Bangkok
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I originally wrote this article in August, 2019. This is an interview of Mr. Stephen Ladas, one of my personal & professional mentors. Mr. Ladas is the headmaster of a school called the International Community School Bangkok (ICS). ICS is a K-12, private, not-for-profit international school. The key questions (numbered 1-9 below) highlight different challenges
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Assessing how ICS is doing in reference to the 2016-17 School Improvement Indicators document, there are two performance indicators which are essential aspects for school improvement. 1) “The principal encourages, welcomes and employs feedback from staff members, students and families” and 2) “School administrators are visible in the school and model quality interactions with staff…
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Life Raft International is an organization that empowers people to help refugees in Bangkok, Thailand (Life Raft, 2018). Life Raft started in 2011 and has had the privilege of lending a helping hand to hundreds of refugees in Bangkok. They use a multi-faceted approach to serving refugees through advocacy, education, and financial support.
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The Senior Capstone Service Project (CSP) is influenced by the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations, 2018b). Students work on their CSP throughout high school, culminating in their final semester at ICS.
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The 40 hour famine Backpack Challenge consisted of students spending 40 hours living out of their backpacks. Students were only permitted to use, eat, and wear whatever they could fit in their school backpacks.
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The biggest contributing factor to refugee education fracturing in Bangkok is the fear of detention in the Immigration Detention Center (IDC). The IDC is a prison for illegal immigrants who are arrested with expired visas in Thailand. The IDC was designed to hold prisoners for 15 days, but it has held some prisoners for as…
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This city has contributed to something I call “refugee education fracturing”. Just like a bone fracture, education fracturing is painful. It is the breaking of the educational progress of refugees.
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In July of 2016, when my wife and I were about to leave everything that we knew behind and move to Thailand, we were not ready. But we were about to Merge into an awesome adventure. And writing this five years later, I am so glad that we did!
Josiah Marr Consulting 