Building Bridges between Teachers and Students through Feedback
Feedback can invite and interrupt students, allowing them to consider new directions. But in busy classrooms, teachers often carry the burden alone, spending time and energy sending messages that might never be received. No Borders Learning supports schools and universities in examining existing feedback practices and co-create space for genuine feedback dialogues that centre relationality.
Workshops and Online Courses for Teachers
Creative Consulting and Coaching for Educational Leaders
Resources and Publications for Everyone!
Sam Passeport
Founder & Director of Education
With 15+ years of experience in teaching in International Schools, and designing educational projects in Higher Education, my constant obsession remains… feedback!
Through No Borders Learning, I want to propose new ways to look at feedback practices, moving away from the focus on effectiveness and affective encounters.
Let’s create genuine feedback dialogues together!
Your Relational Coach
15+
Years in Education
1000+
Hours of Coaching
8+
Years in Leadership
20+
Publications
I’ve Facilitated Sessions With…
For Teachers
Workshops
During our in-person workshops, we dive deep into themes of interest and explore both theory and practice using arts-based methods that honour plural ways of knowledge production (not just the ones located in the head).
Online Courses
In order to work across the world and promote access to a wide range of educational institutions, we provide online courses on feedback focused on relational pedagogies that can find their space across contexts.
For Educational Leaders
Creative Consulting
We provide leadership teams with creative consulting by focusing their attention on relationality, through a co-creative process.
Coaching
We provide leaders with one-on-one coaching (i.e. listening and inquiring processes) to support their needs to see, sense, and transform their system.
What People Say
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Through Sam’s leadership, new doors opened up for my professional development, I personally saw new beginnings and became an EdTech Mentor and a member of the school’s Coaching Team.
Teresa Rodriguez-B.
Spanish Teacher and EdTech Coach at Mahindra International School, India
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Sam is a thoughtful, well-planned, informed and extremely proactive person. She can bring empathetic guidance to individuals and teams. She is a problem-solver and adept at understanding the needs of a community and the 'just-right' approach to helping them move forward.
Eileen Niedermann
Director of International School of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Sam’s Coaching for Inclusion class brought a very important element to the coaching cycle: humanity. It was refreshing and so inviting to learn that the most important aspect of being a coach for inclusion is human connectedness.
Sam Han
Seoul Foreign School, South Korea
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In my experience working with Sam, she consistently demonstrated a keen ability to break down complex issues, identify root causes, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop practical, actionable solutions. She is easy to approach, allowing to have difficult conversations while maintaining a positive, constructive atmosphere.
Gretchen Aguilar
Learning Support Specialist, International Christian School, Hong Kong
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A forward-thinking change maker, Sam engages faculty with a clear focus on promoting a thriving and healthy school. I highly recommend Sam as a consultant who can facilitate in caring and effective professional learning and coaching.
Lee-Ann Jung, PhD
Consultant and Founder of Lead Inclusion
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Sam's coaching sessions were highly engaging and effective. Sam used creative techniques to foster open dialogue and collaboration within our adult team. The strategies shared were immediately applicable to our ongoing coaching journey, and they provided us with valuable insights into the coaching theory and other practical tools.
Rafael Jimenez
Learning Support Specialist, Seoul Foreign School, South Korea
Resources
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Sonic Landscape
A sonic landscape tool allows educators to listen to undergraduate students’ experiences of receiving teacher feedback, and understand what it means to encounter the ‘power’ of teacher feedback.
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Miss-Take Stations
Students’ ‘missed takes’ tell us a lot about misconceptions, misunderstandings, or errors that need correcting. The ‘miss-take’ stations act as a dialogic way to review concepts through deconstructing errors.
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Feedback Heartbeat
This educational design tool allows teachers to design their feedback line for a unit/course by selecting feedback tools intentionally in order to ensure that there are dialogues and a landing place for feedback.
Publications
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Embracing Relational Pedagogies
Explore the transformative power of feedback through relational pedagogies, decolonization, and artful teaching.
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Fluid Grading: Enacting Practical Wisdom
Uncover a radically different way to approach grading through the lens of critical theory.
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Design for Inclusion Project
This blog describes a project connecting real accessibility challenges to a Design Thinking course for Master's students.
Ready to work together?
At No Borders Learning, we’re passionate about co-creating with educators through a relationship-rich approach to not only achieve our goals but to do so with fun!
Get in touch to explore how our workshops, courses, coaching, or consulting can transform your educational practices!