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Jun 14, 20232 min read
The Power of Appreciation
As part of the professional growth and appraisal process, one of the tasks I am undertaking at the end of this school year is a final...
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Feb 16, 20235 min read
Food, Festivals and Fancy Dress
It was recently the Lunar New Year and schools all over Asia, maybe all over the world, prepared for the celebration. In many schools,...
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Aug 28, 20223 min read
How many ounces does your elephant weigh? Using imperial units of measure in 2022.
Imperial measurements have been in the news this year. The Brexiteers who have been harping back to a better world when there was a...
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Jun 24, 20223 min read
Women in Leadership: Where are all the female applicants?
Three things have happened recently that have got me thinking about women in leadership, in particular, women in leadership in...
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Jun 17, 20223 min read
Relationships Matter
I must say that the best moment of this academic year was the two weeks me and my family spent in quarantine on arrival in Bangkok. We...
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Feb 15, 20222 min read
Your Name: all fields required. Cultural differences in naming conventions.
* REQUIRED FIELD My husband only has one given name. No family name, just one name. This is quite common in Indonesia. It does, however,...
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Nov 16, 20214 min read
Cop26 Blah Blah Blah
Published in TIEonline Nov 21 "From Greenwash to Global Green Intercultural Competency." The 2021 United Nations Climate Change...
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Aug 25, 20211 min read
Leadership Recruitment in a Pandemic
My reflections on my recent recruitment process, published in International School Leader Magazine, August 2021. http://ow.ly/QrTP50FWjEM
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Jul 28, 20212 min read
He's Your Husband?
Several years ago I was given a lovely book called Stanley Paste. It is a children’s picture book by Aaron Blabey that challenges a...
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Jul 17, 20214 min read
Finding the Positives
We have just moved. What a feat of paperwork and covid tests it was! Moving to a different country in a pandemic is, to say the least,...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
The demise of the newspaper?
It was a big week last for newspapers in Hong Kong with the closure of the pro-democracy paper, Apple Daily. It was a big week for...
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Jun 22, 20212 min read
End of Year Celebrations.
We are coming to the end of our second socially distanced academic year. The usual rites of passage, rituals and traditions have been...
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Mar 26, 20213 min read
Social Distancing in Classrooms
Teaching in a PYP school during Coronavirus. Published in TES, June 2020 #Covid #HongKong #IBPYP We have been back at school for almost a...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
Masks...Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Published in International Schools Magazine, Summer 2020 #Covid19 #internationalschools #Hongkong #culturalintelligence
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Mar 24, 20213 min read
Where it all began
"Life's a Beach and Then You Teach." My first article published in TES, April 2002, about teaching in the Seychelles. Imagine a paradise...
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Mar 24, 20213 min read
Past Thoughts from Bali Part 1: Mad as an Old Wet Hen.
It was raining this morning. This always makes for an interesting drive to work. The usual, mildly amusing sights were there: man on...
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Mar 24, 20212 min read
Past Thoughts from Bali part 2: Celebrating New Year
I love the way the Balinese celebrate their new year. In one way, not unlike a traditional New Year in England. New Year's Eve full of...
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