Archive for the ‘Community’ Category
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Last night I was shown a clip of Australia's number 1 cyber bully, Tristan Barker. This story featured heavily in the New Zealand press where he is currently living with his father.
I suppose what brought this to home was that I coached this young person in a Saturday afternoon basketball ...
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Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Recent articles in the press (The Age), in Britain and in New York all point to community problems around the control and effects of drinking - particularly binge drinking.
Over the past 12 months we as a school council have attempted to look at our practices as a school in relation ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
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Last month my school community led by a dedicated group of parents came together to construct a school orchard.
This project has been in the planning phase for over 12 months as the committee rasied funds, involved some university students in the conceptual planing phase, gathered some parents who were ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012
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One of last week's walk-through foci was on classroom learning communities. These are some of the images I captured on the walk-through.
At the start of each school year we as a staff and teachers in all classrooms expect to build learning communities. We devote time each February for this and the ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Thanks to John Connell for this clip which I think has wider implications for all those working with our youth - not just parents with babies. I think this experiment along with a few others like the little Albert Experiment were banned some time ago.
In the process of getting to know ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
For the past few weeks we have been witnessing the most devastating floods in Australian history. The areas most affected are in Queensland and more recently in Victoria. The newspapers have been running special reports each day for the past 3 weeks and the TV news and current affairs programs have been recording various ...
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