Dear GlobalEd Readers,
It’s already the later part of January 2024 so I thought I’d take a look back to see who was reading GlobalEd Leadership posts since our inception in 2018. One of the benefits of writing blog posts is having people still finding posts useful several years later. In fact, the ten posts listed below generated the most traffic in 2023 yet they were written before 2023. It’s hard to figure out if people receive blog posts in their email, or through RSS feeds, or if they go to the website when searching for older posts.
First, Some Numbers:
Thus far, the GlobalEd Leadership website has posted 183 blogs. Our focus is on programs and ideas that help to alleviate poverty. Of course, educational innovations play a key role in reducing poverty. However, we also include blogs from non-governmental organizations and businesses that are doing good by partnering with government, nonprofits and social enterprises. We all know that schools alone cannot solve the many challenges that students bring to our doors. We’re part of a much greater ecosystem, so partnering with businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies is essential.
Our Readers:
We were averaging approximately 15,000 individuals visiting the website annually; however, in 2023 we had more than 17,000 unique readers. One third of readers are in the United States, followed by the UK, India, Philippines, and Canada rounding out our top five countries. Since 2018 there were 56 countries from which we had at least 1,000 unique visitors, which is pleasing to us as we try to provide (niche) content of interest to readers around the world.
Top Blogs:
So, we have tallied up the numbers from the last five years to see which blogs GlobalEd Leadership readers found most compelling:
1. Our most visited post was written by South African higher education professor (and former dean) Maureen Robinson in August 2020. The Multifaceted Challenges for South Africa’s Educators and Student Teaches During the Pandemic. It continues to get unique visitors daily.
2. School Culture: A Key Aspect of Positive and Successful Schools by Kent Peterson and (his son) Scott Peterson was written in 2021. Organizational culture is always a popular topic and Kent now an emeritus professor from the University of Wisconsin, Madison wrote some wonderful books on the topic of school culture.
3. The topic of working with children with special needs is always a popular one. University of San Diego Professor Maya Kalyanpur has written several popular blogs and one that remains popular is:
Understanding Learning Disability and Dyslexia in the Indian Educational Context
4. We have many readers from the Caribbean Islands. In June 2022 Lorraine Lydia Kavedza wrote this popular blog: Family Structure and Education: Spotlight on Single Mother Households in Trinidad and Tobago
5. In the last three years we started to include more blogs about social innovation. Nonprofit professional Alexandra Steinhaus wrote Six Key Characteristics of a Social Innovation, as told by Colombian Social Enterprises while she was working on a master’s degree in social innovation in the Kroc School at the University of San Diego
6. I’m not sure what search terms lead people to this blog by Kenyan educator Utheri Kanayo, but it continues to attract visitors to the site daily. Children in Freedom School: An Afrocentric Approach to Education
7. The topic of early childhood education remains popular. Steve Jacobsen wrote one of our first blogs in 2018–The Importance of Early Childhood Education in an Age of Global Disruption
8. The focus of this website has always been leadership so it’s no surprise that The Future of School Leadership written in February 2020 by Poorvaja Prakash remains popular
9. In 2021 Michael Amakyi from Cape Coast University in Ghana wrote the popular blog The Importance of School Leader Preparation and Training to Develop Leadership Skills for Ghanaian Schools
10. And in 2019 psychologist Ann Garland’s blog continues to generate a lot of traffic:
Improving School Readiness in Ethiopia: The data and the lived experience And if you are interested in a career in mental health, check out her excellent new book: Pursuing a Career in Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professional published by Oxford University Press.
Thanks for reading!
Website curator