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Preparing for the Technologies Curriculum

On 13-04-2016

We recently finished a month of running workshops around Australia on “Practical Steps to STEAM” and “You Can Teach Coding” and we learnt quite a few lessons that are worth considering as you prepare to implement the Technologies Curriculum. Lessons The future we are preparing our students for should not be based on the way […]

On 10-02-2016

Schools cannot develop effective learners if they don't develop meta-cognition. Where else will they learn how to learn if not at school?

On 03-02-2016

Every problem has a solution and there is a process one goes through to figure it out. This is what design thinking is all about and what Coding and STEAM aim to do within a school context.

On 20-01-2016

Good questions are only half of the equation, we must listen deeply as well so that we can put forth questions that push students to elaborate and clarify their thinking.

On 17-12-2015

In transitioning to the Australian Curriculum many schools created a simple policy to assist teachers in their reporting - that now undermines the opportunity for curriculum and pedagogical change within the schools

On 28-07-2015

“Change begins with a culture where everyone is elevated to the status of learner” Sarah Brown Wessling In the last blog I shared about the research that David Gurr and Lawrie Davidson from Melbourne University have been doing around successful leadership in Australian Schools. Since I wrote that piece I have been discussing their research (and […]

On 15-05-2015

Transformational and Instructional Leadership “Leadership only arises when people are given the opportunity to lead” This was the main insight I took away from a recent professional seminar I was involved in at the University of Melbourne. It was an important insight for me because it connected some thoughts and ideas that I had been […]

On 16-04-2015

Recently I wrote an article about the importance of failure in developing what Carol Dweck calls a growth mindset. Being able to see failure as a step to success is one of those perceptions or dispositions we could / should develop in ourselves as well as our students. The more we can be with the […]

On 13-03-2015

How much change has been occurring in your school of late? What is your experience of the change? If we asked those questions of teachers in your school what do you think their responses might indicate? Would they respond in a joyful and empowered way or perhaps respond “yep yet another change”? I suspect for […]

On 05-02-2015

I don’t know about you but the break over summer is always a time of reading and often a time of reflection. Whilst most of my reading is fictional (a summer habit that I have had since I was a kid when I read an average of 5 books a week) my work year normally […]

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Preparing for the Technologies Curriculum

Metacognition – Being an Effective Learner

Coding & STEAM – A Framework for Thinking

The Power of Questions

How one common policy hinders change in schools

Creating a School Leadership Culture Part II: What teachers need and want

Creating a School Leadership Culture Part I

The Near Win – a positive view of failure

Transforming School Professional Cultures: Change and Belief

Failure, Mindset and Empowering Effort