Making Friends Outside of Your International School is…

…HARD! I don’t know about you, but I think making friends outside of your school community can be one of your biggest challenges when you live abroad. If you are an outgoing person, maybe it is a bit easier. However, if you are on an introverted side and also don’t know the local language, then […]
SAME GAME, NEW PLAYBOOK

The Common Ground Collaborative (CGC) is re-inventing the learning game as one simple ecosystem. In this series of articles we’ll unpack the CGC story, sharing our work with ISC readers. A few years back, the CGC team looked at the current state of play in ‘the learning game’ and saw too many things that didn’t […]
The Big Shift: Advice for Teaching Through a Pandemic

Life as an international teacher requires you to be incredibly flexible as you move between countries, cultures, and schools. But nothing has required as much of a willingness to adapt and evolve my practice as being locked in my apartment and having to reinvent my approach to the classroom. Switching it up for my 10th […]