JIS Topics
A blogspot for parents, teachers and administrators to commune on the Jakarta International School. How can we make the school better? What role do each of us play in creating a true learning community? What should inform our opinions? This is a place to discuss our school....
About Me
- Name: Cheryl van Tilburg
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
Before moving to Jakarta, I taught English literature and composition at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. I received a BA in English from the University of Michigan, then went on to get a masters degree in international management (Thunderbird), and another masters in teaching (National-Louis University). My husband says he'll divorce me if I go back to school (I believe he's joking...) -- but I think a person should always try to learn new things. That's why I started JIS Topics. But after three years, it became clear that JIS wasn't a good match for our children. (It will haunt me forever that it took three years to figure this out.) We packed our bags and left a country we loved in search of a better education for our kids. So now we're in Singapore, at the Singapore American School. It's not perfect, but we're doing what we can to help bring about improvement.
Great Education Websites
- Coalition of Essential Schools
- McRel Standards and Benchmarks
- Grant Wiggins' "Big Ideas"
- Harvard LearnWeb
- Links to Standards / Curriculum Frameworks in 50 US States
- Education Next - Journal of Opinion & Research
- Public Education Network (PEN) Newsblast
- JIS Homepage (w/link to ParentNet)
BlogRoll
- Eduwonk.com
- The Education Wonks
- D-ED Reckoning
- Edspresso
- The Education Gadfly
- This Week in Education
- NSBA's Board Buzz
- Kitchen Table Math
- A Shrewdness of Apes
Previous Posts
- Holiday hiatus
- Great Carnival of Education this week
- Edu-news roundup
- John Dewey wonders about calculators, too
- Trimming math topics to improve student performance
- What makes a great educational leader?
- How multiculturalism enriches schools
- Fuzzy math humor -- the calculator
- This isn't rocket science -- just hard work and sm...
- Quote of the day
Archives
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- Current Posts
The opinions and comments in this blog are those of the contributors, and not necessarily those of the JIS PTA. Thanks!