThe safest place for ships is in the harbour, but that’s not why ships were built. Anonymous For how long has imaginative gridlock been clouding our inventiveness in the international education sector?