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Brett Girven

Principal of The Arbor School

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Hilmarie Hutchison

About Brett Girven

Brett is the principal of The Arbor School, an ecological school with a focus on sustainability. He is a dad of 3 and his wife also works as a principal. In March he the Ironman 70.3 in Dubai.

About this Episode

In this episode, Brett shares his experiences being a principal of the Arbor School and how he balances his work with his personal life. He also shares more details about the school’s GCSE Programme.

Tune in for an inspiring conversation.

 

“I saw the connection between humans’ influence on the environment and how difficult it was to separate the two.”

Brett Girven

“Great teachers are precious.”

 

– Brett Girven

Show highlights

“Once they connect with nature, they care for nature, once they care and they connect, how can they be curious and ask the right questions.”

Brett Girven

“Enjoy it. It’s too hard a job to not enjoy it. If you find yourself really not enjoying it, then you got to think about why you’re doing it.”

Brett Girven
We build sustainability into where we teach, into how we teach, into what we teach and being mindful all the time that we’re not teaching about disaster. - Brett Girven Click To Tweet

Useful Links

Website: https://www.thearborschool.ae/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArborDubai/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arbordubai/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArborSchoolDubai/featured

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