Year: 2024

PeerSphere Peer Learning Community

We are excited to let you know that our school has become a member of PeerSphere, Asia’s largest Peer Learning Community for international schools. Imagine a job-a-like or teach meet that is continuous and someone else has organized everything for you!

There are over 60 communities to choose from and you can join as many as you like. Including 2 communities hosted by our very own Pearl Noh, Lee Mayes and Shannon Doake 🙌🏼.

Other benefits include:

  • Free access to peer coaching
  • In-person peer-to-peer events
  • Hybrid bilingual conferences for Teaching Assistants and Administrative Support personnel.

Action Required: To activate your personal account, please do the following as soon as possible:  

If you have any questions about PeerSphere, you can email the team there using help@peer-sphere.com

Happy Learning!

VIDEO REVIEW 2024/2025 EVENT CALL-OUT

Dear Teachers,
Video Review is back again this year with a new crew of enthusiastic videographers.
Our role is to film certain events at school for inclusion in the End of Year wrap Up. Sometimes (sparingly) we are available for bespoke edits for broadcast elsewhere.
At this stage of the year we gather all events proposed for filming. This list is then set and we ask that it not be added to as the year progresses. This is so we can manage the workload and properly plan for availability if videographers.
If you have an event that you truly believe needs sharing with the school community at the end of the year please add it to the link HERE.
To speak plainly (and apologies for casting aspersions early on!) please consider these requests in the context of the school community, not by department need or personal desires. The VR kids are often required to come in on weekends to film so we try to mitigate this as much as possible to preserve their free time, as well as always helping them to maintain a balanced school/home life.
Examples of the events we commonly film are sports tournaments (at NIS); Primary & Secondary Productions; Discover China (Secondary); Athletics Days etc. Please note that Video Review are not available for assemblies, save for CNY Assembly.
We will review the list once finished, confirm the events that made the cut, and gently let down those that don’t 😉. The link will expire next Friday the 13th Sept.
Thanks for your understanding and look forward to this year’s events!
Danny Griffith & the Video Review team

Seeking Presenters! EARCOS Teachers Conference 2025 – International School of Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia

The 2025 EARCOS Teachers Conference will be held at the International School of Kuala Lumpur from March 19-22

This year’s strands will include:

  • Physical Education/ Wellness/ Health
  • Visual Arts
  • Film
  • Design Technology
  • Robotics
  • Performing Arts
  • Technology
  • As well as General Education Topics

NIS is seeking up to two teacher presenters to represent our school and share their passion and innovative ideas for teaching in any of the above strands.

If you are interested in either presenting or attending and would like to know more, please drop by for a chat or send me an email.

This event last year was absolutely fantastic and I couldn’t recommend it more!

Poster Collective

Join the Poster Collective and turn your creative ideas into eye-catching designs that make an impact!

Who: Grade 8-12 students

Essential Skills: Caring, knowledgeable, cooperative, and interested in art and design

To join, contact us via email:

woohyunhwang@nanjing-school.com

insuneo@nanjing-school.com

 

Primary Student Council

  • Author By leijing
  • Publication date September 4, 2024
  • Categories: Staff

This is a friendly reminder, that the application deadline for  students who are interested in applying for Student Council, is Friday September 6th.

Thank you!

Facility Notice

  • Author By amyyang
  • Publication date September 4, 2024
  • Categories: Staff

Dear all,

Equipment Testing of Broadcasting System on this coming Wednesday (Sep 4th)  4:00pm~8:00pm. Please ignore the broadcasting, bell during the period.

Thanks for your understanding.

Facility Team

JEDI Reading List

  • Author By irynaklyuk
  • Publication date September 3, 2024
  • Categories: Staff

Dear Colleagues!

We’re excited to share a selection of books that align with our commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This reading list is filled with insightful and inspiring reads designed to foster personal growth and spark meaningful discussions.

  1. Becoming a Totally Inclusive School by Angeline Aow, Sadie Hollins, Stephen Whitehead
  2. Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School by Danau Tanu
  3. The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change by Michelle MiJung Kim
  4. Reconstructing DEI: A Practitioner’s Workbook by Lily Zheng
  5. Developing Cultural Humility: Embracing Race, Privilege, and Power by Miguel E Gallardo
  6. The Identity Conscious Educator by Liza A. Talusan- Learn powerful, practical strategies for creating an inclusive school community that honors the different identities.