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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.
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#Twins. Exactly 12 years ago on my birthday (living in Hong Kong), I gave birth to Victoria. ♥️ Best birthday gift ever. 🥰 #AwesomeDay #Geminis
#YearOfTheOx Thank you, Sweetie.
Check out my #PsychToday post. Link in bio. #Cheating is a serious issue. Please #share #repost.
KEY POINTS:
✏️ Authentic assessment is the bedrock of instructional practice, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to achieve during the pandemic.
✏️ Some students have taken advantage of their remote setting to cheat on assessments.
✏️ Learning gaps are becoming more pronounced rather than diminished, and underprepared and undereducated students are progressing grade levels.
From #CentralPark to past #TheGuggenheim. Love you! (This son lets me post us 😂) Sending #GoodVibes from #NYC. 😎
Just finished #EmpireofPain. Meticulous investigating, hypnotizing storytelling. US underbelly dissected. Bravo 👏 thank you. #NationalTreasure @praddenkeefe #DoesntGetBetterThanThis #MustRead
#roadtrip #baseballmom
Love you! (To my son who doesn’t want to be posted or mentioned 😂 #respect)
15 months of quarantine, off SM for a bit, anxious to get out, finally did. 😅 #muchneededvacation
Happy Easter 🐣
Photo says everything about each of them. 😂
Missing family and friends in Japan - photo from Easter 5 years ago in Osaka. Big huge hugs 🤗 to all.
Good reminder, for me too. 💪
Thank you for the opportunity to be interviewed @thetruthprescriptionpodcast!
I changed my profile photo to be a bit more joyous and celebratory. 🤩It’s spring 🌸, many are getting vaccinated, and I want to spread some hope.🤞
Much of my optimism lately comes from #Genz — especially of late, they have been educating me on all the ills we have created that they are passionately righting.
This photo is from my launch of World Class 📚in the late summer of 2019. Thank you @luiszepedaphoto! @marcyblum !!! ♥️
I finished my manuscript 📑 for World Class in September of 2018 and after a few rounds of edits and recording the audiobook 🎙, it was released in late summer of 2019. The paperback was released in late 2020. It was a full 3-year project to research and write. That’s not including the 4 years prior during which I was ruminating and writing 2 previous drafts that I proudly trashed. 😅 #perseverance 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you to each and every person who made #worldclassbook a success. I am forever indebted. ♥️
Big faces. 😂 Big smiles? I’ll take it. 😅 Happy sunny Sunday from NYC.🍎
Desperately turning the page on this past year. (And more helpful education news 🗞 coming this week! ☺️)
Hiding out in the Asian Art Galleries 🎑 at The Met. Bliss. 😌 #escape #peace
Having been an Asian Studies major, it brings me back (26 years 😅) but also reminds me that while so much has changed, we have not — even through this past year🎢. Meaning, the themes of joy and hardship depicted in these masterpieces —spanning over 600 years — are pervasive throughout history.🦕
Man’s living in harmony✌️with and then destructing and falling victim to nature. 🏔 Women breaking free from their traditional and expected gender roles. ⚖️ Levity and personification in swinging monkeys 🐵 and actors portrayed as turtles 🐢 like tabloid gossip.
Please let’s be better at supporting the arts. 🙏 Art is a source of expression that helps each of us and our kids make sense of the world 🌎 and ourselves within it — especially important now. #therapeutic #humanity #culture
(PS... I’m not sleeping! Just reading about the latest installation. 😂 )
Me and my doggo celebrating blue skies and longer days in gorgeous NYC. ✌️ #turnthepage #goodvibes
(He’s 🐶smiling, modestly. Really! 😂)