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Helping kids who procrastinate on school work
What’s really behind all the dilly-dallying and delaying? Is procrastination simply laziness or lack of self-discipline?
By: Catherine Wi ...
Cross-cultural education: advice for parents
This post covers some key advice I give to parents about coping with the stresses associated with cross-cultural education. It’s nice to hear that ...
Boost your child's progress in school: Understand how your child differs from you
Differences between our learning experience and our child’s learning experience can mean we fail to recognize points of real crisis for our child. ...
10 Ways Teachers Can Support Third Culture Kids
I was talking to the principal of an international school recently, and he had never heard the term “Third Culture Kid” (TCK). This really surprise ...
A Very Dangerous Place for a Child Is College
“Colleges should do this and colleges should do that, everyone says?” I walked across the front of the auditorium, stopped and faced the two hundre ...
The beautiful ways different cultures sign emails
Depending on where you live, the words you use to sign off your email could be just as important as the content.
Children with Special Needs
Families raising a child with special needs while living internationally face an incredible challenge. Not only are they navigating another culture ...
A Handy Chart Featuring Over 30 iPad Apps for Students with Special Needs
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
...Foreign Language Training
The School of Language Studies (SLS) provides language and culture training to U.S. government employees with job-related needs. It addresses all a ...
Safe Passage, How Mobility Affects People & What International Schools Should Do about It
"Moving is one of life's greatest challenges. The largest study in educational research history demonstrates that moving harms learning. But moving ...
Teachers' Tools for Annotating Web Pages
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
...Learnwell Collective
Learnwell Information for Families Serving Overseas Learnwell started in 2017 in order to offer support to YOU – families homeschooling on the fiel ...