The Parent Connection

I have been so excited about my new job at IS Bangkok since I was hired waaaay back in January that it’s hard to believe only three weeks have gone by since school started. For the past eight months I’ve been planning and thinking about what I can do with a brand new library and…

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A Global Kickstart

Now that our first few weeks of school are over and things are beginning to settle into a more manageable pace, I am finally starting to work with our individual classroom teachers to get the technological ball rolling. One of my major goals this year is to continue with the sort of global collaborations I…

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The results are in!

We hosted a school-wide contest to name our beautiful new facility and the winner is… The Learning Hub According to the handy Oxford English dictionary on my Mac, a hub is: the central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate. a place or thing that forms…

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Elementary Energy

For the last seven years I’ve been working at the middle school level – and I’ve loved it! So when I took this job at the elementary school of ISB, I have to admit, I was a little nervous. They’re so small! And so excitable! But after a little over a week seeing them around…

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What's in a name?

Now that I’ve spent a week enjoying our brand-new facility, I’m starting to wonder if “library” is the right name for our space. After all, we used to call Social Studies “History,”and P.E. was called “Gym”. Something about those new names, although they might have been resisted at first, just fits better than the original….

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