For those of us
who have lived it.

International education looks different from inside the classroom.

There are those of us balancing curricula that don’t quite align. Working across two or three languages. Navigating expectations from families, school owners, accrediting bodies and governments that don’t always point in the same direction.

There are those of us building lives far from home, while trying to give our students a sense of stability and belonging.

And there are the everyday things that rarely make it into a school’s public story. The supplies teachers buy because the budget won’t cover them. The snacks kept for children who arrive hungry. The afternoons that run long because a student needs extra attention.

What do these experiences tell us?

Care matters. So do the conditions that make that care possible—or leave educators carrying more than their institutions provide. I want to think about both.

My work as a teacher and school leader has shaped the questions I bring to research: how institutions establish authority, whose knowledge counts, how expectations are negotiated, and how educational change becomes everyday practice. My current research in the UAE develops those questions through AI, institutional differences and professional judgment.

This website is a place to bring those conversations together. Sometimes I’ll begin with a paper. Sometimes with a memory from China, a question from practice, or something happening here in the UAE. The point is to open a question worth thinking about together.

Bring your perspective.

What is one tension in international education that people outside your setting often miss? What do you find yourself making work that the formal arrangements don’t account for?

Tell me what resonates. Challenge an assumption. Tell me what I’m missing.

Responses go to my email and are not published automatically. I’ll ask before quoting or sharing a contribution. This conversation is separate from any future formal research study.