How do you make well-being front and centre in your school community?
We’ve been exploring our “values” with our inner Advocacy team in Learning Pioneers, and, importantly, how we live those values. It can be so easy to pay “lip service” to…
Can exhibition amplify Learning Power?
I’ve recently had the privilege of visiting Silicon Valley International School (INTL)- A surprise visit that manifested because of the amazing opportunities for connection created at the recent Kaleidoscope of…
“You don’t learn from experience, you learn from reflecting on experience.”
Mara Krechevsky, Pedagogy of Play, Project Zero (or maybe John Dewey!) Oh, the joys! We have just had a run of incredible “live” events in PressPlay and Learning Pioneers, including…
How can we cultivate curiosity in our classrooms?
Which learning disposition do you think is the most important to cultivate in learners? As a Learning Power practitioner, this feels like a pretty key question to ask. Ideally, through a…
Fill your educational cup – Start with “why”
Start with “why” Simon Sinek’s TedTalk, “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” explores how we buy into an idea, a company, a movement because of the purpose (or the “why”) behind…
The Impossible Lesson
It’s an ‘impossible lesson’ in De Voorde school, a Building Learning Power school in Drachten, The Netherlands. The children are meeting from various classes for their once a week lesson…
Explorations in “Learnish”
I love this moment – When thinking merges, expands, comes together, overlaps – In the Learning Pioneers and PressPlay communities and Masterminds, we have been exploring powerful “Learnish” – A…
How might maths and Art link?
In our collective exploration of STEM and play and wonderings in our Learning Pioneers STEM/Play Quest we have been exploring all sorts of ideas and possibilities, including: How can we…
Learnings from Lockdown
Many of us are remote learning at the moment. If we’re not, we may well be in the future. This strikes me as a good time to distil our learnings…
