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Interview with Mark Newman
Questions for a Physical Educator This is the first year that you are rolling out a new curriculum for your Grade 9 and 10 students. Could you explain a little bit about what you have designed and why you chose to design something yourself? During…
Service Learning from Multiple Perspectives
A Practical Guide to Managing Good Intentions By Sally Hirsch, CEO Tracker Apps For many years, I worked in schools in Switzerland that had active service learning programs. We connected with organizations both locally and internationally to see how our students and teachers could be…
Social and Emotional Skills in Academics
By Kevin Hawkins Mainstream schools, for historical reasons as well as somewhat self-serving societal demands, traditionally focus on cultivating a very limited range of skills and competencies in their students. But if we want to support the growth and maturation of balanced young people in…
Creativity, Activity and Service in Pakistan
By Muzna Akbar The International School in Karachi is the first IB World School in Pakistan yet the apprehensions regarding this “new” system become clear when introducing CAS. The way that the program is run at my school is that we integrate it through DP…
Exploring Space in the Classroom
By Camilla Cook I was once locked in a room with a class of thirteen year olds for over two hours. This disturbing situation occurred because Alissa had worked out that she could steal the door handle, leap out of the room, and slam the…
“How to Conference”
Whether you have some clear business goals in your reasons for attending a conference or if you are simply attending to do some networking, we at Tracker Apps have put together a quick guide for how to “do” a Conference and it’s a threefer!*” For…
Handling Criticism
Handling Criticism With Grace and Honesty by Kare Anderson A client just called us to order 5,000 copies of a slender book I wrote years ago. He said that he wished he’d called sooner, before the sides had hardened between the people in his corporation. Now several…
Feedback in Service Learning
By John Cannings Why do students need feedback when they carry out service learning? What are some of the best forms of feedback to give students? The essence of service learning is that students gain new knowledge and skills from their experiences. Service Learning is…
Self Management and the Perception of Time
By Andrew Mitchell Build a time machine or open the doors of perception? Self management and finding the right type of busy. I’m looking back at a stream of WhatsApp conversations between colleagues, collaborators and friends, and we invariably start with something like this: Andrew:…