John van der Sande

What is your ambition for appropriate education?
“For a lifetime I have been walking in education and here I have experienced many wonderful things. Currently education is under pressure, yet I expect that with everyone’s effort we can move toward a situation where all children can and do be who they are.”

What else can people know you from?
“In my career, I have conducted more than sixty Video Interaction Coaching (picture communication) and synchronous coaching programs. In VIB, the teacher and I analyze video recordings made in class. As a teacher, you have to have guts to go into such a coaching process, but it often yields useful new insights.”

Name a fun fact about yourself?
“I have green fingers, which I put to use in my vegetable garden with grape greenhouse. I can also often be found in and on the water during the summer months.”