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World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children
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For parents, teachers, students, and legislators at schools, clubs, organizations, corporations, and conferences.
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To empower parents, students, and schools in their global commitment
Book NowAn Amazon Best-Seller! An eye-opening firsthand exploration of why Asian students are outpacing their American counterparts, and how to help our children excel in today’s competitive world.
Recorded a while back but just released. Thank you @mimosaswithmoms 🥂 for allowing me to use your incredible platform to give a much deserved shoutout to our teachers! 👇 LINK IN BIO to listen to the full episode! 🎙
It is time to support and applaud our teachers. 👏🏽 Especially now. They have been thrust into an unimaginable, daunting, and even untenable role that requires flexibility, meeting demands of students and their families, learning new skills, and supporting both the academics and emotional needs of student.
On-line learning is revealing the true value of our teachers! Our kids receive a robust education at school which, as it turns out, requires an incredible amount of work to replicate at home. 💪🏽
On a profound level, what sustains our schools are its teachers. Nothing is more important in our school buildings than our teachers. 🍎
🎙Listen to my podcast with @mimosaswithmoms where we talk about encouraging and supporting the best and the brightest into what should be one of our most respectable professions. #thankyouteachers LINK IN BIO!
Us? First week down. How many to go? No one knows. But we are setting up some type of new normal. Most we can ask for.
Amidst the squabbles and 24/7 news coverage were walks in the park, pushing our dining table to the window to create workout space, watching a webinar during dinner (food is East meets West🥢&🍴like me and my kids), showering (and vacuuming 😂) our beloved Hanna 🐶, dinner prepared by our new (underage labor) personal chefs 👩🏻🍳 SWIPE to the final video for the reality of our kitchen operation... thank you @tiktok 😈 🧂!!
Sobering and humbling times for which we find ourselves wholly unprepared, at all levels.
*We have this unprecedented (but likely necessary) opportunity to help all in need, build community, learn, take stock, and reassess what’s important. Best lesson. *
Please share your #QualityQuarantine and tag @teruproductions!
Sending love.
Dance it off! 🕺🏻💃Do something everyday that makes you laugh and allows you to forget the outside world for just a moment.
I am offering 2 #qualityquarantine ideas daily on my @teruproductions account! Follow along and send me photos and videos of what you are doing at home with your kids. On Twitter as well @qualquarantine ! 🐦
And not to worry. @justjettingjen and @pmtthedancer still have something in the works 👯♀️ 🐣 🤫
My new @psych_today article is up! LINK IN BIO! 👆📰 We all face unique challenges during this uncertain time. So let’s share, support and offer advice as much as we can. Here is my list of #essentials for parents #qualityquarantine 🤜🏼🤛🏽
I had the privilege of viewing the Gerhardt Richter show at the @metbreuer on Tuesday evening before the Thursday shut down.
In the next few months, our arts will be hurting. Going dark, payroll shortages... Organizations may shutter. Let’s please work together to support our creatives who contribute to society in sometimes silent but most impactful ways. Walking by architectural marvels, the music that makes you consider life differently, the painting that bears an artist’s soul, those life-altering words, that dance that leaves you tearful, the play that renders you dizzy... many of our independent creatives who contribute invaluably to our daily happiness have no safety nets.
Let’s use this time to support and promote the art that inspires us. Today, I am shouting out dear friends @zamora_camille of @singforhope and @tanyabpiano of @concert_artists_guild. Share your shoutout in the comments and in your own posts!
Nets crush the Spurs. 🏀Courtside, Baby! Thank you @Hiroko for the most amusing night listening to you cheer on the boys like they were your own. #proudfan 👏👏
STOP THE PRESSES! 🎉 Today’s book launch of the creative genius and tried-and-true artist, writer, mind and friend @brian.platzer. THE BODY POLITIC.
Thank you for writing a book where the characters are grappling with the complex and messy realities of TODAY... illness, politics, identity, relationships. We are all in The Body Politic — it’s the most authentic portrayal of our time. My book pick to expand your mind.
Topic: How to break down education reforms into the macro (issues that may take a generation to change) and then the micro (those that which parents and teachers can implement immediately). All actionable. In our current climate, it’s imperative we remember our children.
On a personal note, when I saw this photo, I thought, “Speaking about #WorldClassBook can apparently look a lot like voguing?” 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Unintentional over-gesticulating... I really care.
For corporations, teachers and parents. DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) — invite me to speak to your schools, school fundraisers, parent gatherings, PTA meetings, professional development days, employee resource groups, libraries, bookstores, conferences, book clubs, and private clubs.
Heading to the beautiful @booksandbooks in Coral Gables this month 📚🌴 📚along with 15,000 attendees at #CIES2020 to present my findings in World Class to international comparative education researchers, experts and change makers. DM me for more details if you are in the area!
Thank you @perrot_library for hosting me.
I am often asked about my writing process... Here is a peak at the #BTS of writing #WorldClassBook 🔍😲 One of the countless white boards I covered while researching and planning! ✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻 #jkrowling is my organizational board hero! #authorinspiration
Celebrating @serenaburdick and her new critically acclaimed and bestselling book #TheGirlswithNoNames 📚
During one of my first writing conferences many years ago, a keynote speaker said, “There are no assholes in writing.” I have come to learn that this could not be more accurate. The most humble, hard-working, disciplined, intellectually curious, and creative minds I have been absolutely honored to meet. To be considered a writer is a privilege. 🎉📝#likeminds
Friday night Philharmonic. The iconic Pulitzer Prize winning composer @ellenreidmusic as part of @lincolncenter Project 19, celebrating 19 female composers. 🎶
Reid is a genius and ingeniously captured the chaotic zeitgeist we are all experiencing — transformative. Followed by @reneeflemingmusic singing Björk. A gorgeous program so well played for contemporary audiences. From Indiana to Reykjavík and Vienna, a true global collaboration spanning two centuries. And exciting to see such a young crowd. A foundation for creativity and engaging our youth in the arts. #brilliant
Feat. my San Pellegrino to make myself feel less strange about posing for a photo 😜 Real talk: I am still getting used to sharing my life on social media, but I’m usually joking around. So... here is me selling a ridiculously overpriced concessions item 😂. #sillyme at a serious place!
I love the opportunity to help #schoolfundraising efforts by donating a talk that is not only informative for parents and educators but community-building. Thank you for the opportunity Emily Grace and for the opportunity and rich Q&A.
Please invite me to your communities to speak. Understanding global education is an important aspect of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts while we learn how to rethink our own teaching and parenting practices 💭 🗺