Learning with an Asset Lens
By Kelly Rizzo | June 11, 2018
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2:27 pm

All too often in education, we focus on the gaps in learning, what’s missing, and what a learner needs to do to be more successful. Instead, we can think of learners through an asset lens. When we view learners as capable, creative, communicative individuals...
Deep Learning and Well-Being – Levelling the Playing Field for all Children
By Dr. Jean Clinton | May 1, 2018
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11:49 am

I was honoured with an invitation to speak at Michael Fullan’s conference on New Pedagogies for Deep Learning: Engage the World to Change the World, in Vancouver in April 2018.
Apart from the terror this created for me, as Michael is such a giant in...
Growing Understanding – An Important Part of Transforming Learning
By Beate Planche | April 18, 2018
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1:28 pm

As the Ontario Ministry of Education report on Phase One - 21st Century Competencies (Winter, 2016 Edition) reinforced, cognitive competencies such as critical thinking, analysis and problem solving are important but no longer touted as the only prominent...
Keeping the Focus on What Matters Most – The Learning
By John Almarode | April 4, 2018
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3:00 pm

What should matter most in our schools and classrooms is student learning. Whether we are teaching 5 year-olds or 15 year-olds, music or mathematics, physical education (PE) or physics, all stakeholders in education strive to provide an environment that nurtures...
Speak Up Please
By Lucy West | January 13, 2016
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9:35 pm

Have you ever felt like you weren’t being heard? Have you ever refrained from speaking up even when you felt strongly about something? Skillfully speaking up and listening well are two of the most important life skills we can master and rarely are they explicitly...
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