Listening in the Midst of Living
We devote time to what is important but who gets to decide what is important in a person’s life?
Are you Failing or Flailing?
Are you planning for success so that failure informs what you are doing? Failure happens but do you have a plan for using the failure to move toward success?
Let’s Try Re-Framing
The First Follower This is one of my favourite videos about leadership and being willing to take risks. Early in my career as a teacher, and then as an administrator, I often was so focused on my own agenda that I often missed out on helping others who were more talented that I was as particular…
Friday Resource Review – Pearltrees
Pearltrees is an online curation service that allows the user to store and share their own items, pictures, notes, writings and also collect and share items from the web. Pearltrees, the place to organize all your interests, has gathered more than 2,2 million contributors, over 3 million monthly active users and 70 million items. In 2012,…
Takeaways, Reminders and a Challenge
Dave Burgess – Teach Like a Pirate – speaking at SMYA What’s the best part of a Conference? Last week I attended and spoke at the SMYA conference. Dave Burgess – Teach Like a Pirate – was the keynote for the two day event. I was asked to do an introductory session on Leadership for Change Thursday morning and then do a…
Don’t Imitate – Innovate
What inspires you? Where do you find the inspiration to be creative? To be innovative? We can all be creative and innovative, it just takes a bit of effort.
I Failed But It Was Worth It
Failure is Important My run this morning wasn’t great. I laboured through it. My time was below my usual pace and I was struggling. I didn’t run as far as I usually run and my side hurt. It was a great run. Huh? How can that be? It was great because I ran. It all…
#saskedchat – September 10, 2015
Our chat this week centred around School Culture. Participants reflected on the importance of positive school culture on the learning and relationships of teachers, students and parents. Participants shared ideas and resources for building and shaping a positive school culture and the important role that students and parents play in developing a school culture. Check…
Small Changes – getting big results – #saskedchat Aug.27
Making change doesn’t have to be daunting if we look at small changes over time.
Classroom Design – #saskedchat August 13th, 2015
Our chat this week was focused on Classroom Design. Participants shared their ideas and insights about creating a learning environment which includes students’ input and adapts to students’ needs. Participants shared great resources and their experiences of making changes to the classroom that included getting rid of the teacher’s desk, adding standing desks, couches and…