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In Japan
This is a neat four-minute tour through our home, Japan, and well worth a watch. Maybe it will encourage you to come to Japan, too! Continue reading
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Aspiring to the Life we Live (or, Why we only post the good stuff)
I quite like social media. I like sharing photos on Flickr and moments on Instagram. I like sharing learning on my blogs and Twitter and family stuff on Facebook. I like the little connections (and reconnections) that come out of… Continue reading
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Live Fully Now
A quick post on an Alan Watts quote that drew healthy discussion (and some tears) at a recent presentation. Continue reading
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The Dropped Knee
A surfing anecdote. Sometimes we’ve got to suck it up and get back to basics if we want to improve. Continue reading
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New Challenges: Director of Curriculum & PD [for 2015-2017]
In the exciting time of year where international school friends and colleagues are making decisions about their futures – stay or go, which fair, which country, which school – we feel some relief at having made the decision to stay.… Continue reading
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Making Meaning
In amongst a million other things I am taking part in an IB Educators’ Network up-skilling course (as part of my role as an MYP Site Visitor). One of the discussion questions asked us to reflect on a memorable learning… Continue reading
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Where do you come from? Where to next?
Being an international school teacher is an extreme privilege; a series of opportunities that present a unique kind of dilemma, seemingly earlier each year. It becomes more complex with school-age children of our own, and is further complicated by having… Continue reading
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Surfing in Wakayama
We’ve been trying to make a real effort over the summer [and so far this year] to keep a sensible work-life balance. Picking up a second-hand car and surfboard has certainly helped! Continue reading
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Quick Review: Tony Butt’s Guide to Sustainable Surfing
Quick review of a Kindle quick-read on sustainable surfing. Continue reading
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“You teachers have it easy.” Thankful for our choices.
Long vacations are a time to reflect on the privilege of our lives, and be thankful for the choices we have made. Continue reading
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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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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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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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Hattie & Yates: Visible Learning & the Science of How We Learn
This brief review of John Hattie and Gregory Yates’ Visible Learning & the Science of How we Learn (#HattieVLSL) is written from the multiple perspectives of a science teacher, IB MYP Coordinator and MA student. I have read both Visible Learning… Continue reading
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Of Planners & Practices: Reflecting on Student & Professional Learning
A quick reflection on reflection. Continue reading
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