Just wondering about ‘engagement’ and ‘motivation’.
During this school year, I have worked closely with a colleague of mine as her mentor for her Postgraduate Certificate in Education. The...
Just wondering about ISTE Standards and the IB.
Recently, I have attended my first series of workshops for our school administrators and those workshops are about ISTE (International...
Just wondering about high expectations.
Recently, I have had several conversations about high expectations for our students and I feel the need to step back and think about...
Just wondering about searching for a Principal
At the beginning of the school year we created a Search Committee to recruit the best Founding Middle School Principal for our school....
Just wondering about when things just don’t go as planned, at all.
As we all know, life hardly every goes as planned. C’est la vie. This is particularly true when you live and work abroad. We accept it,...
Back to Reality
After quite a long journey from Bask country I am back in Quito for a new school year. On the way home, as the taxi was literally zooming...
Just wondering about final examinations.
Like many other schools in the world, we are currently running our last week of IB examinations and we have been working on scheduling...
Just wondering about Learning Spaces and more.
At Academia Cotopaxi we have started working on a master facility plan to improve the school’s learning spaces. Several companies came to...
Just wondering about self-studies.
Each time I go through a self-study, I feel more and more comfortable and I find the process increasingly useful. My first go around was...
Just wondering about sensible disconnections.
In our profession, collaboration has gone through some drastic evolution. When I started teaching in the UK in 2001, we were...
