By Jill McPherson From an early age, I knew I wanted to work with children. I was the child who loved holding babies, the teenager who relished babysitting that parents sought out because their children requested me. I engaged with them, played with them—I was the babysitter my younger self would have wanted. I pursued...Read More

By Julie Peterson, Principal, Woodford House, NZ I have always seen education as the land of opportunity. The role of teacher is narrowly typecast by those who have passed through their classrooms and people don’t realize how varied teaching positions can be. I started out as an English teacher and have had the most diverse...Read More

by Stephanie Zantingh As IB educators, we continually seek curricula that support our mission to cultivate self-awareness and empathy in students, developing attributes such as care for others, open-mindedness, reflective thinking, risk-taking, and the pursuit of balance. These attributes of the IB Learner Profile, developed in students through the explicit teaching of skills, are essential...Read More

by BRIGHT LIGHT Paul Dwyer   Teaching Students to Be Genuine in Disingenuous Times   Students’ Lens on Reality I am fascinated by how much information we are exposed to each day. Studies say it averages 100GB every day which is the equivalent of watching the entire series of Stranger Things. By contrast, teachers grew...Read More

by Brett Kavanagh   The past two years have been an incredible time to be in education and to continue to be fostering leadership in ourselves, our staff and in young people. As a musician by trade, I pride myself on being able to balance practise with improvisation, and as a leader, I noted that...Read More