Connections around the world

I recently had the great privilege of interacting with a group of young women in a school in Nigeria. This was part of the Inspire a Child event with Flip Learn Kids, (@fliplearnkids). The event brought a wide range of speakers involved and interested in education: I had the distinct pleasure of speaking alongside Olawunmi …

Bring on 2019!!

New Year, New Possibilities! I would never have thought this time, last year, that I would be where I am today. In January, 2018, I was working away as an employee with Sumdog. We were working to extend the sales per district and I was designing the curricular documents to evidence the coverage we properly …

Connected Educator Appreciation Day, all wrapped up.

Connections, they are probably one of the strongest forces for change in a community or career: knowing someone who does something differently and has had great success with it is a strong catalyst for you to try it. Word of mouth from a friend or colleague can resonate more strongly that research alone, when referring …

When the practice is done

Have a look at this image.  It’s a pretty standard worksheet, no bells or whistles, just practice of arithmetic*. What I would like you to think about is what you do with it. Of course, you mark it as it has been marked, or something similar, and probably record the results. Maybe you don’t mark …

Edchange Global

Join me at https://www.edchangeglobal.com/ for a celebration of Global Change in Education. Choose from a vast array of presentations – including mine, which discusses the need for building relationships before reporting on learning progress. The link to my presentation is https://edchangeglobal.sched.com/event/03af2a497d47eea4bcd1b3493fae8921 and you can access resources to it in the previous blog post. I hope …

Developing community before writing reports

How often have you made it through the year to the parent-teacher-learner conference and are meeting a parent for the first time? I am guilty of this in the past, but think the approach in the video below has supported change in this area. I have a video as a walk through and the initial …