If you missed our webinar today, be sure to check the CIS membership portal for the recording! ISLES Collaborative

I interviewed Emily Solari for this morning's newsletter on reading. It's a long read (ha!) but I found it fascinating and practical and I hope you do too! emilyoster.substack.com/p/learning-to-…

Got really tired of seeing Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model illustrated only w/ white boys. So we made a new (prettier) version centering Black girls. Please RT & share in your psych classes! Full article on #attachment & #antiracism is open access: doi.org/10.1080/146167…

Nothing wrong with Johnny-Appleseed-ing the idea that learning styles aren't a thing and that there are better ways to help differentiate instruction and support learning: discovermagazine.com/mind/does-know…

"Who sings to the plants that are grown for our plates?" - Joy Harjo We invite you to read Harjo’s poem w/ students & to reflect on how you will express your appreciation to the people you know — and don’t know — for the ways they've enriched your life. #JoyHarjo #LiberatEDSEL

Which emotions have you been told (or taught) to “conquer” or manage? Read Prentis Hemphill's quotation & consider your own SEL practice & how you teach emotional literacy. Reflect on ways we can humanize our experience of emotions and be more accepting of them. #LiberatEDSEL

Big news: We’re announcing a new tool in #GoogleClassroom called practice sets, powered by our adaptive learning tech. Teachers will soon be able to create interactive assignments that give students real-time feedback & support as they practice concepts → goo.gle/3IgDX12

Office hours with professors is happening right now at the uArch workshop at ISCA! 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫

A look at the potential and perhaps widening gap between a growing body of linguistic research and international schools’ language policies and practices. #internationalschools #EAL #PTC #bilingual #monolingual #languagelearning #IB #TIEonline ow.ly/7uHH50KwjhY

Congrats #NUSComputing Associate Professor Ilya Sergey (Ilya Sergey) and Assistant Professor Trevor Carlson (Trevor E. Carlson) for winning the Amazon Research Award! nus.edu/3Tymhoy #NUSResearch #NUSExcellence

Exciting announcements today ... we have 4 key leadership roles to start in August 2023. We are looking for skilled, dedicated educators who can add something special to our diverse, talented faculty and lead us forward International School of Dakar. Tell your friends to apply before 31st October.

Confirmation bias is twisting the facts to fit your beliefs. Critical thinking is bending your beliefs to fit the facts. Seeking the truth is not about validating the story in your head. It's about rigorously vetting and accepting the story that matches the reality in the world.

You know, you won’t get to the learning outcomes unless you also work on the belonging outcomes, the feeling outcomes, and the community outcomes.

How to revise a first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.): [This strategy helped me finish my dissertation in 12 months]

At TCI, we love onion analogies. We think of barriers to change like peeling back the layers of an onion. 🧅 First layer is almost always - "I don't have time", "we don't have resources" or "it's not my job".

Registration is now open for the 2023 AIELOC and Women of Color in ELT Virtual Conference tinyurl.com/bdhdrn7u #intELOC #WOCinELT Iyabo Tinubu Kristina Pennell-Götze (she/her) @MsMarlaHunter @NayoungWeaver

🌍 Inclusion is not a program or set of procedures, it’s a mindset that 1. all #students belong, 2. I can teach all #students well, and 3. they can all learn and grow and flourish and succeed. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

Considering how to work more closely with parents. During our next ISLES Connect, we will look at different ways that we partner with parents, and how we can enhance these relationships. Join us bit.ly/isles1 Not a member yet? Join us here: bit.ly/ISLESmember