Entries by Martina

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What do parents say about School Beyond Limitations?

School Beyond Limitations offers a different learning approach. It is the first international online school that takes each student to their personal destination by including all aspects that are relevant in the learning process: emotional, social, academic, entrepreneurial and – last but not least – individual differences. Parents who trust the process and support our […]

Transformative Education: Collaboration is Key

Collaboration is one of those words which is employed regularly in organisations without much thought given to its true meaning. This is not the case at SBL. It was during an SBL teacher training session that I had a “lightbulb” moment about what true collaboration really means. It is not simply a willingness to network […]

The power of journaling

At School Beyond Limitations we nourish all aspects of being a human: The spiritual, the emotional, the physical, the intellectual and the social side of who we are. With regards to the spiritual, the emotional, and the intellectual side we encourage our students and ourselves to journal in school and beyond on a daily basis. […]

Being a parent in today’s society

School Beyond Limitations is constantly working on the forefront of today’s educational challenges. We understand that it is crucial to work closely as a team considering the complexity of the educational process. Yesterday evening we had another interesting parent evening with School Beyond Limitations’ psychologist, Dr. Giovanna Fungi, on the topic of ‘Being a parent […]

SBL Agreements – Why they are Important

Our aim by having Agreements with our students at SBL is to develop an understanding in our students that, by designing a set of agreements together, the agreements are internally motivated and not ‘school’ or facilitator driven – we want our students to understand that Agreements are each student’s personal responsibility to their community and […]

At SBL practicing sports is a lifestyle

Sport at Online Schools? At SBL it’s a lifestyle Have you ever thought about how to practice sports in an online school? School Beyond Limitations is a holistic school that nourishes the wellbeing of the entire human being. One important part of this wellbeing is also the physical wellbeing. How can we achieve physical wellbeing […]

Important skills students alway need

Although I have written about the essential skills that SBL teaches our students in the past, it is certainly worth re-emphasising these on a regular basis as they are such a core component of what we achieve at SBL with our students. As SBL facilitators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real […]

How does it feel like to be heard and understood?

In a recent School Beyond Limitations staff meeting at the start of the academic year, the following question was posed to the team: “What does it feel like to be heard?” Responses came in thick and fast with many facilitators using the words “to be seen”, “to not be judged” or “to be understood”. At […]

Is ChatGPT a Threat – Or Is It Just Another Tool at SBL?

When ChatGPT launched I shared my concern about Artificial Intelligence taking over the beauty of writing in a school environment with several of my colleagues that are involved in Education Management and Leadership around the world. Interestingly, their responses were all the same – they were not concerned that ChatGPT would be a threat to […]