We had the first Director’s forum on September 3rd, and follow-up with PTO meeting this morning, September 16th. The slides from that presentation below. Our purpose in these forums is to get a sense of how we can better serve the community outside the walls of the school. While our discipline legitimately cannot go there, […]
Staff at the Anglo-American School of Moscow took a moment to stand together in a vigil in support of our colleagues at the Jakarta International School. We take strong exception to the lack of transparency and due process in claims against two teachers. Given the lack of any evidence, incarceration of these two individuals now reaching beyond […]
To all of our special guests, faculty, administrators, parents, friends, and family members – we welcome your pride and presence as we celebrate this, our 20th commencement exercises. I offer my deepest gratitude to Ambassador Myler for his words today. The Anglo-American School of Moscow values our sense of community and your participation here validates […]
Dear Family, Friends, and Staff of the Anglo-American School, Welcome back from Spring Break. We hope the holiday was refreshing, filled with renewal and engaged family time! In keeping with prior messages, I wanted to get an update out just after the break with the most recent information and to attend to current serious matters […]
Dear AAS Community and CEESA Friends, I’d like to provide an update regarding the political situation in the Crimea and Ukraine and the effect it may have on our school community. Since my last email to all on March 3, 2014, little has changed for the school¹s normal operation. In the days leading up to […]
Dear Family, Friends, and Staff of the Anglo-American School, The purpose of this letter is to provide important information regarding recent events in the region that may be causing you some level of concern. As you may already know, the situation in the Ukraine is very fluid at this time. It is important to note […]
In a recent article from Jill Berkowicz and Ann Meyers, Are We Learning From Evaluations? – Leadership 360 – Education Week. they make a case for fallacies that stand behind new evaluation systems that use scoring mechanisms for reporting “what isn’t being done well enough.” I applaud them for their insight into this nutty problem […]
Thank you to all families who Contributed as a Globally Aware Citizen by participating in the Building Botswana Director’s Challenge! We have reached our goal of 20 families “taking the challenge”. The 2013-2014 Director’s Challenge is now closed. Started by the Prozorovo Village Tractor Campaign two years ago, the Director’s Challenge is a program that encourages adults […]
Teachers spent the day honing their skills on assessment during the first of our PD sessions for the 2013-2104 school year. I was impressed with the way we dug deeper into our standards and the degree to which we unpacked the learning targets in our work together. What was particularly powerful was the interaction across […]
2013-2014 Opening Ceremony from AAS Moscow on Vimeo.
To all of our special guests, faculty, administrators, parents, friends, and family members — you honor us with your pride and presence as we celebrate this important moment for the individuals seated before you on this stage. I offer my deepest gratitude to Ambassador Cooper for his words in honor of our graduates. The Anglo-American […]
ECIS 2013 – Berlin from Jon Zurfluh
At a session at International School of Prague as part of the Spring CEESA Conference. Discussion about the integration of technology and pushing the boundaries of our thinking on the topic. The SAMR model helps us to see the context of integration and the transformational aspects that we are all seeking:
The students in charge of this did a fabulous job!!
At our recent parent coffee, we discussed the important findings in the 2009 book by Bronson and Merryman entitled “NurtureShock.” Our focus was on the first chapter where we discussed the new research on praise and what, at least in North America, has been a trend to utilize indiscriminate praise to bolster self-esteem since the […]
Dear Parents, Last Friday’s tragic school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut has caused many to stop and think in the awful aftermath of this significant loss. As an educator, I feel an extra degree of sadness when confronted with the death of so many children. While we shoulder many tragedies through […]
AAS Guest: Chris Waddell from AAS Moscow on Vimeo.
I got an email this morning from a group of concerned students that had come across something interesting on Facebook. After watching the 30 minute video detailing the atrocities of a Ugandan rebel named Kony, a group of 7th graders were inspired to setup an email account (invisiblechildrenaas@gmail.com) and organize around this inspirational cause. Here […]
Kids are happy and showing up at our doorstep with a record number of smiles on this first day of the 2012-2013 school year. It’s a pleasure to greet and encourage everyone as they arrive and it was fun to hear about snippets of summer vacations. We then proceeded to the PTO meeting and greeted […]
Initial thoughts: The initial question posited to the conference panel that I’ve been asked to address: Information Technology in school – Does it improve learning? Gathered some resources to begin to address this question and related topics: https://www.evernote.com/pub/chinazurfluh/technologyitems The key issue associated with answering the question revolves first around how you define improving learning. […]