To Ed.D. or Not to Ed.D.

I’m having a little mental dilemma that I can’t seem to work myself out of, and I’m hoping you can help: Have you ever felt like you were in the right place at the right time? And by being in that right place in the right time, you totally changed the course of your life…

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Voices of the World

Not every global collaboration has to be a time-consuming, classroom changing, priority rearranging project. Sometimes, you come across one that is so simple (for the participants – not the poor, overworked, organizer) that it’s just impossible to pass up (have I mentioned that it’s practically impossible for me to say “no” to any project?)… Voice…

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Life Round Here: Lesson One

We’re a little bit behind over here in Bangkok, but we got a great start to Chris Craft’s Life ‘Round Here project today! The cool thing about this project is that our students are currently doing a unit on adaptation. They’ve studied different cultures around the world and how they’ve adapted to change, which makes…

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Collaboration Idea No. 3: Creating a "Flat Classroom"

One of the fabulous teachers from my previous post was so enthusiastic about collaborating with other schools that we started planning our very own “flat classroom” project today! Mary is a fellow new teacher here at ISB and she has been doing some amazing things with our Smart Boards already this year (not to make…

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Collaboration Idea No. 2: Collaborative Book Reviews

One of our school goals for this school year is reading. As a school we are focusing on developing a love of reading in our students and evaluating our teaching practices to ensure that our students are meeting their expected learning results with reading. So, I was very excited to read Wes Fryer’s recent post…

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