Dear International Educator


	Live Chat Coming Soon to ISR Members
	We're in the final testing stages of integrating Live Chat into the ISR Members' Area. Join chats in progress or create private meeting rooms for private discussions. No additional registration is required and your ISR log in is not associated with the chat feature. Teachers keeping each other informed is about to take on a new dimension!

	Bill of Rights for International Educators - Download it in PDF
	The Bill of Rights for International Educators is now available for download. We feel schools adopting and displaying the Bill of Rights are the schools where we want to work. The logo, alone, is also available for download and can be added to recruiting advertisements placed in TIE and other publications to signify "We Support The Bill of Rights for International Educators". Look for the schools displaying it at recruiting fairs!

.	Teacher Shortage "Task Force" Declines to Adopt Bill of Rights
	We wrote members of the "Task Force" inviting them to endorse the International Teachers' Bill of Rights. We have yet to receive a reply to either of our emails. An endorsement of the Bill of Rights for teachers by this "Task Force" would have been the perfect way to introduce the document to hundreds of schools and directors. How would you distribute the document? Share your ideas with us. You can review the emails we sent to the "Task Force" here.


.	Some Kuwait/UAE Schools Reported Shortchanging Departing Staff
	A teacher reports his family arrived at the airport for their end-of-contract flight home and discovered the school had not paid for the return tickets they held in their hands. Another teacher was barred from leaving Kuwait until he paid off the business manager. We also heard from teachers who signed papers written in Arabic and represented as "standard exit" documents, which, in reality, striped them of their right to legal recourse, allowing their schools to withhold monies due and get away with it. go to article.


.	Dr. Spilchuk Lebanese School Successfully 'Blackballs' U.S. Teacher in U.S. School Districts
	I am writing you today after more than six months of sheer desperation, in a struggle to revive my career as an educator. What suggestions or possible legal recourse do you have for a teacher who has been unable to get a job in the U.S. due to blackballing? I read your articles on ISR, and while they are informative, I'm still stuck. go to article