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Our day (secondary) was focused on Formative Assessment and was extremely interactive and practical.\u201d<\/p>\n International schools are sometimes in a pickle trying to organize good, useful, purposeful, effective, etc. professional development on the few days back after winter break. \u00a0I have worked at international schools when they have had somebody booked months in advance (for the after winter break PD days) and then to find out kind of last minute that the person couldn\u2019t come any more. \u00a0Not just every trainer wants to (or is able to) lead their PD sessions in exotic locations around the world I imagine, but the ones that do\u2026are indeed in very high demand (e.g. Virginia Rojas, Ron Ritchhart, etc.)!<\/em><\/p>\n Cutting Ties\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI was recently contacted by my previous employer, an International School in Vietnam, who politely asked me to close down the Edmodo groups I had set up whilst at the school. 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