Gess Talks Features

Sustainability

Sustainability in Early Years: A Lifestyle, A Mindset

11 August 2025

When you hear the word sustainability, what comes to your mind? For me, it is reading a book that my brother once read, listening to my…

Leadership Strategy and Skills

Leading with Compassion: The Power of Self-Knowledge in Education

11 August 2025

In the journey of educational leadership, one of the most vital foundations is a deep understanding of oneself. Effective leaders in schools recognise…

Leadership Strategy and Skills

Rewiring Team Dynamics: What Leadership Really Means in 2025

11 August 2025

I recently worked with a senior team in a premium school that had slipped into unhelpful habits. Their meetings were efficient but shallow, and their…

Leadership Strategy and Skills

Embedding Leadership in the Curriculum: Why and How It Should Be Assessed

11 August 2025

Despite the growing consensus that leadership is a critical life skill, most schools still treat it as peripheral, offered through extracurricular…

Opportunities in the GCC: Market Intelligence for Education Suppliers

05 August 2025

Join us on Wednesday 13th August! With 1,785 international schools educating 1.8 million students and generating over $14 billion in annual fee…

Edtech Future Learning & Trends

PLAY TO LEARN, LEARN TO CHANGE THE WORLD

31 July 2025

PLAY TO LEARN LEARN TO CHANGE THE WORLD In an era shaped by social media, smart technologies, and a hyper-connected digital world, education…

Edtech Future Learning & Trends

From Players to Architects: Redefining Learning Through Game Design and

31 July 2025

The unprecedented strides of artificial intelligence demand a fundamental rethink of education delivery. While the traditional "chalk and talk"…

Edtech Future Learning & Trends

Game On! How Gaming Boosts Learning (And How to Do It Right)

31 July 2025

Press Start to Learn Imagine a classroom where students eagerly solve math problems to earn rewards in Mangahigh, compete in live quizzes on Quizizz,…

Edtech

From Counting Minutes to Hooray: My Secret Recipe to a Gamified Classroom

31 July 2025

I've always wondered why we love to play games in class. Beyond the obvious fun, engagement, and memorability, there's another crucial reason. Since…

VR, AI and AR

Play to Learn? A Critical Look at Gaming, Brain Development, and Education

08 July 2025

From Chess to Console: A Brief History of Games in Learning Long before screens lit up classrooms, games like chess and Go were quietly shaping young…

VR, AI and AR

Gaming in Education: A Revolution in the Classroom

08 July 2025

When we think of gaming, many of us imagine teenagers immersed in fast-paced action or fantastical worlds, controllers in hand. But what if I told you…

VR, AI and AR Wellbeing

The Power of Play: AI and Gamification in the Future of STEM Education

08 July 2025

STEM education methods are undergoing a radical transformation, moving beyond traditional rote learning methods to interactive learning methods that…