14. Foundational Series, Part 7 - The Skinny: The inside scoop on what you might want to look (out) for in a school.

This episode is part of our Foundational Series. This is the first of two shows answering the guiding question of “The Nature of the Beast: What are international schools?”. We discuss the history of and different types of international schools...

We enjoyed and learned so much from our interview with Dave McMaster that we spoke with him a second time! For this second interview we were curious about Dave’s move from Asia to the Middle East. Dave was very up front to say that he could not generalize but he could speak to teaching and living in Bahrain. Dave shared stories including some things one should think about when applying to schools in the Middle East...

As international educators, like so many others, in a sense, we tend to write chapters to our life stories. These stories can be organized by countries, schools, travel, and, of course, the regular categories of relationships, family, children, aging, and so on.

We were fortunate to hear about the chapters written by our guest, Mark Lewis, who is his retiring in a couple of months. Mark also shared numerous valuable lessons he learned as an international educator...