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Are IB Schools Trivium21C Schools?
Trivium21C is an excellent vision for an excellent education, taking the best of the past and the present to prepare young people for the future. Give up the progressive/traditional mud-fight and read this. Continue reading
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Growth Mindsets in Differentiation & Feedback
A short review/summary of Carol Dweck’s Mindset. Continue reading
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Teaching our Sons not to rape: SexEd & #YesAllWomen
This is a brief reflection on a work in progress, but health education in school is very important to me. It is a brief reflection on a project to update and refine a Sex Ed sequence, bringing in a stronger… Continue reading
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Summertime Subsidence: Vacating the Mind of This Year’s Learning
Nobody wants to be that teacher – the one who assigns a massive packet of busy work, due the first day back to school, but it is evident that extended vacations result in a reversal of some learning. This loss of… Continue reading
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Content & Inquiry in a Google World
I don’t know anyone who can successfully teach ‘content-free’. We need to ensure that we teach good content: relevant, current, useful, interesting. We need to teach that content well, using effective methods and ensuring as much as we can that… Continue reading
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Curriculum Spark: ATLAS Webinar
Here are the slides from a short webinar I presented for Rubicon ATLAS on our MYP: Next Chapter journey so far. Over the last couple of years, we have had a lot of interaction with Ben, Chris, Natalie and the… Continue reading
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“I reflect on my reflection…”
Reflection is not only backwards-looking, and if we treat it as such it loses its power and generates reflection fatigue in students and colleagues. Continue reading
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MYP: Mind the Gap [MA Assignment]
The circle closes with this assignment, from IBAP conference in 2013 to the submission of the assignment in 2014. From here it’s onwards and updwards with the Research Methods unit and the dissertation, building (hopefully) on my Web Chart of… Continue reading
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The Swallow, The Flock and The Writer’s Block
I forgot the word I wanted to say, And thought, unembodied, Returns to the hall of shadows. Continue reading
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Is “every experience a moving force” in our curriculum?
As I struggle through writer’s block (after a very intense couple of months of work and more), trying to organise and finish off this ULL assignment, I find myself pulled back into the literature, thinking about the quotes of educationalists… Continue reading
Wayfinder Learning Lab - Stephen Taylor 