PYP Policies: Tips and ideas

PYP Policies: Tips and ideas

Culture 1: The school secures access to an IB education for the broadest possible range of students. (0301-01) Culture 1.1: The school implements and reviews an access and/or admissions policy that clearly describes the conditions for participation in the school’s...
Additional Language in the PYP

Additional Language in the PYP

Additional language in the PYP is always a great topic to discuss or unpack with the PYP teachers. As you know, I always start my blogs by looking at IB documentation: Culture 4: The school implements, communicates and regularly reviews a language policy that helps to...
Close the schools… we have failed…

Close the schools… we have failed…

We have failed … Most schools have failed to raise generations to live peacefully on earth. We have been unable to understand and respect others. We haven’t just failed; we have also distorted everything. All the concepts are mislaid, and humans are divided into three...
I have the right to live

I have the right to live

I write this article while the war on Gaza continues, the killing continues, and the injustice continues… I write this article and a new war started in Lebanon. I write this article knowing well what it means to lose a student, to have your school destroyed, to lose...
Timetables based on questions

Timetables based on questions

As usual, I start my PYP-related blogs with the standards and practices and reference the recent IB documents. Leadership 3: The school organizes time for learning and teaching that provides a broad, balanced and connected curriculum and serves the changing needs of...