Summer 2021, Vol. 8
Muriel Stallworth Reflects on 16 Years of Leading the PYP at ISB
At the end of this school year, PYP Coordinator and French Visual Arts Teacher Muriel Stallworth will be stepping down from her role as PYP Coordinator after sixteen years of leading the growth of ISB’s Primary Years Programme. As a founding board member and educational director of ISB, Muriel developed ISB’s Primary Years Programme and initial educational framework, and helped to build a strong foundation for our students in their early years of education, when they are discovering who they are as learners and finding out how to investigate their world. While this was Muriel’s final school year as ISB’s PYP Coordinator, we are very pleased that Muriel will be continuing her work as a passionate IB educator as the Visual Arts Teacher for our younger grades on the French track.
Dear ISB Community, With classrooms packed up and the summer break upon us, I can’t help but express my appreciation of being able to lead this work for the past sixteen years. It has been such a daily pleasure to work with so many talented teachers, coming from all over the world and from whom I learned so much! During our annual end-of-year review of the Primary Years Programme of inquiry, while engaging my fellow ISB educators in the examination of how our school’s units might stay relevant in the world we live in, I thought about how rewarding it is to do this work together as a faculty. Brainstorming together, we shared many new ideas about the interrelated systems that are embedded in our units.