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🌟 TIE's Best of 2025-26: Beyond English-Only 🌟

🤔 If multilingual learners are now the majority in many international schools, why do so many of our systems still treat their languages as a problem to be managed?

📖 Read this Best of 2025-26 article from Anita Louise Churchville and Ceci Gomez-Galvez about how international schools are being transformed by shifting demographics, and what it looks like to build a genuinely multilingual ecosystem where every teacher shares responsibility for every learner.

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The authors quote Allyn (2025) that "their greatest strength, multilingualism, an undeniable superpower, is instead treated as a liability." Where do you still see that happening in your school, even in well-intentioned practice?
The article closes with a reminder that "even the most incremental of changes can have a significant impact on MLL achievement and belonging." What is one small step your school could take this upcoming school year to make a real difference?

👇 Drop your thoughts below and join the conversation!

🔗 Revisit the full article: https://www.tieonline.com/article/7761/beyond-english-only

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Most of us know that the time between terms is valuable. But have you thought about how those weeks can actually set the foundation for your whole job search?

Phase One of TIE's job-seeking series is about using quieter periods to reflect, gather evidence, and get your tools in place before recruitment season picks up. It's a different way of thinking about preparation, and it makes a real difference when things accelerate later in the year.

Read it here: https://www.tieonline.com/article/7721/from-break-to-breakthrough-phase-one-of-your-job-search

❓ Do you use your time between school terms to think about your career path, or does that reflection tend to happen later in the year? What gets in the way of planning earlier?

🌟 TIE's Best of 2025-26: Multilingualism Is Not Support for Some; It Is Pedagogy for All 🌟

🤔 What would change in your classroom if you treated every student's home language as a resource for learning rather than a barrier to overcome?

📖 Read this Best of 2025-26 article from Natasha Sarah Vinales about how nearly 20 years as a language specialist led her to step out of a segregated EAL role and into the mainstream classroom, and what she discovered about what a truly multilingual learning environment looks and feels like for every student.

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Natasha writes that "translanguaging is not a strategy for support; it is a pedagogy for learning." How does that distinction sit with how multilingualism is currently approached in your school?
She describes the moment when "students who see themselves as monolingual begin experimenting with other languages, influenced by their multilingual peers." What conditions in your classroom or school make that kind of curiosity possible?

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🔗 Revisit the full article: https://www.tieonline.com/article/7944/multilingualism-is-not-support-for-some-it-is-pedagogy-for-all

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