We Extended the Deadline for JISE Educators Award Nominations!
Each participating school may name up to three staff from their school – educators, administrators, or support staff – to receive this honor.
Browsing: Beijing
Penny For Your Thoughts? Accessing Mental Health in Beijing
Trying to seek mental help as a foreigner in China can be in itself almost impossible. Sure, there are a few groups that offer mental health support, and a few private counselors and therapists of sorts who work independently of hospitals, but what happens if, at any time, you might need a psychiatric assessment or accredited psychological support in a hospital setting?
JISE Educators Award: Showcasing The Best That Beijing Has to Offer
Each participating school may name up to three staff from their school – educators, administrators, or support staff – to receive this honor.
Girl Scouts: What You Need to Know
Girl scouts may be something familiar to many expats. I’ve never known much about girl scouts, all I knew was that they sold girl scout cookies. I only recently found out that they have a location in Beijing, curious, we decided to interview them about what they do and how the program works.
The Pizza Show: Beijing’s Newest Pizza Parlor
Located on B2 of well-known shopping mall Parkview Green, The Pizza Show is Beijing’s newest Neapolitan-style pizza shop, combining the speedy service of a fast food joint with fresh and handmade food.
Waste Not, Want Not: One Student Looks Back at Her Journey to Sustainability
Community is a flexible concept. For example, I belong to a community of people from different cultures, but who all care for the environment, and who refer to ourselves as environmentalists. Being an environmentalist is not what you say but what you do: it’s a kind of attitude that keeps us living for a certain lifestyle standard that will protect the environment. But just like the others in my community, I didn’t start off behaving, or even thinking, like one.
Explore Beijing’s Hutongs While Giving Back to the Children of China
From now until the end of the year, local tour group Newman Tours will donate all profit from downloads of their Beijing Hutong Audio Guides to Heart to Heart, an organization that provides corrective surgery for children with congenital heart disease across China.
Yes, You Can Get Seasonal Affective Disorder in Summer
What if I told you, and especially your child, are just as likely to be hit by a bout of SAD in summer as they are in winter?
In Case You Missed It… Top May 2020 School News
Beijing’s High School Seniors Return to Campus Beijing students are finally heading back to school!…
Throwback Thursday: When the AQI Hit 993
The term ‘airpocalypse’ first came into common usage in 2013 when measurement technology and a growing awareness of the negative health impacts of air pollution reached critical mass in the West and resulted in an explosion of interest in the topic.