Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
I'm on holidays in Queensland this week for a break before the final term which is usually jammed packed full of tasks. Next week Sarah, the assistant principal, and I are presenting a research paper on our instructional leadership work of walkthroughs and using protocols to look at student work ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I have been watching the live feed from CERN on the worlds first Hadron Collider. The live set in the world's largest particle physics laboratory explains how this marvel of engineering works. I get that this is a significant moment in time for science with the possibility of creating black holes ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
At most weekly leadership meetings we agenda a discussion on a published research paper distributed and read prior to meeting and this week it was the 90/90/90 Schools: A Case Study article. The article written by two journalists was based on research of some schools in lower socio-economic communities in America that are ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Anyway after the Fathers day movie my son Mitchell and I were at basketball training with the Melbourne Tigers Junior Club and a well known coach was watching me work on Mitchell's shooting technique. There are three courts open to everyone to view. He came over and offered some advice which he noted ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
This Fathers Day I was spoilt with a cooked breakfast, a lazy morning watching a not so old movie and midday basketball training. The not so old movie was Freedom Writers staring Hilary Swank. For those of you not familiar with this true story its about a teacher who doesn't give up ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Last weekend I went skiing with my kids [the first two in the picture] at Mt Buller. Skiing is one of those sports that you can do together and all weekend I kept on wanting to pinch myself saying "how good is this?" Whether is was schussing down a slope, riding a chairlift or ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Readers of my blog will know that we have Michaal Ymer, an educator with a focus on maths, coaching teachers in classrooms. Michael early on in his work with us presented three main messages:
students need maths materials to manipulate so that they get a better understanding of concepts - less abstract.
maths ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I was watching the Da Vinci Code movie the other night and got to pondering was the holy grail that so many knights had fought to find and in some cases protect, in fact Mary Magdalene's sepulchre as the Dan Brown's book suggested.
In the movie it's the paintings of Leonardo Da ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Thanks to John Connells work I have found a great blog for the art lovers by Phillip Scott Johnson. Women in art featues 500 famous paintings which have all been listed.
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