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Friday's Five Ideas for the Future August 30, 2019 A Future That Resides in Student Voice This week's lead article is actually the executive summary of the OECD Learning Framework 2030— highly provocative as a leadership lens for our international schools. In essence, it reads as a leadership mandate on the social, economic and environmental issues of our time and the need to prepare our youth to take on the challenges. A must read.
1. We are responsible for setting an agenda for change within our international schools and one cannot be taking one breath after another without recognizing that new solutions to unsettling global trends are needed. As the OECD Shared Vision states, "Children entering school…will need to abandon the notion that resources are limitless…and in the face of an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, education can make the difference as to whether people embrace the challenges they are confronted with or whether they are defeated by them."
Sustainable development requires that all countries engage youth, value student voice and draw it out in the way of ensuring instructional systems and knowledge, attitudes and values, to shape the world our young people will inherit. Our schools are uniquely suited to such challenges.
AAIE is committed to your school's future. Stay with us each Friday for F3. Take a close read of the OECD occasional paper, Education 2030.
2. A wonderfully written article that will certainly resonate with international educators is Sten Sootla's "You are Your Work (And That's a Good Thing)." Sacrifices, taking pride in your work, and the love that inevitably follows. 3. "School is an island in the middle of a horizonless sea of commerce and trade. Nearly everything that reaches its shores is borne there on the water of money—from the food to the electricity to the textbooks. Its teachers row in on creaky boats, while admin motor in on better ships and berth at closer docks. Some students arrive in yachts, while others swim in with nothing but a bathing suit." – School is an Economy and its Currency is the Grade, by Bernie Bleske. 4. Robert Roy Britt discusses new research into how positive thinking relates to longer life expectancy. Take this study's advice and visualize yourself at the center of positive future events. 5. Join us in congratulating Alexa Schmid! The International School of Kenya's Middle School Principal has been selected by the U.S. Department of State as Principal of the Year for 2019. Read the full press release here. Email: mark@aaie.org Please Keep in Touch
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