About this time every year, Freya (my daughter) and I create the Teaching and Learning Takeover promo. It is our small contribution to the excellent work of the TLT dynamic duo of David and Jen. The Adobe Spark apps (Post, …
It seems that I keep stumbling upon All Black Culture. Te tīmatanga o te matauranga ko te wahangū, te wāhanga tuarua ko te whakarongo. The first stage of learning is silence, the second stage is listening.
On a number of occasions I have shared assembly gems. Precious stories and fables that I stumble upon listening to various podcasts and reading RSS feeds. This week – I met Swen. I say met, I was introduced to the …
Three tips to save us all time. One powerful tool and two shortcuts. Today I leant that Microsoft Garage Project “Dictate” has been released. It is a basic but accurately speech-to-text add-in that works across most Microsoft Office suite. The …
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella
The documentary following 10 strangers at turning points in their lives, brought together to take over La Banditaccia, an Italian farm in the foothills of Mount Amiata. Their story is interweaved with morsels of local reflection most notably from father Gianni. …
Leading is like working on a puzzle without the cover.
Leading is rarely stable, nor should it be. The organisation is in constant flux. You have to play the cards you have, not the ones you wish you did. Hence the leadershp quote struck a cord.
I am working through Creating Cultures of Thinking and nearing the end of Ron Ritchharts book and I am aware of the minimal conversation surrounding the use of summative assessment. Afterall making thinking visible is formative by its very nature. …
