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🌟 TIE's Best of 2025-26: The Four Components of Community Engagement 🌟

🤔 What does it actually look like to teach students to engage with their communities in ways that go beyond a one-time project or a feel-good photo opportunity?

📖 Read this Best of 2025-26 article from Kathryn T. Berkman, Meredith Robinson, and Megan Vosk about the four learning objectives at the heart of the IB's shift to Community Engagement, with practical classroom examples showing what systems thinking, dialogue, reflection, and principled action look like in practice.

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The authors write that reflection is "a step teachers often skip because they are in a rush, but it is very important." How intentionally does your school build in time for students to pause and reflect during community engagement work, not just at the end?
The article highlights systems thinking as a foundation for meaningful community engagement. How comfortable are your students, and your colleagues, with analyzing root causes rather than jumping straight to solutions?

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🔗 Revisit the full article: https://www.tieonline.com/article/7884/the-four-components-of-community-engagement

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There's a shift that happens between thinking about your next move and actually beginning to pursue it.

Phase Two of our job-seeking series is about navigating that transition well.

It covers how to clarify what you're looking for, how to evaluate your job search tools and strategy, and how to make sure your LinkedIn profile and portfolio are working together to tell a consistent, compelling story to the schools you care about.

➡️ If you've done some reflection and you're ready to take action, this one is worth your time: https://www.tieonline.com/article/7820/from-vision-to-visibility-phase-two-of-your-job-search

❓ When you're evaluating a school, what do you look at beyond the website and marketing materials? What actually helps you get a real sense of the culture?