Useful Links for further reading

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Please find below a list of blog posts and PDFs that you may find useful as you deepen your understanding and practice of positive transitions-care:

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Further Reading by SPAN Members:

• Barron, J. & Mahoney, E. (2020): Surveying the Landscape: Common Practices, Challenges and Opportunities in International School Transitions-Care: https://globallygrounded.com/transitions-care-research/

• Ota, D.W. (2014). Safe Passage: How mobility affects people & what international schools should do about it. Great Britain: Summertime Publishing.

• Blog posts on Transitions by Valérie Besanceney:

  • Top 10 ways to help your staying students 

  • Top 10 ways to help new students transition at your international school 

  • Top 10 ways to help your students say goodbye 

 

CIS (SPAN Supporting Member) related blogs: 

• Five ways to embed transitions-care within and between schools

• Student mental health and well-being: Supporting students in transition from school to university

• You belong here. The scaffold of belonging is everybody’s business

• Transitions care when educators move between teams and schools

• Five ways to improve international student healthcare when they transition to university

• Unpacking well-being part one: the glittering gem

• Unpacking well-being part two: Driving change

• Unpacking well-being part 3: What did students teach me about well-being?

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Resources created for SPAN Events:

• A-Z Brochure by Leo Thompson (CIS School Support and Evaluation Officer) for SPAN Symposium October 2022

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