A mosquito in the tent
Since the IBSG2018 there’s been a buzz around disrupting school as it has been, by IB educators calling ourselves the “IB rebel alliance” provoked into action by Taryn BondClegg. Some of the big ideas that […]
Approach to Learning
Learning at the Centre
Revisiting interdisciplinary learning pivoting on approaches to learning skills brings the metaphor of an alloy. An alloy is created when two or more elements are physically fused into a new substance, but it retains the […]
Making Time for Passion
We finally sorted out our mentoring groups for the passion pathways, today. For weeks, students have been clarifying their Personal Vision Plans. They’ve done research on their personal goals, including viewing videos of interviews on […]
Making Visible
A recent workshop on inquiry approaches to teaching and learning surfaced a lot of questions about the visibility of the learning process. Some of the questions that emerged from the inquiry were, How do we […]
Tiny Disturbances: 3 Areas of Support in Changing Learning Ecosystems
The bad news is that change is difficult. The good news is, we can scale it. Shifting mindsets in education requires action. It may be daunting to think of how to change an entire system […]
Explicitly teaching skills in disciplinary inquiry
One of the topics that can fuel hours of teacher dialog is the difference between assigning tasks and teaching the process by which tasks can be pursued through inquiry. Assigning might consist of telling students […]
Waking into Light
I had to hug a teacher today. She has taught for a decade, and this week has been delving into Marcia Behrenbruch’s Dancing in the Light, Marcia’s monograph on classroom inquiry. With tears in her […]
The Future is Here
A few weeks ago, our school community participated in a Dream Summit, where we used appreciative inquiry to imagine our future. After 51 years, it was time to dream into the school we are evolving […]
What a Teacher Leaves Behind
For Bill Powell, gone so soon On the Adriatic Sea in the summertime the light on the water is like diamonds at midday. Without shadows the clean blue hues’ incessant sparkling hits the eye and […]
An Inquiry into Time, Thought and Identity
Metacognition within perceptions of time and self mediates attention. As an approach to learning skill, metacognition involves knowledge of cognition, which allows a person to actively control thinking during the thinking process. Hence it is […]
