Until last fall, the oft-asked question “What do you do?” was easy for me to answer. “I’m a teacher” or, “I teach second grade.” Once, after a particularly mind-expanding week of teaching, I responded, “I teach kids to question extraterrestrial life!” (But that’s a...
A Happy Accident For the past nine years, I have been deeply entrenched in the dynamic world of international school admissions – a role that helped me discover my innate abilities and brought me inexplicable fulfillment and satisfaction. What makes this journey...
It was an honor for the International Community School of Addis Ababa to host a Professional Learning Institute for school advancement in Addis Ababa in November 2023. This year’s conference fell on a weekend, which made it more convenient for many schools to...
Want to know more about how Kim Natassja Samuel and her team are implementing new ideas and new tools, with (in her words) “a touch of creativity”? She generously expands on her Roundtable answers with more details about how they have adapted their work and...
IAB: Tell us about your background and experience in international school education. FD: My background is as an Early Childhood educator and I have a Master’s of Psychology with a focus in education. I have worked as an educator since 1997 in several international...
A friend and veteran Director of Admissions once said to me that becoming an admissions officer wasn’t something she had aspired to be. I shared the same sentiment. However, life has a curious way of leading us down unexpected paths, and sometimes, those paths lead us...
