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What Really Happens at the Environmental Wilderness Site (EWC)

Erin “Stan” Stanley and Ryan Moran lead the Wild Panthers program. They take Middle School students out to ISB’s adventure camp near a reservoir and provide fantastic experiential learning experiences for our students. You may have…
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200 Meters From The Summit: Mountain Climbing Denali With Rob Tyler

Description As we progress through life and work to do interesting and helpful things, natural obstacles appear along the way.  Sometimes we know those obstacles will be there and other times we are surprised by them. Rob Tyler, ISB’s…
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Do You Know Who You Are? | The Sharing Station Show # 6

Are you an Obliger, or a Rebel? Maybe you identify as a Questioner and not an Upholder? Looking at personalities, we discuss ambiverts, the accuracy of categorizing, and how compatible the results may or may not be. Comparing the classic…
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Social Thinking May Not Be What You Expected

Social Thinking is a social skills curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner. A few teachers here at ISB have taken the training and are helping to spread its ideas across the school.   Lori Boll and Beth Sauers help us to…
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Student Mental Health With Amy Smith

As parents, we think about our children all the time and as they become older, we may feel less connected to their inner thoughts and feelings.  Are they, for example, stressed out more than we know? Are they experiencing very strong negative,…
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Orthographic Inquiry with Fiona Hamilton

Orthographic inquiry is developing students' critical thinking skills and that requires practice in asking guiding questions. Fiona Hamilton is the founder of wordtorque, located in Bangkok. She believes all educators deserve the opportunity…
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Collaborative Classrooms with Linda and Ed

Collaboration skills are essential for success in today’s world, especially when it comes to team-teaching in a dynamic classroom environment. This methodology is a growing trend in educational practice, but how exactly does it work?  Linda…