Archive for May, 2012
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
This week I was in and out of classrooms and couldn't help but notice one group of highly engaged inquirers as they moved around the room looking at various exhibits and writing their wonderings on the topic of explorers. I spent 15 minutes hearing some wonderings and admiring some of the old ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Last week I was working with Dr George Otero on trying to navigate through the various theories of action that underpin our work at Elsternwick. What are the connections between relational learning framework, Data Wise inquiry cycles, instructional rounds observations on task predicting performance to name a few and Michael Fullan's work ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Last year I used my iphone whilst overseas to call and text home. Well you can imagine the bill (I had data roaming on for a little while). Once bitten we were determined not to have that again so this time we bought a phone in the US and a ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
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I was walking past some art work at school today and was so impressed with the quality of the pieces I felt I had to showcase them by putting them on my blog. We hear about creativity being a much need quality in the future well I' ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
I spent the day supporting my wife going through various tests to determine the cause of blood swelling up around her left knee. The orthopaedic surgeon who had previously operated on that knee was great and concluded it was a likely small muscle tear and not the knee - relief. ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Award-winning photographer Horst Faas dies http://t.co/EUirRygX #
At Harvard on day 2 of the Data Wise Implementation Course. Its been an engagaing day changing locations and learning strategies. #
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
One of the great privileges Penny and I had at Harvard was the allocation of a dedicated coach (Emma) who assisted us in the preparation of our presentation and helped us determine what the next level of work.
Prior to the presentation Emma organised 3 conference call meetings where we used ...
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Saturday, May 12th, 2012
Award-winning photographer Horst Faas dies http://t.co/EUirRygX
I recommend all adult readers to have a look at his work (follow the link) for it personifies the phrase "the horrors of war".
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
We are at the end of our time at Harvard having had our presentation both acknowledged by the facility and celebrated by our American colleagues.It felt gooood!
Our thinking was then sharpened over the remainder of the course to focus on the next level of work. Our goal to build teacher ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Earlier this month the Beachside Network of Schools Instructional Rounds group had its first 'Round". Thanks to the generous support of the teachers from Black Rock PS a group of principal class educators gathered to discuss instruction with a focus on differentiated Instruction. We also heard about a potential problem ...
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