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Moving from a Deficit to a Developmental Mindset

On 14-05-2013

Deficit (noun): Inadequacy or insufficiency, an unfavourable condition or position, to be lacking or a shortage. From the Latin – it lacks Developmental (noun): The act of developing from a simpler or lower to a more advanced, mature or complex form or stage I received a call this morning from a teacher friend of mine. […]

On 11-03-2013

“You cannot have performance breakthroughs without cognitive dissonance … in other words … challenging what you think you really know and believe is the truth.” The more that I work with schools, the more I realise how important it is to coach teachers and school leaders in having personal performance breakthroughs as part of the […]

On 22-02-2013

A study by Duke Medicine published recently by JAMA Psychiatry has pointed to the long term psychological effects of bullying. The lead author said that “This psychological damage doesn’t just go away because a person grew up and is no longer bullied. This is something that stays with them. If we can address this now, we can […]

On 31-01-2013

Quite often, developing powerful and meaningful key understandings is an area that teachers struggle with as they create and plan authentic rich task units. This is a critical step that many teachers can gloss over in planning but can make a profound difference to having clear, powerful units that provide great learning opportunities. What we […]

On 23-01-2013

I thought I would write a short note to congratulate and highlight the performance of one school we have the pleasure of connecting with – the John Monash Science School. We have yet to work with this school, although Cathryn Stephens (one of our consultants) does have the pleasure of spending quite a bit of […]

On 21-01-2013

As many of you who read this blog know it is the week before the school year starts in Australia. It is a great time to reflect about last year and to begin creating the year before the students hit the classes. As a way of beginning your year without stressing you out too much […]

On 14-11-2012

I have been in a range of conversations with teachers and school leadership teams lately discussing the forthcoming Australian Teacher Performance Standards / Frameworks. I think that one of the things that the Australian Federal and State Governments (and any government worldwide) have to get clear is the context for implementing staff performance frameworks in […]

On 12-11-2012

A conversation I have been having with teachers I have been working with for the past 6 months revolves around creating structures of accountability for students. This stems from the analogy I use to contextualise the importance of scaffolding student centred learning. The essence of the argument is that you cannot learn how to drive UNLESS […]

On 31-10-2012

Today I have a guest post, mainly because I liked this post soooo much that I had to repost it. This post is from David Didau who calls his Blog “The Learning Spy”. I quite enjoy reading his updates as he has similar thoughts and ideas as I do but his context is that he […]

On 12-10-2012

We have been approached by a number of teachers over the past few months to discuss the value of streaming students in ability groupings as a way of improving performance. There is also a big push amongst education unions to lower class sizes as a way of again improving performance of students. The logic behind […]

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Moving from a Deficit to a Developmental Mindset

Performance and the Fundamental Way of Being

Bullied Children Can Suffer Lasting Psychological Harm as Adults

Avoiding Shotgun Learning

Team Teaching and Project-Based Learning

Back into it for 2013

A Context for Staff Performance Framework

Scaffolding Student Accountability

The Mathematics of Writing

Is Ability Grouping or Streaming Effective?