Deeply traditional, but with flying cars and a mission to Mars. When one starts scouring the world for the latest innovations and forward-thinking ideas, you might have traditionally looked at places such as Japan, Europe, the US, or China. One might have been forgiven for not including the Middle East…

Developing student agency through STEAM. Design Thinking Through STEAM Students in the Middle School at Al-Bayan Bilingual School are engaged in a STEAM program once per week that focuses their energies on solving real-world problems affecting them or those around them using design thinking. In small groups, students…

How a school in Kuwait brought the campus to their students during COVID. Using the Minecraft Education platform, teams of students and staff built a 1:1 virtual campus of Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Kuwait. With students and staff learning from home and unable to access the campus, a team of…

Personal productivity is the name of the game. “Why don’t you give that to me to do. To be honest, I’m not that busy and have plenty of spare time. I’ve actually been looking for a new challenge.” Said no one, in any workplace, ever. I work in education. Schools…

What Education Can Learn from Big Business And where it needs to start putting it’s money. Why is change and innovation in education so hard? Why does it take so long? Why is it so disjointed? Global spending on education is at record levels, yet literacy and numeracy levels continue…

Sit, breath, focus, *eye roll*, *checks phone* I used to think mindfulness was just for yoga instructors, people with moustaches, and those with way too much time on their hands. …

How can we bring empathy, compassion, and understanding to the front of what we do? — While the world grapples with a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, we also find ourselves facing up to some difficult conversations about how we treat each other. While we hope that calm heads, reasoned judgments and wise decision-making prevails from leaders around the world, it is easy to overlook the…

Turns out the problem was us. There came a time in our school’s evolution when we realized we needed to perform an audit on how our staff spent their time at work. What were the things that consumed most of their time? What took longer than it should? What were…

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