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Children with Special Needs
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Families raising a child with special needs while living internationally face an incredible challenge. Not only are they navigating another culture, and all of the transitions and adjustments assoc...

Cross-cultural education: advice for parents
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

This post covers some key advice I give to parents about coping with the stresses associated with cross-cultural education. I hope you will find these suggestions thought-provoking, encouragin...

Afterthoughts: A blog for the classical, Charlotte Mason mama.
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

An intellectual watering hole for classical, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mamas. We resist systems and instead implement methods -- practices driven by principles. The result? We DO with strength ...

Teachers' Tools for Annotating Web Pages
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Lessons Learnt Journal
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Lessons Learnt Journal promotes creative ways to work, rest and play with children, supporting parents as they grow in their life with kids.

By: Pauline Soo

Safe Passage, How Mobility Affects People & What International Schools Should Do about It
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Moving is one of life's greatest challenges. The largest study in educational research history demonstrates that moving harms learning. But moving not only challenges students. The experience of lo...

A Very Dangerous Place for a Child Is College
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

“Colleges should do this and colleges should do that, everyone says?” I walked across the front of the auditorium, stopped and faced the two hundred young men who had invited me to their fraternity...

Boost your child's progress in school: Understand how your child differs from you
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Differences between our learning experience and our child’s learning experience can mean we fail to recognize points of real crisis for our child. Here’s a quick look at four distinct learning styl...

World Family Education
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Finding the right educational options for your child can be a challenge when you live internationally. World Family Education supports that decision-making process, which is unique to every family....

Proslogion: Thoughts from a scientist who is a Christian (not a Christian Scientist)
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

This blog... will be a discourse on my views regarding God and things of interest to the people of God. As a scientist, it is hard for me to fathom anyone who has scientific training and does not b...

10 Ways Teachers Can Support Third Culture Kids
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

I was talking to the principal of an international school recently, and he had never heard the term “Third Culture Kid” (TCK). This really surprised me. By now, after more than three decades of res...

Helping kids who procrastinate on school work
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

What’s really behind all the dilly-dallying and delaying? Is procrastination simply laziness or lack of self-discipline?

By: Catherine Wilson