ISB Spirit Week – November 21-25
Next week is ISB Spirit Week as proposed by the ISB Student Varsity Council leading up to Friday’s Panther Spirit Night! All are invited to show their Panther Pride throughout the week as well as during Friday’s Varsity Invitational.
Monday, November 21- PJ Day
Tuesday, November 22- Team Jersey Day
Wednesday, November 23- Twin Day
Thursday, November 24- Character Day
Friday, November 25 – Black & Gold
Feedback Wanted
Thank you again to all the parents who volunteered to help make Intercultural Week 2022 a success! The Intercultural Week Planning Team invites all volunteers to complete this short survey to support our planning for the future. Please complete the survey anytime before Friday, November 25. PTA ICW Parent Survey
Weekly Message from Principal Allen
On Wednesday’s Early Release Day, the entire PreK-12 faculty and IAs engaged in professional learning focused on Diversity Equity Inclusion & Justice (DEIJ). As outlined on the ISB website and articulated in all ISB job descriptions, ISB is committed to this important work (see ISB DEIJ Statement).
During our session on Wednesday, our elementary school DEIJ leaders facilitated discussions focused on ensuring that all students have a strong sense of belonging at ISB. We learned that historically marginalized identities are more likely to experience behaviors such as microaggressions, stereotyping, or even bullying, from others due to identity-based biases. Our leaders invited us all to consider ways in which we can address this in our classrooms and in our ongoing discussions with students. Because identity-based bias behaviors target who the student is—a core part of their identity—it can be especially harmful. They taught us that this can cause targeted individuals to question their identities and internalize negative attitudes about themselves, leading to low self-esteem. In discussing this with young people, they reminded us that it’s important to make the point that these behaviors happen because of the bias that is held – not because of the target’s identity. One should never blame the target. A person is not stereotyped because they are disabled, a person of color, speak with an accent, etc. That person is targeted because of the bias against that identity group.
The session focused specifically on allyship and how we can be allies to students with marginalized identities. The session included a lot of active participation and discussion from the session participants; we were able to learn helpful strategies and ideas from each other that will allow us each to be strong allies for ALL of our ISB students.
Wednesday’s session reminded me of this TEDtalk by one of our former ISB students…if you haven’t had a chance to see Amani Kaiya’s “The Impact of Diversity from a Peculiar Perspective”, check it out!
Your partner in education,
Michael Allen
michaela@isb.ac.th
Annual ES Festival of Lights Concert
On Monday, December 12th, join us for an evening of story, song and dance as our ES Panther Choir, Orff Ensemble and String Ensemble bring us together with music and movement from various cultures. The concert will take place in Chevron Theatre at 6:30 p.m. and is free of charge.
Visiting Author – March 2022
We are excited to welcome visiting author Christina Soontornvat on March 20, 21, 22.
Please see her information here.
Click here to order books for Christina’s visit in March!
ES Cafeteria Menu
Please find the ES Cafeteria menu for next week linked here, and here is the menu for Allergen Free.
Leaving ISB at the End of the First Semester?
Parents of students who are not returning to ISB in January need to notify the ES Office, Khun Kunlawan (kunlawan@isb.ac.th) as soon as possible and fill out the ISB’s official online withdraw form to enable us to process school records for their next school. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
VAHEN KING, LIVE @ ISB
Join Author, Motivational Speaker, Philanthropist, Vahen King, for a PTA Sponsored event, ‘Contagious Courage,’ in MPB-1 at 6:00pm Wednesday, November 23rd. All are welcome.
https://goingfarther.org/
Arts & Activities @ ISB
November
17 ES Art ‘Cardboardia’ (ends Dec. 12) Chevron Gallery
17 MS ‘This=That’ Exhibition (ends Dec. 7) Main Library
19 ES Girl Powered Robotics Extravaganza (9-12pm)
20 HS Chess Tournament @ BPS
21 Aura Cherrybag, Guest Visual Artist (through Dec. 7)
21 IASAS Art Exhibition (ends December 16) Main Library
24 Julia Rick @ ISB (MS/HS Lunch) Panther Den
29 MS/HS Band Concert (6:30pm) Chevron Theater
December
1 Jazz Night 1 (6:30pm) CC Theater (moved from the 6th)
3 VEX Robotics Scrimmage @ St. Andrews
6 Strings Bash (6:30pm) Chevron Theater (moved from the 1st)
8 Community Choir Concert (6:30pm) Chevron Theater
9 HS Artsco’s ‘Artists Under the Stars’ (6:00pm) Outdoor Stage
10 IASAS Chess @ SAS (virtual)
12 ES Festival of Lights (6:30pm) Chevron Theater
Season 2 Spirit Night
Mark your calendars! Season 2 Spirit Night will take place on Friday, November 25th. Our Varsity Rugby/Touch, Tennis, Basketball and Swim Teams will take to the fields, courts and pool against local and international teams! We will have food vendors, activities and more! Come join the fun and show your Panther Pride!
Cub Scouts: Raising and Lowering Flags in ISB
During Intercultural week, the Arrow of Light (Grade 5) from Pack 701 learned about how the ISB Security team raises and lowers the three flags at the flag poles near the main entrance. In fact, there is a schedule of rotation for the country flags to showcase flags from around the world! Our Cubs learned about how to fold and respect flags from other countries. This was a valuable experience for the Cubs, and on behalf of Pack 701 is very thankful to Khun Ratthavit and the ISB security team for making this happen.
Pack 701 relies on parent volunteers to have a successful Cub Scout program. Volunteering allows the parents to experience scouting in a new way as a family. We are currently looking for a Grade 2 parent volunteer to help lead the Wolf Den. If anyone is interested, please reach out to Cubmaster Jamie Hawk (panthercubscouts@isb.ac.th). Any interested parents are also welcome to visit the Bear (G3), Webelos (G4) or Arrow of Light (G5) Den meetings to get a better understanding of Den activities and talk with other Cub Scouts parents.
