Internationalism
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HeyGen Translated AI Buddies
App-smashing DALL-E3, HeyGen & Canva for animated multilingual workshops. Continue reading
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Shining A Light On Hopeful Learning
Recording of a PD Day keynote on educating for hope, and why schools like ours serve an important mission in a changing world. Continue reading
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A Megadose of Vitamin Sea
Transition years can be full-on and exhausting. New country, new role, new friends, kids, colleagues, tech, language, environment, expectations, opportunities. Embracing the new and trying to avoid old traps. Parenting through transitions and creating new memories. Overcoming challenges when things… Continue reading
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Making Learning Visible in Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences
“Children grow into the intellectual life around them.” (Vygotsky, quoted by Ron Ritchhart) I really enjoy parent-student-teacher conferences. (I’d rather do more of these and less report writing, but that’s a different post.) Even with a limited time-slot (my last… Continue reading
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Let’s All Meet Up In The Year 2000… (on #Factfulness)
… won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown? November 1995: I’d just turned 15, Britpop was at its peak (who did you prefer, Oasis or Blur?) and Pulp released this singalong anthem. We loved it. ………..o0O0o……….. I couldn’t… Continue reading
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Reflecting on the Impacts of Science: IMaGE, Global Goals & Connections in MYP Sciences.
I’ve added a new page to i-Biology.net to post resources and ideas for MYP Science Crit. D: Reflecting on the Impacts of Science. Some slides are below, but to see the full page, click here. [IMaGE = International Mindedness and… Continue reading
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How International Is Our School? MA Dissertation
This post is to store and share my MA Dissertation. A pilot-test of a visualization and set of evaluation rubrics for factors affecting the promotion of international-mindedness and global engagement (IMaGE) of a school. After starting this investigation with my… Continue reading
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Book Recommendation: The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education
Title: The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education [SECOND EDITION] Editors: Mary Hayden – University of Bath, Jack Levy – George Mason University, Jeff Thompson – University of Bath Update Dec 2017: I fleshed this out into a full review for the Journal… Continue reading
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Professional Learning for International Educators
Eyes-deep in reading for the MA dissertation, with 200 links in my Paperpile and counting, concurrently thinking about future professional learning at school, and following the threads of developing the IMaGE of a school, I keep stumbling across articles, books… Continue reading
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The IMaGE of an International School
It’s crunch time for my MA International Education studies at the University of Bath, with a big literature review in progress and some data collection coming up, aiming to submit by the summer break. As much as I’ve loved the… Continue reading
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Trivium 21C Review in International School Magazine
After last issue’s feature on A Pragmatic Approach to Inquiry, I have two short articles in the “Milestones” 50th issue of International School Magazine. One is a celebration of Canadian Academy’s centennial, the other a review of Martin Robinson’s Trivium… Continue reading
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Designing a Service Learning Cycle
Note (March 2018): This 2014 post is a few years old now, and the Service Learning Cycle is gathering momentum in the school in its use by students for service learning. The current working version is at the end of… Continue reading
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“Culture does not make people. People make Culture.” Chimamanda Adichie
Another great TEDx Talk from Chimamanda Adichie, on “We should all be feminists.” She describes her journey as a feminist and her interactions around feminism with others. “A feminist is a man or a woman who says ‘Yes, there’s a… Continue reading
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Global Contexts & Avoiding the ‘Single Story’
This last couple of weeks we’ve been busy preparing faculty PD on the Global Contexts and their role in developing International Mindedness & Global Engagement (IMaGE) in our students. It has been a lot of work, but as we kicked… Continue reading
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Educate for hope, not despair, for a fair and sustainable world.
I wrote this post in 2014, but come back to it often. See edits and additions below the main body. We tread a delicate line between hope and despair; between student action for change and not overwhelming our young learners… Continue reading
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