October is Connected Educator Month
I love the idea of a month devoted to encouraging teachers all around the world to connect, learn, and grow as educators! Here is a short description of the event provided […]
Wow! Look at those numbers!
Just a quick post today. I noticed that, according to WordPress, in the past seven and a half months that this blog has been in existence, I have had over 10,000 […]
International Teacher Assessments/Evaluations
While I’ve read quite a bit about international student assessment, I haven’t really read much about international teacher assessment. If you have experience with this, please comment below! I know […]
September Monthly Roundup
Around the Web Who Should Decide What High School Kids Read? I work with high school teachers and we have had these very same discussions. I think librarians and […]
A Day in the Life of an International Teacher
Every teacher, school, city, country, etc is different. This is why I enjoy reading about how teachers spend their time around the world! After reading Sare’s account of an average Tuesday […]
Who Are You? 15 Signs You Are From Portland
If someone asked you to answer “Who Are You?” with only one word what would you say? The first word that comes to mind is that I’m a “Portlander”. Even […]
Wishful Wednesday: American Overseas School of Rome, Italy
Italy was the very first country outside of the US that I ever visited. I paid my own way (using baby sitting money and my earnings from Arby’s) and went […]
Twelve TCK Takeaways
Originally posted on Cliff Jumping:
Travel with a purpose! As exciting as my life of world travel has been, one of the most rewarding benefits of a career as an…
Delayed Contact
As an international teacher, I often have days where I really miss my family and friends because I only get to see them about one month a year at most. […]
How much money should an International Teacher have in the bank?
I have read a lot about an “emergency fund” in various finance blogs and they seem to agree that a rule of thumb is to have three to six month’s worth of […]
Teaching Wanderlust 