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Do You Need a College Degree to Be Successful?

It seems these days you can’t enter a conversation without someone mentioning how a person left college to start their own business and are now on their track to becoming a billionaire. Of course, many of those dropout billionaires don’t fulfill on the promise as suggested by their innovative bu

Written by Maggie McGrane October 1, 2020October 5, 2020

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Your Guide for Moving Internationally

Moving is never easy, and it can be especially challenging if you’re planning an international move. You not only need to plan all the details, but you must also monitor that everything goes according to plan. With that in mind, here is a 5-step roadmap that will guide you on how to take the right

Written by Maggie McGrane September 29, 2020October 2, 2020

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A Virtual Learning Action Plan for School Leaders

After months of lockdown and doing very little, I’ve had a busy few weeks recently. I’ve led 4 IB workshops at schools around Europe as well as several online on-demand workshops. These on-demands are new: as many workshops leaders cannot travel to schools to lead face to face workshops,

Written by Maggie McGrane September 22, 2020September 22, 2020

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The Top 5 Benefits of Local SEO Marketing

If you have a brick-and-mortar business, local SEO is very important to bring customers your way. Google uses local ranking factors to send customers to your doors if you’re situated close to them.  If you don’t take advantage of local SEO, you’re limited to competing online with large co

Written by Maggie McGrane July 19, 2020July 21, 2020

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Why Clean Air is Vital for You and Your Family

The problem with air pollution is that it is often invisible to the naked eye, meaning that you’re inhaling it without realizing it’s there. Once the harmful toxins in the air enter your body, they can wreak havoc at will. While some of them may not do much harm, others could be deadly. You’ve

Written by Maggie McGrane July 1, 2020July 3, 2020

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What’s New and Different: The PYP Exhibition

This is my final post about what is new and different in the Enhanced PYP. Moving on from this I am going to start a series of posts about the areas of the PYP that are seeing a deeper focus and guidance in the Enhancements such as learning environments, a community of learners, inquiry, concept-bas

Written by Maggie McGrane June 11, 2020June 11, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Assessment in the PYP

This is almost my final post about what is truly new and different in the Enhanced PYP.  I still want to do a post about the Exhibition, and beyond that will start to explore the areas of the Enhancements that are more of a deeper focus or where there is more guidance.  This post is

Written by Maggie McGrane June 9, 2020June 9, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Learner Agency in the PYP

Until a couple of years ago I’d never used the word agency, and it took a bit of getting used to.  This was definitely a new word in my PYP vocabulary, but I used it all the time now, so let’s first think about what it means.  According to the section on Learner Agency in 

Written by Maggie McGrane June 8, 2020June 8, 2020

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What’s New and Different: Action in the PYP

I started this series of posts at the beginning of this year.  I think one of my motivations to do this was that when I visit schools or conduct workshops I’m often asked about what is new in the Enhanced PYP, and I wanted to have a clear idea in my own mind about what

Written by Maggie McGrane June 7, 2020June 7, 2020

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Dealing with difficult times

I’ve been designing a series of learning experiences for the Toddle Community and these have included sets of PSPE experiences for students around how best to deal with difficult emotions and feelings during the time of COVID-19.  With schools around the world closed, students have had to

Written by Maggie McGrane May 25, 2020August 7, 2020

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Designing engaging and rigorous learning experiences

Yesterday I led an online workshop for Toddle at the Inquiry Educators Summit (TIES).  It was amazing, even though there was a Zoom outage in the UK and eastern USA during the time of my presentation.  Thanks to the amazing support in India, I was still able to deliver my presentation R

Written by Maggie McGrane May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

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Lockdown: 5 Small Daily Goals

I’ve been at home for 7 weeks now.  For me this is a very unusual experience.  Last year, for example, I travelled overseas for 24 different jobs, doing workshops, consulting with schools and visiting schools to evaluate or authorise them for the IB.  Of course schools around th

Written by Maggie McGrane May 12, 2020May 12, 2020

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