When Learning Lands …
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been noticing that sometimes it takes a while for learning to land … Here are some examples in my own learning: Can you…
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…
Collaborative Learning Developing Reflection Feeding back to parents Learning Environment Teachers as Learners
From Classroom to Staffroom: Part 1
Have you considered how you transport learning from one context to another? It’s something we do implicitly, yet, the more explicit we make this process, the easier it is 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…
What’s trust got to do with it?
Stepping into Trevor MacKenzie’s classroom … I’m just wrapping up a 10-week trip to Canada, sipping on my final Canadian IPA, reflecting on what an epic trip this has been….
“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…
