by Donna Miller Fry (@fryed)
In 2018, why would students take conventional schooling seriously? According to Fullan, Quinn and McEachen (Deep Learning, 2018, p. 3), there is no reason for the majority of students to do so. The current school structure is oppressive to many young people. How many educators have experienced a school day from the place of […]
This post: Relevance Unfound is based on Chapter 1 of Deep Learning: Engage the World, Change the World by Fullan, Quinn and McEachen Scrolling through Twitter postings of how applied science is changing our world helps me to remember that outside of the structure that is school, our world is changing exponentially. For example, this new car will be […]
Sauerkraut, it it’s day, was a major innovation that saved thousands of lives – the lives of sailors who ate sauerkraut and didn’t get scurvy. In fact, without sauerkraut, James Cook may never have made it to my current home town of Corner Brook, NL. Sticking with that food theme, we know that most […]
Today I have the pleasure of working with our “emerging leaders” in NLESD from Western Region, Central Region and Labrador. I was able to share with them some of the important considerations for leadership in 2018 during our time together yesterday. Today, I want to share with them some next steps in connecting with other […]
This week I’ve tuned into lots of online chatter about the purpose of blogging. How do we reflect? How do we share? Where are the conversations? What technology makes reflection easier? In the back of my mind for some time, has been this piece by Dean Shareski: I Don’t Read Your Blog It made me […]
10 years ago today, I created @fryed on Twitter. Twitter opened up my world. It was my first real experience with the read-write web – web 2.0, which gave people the power to contribute to the network, to build understanding together, to question thinking, to share with the world. As a mom, travelling to take […]
“The balance between leading and learning is essential.” (Fullan 2017, p. 62) Back in early December, we met with our Assistant Principals in Western Region (NLESD) to talk about Learning Leadership. We shared that Learning Leadership was an essential approach to effective practice in schools. The feedback from that event was that overwhelmingly, the biggest […]
On this last day of 2017, I am going back over my year of learning. The purpose of this post is mainly to help me reflect, and to organize my work into one place for easy access. If you are reading this, I invite you to take a quick look at some of the topics […]
Context:The #OneWordONT project began in 2015 with #OSSEMOOC (Ontario School and System Leaders Edtech MOOC – OSAPAC’s community of leaders learning how technology can change practice in education). Julie Balen took the lead in creating a graphic and encouraging educators to participate in choosing a focus. In 2016, we had many educators choose a focus […]
On December 13, 2017, we are looking at the importance of learning leadership with Assistant Principals in Western Region, NLESD. Below are some of the resources we will be using. Distinguished Professor Viviane Robinson – Does leadership affect education? from Educational Leadership on Vimeo. Ken Leithwood – Principal […]
