Blog Posts

Games are a game changer (ha! pun intended) to creating joyful and collaborative learning spaces! 🎭✨ This month, I’m running Games Month for Recess, an online platform for learning, filling every drama session with activities that get kids thinking, laughing, collaborating, and imagining together. I often hear from teachers I train, and parents too: “Games

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Still thinking about Enchanted… and my heart is, as always after, so full. This gathering at Selgars Mill has become a marker in my year. It’s continuously been a space that grounds me and sets the tone for the summer ahead. 🌿💫 Some highlights I’ll be holding close: ✨ Stargazing with Ines Castagnet, and seeing

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I used to think that being a good educator meant having to know everything.Now I am seeing the importance and value of knowing how to ask. We’re moving away from the traditional “banking model of education,” where the teacher is the keeper of all knowledge, to something muchmorepowerful:co-construction of learning. Visible thinking routines like a

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✨ Exciting news! Next month, I’ll be in Singapore as a co-facilitator and MC for the TIYA Conference 2025. This event will be held at the beautiful Tzuchi Foundation Humanistic Youth Centre and bring together passionate young people from across Asia-Pacific to take action toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I’m very much looking

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At the end of last month, I joined my fellow trustees and members of ISTA – Global Learning Through the Arts for three days of in-person strategic planning meetings in The Hague. It was a full-circle moment I’m still so excited about – and proud of! As a student at Shanghai American School, I attended

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